Saturday I headed over to Lincoln, Nebraska as a "Storm Chaser" to watch the Storm Soccer Team play @ Nebraska Wesleyan. It was perfect weather for a ball game & it was fun to watch - brought back many memories from when I played & watched my brother! ...not to mention the frustrations of a few poor calls by the ref & my uNcOnTrOlLaBlE urge to boo loudly!...back in the day when watching my brother play sports, it wasn't the coaches that were nearly ejected from the games...yes, it was ME. I'm really competitive. Ha! :P It was a very good game, which made it tough to lose 1-0 in sudden death overtime! :( That's okay, we'll blow those Prairie Wolves away another time!
It was cool to see one of my new students play so well after his first game back from a broken pelvis. What a great addition to Simpson and the team...Go Ryan Z.! His family from Nebraska was also there watching, so I got to chat with them for a few minutes. I was impressed to see so many of the players' families & other Simpson fans made the trip West! After the game I met some of my prospective soccer recruits who also came to watch the game...watch out Storm competition, here comes more Nebraska talent to Iowa! :)
Sunday I headed back into Nebraska, this time to the northeast part of the state for my 1st college fair of the season...yes, a 2 1/2 hour drive through a non-freeway part of the state! Ya know...don't underestimate the beauty of Nebraska, it really was a very pretty countryside to drive through this time of the year (with no sarcasm!). There were hundreds of these pretty yellow sunflower-type wildflowers, rolling hills & beautiful green fields! I do think each state has it's own cHaRaCtEr & beauty...I'm pretty sure we are the country with the most diverse types of land throughout different regions!
This fair was small and other than 2 very far northwestern Iowa colleges & 2 Iowa community colleges, Simpson was the only Iowa college represented! Those others really missed out, because I saw some fantastic students who were very interested - some of who also stopped by last year & already visited campus! Overall it was a good fair for the distance it was from campus (about 41/2-5 hours) & it being a very rural region of Nebraska. One of the most fun parts of college fairs is the people-watching, so I enjoyed that during my slower periods.
Following the college fair, I went on a hunt for somethin' to eat...pasta (surprise, surprise!). I found an Applebee's & enjoyed myself a delicious three cheese alfredo pasta with a chocolate shake while I watched the 1st quarter of the Bears football game on their t.v. I took my time before having to drive another 2 1/2 hours back home... Yeah, the Bears' starting QB, Grossman, pretty much sucks as much as he did last season & Coach still won't pull him...aarrgghh!
On the way home I noticed a really stupid-funny billboard with a GIANT hot dog & the phrase "Who let the dogs out" for a gas station called Bucky's Express...LOL! wow...
What else consumed most of my weekend? The oh-so-fun three hole-punching, alphabetizing & filing into binders hundreds of my prospective student information sheets! :) See, my job as an Admissions Counselor isn't all fun 'n games...we have the dirty, busywork, too! I guess the nice thing is that I can s p r e a d it all out in front of the big screen & watch or listen to t.v. while I do it...
Did You Know?
Approximately 150 employers visit campus every year to recruit Simpson graduates.
Double Quote Day (cuz I couldn't decide!)
"Referees are the only guys who can rob you and then get a police escort out of the stadium." - Rob Boulton
"The more you sweat in practice, the less you bleed in battle."
- Unknown
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