I have been here a week and two days and I’m already tired. Naps have yet again become my best friend. Do I like it here? Yes, from what I have seen so far. But I should probably start with the end of our road trip.
Wednesday (8/20)
I knew that Wednesday was going to be an interesting day when, while I was finishing breakfast, I met Lisa Marie. She came to my table, asked me if I was cold and said that she was but it’s probably because she’s really skinny. Lisa Marie then proceeded to tell me her life story: how she grew up on the East coast, how her mother worshiped Satan, she moved out West to Colorado, her pastor was involved in “that huge scandal”, how her daughter went as a Bible Worker to Turkey where she met and Indian guy, and oh! How Lisa began to pray for her because they were beginning to date. Her son has joined the air force and she now lives in
A Holiday Inn a few miles out of
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While we were driving through
we were particularly interested in stopping at:
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Thursday(8/21)
Short! Only 9 hours! No Problem!
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Destination Reached!
Sabbath afternoon (8/23), Karalee’s cousin took a group of us up to the water tower. Believe me, I stayed on the ground…
Mike, Hollie, Karalee, Michael
They all found out that I don't do heights...
Here is the university. The building with the pillars (right) is the main building.
The white looking roof on the massive building in front of that is the girls dorm.
I'm one of the ones on the ground.
Christine is to thank for these pictures!
Friday (8/29) was Karalee’s 19th birthday! Phil came up and took a group of us girls out to eat at the Macoroni Grill.
Layla, Anne, Christine, Karalee, Hollie
While we were enjoying real food, we all had a chance to express our feelings about the various orientation meetings that we had attended. We all agreed that they had done a very good job at scaring all the freshman by constantly reminding them that they are no longer in high school. Anne, who has never been in an Adventist school before, expressed her impression of the school so far: “It’s like they say, ‘Welcome to Southern. You can’t do this; you can’t do this; you can’t do this; Praise the Lord! You can’t do this, you can’t do this; you can’t do this….’” She also made the observation that she has never seen so many scrawny boys in her life! Welcome to Adventist schooling Anne!
Last night was the SA Welcome Back Party. The theme was… drum roll… The 90s! Umm…? Yea, that was my first reaction too. However, I was pleasantly surprised. We had a great time dressing up, listening to hits of the 90s, playing jump rope, Mario Cart, Four-Square and stuffing ourselves with Cheese-Its, Fruit-By-The-Foot, and Gushers (all the food I wasn’t allowed to eat when it really was the 90s).
Christine, Karalee, Rachel, Cassie, Hollie
Some guys started break dancing...
And everyone was told to go do something else.
Chris Beddoe and Hollie
The obvious highlight of the entire night came from, surprise surprise, Ryan Moore. Dare I say that I’ve known him for a while? Well, they had karaoke set up and Ryan made everyone get to his feet with his version of “Vanilla Ice, Ice Baby”:
That is the conclusion of my thoughts for today. I must now turn my brain to History, Earth Science and Music in the
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