Couch Cru!!

So every Saturday afternoon, around four-ish, a group of young, dedicated youngsters from the University of Mary Hardin-Baylor gather in Van Circle, in their trucks, cars, vans, buses and proceed to ride around the city of Belton screaming, honking, and holding up the CRUsader sign. Campus and Belton police have the roads blocked off, much to the dismay of blue-collar workers headed home to their families, and wave back, holding their Crusader sign proudly. This would be called... Campus Run. : )


Here we have our Couch Cru leaders in the front truck, Tatenda with his Zimbabwe attire and UMHB studded clothes, and of course the flags... : ) Next one is of our car this latest time. Garrett and Yager came down this weekend and fell in love with the place, they both want to come back soon : ).

There really are no road laws during campus run since all of the roads are blocked off, so people drive on the wrong side of the road, honk really loud, throw frisbees in the Baucom's front yard... stuff like that. : ) After Campus Run is over, we meet up at the field and welcome the football team into the stadium. We'll wait for the game to start, run across the field and then form a line for the boys to run through out onto the field.

We then return back to our designated section in the endzone where we shake propane tanks full of gravel and coffee can shakers (Courtesy FYC!!) making as much noise as humanly possible. : ) Needless to say most of us have headaches after the game. : ) Here's a few pics from one of our games.


The Couch CRU. : )

Couch CRU Captains. : ) They run the show... Tatenda's on the end as the Couch CRU Captian's Captian : )
The Crusader Sign. Learn it. Love it. Live it. : )

UMHB is now 3-0, ranked number 3 in the country, with a point differential of 49 in our favor. : ) We play our arch-rivals the hardin-sinners cowgirls this week. : )

Miss everyone back in the Pearl!

Monday, Tuesday or Thursday Night Lights.

Intramurals are here!! : ) Our team, the Fireants, have been practicing relentlessly over the past three weeks, for flag football. I didnt realize how intense some of this actually is, people take this stuff seriously! There are a few teams who are just out to solely have fun, but most are out to win first and have fun next. After a few discrepencies, we decided it'd be way easier on all of us to have fun first and worry about winning second... after all... it IS just intramurals. : )

This is our team, the Fireants! Yes, we all have matching jerseys... and the girls in front are our coaches... : ) We went a little overboard with the publicity aspect of everything... we have coaches, team trainers (3 of our friends are athletic sports science majors), cheerleaders, photographers, and fans. We may not be the best team on the block, but we sure have the most people show up to every game! : ) The guy on the bottom left, laying down is our quarterback... he was the number one recruit for UMHB this year, but tore his ACL, MCL, and miniscus last summer. So he's stickin to intramurals. : )

Us stretching before a game....

Me, Poppa Bear (Spencer), and Clay sitting around, waiting for a game to start,

Me and Big Sam after a touchdown... i didnt know it, but Big Sam and Bryan... two of my best friends... went to the exact same youth camp that we did this summer... so technicaly... we knew each other way before school started... : )

Me and Tatenda after a game. T's our student body presdent and also one of the RA's in our dorm. He's always at anything that's going on cheering people on and being loud and crazy... He's also the leader of the CouchCru! He's a senior and we've already gotten to become pretty good friends... I'm gonna miss him a lotnext year... But THAT... is the fireants! : ) We bite!

-Andy

FYC!!!

So about the second week of school i applied to be in FYC... or First Year Council. We partner with the student government and hold different activities around campus, with the big ones being spring formal and crusader nights. I applied and got accepted after an interview where i answered questions like 'Who's your favorite teenage mutant ninja turtle and why?' and 'If you could have any useless superpower what would you have?' and of course 'What's your definition of commitment?'. After a lengthy 5 minute interview i left and got a call later that night that i needed to be at initiation the next night. So of course i went... not knowing the path that lay ahead of me was quite a messy one... : )

For this one, we made a pyramid of people... which evidently fell... with me (left) and Joe (middle) at the bottom. : ) The leaders were pouring bags of flour, honey, and chocolate syrup all over us. Needless to say we loved every minute of it... ; ) Next we ran around campus and interuptted a kickball game and caused a large ruckus. Hahaha... Then we had a massive slip-n-slide!!! Full of FOOD!! : ) I honestly dont have a clue about what was on it, and i probably dont want to know... but i know that it was wayyyy too much fun... : )


This is after the fact. : ) Hahaha! Then our leaders talked to us semi-seriously about what FYC is reallt all about and the commitment that comes with it. I'm pretty excited about whats gonna happen and i've already made a tons of friends just through FYC. It's a blast, we always have a dance party after our meetings, and we just have so much fun doing whatever we're doing, either chalking a sidewalk, making announcements at chapel, or throwing a dance party in the quad. : ) Our leaders are great and have a real desire to help us learn and grow in our Walk and grow together as a campus community.


These are our leaders, Andrew, Lindsey, Brandon, Erica, Katy, and Ryan.... not in any specific order... hahaha. : ) After the meeting, we of course had to take pictures!

Most of our family group got in, probably because our big sister is roommates with the head FYC leader... : )


Just a whole big group of us... most of us are pretty tight, we all hang out most of the time... : )

Part of our group of guys that regularly hangs out... Me, Seth, Pancho, Ben, and Jake across the middle. : ) FYC IS AWESOME! : ) Hahaha...

Miss ya'll... love ya'll...

-Andy

Welcome Week

Sorry this is so late... kinda been busy... studying of course. : ) Our first five days we were in Belton, Texas at THE University of Mary Hardin-Baylor, us incoming freshmen participated in what we call Welcome Week. Basically it's a crash course in the school before everyone else moves in. We played games, had rec, did worship, hung out, ate, all that good stuff as a 'family group' where our big brothers and sisters took good care of us and showed us the ropes of UMHB. Each group had a name based on a tradition of the school. Ours was the Easter Pagent (Which is in it's like 120th year... and it's NEVER rained on it either...), so our team name was the Krunk Disciples. : )


This was our group... minus a few soccer and baseball players... We're all still pretty close and hang out together all the time... it was an awesome week. : ) The guy on the far right's name is Pancho and he's probably one of my best friends down here.



This is me and Pancho at the Dubbing Ceremony where we officially became Crusaders Forever. It's a pretty nice event so we kinda dressed up for it. This is also where they break out the eternal flame... but it was so windy, it almost caught the back three rows on fire... so we used a quick flame. : )


Dr. Theodore... dubbing us!! : ) After Welcome Week was over, we had a huge rally where we worshiped and gave out awards for the most spirited and best dressed, etc... Guess who's group won what.... : )


: ) That would be us... All in all Welcome Week was like a miniature youth camp where we met people that i'll be friends with for the rest of my life!! : ) I'm loving every minute of this place and wish yall could experience some of the things that i'm getting to learn and go through. : )

-Andy