Rain Rain Rain...

As the rain keeps pouring down from the sky, California becomes more healthy and hydrated, and I get moody. I didn't sign up for this! I want the sun back! Haha

Today is Friday, March 11th, the day when the International Food Fair and Language Exchange was supposed to take place. As I hope you know by now, I am part of the International Student Ambassadors program at SBCC, and one of our main hallmarks is promoting fellowship among our students by organizing events that are enjoyable and give to the students an opportunity to make new friends. 

The International Food Fair was scheduled for today at 3:00pm at Antioch University, but unfortunately we had to postpone the event to next week due to the high possibility of rain. And in all honesty, although I am sad we couldn't have the event today, I am glad that we did postpone it, because today it was pouring showers! 

My day started at 10am, when I woke up sore after last night’s late workout (12:00am - 1:00am) and I had some breakfast, which really was more like biting on anything I could find around the house, since I didn't get a chance to go grocery shopping in a while! 

Right before I left to the bus stop, my housemate Luke asked me if I needed a ride to school, so that made me very happy. Today I had scheduled an appointment at 11:30am with my Entrepreneurship professor / E-Launch mentor Julie Samson to work on the Initial Value Proposition (the first 10 seconds of the pitch, when you state what problem your product or service solves and how it is better than anything else) for my 2-minute pitch. As I explained before, E-launch is a fast paced class that provides the support to launch a business within one semester, and it includes 5 competitive pitches in front of judges for a chance to win $200. Julie helped me so much this morning and in about 45 minutes we made more progress than I could have achieved in 3 hours of work on it. I really love when I receive help that is ACTUALLY really productive, so that also made me very happy. 

After killing time in the library for about an hour, at 1:00pm I attended the weekly meeting with my fellow Ambassadors. We figured that since we were not having the Food Fair, we should have come together in a regular meeting instead. During our meeting, we discussed two main things. 

First, the Food Fair is officially postponed to Friday, March 18th at 3:00pm at Antioch University patio (2nd floor). 

And secondly we went over the rules and the details regarding the semi-annual Beach Volleyball Tournament event, which is scheduled for tomorrow, Saturday, March 12th, at 9:00am at West Beach. The leaders for that event are going to make an executive decision tomorrow morning at 6:30-7:00 whether to confirm or postpone the event, based on the eventual presence of rain, but the weather forecast seems to be in our favor. Fingers crossed!

Finally, before coming home at 4:30pm and collapsing on my bed for about an hour, I went grocery shopping with my friend Johan! It was pretty fun, because since I moved to Isla Vista, I never shop at Ralph’s anymore (a supermarket downtown). However, I have been buying my groceries there for a whole year while living downtown SB and I like shopping at Ralph's because there is variety, good products, and frankly great deals! [recommended].

So that called for another happy moment.

After all, though it rained most of the time, today was another great day full of enjoyable moments; I can even recall being hit by a light beam from the sun— which probably made my whole day by itself. 

Hope to see you at the Beach Volleyball Tournament tomorrow. It’s gonna be a lot of fun! Please note this is a school event organized by the SBCC Ambassadors— and this always means no alcohol, no drugs, free pizza, and many smiling people. 

A presto,

- Fede