I remember hearing from Lacy this week that she was encouraging us to share out of class experiences on our blog, so here I go. This past weekend at North Carolina State University there was the Krispy Kreme Challenge. The idea is that you run from the bell tower on campus to the krispy kreme store 2.5 miles away, eat twelve donuts and then run back to the tower. There were right around eight thousand people that participated in the ninth annual challenge. I do run regularly, but I have never tried to eat twelve donuts at one sitting the most I have ever eaten was six at one time. I did not know how to eat them besides just dip them in water to get the glaze off. While I was waiting at the start line people are talking about different stuff, and I end up in talking to a group of guys about random things. Finally we came upon the subject of how to eat them and the veteran said you have to eat them four at a time or there is no way that you will be able to put down that many donuts in one sitting. Once I flew through the first 2.5 miles and got to eat the donuts. I actually found the veteran and observed how he was eating them and I tried emulating him. Once I hit eight I was not feeling too well I was feeling nauseous to put it simply. I was eating half of my last eight when I urgently needed to use this restroom, so I used this opportunity to dispose of my last part of donuts. I started running back and the first mile was not too bad but the second one I started to feel pretty bad, luckily I ended up in running with some guy similar in age. We helped to push each other to the very end and this really helped me to not stop and also pushed me to be better than I could be by myself. Once I crossed the finish line it was a huge relief and apparently everyone else thought so too. People were hurrying to bushes if they could make it while some were just puking up the donuts in the middle of the street. I assure you that I did not come to this point, but I was flirting with it. I believe that this can be related back to what we have been talking about english and learning. I think this is so because I was able to hear and observe what others were doing when they were eating the donuts and figure out which way would work for me the best. Next year I'm sure that I will do it in a completely different manner than I did this time. I should probably practice eating that many donuts before next time.
I remember hearing from Lacy this week that she was encouraging us to share out of class experiences on our blog, so here I go. This past weekend at North Carolina State University there was the Krispy Kreme Challenge. The idea is that you run from the bell tower on campus to the krispy kreme store 2.5 miles away, eat twelve donuts and then run back to the tower. There were right around eight thousand people that participated in the ninth annual challenge. I do run regularly, but I have never tried to eat twelve donuts at one sitting the most I have ever eaten was six at one time. I did not know how to eat them besides just dip them in water to get the glaze off. While I was waiting at the start line people are talking about different stuff, and I end up in talking to a group of guys about random things. Finally we came upon the subject of how to eat them and the veteran said you have to eat them four at a time or there is no way that you will be able to put down that many donuts in one sitting. Once I flew through the first 2.5 miles and got to eat the donuts. I actually found the veteran and observed how he was eating them and I tried emulating him. Once I hit eight I was not feeling too well I was feeling nauseous to put it simply. I was eating half of my last eight when I urgently needed to use this restroom, so I used this opportunity to dispose of my last part of donuts. I started running back and the first mile was not too bad but the second one I started to feel pretty bad, luckily I ended up in running with some guy similar in age. We helped to push each other to the very end and this really helped me to not stop and also pushed me to be better than I could be by myself. Once I crossed the finish line it was a huge relief and apparently everyone else thought so too. People were hurrying to bushes if they could make it while some were just puking up the donuts in the middle of the street. I assure you that I did not come to this point, but I was flirting with it. I believe that this can be related back to what we have been talking about english and learning. I think this is so because I was able to hear and observe what others were doing when they were eating the donuts and figure out which way would work for me the best. Next year I'm sure that I will do it in a completely different manner than I did this time. I should probably practice eating that many donuts before next time.
Okay, I want to throw up just reading this. I do see how you are thinking about the idea of mentoring and apprenticing here! I think you can push the connections further too, hooking up the ideas to Mimi Ito or Gee. (Also I think the Zombie Run might be more motivational... and actually sort of like a real life video game...)
ReplyDeleteI did a similar run in Winston-Salem, it was a blast to do!! I like how you shared your experience outside of the class! Great job!
ReplyDeleteHahaha hilarious! I could not imagine eating that many donuts and running on them! Very interesting story, and how you've related it!
ReplyDeleteI feel like this is something I could be good at, donuts and running. It definitely is true in almost everything we do that we have to pay attention to others and learn from that.
ReplyDeleteI like how you talked about observing and learning from others. The very same idea that were talking about in class. Learning from peers that are within our interest driven spheres. Interesting story.
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