So class has been okay so far. Today, from 2:30 to 5:30 I have my first chem lab. We're going to be melting pennies and separating the metals they're made of to see how the composition of change has differed in different years. Should be interesting. I'm pretty stoked.
Nothing incredibly interesting has been going on. Yesterday I got to proctor freshman placement exams. I went to chapel this morning and have been doing homework ever since. Chemistry is looking a little tricky, and Stephen's been really patient trying to explain it to me when I get confused.
Tomorrow night I have to be on intervis duty, which means that I can't leave the building, but that other people can come to my room, so Ben, Lariane, Nathan, and Stephen are going to come over so we can finish filling out Ben's application for eHarmony.com. It's going to be a good time.
P.S. - I posted some pictures of my room on the Pictures link I have on this blog. Just go to the album titled "Fall 2008".
Thursday, August 28, 2008
Wednesday, August 20, 2008
This morning was kind of nice because I got to sleep in till 9:30, but then I had to go carry boxes of planners. Then we had a 3-hour staff meeting where we tried - mostly in vain - to sort things out about move-in day. I'm pretty overwhelmed right now, to tell you the truth.
Then tonight we watched a really depressing movie - Tuesdays With Morrie. I hated it. I'm sick of those kinds of movies. I can't tell you how many inspirational stories I've heard in the last week. I'm tired of hearing about things like that. I just want my friends to be here and I want school to start.
Then tonight we watched a really depressing movie - Tuesdays With Morrie. I hated it. I'm sick of those kinds of movies. I can't tell you how many inspirational stories I've heard in the last week. I'm tired of hearing about things like that. I just want my friends to be here and I want school to start.
Tuesday, August 19, 2008
all done with training
RA training is officially over. Tomorrow we have the day off for the most part - we're doing building preparations and getting things ready for our girls, but other than that we're all done until Thursday when we help move in the freshman boys. That should be interesting.
This afternoon we had our training test so to speak. They took us into one of the more empty residence halls at this point and set up fake scenarios and made us handle the situations like we would if we actually walked into them. There were rooms with intervis violations, depressed students, a student that was passed out, one with an eating disorder, one with a severe procrastination problem, one who was struggling with being a transfer, one room that had drunk kids in it, and one that had a roommate disagreement.
Right now I'm headed downstairs to hang out with my staff girls for a while. The BEST part about the building I'm living in right now isn't the huge rooms or the bright, clean bathrooms. It's the fact that there is a PIANO in my lobby. Ohhhhh yeah. Good times.
This afternoon we had our training test so to speak. They took us into one of the more empty residence halls at this point and set up fake scenarios and made us handle the situations like we would if we actually walked into them. There were rooms with intervis violations, depressed students, a student that was passed out, one with an eating disorder, one with a severe procrastination problem, one who was struggling with being a transfer, one room that had drunk kids in it, and one that had a roommate disagreement.
Right now I'm headed downstairs to hang out with my staff girls for a while. The BEST part about the building I'm living in right now isn't the huge rooms or the bright, clean bathrooms. It's the fact that there is a PIANO in my lobby. Ohhhhh yeah. Good times.
Sunday, August 17, 2008
the castle
I'm writing this right now, before I unpack or go and take a shower or continue checking peoples' rooms, so that I don't blow it off later when I get tired again. So there.
Yesterday morning we had a lecture on drug and alcohol policy. The campus po came in and burnt incense tablets that simulate the scent of marijuana and they passed around beer so that kids who don't drink (or work in bars) could smell it. And then they passed around a crack pipe and told us all manner of things that people can do with drugs...things I didn't even know people did or were physically possible. It was crazy. Then we had fire safety (we're so ready now Mom) and they lit a fire out on the lawn and let us shoot of fire extinguishers at it. Pretty neat if you ask me. Then I went to Rite Aid for a couple things and then we left for the castle.
The castle was more like the single biggest mansion I have ever seen in my entire life. Seriously, I didn't know residences like that existed - it was originally the house of some uber-rich guy and then when he died they made it into this hostel-like place for Christian retreats and whatnot. It was ENORMOUS. It took me about a minute-and-a-half (I timed it) to walk from the front door to my room. It was so cool. We played team-building games like human foozeball and a blind walk, and then we had dinner (pizza) and then we had free time (during which I joined an impromptu soccer tourny), and then we were going to play capture-the-flag, but by that time it was pitch-dark outside and I'm afraid of the dark so I opted out. I wasn't the only one who did this, so we sat on the back porch and played board games for like three hours.
