Disappointed

On Friday I went to Relay for Life at my school. It was a club event. So I signed up to go with  my club. And I registered and paid my fee. I was actually really excited. For those of you that don't know what it is, it was basically a walk-a-thon for cancer. It was from 6 in the afternoon to 6 in the morning. I had planned to stay the whole night. I was ready and I was pumped!

And I hate that I always do this. I'm a negative person, yett for certain things I always seem to have positive expectations and I hope for the best. Especially when it comes to school events. Maybe it's because I'm a romantic deep down, but I always picture these events going in one direction and they never go anywhere near that direction.

So I got there 15 mins early and went to sign in. Because of my luck they couldn't find our club on the list and they had to look online and their internet was down so I was waiting for over 15 mins. And once I was let in no one else from my club was there. So I sat on a bench for like an hour till some of them arrived. Now I'm a freshman, and one of the few freshman in our club so everyone else there was a junior. I asked them if they were going to stay the whole night. "Nope, no, hell no, ha! No" is what they all said.

But my best friend was coming and we had both planned on staying the whole night so I was like whatever. She got there and as it went on everyone from our club left without saying goodbye and we hadn't even had a spot reserved because the admins of our club hadn't gone to the Relay meetings.

And maybe it was just because I was in a sour mood but really it didn't seem like an event for cancer. Cancer was really focused on for like 15 min. And it really seemed like just one big party for clubs/Frats/Sororities to get together and have fun. And that wouldn't have been so bad if our club had actually done that. While we didn't even have a spot or people, other clubs had brought tons of food and games and tents and pillows and blankets and it was all really cool and awesome looking.

And I can't help but hate how out of over 200 clubs I seemed to have picked the worst one. And these people are the future health professionals. Yet they can't even get things straight for a school event.

Needless to say we didn't stay the whole night. And so there I was home before midnight.

My parents laughed at me. A lot.

So another event ruined and disappointed.

But I gotta say I'm glad people showed up and I know money was raised for cancer and the moments dedicated to it were powerful. So that was the one good thing.