Quad View: As seen from the Alumni Office

Just in the past week I have heard from a few dear friends who have been reading the blog and wanted to ask questions about something I have said.  It’s wonderful to find connections that you didn’t realize you have with people.  So please, keep writing and commenting.  I love to hear from you!

My own best friends from WFU are doing an email chain about funny things we did in college.  I will confess that when I first got here (as a somewhat naive girl from PA), there were certain southern expressions that I had never heard of.  “Pig pickin’” for example.  I had no idea what this meant - or that there was even something called a “pig pickin cake” that one eats at a pig pickin’

So sometime during my freshmen year, we are all driving somewhere and we see a bulletin board that just says “Ham Horton” - and so in all of my infinite wisdom, I say “Oh, is a Ham Horton the same thing as a pig pickin’?”

At which point my southern friends almost laughed themselves right off the road.  And then told me that Ham Horton was a political candidate and not a social event. 

I’d love to hear some of your funny stories from your time at WFU - either cultural differences, roommate differences, whatever they may be.  If you give me permission, I will share them in the blog : )