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Bronco Bash 2008 recap

Joe, Dave and Quang.

Bronco Bash this year was awesome. Day started out great with the Student Activities and Leadership Program (Katie!) giving me a free BB T-shirt when I went in to buy one. They had extras from orientation training all bought and paid for. There is always an overabundance of S sizes. And why does nobody like white?

After the CommUniversity luncheon I had to go to for work (small talk with Cheryl Roland and Prez. Dunn - yay!), went home and biked over to the Miller Plaza fountains at 2:30 p.m. Storm clouds overhead so I thought it was going to rain for sure and even packed a raincoat. Navigating between tables I saw Darnell, CABbie extraordinare and we consulted his map to find the IPC booth. I liked the bright violet polos the SALP volunteers had this year - easy to spot them!

At the IPC booth saw VP Joe and Treasurer Quang setting up, and I finally got to meet the very famous Matt Kelly in person, who has been in China for the past year. The Kelly brothers are great to watch because I haven't seen much brotherly love in action. Most of my friends back home in that elder/second brother relationship are hardcore rivals and kind of detest each other on the surface. Joe speaks in such glowing terms of his younger brother all the time and well, the guy has three Facebook groups dedicated to him (in a non creepy way).

Met up with Lin at the French Club booth and she, Quang and I did the freebie rounds. Extraordinarily good schwag this year and games that I really could appreciate, like dunking a professor of physical education (loads of fun; candy for trying and a keychain for a successful dunking). Highlight for me this year was seeing the IPC brochure I made all printed and out for distribution. *sniff, sniff* So proud of it!

It was wonderful to see everyone again. Reunions galore, esp. with IPC veterans Aziz BHG (former events promo and current Prez. Rose's brother) and Christina P. (former secretary and former international programming intern). And of course the whole meetup explosion of Japan Club members just a few booths away. I understand how Greg Flynn feels that this is a tag-along semester, since we've both already done the whole graduation thing. But it's not like we're just useless hacks with nothing else to do. I'm working downtown at the Chamber of Commerce and he's got a teaching job lined up in Japan in December.

Cool way to end the day; Dave Estime and I ended up yakking with two Mormon elders about IPC and Bronco Bash. First time I've ever had a convo with these guys that didn't involve religion.