Wednesday, September 22, 2010

A new school year!

Well, I was waiting to write a new blog until after I got all my thank-you notes out, so they could easily find my blog about Haiti, but as usual, I've procrastinated and have not gotten them done =) Hmm...I don't even know where to start. School is going pretty good so far...a ton better than last semester, thank goodness. I have met a lot of cool freshman and have began to strengthen my relationships with my friends from last year. Well I decided the easiest way to write down what I've done so far this year was to look through my college album on facebook and I will explain my adventures through pictures =)


One half of the room
Other half of the room


So this is me at the Tenth Avenue North concert which was FREE! Me and some cool Central girls decided to drive like 3 hours to this cute little town and watch this band, which was amazing by the way =) The band members are really awesome people and their music is very powerful. The next picture is of the entire group getting coffee at a gas station...



And this next picture shows me and Chelsea in front of a boys' bathroom...that we DID use...in a gas station lol.



Then a couple weekends after that, I hung out with Miss Bailey when I went home and we decided that we wanted to play with pool inflatables and take weird pictures...this one's pretty normal as you can see...



This next one is now, however lol...



Then that same weekend, which was Labor Day, we did not have classes, so me, Allison, Josh, Jeff, and Kris decided to go boating! I had wanted to go boating for years, so I had a blast! This is me in the tube about dying...I was getting thrown around pretty good in that very large tube, but it was a lot of fun =)


Then the weekend after that, me and some of my friends had a fun party. The theme was "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid. It was probably the best party I've been to...no joke =) We played pin the tentacle on the guppy, made a craft: jellyfish, ate ocean snacks, watched The Little Mermaid, and had a race down the hallway...while "swimming". Amazingly fun party! This is a picture of the whole group, with our two hostesses, Kelsey and Jamie, in the front =)


Then this past weekend, I went to Fall Conference. It's a Christian retreat in Boone at the Y-camp. It was a lot of fun, even though it rained the entire weekend and it was super cold (we slept outside, by the way, which was EXTRA cold). Our Central group had an amazing time together. No doubt about that! We played some Ninja...David has good balance as you can see from the picture.



Kevin, Jeff, Justin, Allison, and I tried out the zip-lining. First time thing and I'm so glad I did it!


This is me on my way down...I was a tad frightened :S



These next two pictures are of the entire Central group that went...I love them all to death and are amazing people. So much fun to hang out with and I could not have asked for a better group of people...





One of the really touching experiences I had at Fall Conference happened during the last night we were there. One of the girls there had an asthma attack and me and a few other people were with her and tried to comfort her and get her to calm down and take deep breaths. It was one of the hardest things I've ever had to watch in my life...watching her and knowing that there was really nothing I could do to help her. So all we did was pray and pray and pray....I learned how powerful prayer is because eventually she began to calm down and breathe more deeply and slower. The other neat thing I saw was how God's gifts were used that night. For example, David began using his healing power to pray for Jen, Allison & Jacqui used their gifts of comfort to be with Jen, me and Amber used our "running" skills to go places, and Rich used his skill to get her to calm down and breathe deeper. It was amazing to see God working through each and every person there. We are the body of Christ. Without one single part missing, the body is not functional, so it was really neat to see the body of Christ all working together. She is fine now, thank-you Lord, and all is well =)

Anyway, that was quite the mouthful right there...but I guess that's what I get for not writing for a couple months. I learned my lesson. But ya! Well I've spent way too much time procrastinating here so maybe I should do something productive? Hmm...we'll see what happens lol. Homework...psh. It'll get done eventually =) But ya! Toodles 


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