I've been extremely busy with college, had some presentations on the first week, to show us newcomers how the school works and this past week I had Praxis every day, from 8 till 18 hours. It was exhausting but at the same time so much fun!
Since I was a kid I heard people talking about the University and the Praxis, I don't know if that tradition happens outside my country but here many people talk badly about it, in the past there were news about teenagers that died or went to the hospital during Praxis and that always made me think "I will never participate on that stupid thing!"
It is supposed to be a week where people that already are from the college (and participated on Praxis on their first year) to welcome the freshmen, but at the same time making them see that they need to respect them and that there is an hierarchy and if it was just this everything would be great. But it isn't, on some colleges people just use the Praxis week to humiliate, demean and even abuse the freshmen. Fortunatly on my college there is no such thing, I went the first day to see how it all worked, after all I can't talk about things that I never experienced, and I ended up loving it. We started all the same as freshmen, everyone with white and loose t-shirts, a plastic potty on our heads and a mind filled with anxiety since we were new to the school and didn't met anyone. That day we sang,shouted, were painted by the veterans with acrylics, glitters, varnish, we were thaugth to do granades, the afflicted turtle, the fish out of water,and some more things. I never felt humiliated, I actually laughed a lot and since everyone was equal the conversations with strangers were just like if everyone was already friends!
My college sure changed the idea I had of Praxis and even though I earned a LOT of bruises from throwing myself to the floor I was sad when the week ended since we only live it once in our life (unless of course you change college and want to do it again)
So, tomorrow the classes will start for real and I'm excited :D but anxious as hell too.
