College:

Week 1: Registration: AKA...taking your picture, spending the most money you have ever spent in your ENTIRE life (of your own), meeting lots of new people, getting a card with your picture on it (that is pretty much the key to your new life), being thrust out of your comfort zone, lugging your stuff up the dorm stairs mostly by yourself, sitting in meetings, meeting with your advisor, meeting the most amazing family group ever (SUIT UP!!!), going bowling, changing your major, and...I'm sure there was something else, but that was the jist. :)

Weekend 1: Driving about two hours away to an amazing camp with all the Freshman girls to listen to different seminars and worship together. It was beautiful and Lake Michigan is awesome. :)

Week 2: Getting lost in the dorm, trying to figure out which building is which. The building where English is ...is not "The English Building, it's Nethery Hall", walking around with a map totally looking lost, almost going into the wrong nutrition class, barely able to make it to communications on time because you can't figure out what room it's supposed to be in, being terrified by your Nutrition teacher who says he has given out only 10 A's out of a Hundred students last semester, and...best of all, looking forward to the weekend and SABBATH!!! :)

Weekend 2: Hanging out at the beach on Sabbath afternoon and going on a bike ride with Christophe! I am addicted. It's as fun and more fun than I ever imagined it would be!!! :D Sunday...more beachy-ness :) I LOVE THE BEACH!!! AND THE SUNSHINE!!!!

Week 3: Getting all settled into classes, looking forward to Labor Day!! WHOO HOO!!! Last three years..or pretty much my entire life I think I still had school on Labor Day! Loving classes and just moving along ...and of course...looking forward to the weekend! ESPECIALLY since friends from Union were coming!! YAY!!

Weekend 3: Church, Lunch, Beach, Dinner, BOWLING!!! :) and...getting sick :( Sunday: SIX FLAGS!!! :) The roller coasters were awesome..but I was getting tired towards the end of the day for sure...It was Renee's first time ever being on a roller coaster and by the end of the second one she was hooked! :) She looked at me with a big grin on her face and said "YAY! let's do it again!!" First time I ever did the drop tower...it looks scarier than it is...and the anticipation was worse than the drop!!! :) Actually, I got sick on a little swinging boat...how lame is that. I didn't feel good for hours after that one! OLIVE GARDEN was an amazing supper of SOUP and breadsticks! Cheap...but delicious! :) And we had to zip back in time for curfew...we made it. Barely.

Week 4: Studying and panicking for my first EXAM! Yeah, not cool when your book is lost in the mail. Cram, cram, cram the night before = not a very good grade. At least I passed and was in the average pool...but I don't like the average!~ I want to be ABOVE average!!! Realizing that next week..I have TWO exams (nutrition and intro to psych) and an english paper (collage) due. Wow. This weekend is going to include some studying. That's for sure. Tonight (friday) was Fusion! The sermon was really good.It was Me vs. Me. and how sometimes we get so focused on the ins and outs, that we forget to let God lead and we are just fighting against ourselves instead of letting God do the change in us. Romans 8 - NOTHING will separate us from the love of God. AMEN!!!!The music gets too loud, but if you leave early after the sermon, well you get out easier, and you can go to bed earlier!

So..this was super long...but the words were just coming...ta ta...morning comes and the clock doesn't wait for a sick, tired, half-asian freshman girl who is hungry!

:) - ME
Happy Sabbath!