1st Cheerleading Experience

We (the cheerleading squad) had our first cheerleading game/experience Friday night and Saturday afternoon. It was so much fun. I messed up a couple cheers friday night, but by Saturday I had them all. Cherise, Erin, and I got ready together in my room. I wore so much make up, haha, I haven't worn that much make up in a loooong time. Everyone really liked the dance we did to "lean back"/"music make me lose control."

I had to wake up at 7:15am this moring though because my First Year Experience class was going to the ropes course at 8am. Though I was not happy about it in the beginning (we passed by a sign/temperature thing and it said "36 degrees"), it ended up being sooo fun. I don't regret waking up so early anymore.

During the basketball game's half time, I went a few yards down in the Luce so that I could see the swim meet for a few seconds -I had told Alex that I would try to come and see him, and he had come to see me cheer the night before. He was in a green little swimsuit/speedo thing, haha, it made him look even more pale than he already is.

On Tuesday he asked me what I was doing on Friday night and if I would like to go with him and a group of friends to a movie -I said I had the cheer at the basketball game and couldn't go. Wednesday he asked me to eat lunch with him, but we missed each other because of class schedules and such. He then asked me to eat dinner with him, which we did end up doing.

Thursday he sent me a text that said, "I'm studying in the library until 10pm if you want to join me". I joined him. We talked half the time (quietly) and studied the other half.

Friday night he showed up at the basketball game, though he left a lil after half timebecause he was still going to the movie with his friends (he went to see American Gangster). After the game today, I went to see if the swimmers were still there and saw Alex (showered and dressed) standing with his parents in the lobby of the luce. I said hi, introduced myself, and was suddenly overcome with this need to say, "call me later if you want to go see a movie tonight." I have no clue where it came from. Well, he called, and I said a 10pm movie, he told me I could choose which movie.

We met at the student center at 9:20, drove to the Green, and ended up seeing Michael Clayton (I paid for my own ticket, fyi). Now, I had been to the movies a couple weeks ago with him and about 4 other GC girls... He chose to sit in the back row and we all followed. So the whole time (even after the GC girls left to sit closer to the screen), he never even so much as leaned towards me. In fact, he leaned away from me in his chair. But knowing me, I prepared myself and told myself that I was not going to do anything tonight.

Up until about 3/4 of the way through the movie, I was fighting to not let my head rest on his shoulder. I didn't want to give him ideas about me being interested and I definitely don't want another charlie/robert/steve relationship. However, I seriously don't know how it happened, all the sudden my head was on his shoulder. I felt kind of awkward because I had promised myself that I wouldn't do that, but I was tired... grr, I shouldn't have done it. About 4 minutes later, he had his arm around me, but the armrests in that theatre don't go up, so I wasn't right next to him, I think that was a blessing. I don't want to be the girl that's "Easy" (easy in the asbury sense, haha). It was a good movie though and we had an intelligent discussion about it on the ride home.

His band preferences remind me of Robert though, ick. He likes Kutless, Tobymac, Project 86, RED, and other various bands that I tend to think of as lame. Not that I am interested, but if he ends up being like Robert... ugh. He hangs out with some losers (Tim, Thrasher, Emily K, Ben A, etc.). Oh, I was talking to him Thursday night and he said that I could come home with sometime (his premise was that there is a cool bike shop near him) and that his mom said it was fine -that means he asked his mom if I could come. I think he is on the rebound though, I'm pretty sure he broke up with his gf a few weeks after getting to campus.