Here at Penn State every year an event called Thon is held..its a 48 (46 this year) hour dance marathon to raise money for families dealing with childhood cancer. Its the biggest student-run charitable event in the country, and broke its own record this year, previously set last year. They made $5,240,385.17 this year, outdoing last year's total by more than a million dollars.
Anyways..it was a really fun time (No, I wasn't there the whole time, only a couple hours lol). It was pretty packed the whole time, and the building holds around 13,000 people, so that was pretty neat. Monty (Experiment) and I were there attempting to dance. I say attempting because I am not the most coordinated person in the world. Anyone else have any other cool stories like this from around where they live?
Anyways, here's a link to read about it and some youtube things which are pretty cool:
http://www.collegian.psu.edu/archive/20 ... ews-19.asp
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9mCZ5l31bp0 (monty and I participated in this dance a few times..though I honestly had no clue what I was doing)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCXFw7XwEfk (this is our mascot doing the evolution of dance..though its only like the last 2 minutes of it)
Edit - Changed the 2nd link to the one Monty gave in his reply.
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FrankieG on Tue Feb 20, 2007 4:41 am, edited 1 time in total.
