Friday March 12, 2010

Waking up at 4 am is exactly what I thought it would be, impossible. After the extra 30 minutes Dixy gave me, we went on our way to Memphis for the college visit. The whole car ride seems too blurry for me to recall every moment but I do remember nodding most of the time. I thought to myself, if she wasn’t going to sleep, either was I. When we got to Rhodes College we review all the advice people had given us. “It’s such a pretty school but don’t go outside of the fenced area, they’re part of the hood.” It was small but still big in some ways. The class we attended only consisted of 13 students. One of who was an alumni from Dixy’s school, Mercersburg Academy. It was a nearly impossible coincidence but it happened. After those 4 hours or so, we went off to our next hotel so what we could get ready for the NBA game, Grizzlies vs. Nicks. It was actually kind of sad at the crowd’s enthusiasm. The game would’ve been so much better if there hadn’t been some old man trying to take pictures of us and sending them to his cousin. That definitely ruined most of the time I had there. We got back to the hotel and since they ran out of keys, we had to get housekeeping to repeatedly open the doors for us. In both hotels that we’ve been in, we slept on the top of the bed. We were a little too worried to go under the covers.