Disappearance of Spring

Currently in a mini-hibernation finishing up school. Also might be crying over the fact that it is cold and rainy on the Eastern Shore right now!

23. Run a Whole 5K

So last weekend after spending Friday into Saturday at Relay 4 Life, I woke-up late morning Saturday to drive with my sorority sisters down to Ocean City, MD to participate in Susan G Komen's Race 4 the Cure Sunday morning! And, I managed to run a whole 5K (or 3.1 miles)! It was the first time I ran the whole thing, and even my mom didn't believe me when I called to tell her. Below are some pictures from the morning. It was such a blast, and I'm so proud breast cancer awareness is ZTA's philanthropy.

Signing the pink truck!

Doing warm-ups with the local Cross Fit coach. Can you see me squatting?

My chapter won the most participants for a collegiate team!

Fam o jam :) My big was off getting a fancy Chemistry award!

After we finished!

My friend from studying in Spain came and ran with us!

It was so worth the 6 am wake-up call! I'd like to look into running more 5Ks in the future.

Relay 4 Life: Crowns against Cancer

This past Friday night was my last Relay 4 Life for the foreseeable future! I only went once in high school, but I made sure to attend every year when I got to college, and I'm a little sad it's already over. For three years I was apart of the swim team's relay team, so it was fun to finally be on the Zeta one! We called our team "Crowns against Cancer," and had nail painting for donations. We also handed out Breast Cancer Awareness products as that's our philanthropy (more on that in an upcoming post). Every year, Relay 4 Life at my school does different activities to keep the night fun: melting a T-shirt in ice, a burrito eating contest, and even a fun dance rave. My ZTA family participated in the T-shirt contest together (by chance as it goes...) and got a little competitive...

I also participated in a Chipotle burrito eating contest...

Cute, huh?

And of course got to spend another night with some of my best friends. I'm getting so ridiculously sentimental and nostalgic as my days nearing graduation draw nearer!

Also, shout out to the girls who lasted the whole night! Had such a fun night with all of them even if we were catatonic by six a.m. And to my crazy hair the whole night...

The message of Relay 4 Life is so important, and I'm glad I could be apart of it for my four years here! If you don't know much about it, learn. It's a wonderful cause that helps fund a lot of research against cancer. It's motto is "Official sponsor of birthdays." I mean, really?! How could you not rally for a cause like that?

It's Coming! (Stop and Smell the Pages)

So, exciting, exciting news! The anthology with which I have been helping publish in my internship with the Literary House is officially complete! While it won't receive an official release until October 2014, I can tell you it's been printed, and it's beautiful:

You can read about my experience and my love of proofreading here!

#zlam2014

So this past Saturday my chapter and I traveled across Maryland to attend Zeta Day. It basically includes all the MD Chapters (called III-Alpha) including collegiate and alumnae gather together for awards, good food, shopping, and all things ZTA-fun. Each year as a theme, and this year was ZLAM (Zeta Love and Mine), so we all wore letters. Of course, with a day like this, we took an absurd amount of picture, which was greatly encouraged by the Instagram hashtag #zlam2014.

Seenyas Seenyas!

All of our chapter that could come.

Fam a Jam :)

And a selfie, obviously!

Perhaps the coolest part of the day was when we found out our keynote speaker was the ZTA Archivist and that she brought along with her the links which represent all our chapters. She talked about all our nine founders, and, of course, we got to see our Gamma Beta link!

Over all, it was a fantastic day!

Can't Stop Dancing...

...To this song! It's so fun!!