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For the last several years every semester there has been a blood drive on campus. Every time it would come up I didn’t even bother going down because of traveling to Ethiopia. This semester however it’s been over a year since I’ve been in Ethiopia. Because of this I decided to give the blood drive a shot.
I went down yesterday about noon and got myself in line. They took my info, took a prick of blood to do an iron test, took my blood pressure and my pulse. Everything was looking fine. I went and filled out a questionnaire pertaining to possible health risks and after I was done a nurse came and looked at the results. Ethiopia, as expected, was a bit of a stopping block, but after looking into it for a while she figured out that it was fine. Going to the UAE wasn’t a problem so 2/3 possible problem spots had been resolved.
Then came #3. Not even something that I thought of: “Were you a member of the military, civilian employee of the military, or a dependent of a member of the military between 1980 and 1996 in Europe?” Having been born in Germany in this time of course I said yes. Malaria and Yellow Fever issues in Ethiopia I thought would get me… being a dependent of my dad in 1985 was not something I thought would.
Which brings up a question that the nurse didn’t really answer for me… What were they doing with people in the military in the 80s….? Dad you have some explaining to do.

Well KQ has come and gone and as per usual it was an absolute blast. A few people have begun posting photos on the Harwood Website which you can look at, only a few people have me. As usual it was completely crazy with KURE sending us out to do random stuff.
In the end Harwood took 2nd place to our rivals Anders House. It came down to a 10 point difference (out of thousands possible) and apparently in the last hour we changed positions several times. Anders took 2nd last year (we trounced them by over 500 points) and edged us out 2 years ago in a tie breaker. It’s a great rivalry, and I’m looking forward to coming back and beating them next year.
The Daily did an article on KQ featuring Harwood so check that out for a bit of a hour by hour synopsis. There was a Daily photographer hanging around for the first few hours of KQ and some great pictures were taken, hopefully I’ll be posting them up here in a few days time.