The Ellen Show, say what?

So Ellen came to campus this weekend and tweeted out for ASU students to come to campus with something that starts an A, something that starts with an S and something that starts with a U- the bigger and more creative the better. So, I've been waiting for Ellen to be where I am since I was at Penn State and was so excited for her to be here. My friend and I texted each other trying to come up with the most creative ideas and ended up with an Anemone, painted ourselves blue and dressed as Smurfs, and blew up latex gloves and pinned them to ourselves like Utters. Weird... I know, but we were hoping it'd work in our favor. Jeanie, Ellen's traveling correspondent, went through the crowd and asked what people were, stopping and asking us for a brief moment. So as she called the top 10 costumes, the Smurfs were picked! From their we explained our costumes to the producer behind the camera and were selected into another group of about 5 finalists. These finalists then had to create a song for Ellen telling her why she should send them on a Spring Break trip. So we got to work in the 6 minutes we had an adjusted the song we had conveniently already made up for her to fit the topic of a spring break trip. It was really good, and we had to sing it multiple times for the camera. Then the finalists all got back on camera together and the winners were announced, we weren't them... but then she told us all the finalists get a $1000 (split with your group) and we all went crazy. Not too bad of a way to make a few hundred dollars. It was so awesome and I'm so lucky to have gotten to do this, even though they cut our song out in the final show because it was too long, but hey... we still got the money! :]

Take a look, I'm the one painted blue!