(sigh) The I-House. I have lived here now for the past 3 years and have honestly enjoyed every minute of it (ok, well that’s of course what everyone wants to hear, right?). No, really, the I-House has definitely grown on me and because of that, this semester I ran for student council president. You see, I’ll be moving out this summer (finally, as some would say), so figured I’d go out with a bang and leave my mark forever. First of all I’d like to say that the people in the I-House this semester were awesome and everyone had a lot to put into the House whether as a coordinator or participant.  Anyway, I am going to give a brief recapping of the events that happened over these past few months.

The first thing that I remember about this semester is the first party of the house. It was themed “Dress as the opposite sex!” Hmmmm…well everyone in the house got excited and spent hours getting prepped for the party.

Ok what else…there was the Chinese New Year festival which was great, lots of people helped to put that together. There was a ton of food, entertainment, and interaction so this event went on for about 3 hours.

The following event was the Indian celebration of Colors/Spring (Holi). It was a headache to figure out a budget but eventually it was done and the festival was extremely fun. The event had a fun cultural game and a ton of food that the coordinators cooked themselves. It was held close by in Williams Park where people could run around and throw colored powder at each other while they ate food. WOW—the people were stained from head to toe in lavender, lime green, reds, fuscia pinks, and other bright colors.

Then there was the Persian New Year event that took place in our dining room and was actually hosted and put together by our new Office Manager, Solmaaz. She decorated a table with different Persian ornaments that were for the New Year and of course we can’t forget the delicious Persian snacks and desserts that she brought also. Solmaaz brought in a book of Persian poems that she had people read out loud so that was an interesting aspect, reading and performing poetry.

Oh, and somewhere in between there was the Basketball tournament, which was quite brutally competitive (I jammed my finger). Then of course there is the great PCB, Pancake Breakfast. We made a good amount of money from that this semester; I can’t remember the specifics but it was close to 2 thousand dollars, I believe. Yeah we had a line of people that was winding its way almost out the front door at one point in the day. For me it was great, I dressed up in a beautiful Indian outfit my friend lent me, helped watch the kid’s corner (or more like watched my own pokemon movie that I had brought for the kids) and was a part of the fashion show. Now that’s how PCB should be forever and ever. J

The next big event was The Great British Night, which was superb. It wasn’t just dinner or plain old entertainment.  The coordinators sent people on a mystery that they had to solve and follow clues.

The next event was the Hawaiian party that I got to help buy food and decorations for which was nice (of course that was only because I had a car at their disposal. But that’s I-House, you become popular if you have a set of wheels). It was one of the most successful parties of the I-House that I had been to in the last 3 years I’ve lived here. The set up was darn creative; they brought in lots of couches that they put in a cool lounge way in the middle of the normal dance floor and put the dance floor a little bit off to the right of the basement. They had a cool bar on the front wall and the decorations were spread out just enough to where the whole room seemed decorated. They played games like Twister and Limbo, and the music for the most part was great. I was proud of my party committee. Next up was the Mediterranean Dinner with tasty food and a game on Mythology. Next was the Greek-Turkish dinner; look for the articles on this event.

Many events have happened this semester that weren’t held in the House either, including a ton of trips that the road trip committee had organized and many by regular students. Oh, and there have been proposals that have made a difference. We now own a huge 52 inch high definition TV that I must say my council has to be proud of. We did the research and found the TV and within the first couple of weeks of school we had this monster of a television in the house. Also a Playstation 2 was bought so that people could play games with others instead of always on their computers in their own rooms. We are also now subscribing with a company to rent movies and games for a set fee so it’s awesome. Hopefully the movie committees of following semesters will be able to handle this new concept. Last thing that we purchased was a set of free weights which is great for working off that fabulous I-House food ;-). I feel like I’ve rambled on enough and I hope this gives you a small look into the semester of Spring 05. (I apologize if there are events or people or other things that have happened in the house that I have left out.)