To Much Fun in Cedar Rapids

Dear Readers,

I come to you today with tons of updates. First off, school is going well minus the fact I have two papers to work on this week that I am not looking forward to. Secondly I have found two new hobbies; Cedar Rapids hockey games and paintball. I had no clue that there are a few paintball courses in Cedar Rapids and after a little bit of research I was able to find a pretty sweet one that me and a few of my buddies went to check out this past weekend.

Besides getting all bruised up from paintball I was able to go to my first ever hockey game. Even though I am from right outside Detroit I have never been to a Red wings game so this was an experience to remember. The cool thing about it was that I got to go to the game with two of my bosses from academic computing on campus. We decide to start off the night with a trip to Buffalo Wild Wings ( which happened to be a great idea) and devour as many wings as possible. After stuffing my face we headed to the Roughriders hockey game were I was given a free shirt and also got to sit 1st row!!! Not second or third but first row right next to the goalie.

To put a proper ending to my long and exciting weekend I decided to take some friends out to the movies to see Cabin in the Woods. Overall the movie was pretty funny and glad I was able to put aside a couple hours to go and check it out. Only bad decision of the night was purchasing the $12 drink and nachos combo (way to expensive). Is it just me or does nachos at the movie theater always taste good even though its nothing special about them besides the price? Well who knows but I do know the movie was great and so was my weekend.

I am looking forward to an exciting week as well that I can't wait to fill you all in on!

Thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III

The Weekend is near and Easter is almost Here!

Dear Readers,

It comes a time in a students college experience when you begin to notice just how fast everything has went by. It is almost Easter weekend of my Junior year meaning I only have like 3 more weeks left before I'm a senior(Crazy I know)! I have already been working on my summer plans and have just finished filling out my application to study off-campus for next year second semester. Don't get me wrong it is very exciting know that I am only 8classes away from receiving that little piece of paper that will allow me to accomplish so many more things in life but at the same time I know it will be bitter sweet.

While at Coe I have had the opportunity to attend 2 graduations thus far and both of those were a great experience. Being able to see some of my good buddies graduate and head off into the workforce or graduate school was pretty cool. The one thing that I never really thought of until now is that this will be me someday walking across this stage shaking the hand of infamous President Phifer, looking off into the crowd attempting to find the familiar faces of my family and friends in attendance. It is sort of mind blowing, but enough of all the sad stuff, I got tons of good news as well. The weather has been great, my car comes down this weekend, I can feel a small roadtrip coming, and also I was selected for the lead role in a play this upcoming fall!

Along with all of this stuff intramural sports have kicked into high gear. I am on a competitive and non-competitive basketball team, and a co-ed soccer team. Hopefully we can follow up this year with another soccer championship accompanied by a basketball one as well. I will keep you all updated on how the season goes.

Other than that stuff this week has been a good one, pretty relaxing and full of poetry as well as interesting articles in my African American Studies class. I am looking forward to next week and I can't wait to give you all updates.

Thank you for your time,
Charles E. Cotton III