West Area Wolfpack: Community Building Rotation 1: Reese Hall

We painted over Lee Corso, y'all!

In fairness, we would have painted over anyone. No offense, Lee.

On Thursday, September 13th, I joined Reese 5 East RA Denis Korobkov and his residents for a rock painting excursion. It's not uncommon for RAs to take their floors to paint the rock, especially if they work in a predominantly freshman building. Denis, however, took painting the rock one step further. His bulletin board for the month of September included history of the rock, as well as photographs of some notable rock paintings (think "Fire Fulmer," the incredible mash-up of Derek and Vince Dooley painted just before the UT v. UGA game last year, etc). It also featured a blank rock on which residents were encouraged to add their own rock designs. Denis took submissions for the design the floor would paint during this program, and so on that night we set out to paint Smokey holding an alligator carcass.

We met in the 5E study room where Denis fueled his residents with free Red Bull. We headed out to the rock, admired the current painting, and then made our mark. The whole painting took over 2 hours, but the end product was fantastic! We endured some hateful screams, some encouraging words, and lots of "Go Vols" while we were there, but all--or, most--of it was in good spirits.

In total there were about 10 residents from 5E that participated, plus Denis, myself, and Reese Hall Director John Michael VanHorn. Also, about half way through we were joined by the lovely ladies of Humes 2W and RA Jasmine Collins. This was a great surprise, but a wonderful way to connect all of these residents with new people they otherwise would not have met!

In short, it was awesome.

Great job, Denis!