Then, as we're playing board games, we hear this enormous explosion. And we look over and way off over some distant mountain (we also were on top of a mountain - GORGEOUS sunset, btw) we see some puff of smoke. And we're all like "is there an air force base around here?" There wasn't, somebody said, so we kept staring to see if it would happen again and wouldn't you know it they were setting off some FIREWORKS DISPLAY about 10 miles away for like 30 minutes and we could see every single one. So cool.
This morning we got up for breakfast, then had devotions as a group, and then we had alone time. We could take only a Bible and we had to find someplace on the grounds with no other people and sit for 2 hours to pray. It was a little daunting at first, but it ended up being a really cool experience. After that, they had worship time. There's just something so cool about seeing 70-some college kids singing at the top of their lungs about God.
Then we had a box lunch and cleaned up the building and came home, which is where I am now. Two girls are moving in on my hall currently, and my project before five (which is when I have to do something next) is to finish room inspections and take a shower, which I really really need. A nap is apparently out of the question at this point.
K that's all. Till next time...
Yesterday morning we had a lecture on drug and alcohol policy. The campus po came in and burnt incense tablets that simulate the scent of marijuana and they passed around beer so that kids who don't drink (or work in bars) could smell it. And then they passed around a crack pipe and told us all manner of things that people can do with drugs...things I didn't even know people did or were physically possible. It was crazy. Then we had fire safety (we're so ready now Mom) and they lit a fire out on the lawn and let us shoot of fire extinguishers at it. Pretty neat if you ask me. Then I went to Rite Aid for a couple things and then we left for the castle.
The castle was more like the single biggest mansion I have ever seen in my entire life. Seriously, I didn't know residences like that existed - it was originally the house of some uber-rich guy and then when he died they made it into this hostel-like place for Christian retreats and whatnot. It was ENORMOUS. It took me about a minute-and-a-half (I timed it) to walk from the front door to my room. It was so cool. We played team-building games like human foozeball and a blind walk, and then we had dinner (pizza) and then we had free time (during which I joined an impromptu soccer tourny), and then we were going to play capture-the-flag, but by that time it was pitch-dark outside and I'm afraid of the dark so I opted out. I wasn't the only one who did this, so we sat on the back porch and played board games for like three hours.
Then, as we're playing board games, we hear this enormous explosion. And we look over and way off over some distant mountain (we also were on top of a mountain - GORGEOUS sunset, btw) we see some puff of smoke. And we're all like "is there an air force base around here?" There wasn't, somebody said, so we kept staring to see if it would happen again and wouldn't you know it they were setting off some FIREWORKS DISPLAY about 10 miles away for like 30 minutes and we could see every single one. So cool.
This morning we got up for breakfast, then had devotions as a group, and then we had alone time. We could take only a Bible and we had to find someplace on the grounds with no other people and sit for 2 hours to pray. It was a little daunting at first, but it ended up being a really cool experience. After that, they had worship time. There's just something so cool about seeing 70-some college kids singing at the top of their lungs about God.
Then we had a box lunch and cleaned up the building and came home, which is where I am now. Two girls are moving in on my hall currently, and my project before five (which is when I have to do something next) is to finish room inspections and take a shower, which I really really need. A nap is apparently out of the question at this point.
K that's all. Till next time...
Friday, August 15, 2008
Back at GCC
RA training is a pain in the butt. I mean that only in the best of ways, of course, but it really is. Listening to lectures and having meetings from 8:00 am to 5:00 pm isn't really my idea of a good time, especially because we have all kinds of hall preparations to do once we're back in our rooms, but I guess it'll all pay off in the end. That's pretty much all that's been going on: meetings and lectures. My room is nearly unpacked but I can't find anything at all, and tomorrow we're packing up again and going off to the castle for a night. I don't want to go someplace else for the night. I want to go and come home and sleep in my own bed. I'm tired already.
Also it's strange because there's only one other girl on the hall so far. Varsity sports come back tomorrow, so there will be some more people then, but other than that it's just us. It's weird to go take a shower and be in the bathroom for 20 minutes and not see another girl. It's so quiet. Very strange.
Okay, I need to go. I've had the evening off, so I've been doing some work but I'd really like to hang up some of my own posters and have a snack before I take a shower and go to bed. This was kind of a cranky post, and they'll get better I'm sure, but I've had a lot of information thrown at me today, so that might be it.
'Night!
Also it's strange because there's only one other girl on the hall so far. Varsity sports come back tomorrow, so there will be some more people then, but other than that it's just us. It's weird to go take a shower and be in the bathroom for 20 minutes and not see another girl. It's so quiet. Very strange.
Okay, I need to go. I've had the evening off, so I've been doing some work but I'd really like to hang up some of my own posters and have a snack before I take a shower and go to bed. This was kind of a cranky post, and they'll get better I'm sure, but I've had a lot of information thrown at me today, so that might be it.
'Night!
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