The First Year Experience: Club U-Dub-Dub

DAY 2 at Whitewater!
Club U-Dub-Dub is the freshman orientation! It started at 10am. and went until 11:30 pm... it was a loooonnnnngggggg day, but it was so much fun! We all started the day with a hilarious comedian Micheal Dean Ester! His message was about following your dreams and "Do your thing!" He told us that our life is a movie, and we are the director. The entire show had us all laughing and clapping. It was a memory I will never forget. After that we went to our "club house" and I met my club! Club 62 the Beuax Arts learning community club! Beuax Arts it the name of the Arts learning community at UWW. Everyone in it is involved with the arts in one way or another. It gave us a chance to meet new people that were interested in the same things we were interested in. People in Band, Art, Music or Theatre. It was great because we played "get to know you" types of games. But it was different when it was all art students, because everyone knew what you were talking about! You could use stage terms, or music terms and no one was like, "wait... what's that?" So that was really fun, and really great. Ben was in that group so he was with me the entire day. But i began to meet a few new people as well. Kim Kim is a music major and she loves lady gaga. Another friend of mine is a guy named Tim. He is a Theatre major. Tim and I talked alot that night. I see us becoming good friends, and we have two classes together this semester. :) Later during the day we went to another lecture comedian this time a women. She wasn't as funny as the first guy, but she had so many wonderful messages. One moment that really hit everyone was when she related everything we do, to that of a 5 year old. She showed a picture of herself when she was 5, telling us that if you wouldn't put that 5 year old in a specific situation, why would you want yourself to be in that same situation? I quite enjoyed it, because many of my friends tease me about looking 5, sounding 5, acting 5, and eating in ways a 5 year old might eat. But that day, right there, i was able to turn to ben and say, "see, being 5 years old like me isn't so bad after all is it?" Just goes to show everyone that I'll be alright. :) Ive been making good decisions, and will continue to do so. Don't worry guys.
After that we had a bit of a break. We all changed and got all purpled up! We went back to our club house and made signs and put on purple face paint so we were all ready for the pep rally!!!! It started with us all chanting our various cheers! We were club 62. One chant was when our leader would say, "Who are you?" Then we would respond,"CLUB 62, AND WERE BETTER THAN YOU! WOOOOOOO!!!!!" It was so much fun. :) Everyone was pumped with energy and we then all ran through this tunnel of people including staff, football players, cheerleaders, and dancers! The entire freshman class of 2015 filled the stadium! As we waited for everything to start they played great music and the entire crowd was singing and dancing and cheering! At one point the speakers went out and the entire stadium continued to sing along to the song that had been on! It was so awesome and so much fun! we got to hear the band play and see the cheer and dancers do routines. The QB of the football team gave us a nice message and then we learned our school song! we sang through it twice and then we learned the warhawk strut. "shake shake shake your butt, and do the warhawk strut! Shake it to the right, shake it to the left! Shake it with the one you love tonight!" It was so much fun! Once the rally was over the entire class proceeded out to paint warhawk drive purple! We all boot on booties over our shoes grabbed the paint rolled and painted the street purple!!!!! Once it was all complete the cannon sounded signifying that we were ready to start out adventure here at Whitewater. So many memories were made that night, and will never be forgotten. Day 2 complete. Success.

~stephanie joy.