Bruin Blast!
It has already been 4 months since I have arrived at Belmont University. Time has truly flown by these last couple of months. The leaves on the trees are now changing colors, from green to shades of orange, yellow, and red. It has been getting much cooler lately so I have been making more trips to Bongo Java, the local coffee house, to get my favorite drink the "Apple Pie." Although November brings new challenges such registering for classes, music juries, and many papers, I am looking forward to attending the basketball games and being a part of Bruin Blast.
Bruin Blast is the pep band that plays for several volleyball games and all of the home basketball games. The gym is usually packed with students cheering for the Bruins. The games are very energetic, particularly this year because of how well they did last season. Last year Belmont's mens 
basketball team won the Atlantic Sun Conference and competed in the NCAA tournament. In the first round of the tournament, Belmont faced the number 2 seed, Duke University. Belmont almost won the game, earning high respect in the NCAA tournament. After this years first exhibition match of the season, Belmont appears to have a great chance of making it to the NCAA tournament again. Last Thursday they easily beat Sewanee with a score of 83 to 27.
Bruin Blast plays a large variety of music during timeouts and halftimes. Right before the home games, the pep band gets to run in as the the announcer introduces us. It is a lot of fun because we get to run in similar to how the actual athelets run in before the game. My favorite part about Bruin Blast is when the entire crowd sings along with our music. Bruin Blast is going to be an amazing experience. GO BRUINS!
If you don't believe me, just watch her sing once. You will be blown away. She, in my opinion, could easily win the whole competition! So everyone should vote for her after every performance! 
It's kind of crazy all the stuff that's been going on around campus lately. Well, of course were still buzzing and proud of our men's and women's basketball teams a week ago, but there is just tons of "other" things going on as well. For one, there is the Other Showcase this weekend, which is the last showcase before the "Best-of the-Best" showcase. The showcases are always produced and performed very well by the music business majors. If you take a good look at the picture, the band is "Soul Force" and they were the winners of last years' Other Showcase. But look really close and there is none other than 
A one-stop flight from Nashville to my home state of Wisconsin departs on Tuesday, December 12th. I cannot believe that there are only fifteen more days left of the semester! In the next few weeks, I expect myself to be remarkably absorbed in the overabundance of homework I still need to complete. With that said, I hope everyone had a blessed Thanksgiving! 
So, these past few weeks have been extremely tough and I’m not quite sure how I’m getting through them right now, but I’m trying hard. I have to say though, as the year winds down and the weather gets cooler and basketball is in season I’m looking forward to the men's and women’s teams. Here's a link for more about Belmont Athletics, 
I guess I should start off with a little introduction. My name is Amaryah. Most people have a hard time pronouncing it correctly, so I use a pronounciation key. It sounds like, Uh-More-Yuh, but it doesn't have anything to do with love. At the moment I am currently undecided but leaning strongly to English Lit. I know it's kind of odd to come from Miami, Florida, just to be an English Lit major, but Belmont was too hard to resist. I knew I wanted to be a Bruin from the first moment I set foot on campus.