BIG stuff from last night

So to finish up about yesterday, we ended the day with BIG Gathering, BIG Games and BIG Coffeehouse. The gathering was mostly a comical video parodying a freshman's first day :D It was funny....then they showed some pictures from last year's BIG games to get us pumped up. All the freshman (300-400) had been divided up into "O Groups" (I found out today that the O group assignments were based on our Gateway class...i.e. we will have a class this semester with the same people we have been getting to know the past couple of days.) Each O Group has 10-12 freshman plus two returning student leaders, with a total of 33 O groups. For BIG games, 5-6 O groups joined up to form a team (Red, Blue, Green, Purple, Orange, Yellow). So each team had 50-60 people.
I was on the Yellow team (and so was my room mate Kaley!) The games started at 9. First of all, we had to come up with a team name and a cheer. I liked ours, but it wasn't as creative as some of the other groups. We called ourselves "Yello Sno" or something like that. We were ALL gathered at the top of the 100 stairs (there really are 100 and they really are steep!!!), and once they were ready for us we trooped down the stairs, yelling our chants as we went. Then we got ourselves painted up with our respective colors. The first opportunity to win points was the performance of our team chant/yell. Next, we were all ordered to take off our shoes and each team put their shoes in a pile. The leaders came and mixed them up, and we all had to sit around in a circle. Once they said go, we all rushed over (all 50-60 of us!), tried to grab our shoes from the pile, and put them on as fast as we could. I think we won that one :D
I think I'm forgetting one...but the next one I remember is that we had 6 teams of 2 girls and 2 boys each. The boys had to drag the girls on a tarp about 15 yards, around a cone and back again, and the girls had to be eating a twinky and drinking a small bottle of coke. I had the job of eating a twinky....it wasn't too hard, but I should have gotten the package opened sooner!
I just remembered which one I forgot! Thirdly (after shoes/before tarp) each team had to get in a long line standing up with their legs spread apart. We rolled a watermelon through the line and then followed the watermelon, reforming the line at the end. Once everyone had gone through, we had to smash the watermelon and eat it as fast as we could. I didn't eat very much of it, but it was pretty amazing how fast it disappeared.
After the twinkys and coke, one of the team members had to eat a whole can of spam, spin around with his head on a bat 10 times, and then write our team name on the grass with shaving cream. I would NOT have liked doing that one :P Our guy did really well at it though! Sixth (I think) was the barber shop. Three of our team members became "hair stylists" (using shaving cream!!!!!!!), three more were customers, three were chairs (kneeling - the customers did actually sit on them!), and six more were shoe shiners/manicurists or something. We also had a "tourguide" for when the judges came, and a barbershop quartet, that actually sang quiet nicely!! The rest of us were walls/windows/barber poles. I think we may have won that one too, but I can't quite remember.
After that, we had to create a "sculpture" by toilet papering some of our team members. We decided to do the Mall in Washington D.C. We had 9 girls lie down on the ground and get covered in TP to form the reflecting pool, a two person stack for the Washington monument, and a six person chair and a back wall and front pillars (and Lincoln himself!) for the Lincoln Memorial. I'm pretty sure we won that one too.
Lastly, we were supposed to get all the TP out of our square (lines marked on the ground) into one of the other team's squares in five minutes. Well, everyone decided to bring their garbage to our square. We had it all cleaned up, and then the full assault started....then we mostly got it cleaned up again, and our group leaders were saying we had to sit down because the five minutes were up. Well, the team next door threw a TON of TP into our square right after we had to sit down....that was really annoying. Our team ended up with second place though, so that was really fun!!!!! We then had to hike back up the 100 stairs and go get cleaned up. I just took a shower, and was a little late for the BIG coffeehouse at 11. I had some hot chocolate and headed up to my room pretty soon after that.