Steps to Hosting an Unofficial Tournament

Hey guys!! Welcome to another fun filled post about Quidditch!!! This is about how to plan a Quidditch Tournament. It was hard work to put together but with these few steps I believe you will get some great information from this!!

Major Highlight: ASL Studies

I came to William Woods University because I wanted to be an interpreter. WWU has one of the top programs for interpreters in the country and it was close to home (around an hour) both plus’. What I did not realize was the interpreting major was separate from the ASL major, so now I am a double major in ASL studies and ASL-English Interpreting. I just started classes for my interpreting major last fall and will talk about that major when I have more experience than just the intro classes. Today I will be talking about the ASL studies major and what you need to know. 

Adventures at the State DECA Competition

A few weeks ago, I travelled with the WWU DECA club to compete in the annual DECA State Competition. DECA is a club on campus that focuses on improving an individual’s knowledge of business, leadership and finance. For more information on the organization, check out our WWU Clubs post here. DECA used to stand for “Distributive Education Clubs of America”, but the people in charge realized that the phrase didn’t really describe the club very well. So now the letters don’t really stand for anything *shrug*. During state competitions, students compete in various events such as marketing, retail management, business ethics and accounting. In each event, an individual or a team analyses various case studies or simulations and are judged on the most correct or creative response. A multiple-choice quiz for each category is also involved in the judging. Other judged events include prepared business plans, chapter and member of the year, and a trivia bowl. All of this takes place over two days in a resort located about an hour away from the school by the Lake of the Ozarks. 

College can Change You

All throughout High School I had a fairly sheltered life. I was raised with a set of beliefs and anything counter or different than that was seen as bad. Church = good, tattoos = bad. Throwing things away = normal, composting = strange. Adoption = good, abortion = bad. Meat = life, vegetarian = weird, and we didn’t even speak of vegans. You get the picture. While we weren’t poor we didn’t buy new but we also had a lot of things, stuff, junk.

Since going to college, I have realized that while I had a very narrow mindset, simply because I was raised that way. So I decided to have an open mind and learn as much as possible from as many people as possible and just see what happened. Well, a lot happened, and it didn’t happen all at once. Slowly, over the past year or so I’ve started to see the world differently. My fundamental beliefs are still the same, and I they will never change. I believe the Bible is the inspired word of God and that it is truth. Because of this I also believe that abortion is wrong and so is the LGBTQ+ movement. However, I also know that speaking in hate or in a holier than thou attitude will do absolutely nothing except bring more hate. And there are only two things in the world I hate, 1) the devil and all sin, and 2) hate (which I suppose is counterintuitive, but I can’t love it…maybe I extremely dislike it, idk, hate=bad).

           Through mainly Pinterest I have run across many different movements/lifestyles in the past year. Three of which I researched and have decided to implement into my life to some degree. I do find it funny that some aspects of these three lifestyles conflict and are the opposite of one another and yet I still like elements of each. Those three are Minimalism, Hygge, and Zero waste.