Homecoming Week at the University of Tula 2014

Hey everyone :)

Since I'm a little behind on blogging, I will give my best this week to write a few more posts. Let's start with Homecoming Week! We don't have that in Germany so let me explain the concept a little to you. It is called "Homecoming" because the Alumni, the former students, are coming "home" to their Alma Mater, their university. This however is not just a tradition at universities and colleges but also at High School. Traditionally, there will be a football game on that weekend and lots of celebrations throughout the whole week. So let me walk you through TU's Homecoming Week 2014!

The festivities already started on Sunday October 12th with a Kick-off Party. You also need to know that Homecoming week was a competition where different organizations on campus competed against each other. Tri Delta competed together with Kappa Alpha Order (KA), one of the fraternities on campus. The organizations could collect points for participating in the different events which the Student Association (SA) organized, 

Monday, it sadly rain, so the color run planned for that day had to be pushed to Thursday. Tuesday was street painting which was quite a bit of fun. Liz, one of our Tri Delta girls, made a great design for our street painting. With our painting we actually made 2nd place. Woohooo :) 

Wednesday was my favorite activity and I actually participated in it. It was a PIE EATING contest! One of the KA guys and I had to eat a gigantic cherry pie. We only got fourth though. :( I really wanted to win... But check out me eating the pie!

So now Thursday was the color run where people in white t-shirts ran across campus and were hit by color bombs. I was busy and missed it but there was another, even cooler event that night - The "Drop".  The Drop is a tradition SA brought back from the 80s. They dropped a piano on the old U. It was pretty spectacular but also simply crazy. The piano was filled with ping pong balls and on some of them were numbers that stood for different prizes. Once the piano dropped, everyone just stormed towards that dead piano. It was mayhem. 

Friday morning was an Alumni breakfast but the food was gone super-fast. It must have been good! I missed the food, but could still check in to help get points for participation. In the evening we had a big bonfire, music and a ceremony where the Top Ten Freshmen, Top Ten Seniors and the Homecoming court were announced and special Alumni were honored. Homecoming court is also a tradition which can be found at High Schools. You might have seen it in movies. It is in a way similar to prom queen. Different people from different organizations were nominated to become homecoming king and queen. Friday night the homecoming king was announced. 

Saturday was the big game day. The game was a little bit of a disappointment... We lost. However, during the game the homecoming queen was announced which was no other than our very own Sarah Hartley. Go Sarah! :) 

Homecoming week was a lot of fun! The only thing weird for me was not having any family there that weekend. Most people had their families come to TU and visit them and spend time with them. Now my family obviously was a little too far away to come for this weekend. It made a little homesick to be honest. Especially, because I did not know whom of my friends would have family there and who would not. I really did not want to disrupt their family time too much. 

Thank you for reading this post!

Jenny Sch. :) 

P.S.: If you want to see more pictures from Homecoming Week 2014 @ TU, go and check out the facebook page of the Student Association of the Universitsy of Tulsa. :)