Kevin Maravilla
Freshman Seminar
December 4th, 2014

Quality Gingerbread House with Friends

This event was held on November 24th in Saint Joe's 1st floor lounge. This was hosted by the RA's during the week before thanksgiving break to help boost the holiday spirit. This a team effort to see what group would build the best gingerbread house. There was a prize for the best gingerbread house of gift cards to Starbucks. 

I was having a great time with my group trying to build a gingerbread house. It was great team bonding and the RA's offered eggnog to drink. The building of the gingerbread house quickly got messy and our hands were filled with frosting. Although we were very messy I was having a great time and getting to know my group members better. There were six groups who all got the same kit for the gingerbread house. It was interesting to see how everyone came up with different ways of how to decorate their gingerbread house. While groups made their gingerbread house, they played holiday music even though it was christmas. The music helped make the atmosphere in the room more relaxing and made it easier for people to want to talk to others.

I had a great time building a gingerbread house for the first time at school. I didn't know how difficult it was to build a gingerbread house because usually my little sisters did everything at home. Now I was able to get involved and have a great time. I got to know new people that also live on campus at NDNU and was happy because I was creating new great memories.