Ole Miss and LSU

These past few weeks I have been fortunate enough to go to some really fun and competitive meets at Ole Miss and LSU. Ole Miss fell on Easter weekend and our team left at about 12 on Friday to head down to Batesville where we stayed at a nice Holiday Inn. My friends Jared and Koplan and myself ate at Café Ole and we had some nice Mexican food. I participated in long jump and triple jump at Ole Miss. I had a personal best in the long jump, but fouled in the triple jump. Ole Miss has some phenomenal athletic facilities, plus I saw Jevan Sneed a fellow Texas native while I was warming up for my event in their indoor football facility. Our team did very well; we had a lot of team personal bests and one NCAA regional qualifying mark. For the LSU meet, I did the long jump, 100, 200, and the 4x4 relay. This was by far one of the most competitive and fun meets I have ever been to in my life. I did not do as well as I wanted in my first three events, but I made up for it with a decent 4x4 split. Richard Thompson who won the silver medal in 100 at Beijing ran the 100 later that afternoon, which was his first race of the spring. It was very cool to see all the many different talents at the meet. After the meet was over I was ready to get to my bed and I definitely had one if not my best nights sleep of the semester. Now I am focusing on finishing strong for the semester and doing well on finals then getting ready for conference.  

The tail end of freshman year

The pictures above are from a community service project I went to today. We went to Langston Hughes Academy to help build picnic tables, benches, wrap library books, and paint murals. My job along with some others was to build benches. It was a lot of fun, they gave us the pieces, nails, instructions and a drill then we did the rest. A friend of mine on my floor helped build it with me. As for the past couple weeks, I went home to Texas for Spring Break and enjoyed being back home. It was nice having the leisure to wake up whenever I wanted. I trained at my high school and caught up with some friends. Here at Tulane, we had crawfest yesterday, which was cool then I caught some final four basketball and worked on a Spanish paper. I have meet this upcoming Easter weekend at Ole Miss and on top of that some major writing and studying to do. I am eager to finish strong this semester and rely on God to lead me through it.