Weekend Report...

Friday night was the first time I've ever participated in a trivia competition. A few people from work and a few friends came together for a fund-raiser trivia competition. It went better than I thought it would. First of all, I only knew the questions regarding television. It showed me what I do with my time, pretty sad. Anyhow, together the team knew a lot of the answers. We answered 75 out of 100 qestions correct. We came in second to another team who also had 75 questions correct. The tie-breaker was a prediction of how many questions the teams would answer correctly. Our team thought we would answer around 61 questions right, the winning team had put 62, so they were one closer to their correct score. It was a lot of fun, and I'll forever remember some random questions and answers from the night. For example, the national dog for France is the poodle, the Basketball Hall of Fame is in Springfield, Mass. and the little girl's character name on Everybody Loves Raymond is Allie. Those are some of the questions we missed. Some of the girls here at work that invited me to join have been so into this trivia thing, they are considering having one hosted by our newspaper we work for. It's kind of sad, I'll be leaving.

Yesterday, I told some of the people of the church we've been attending that I won't be able to help out anymore with their children's ministry. I was a little disappointed in myself that I couldn't help more than what I had. I also will have to approach all of the people in surrounding towns here and let them know I'm leaving. As a reporter, I cover anything going on in a few nearby towns and one in particular has become really close, like a second home while I've been here. I just have developed so many relationships here. It almost makes wish I never came for the year and half I've been year, knowing I would just be going back to my hometown. I left everyone I knew at home and came here. Now, I am again dealing with a similar situation, leaving after I've developed a life here. I know everything will work out fine, it just seems to be difficult at times.

Okay, I need to work on an article over here about giving and donating to needy organizations... I, in addition to the person the article is about, encourage others to dedicate to giving to others.

Until next time...