Unit 10/12 all the way! (I am in 12 :) and this is our door to get in our side of the unit)

This past week has felt a lot like camp. Everyone says that is understandable and that is just how it is at the beginning of freshman year. We have been doing SO much, and are constantly busy. It is just now beginning to go a tad bit slower. The longest amount of time in the past week (besides at night when I was sleeping) that I had time to do nothing was like three hours. Other than that, I was always going somewhere and doing activities with people. I will give you a day-to-day summary of what I have done this last week but I probably won't do that all year :) When I have classes and homework every day my life will get a lot less interesting.

Sunday, August 21st, 2011

We had our only Sunday chapel of the year today. The rest of the Sundays during the year our college wants us to get connected to other churches in the area, which is a pretty neat idea. Later in the afternoon we had our small group game show in the chapel. I think there were like 80 groups of about 12 of us. Basically, a question would come on the big screens and then in our group someone had a remote control thing and we pushed what we thought the right answer was. At the end, there were four of the top teams that had to send up one person on stage to do a legit game show type thing. Brianna (who is in my unit and my small group) went up there because we were a top team, and she ALMOST won! She was thisclose. It was pretty fun!

Monday, August 22nd, 2011

Monday morning (bright and early) the new students went to different places to meet with their academic advisors and learn more about their department. I have my advisor for my composition class too and he is pretty awesome. After that I had chapel, another freshman meeting, and then I ate lunch with a few people in my small group. In the afternoon, our unit hung out with our brother unit and we played some outdoor games, and then had dinner and went to evening chapel together. There is a fall Bible conference that was Monday-Wednesday so we had chapel in the morning and at night. Normally chapel is only every week day at 10.

Later that night we had a unit meeting with our RA where we went over some rules and talked about some things we have planned in the coming months. After that some of us went outside to sit on blankets to eat and talk :) We found this stray cat that we named Cow. (Long story short: his name is apparently Curtis and he is known as the Johnson cat because that is the dorm he hangs around). We fed him some food, and just had a fun time laughing and talking together and talking randomly to people that walked by :)

Tuesday, August 23rd, 2011

Today was our last day before classes started. I had chapel, another freshman meeting, and lunch. The afternoon consisted of me hanging out with my small group again and doing a photo scavenger hunt. Here is one picture that we had to do:

My 'overwhelmed' face makes me look silly...oh well.

Wednesday, August 24th, 2011

Today I started college for real. It was different..I forgot how bored I sometimes get when I listen to teachers talk. That is something I need to work on. I am paying for these classes now, I better pay attention! I had to do some rescheduling but in the end it all worked out :) My three MWF (Monday, Wednesday, Friday) classes I have friends in which was exciting. By friends I mean people I already knew before. There is a girl in my unit who has the same major as me and we have two classes together, and I have science with Madison. I have three classes on Tuesday, and two on Thursday. Those are the days I get to take tennis as a PE elective! That made me so happy. Except I don't know anyone in that class and they are all older..hopefully I will make friends! I need to find someone to play tennis with. I haven't played in one week and that makes me sad :(

Later today I had chapel and then went out for pizza with some people from my small group!

Thursday, August 25th, 2011

So at 3:00 in the morning we had a thunderstorm here. Now, I love thunderstorms when I am sleeping, but I heard the biggest clap of thunder I have ever heard and I was instantly awake. Madison was too. I am pretty sure the entire campus woke up at that one. We were both like 'whoa' haha. THEN not even 15 minutes later the fire alarm in only our unit (10/12) went off. In the middle of a thunderstorm...so it was raining outside. We got out of bed and opened our door and so did everyone else. We weren't really sure what to do. We just kind of assumed it wasn't a legit fire (which it wasn't of course). Anyways, we went outside on the balcony so we didn't get wet at all but it was still kind of ridiculous. The fire alarm was leaking water so we think that is why it was going off. Our RA took the batteries out and we all went back to bed!

After our little episode during the night, I had my two classes. We didn't actually play tennis today, we just went over the syllabus and then we will be starting next week. I only have it for six weeks. Madison, McKinley, and I watched a movie, I did some homework, and then we had an all-dorm meeting.

Friday, August 26th, 2011

We had an involvement fair tonight where there were a ton of organizations and churches that had booths for us to check out. After that I went with some girls from my unit to someone's house for a housewarming party type thing. And then we came back and went to watch a showing of Pirates of the Caribbean 4 outside on a blow-up screen which was really fun!

Saturday, August 27th, 2011

Today I got to sleep in! It was quite awesome. Some girls from my unit and I went shopping at Goodwill and Walmart for nerd clothes! I got me some suspenders :) We had a Bro/Sis volleyball tournament in the afternoon where we competed against other Bro/Sis teams and we had to dress up. We won 1 of 3 games. Volleyball just isn't my thing. Except it was a massive ball, and it was pretty light...it wasn't normal volleyball thankfully. We had dinner, and later Madison and I went with 2 other girls from our unit to her sister's dorm where we watched a movie :) It was a fun day (even if we didn't do very well at volleyball)!

My wonderful unit :)



Madison and her twin haha

McKinley, Me, and Madison. The M's :)

The whole group!

Sunday, August 28th, 2011

Today is a very chill day. I went to church with a couple of people, came back and did laundry, and updated this. I plan on doing homework too and possibly playing tennis! Maybe I will even take a nap :)