So I notice I have already failed at attempting to post daily. Go figure right? I mean I am super super busy this week .. (cue rolling eyes).
Day two went well, no seminar class in the morning but little focus group meetings were held that morning. Other than that I had nothing planned until 6pm when there was a quick little "money matters" lecture. I took a business and money management class in H.S. last year so I didn't really hear anything I didn't already know - but it was a nice reminder to have.
The only other really exciting (which exciting is not really the most appropriate adjective) activities of the day included two trips to the basement of Bonner for over an hour because of tornado warnings. In reality I only made it to one of those times because I slept through the first who episode - note to SLAs: if you knock on someone's door ... keep banging until they wake up and answer the door - or they may die if a tornado actually comes through campus. After all of that excitement was finished there was a neat ThinkFast Trivia game show type activity that Amanda and I went to. The winners received $200 in cash ... my team didn't win :o( sad news. Then it was bed time.
An exciting day 2 right? NO but thats okay I did enjoy the down time for the most part. The only downside I personally get to deal with during any kind of down time is of my own cause. When there are no plans I have WAY TOO MUCH time to think and worry about Christopher. The nice things is that we decided not to have a TV in our room, so I can't watch the news - which is a habit I need to skip out on whenever there is anything regarding Afghanistan or I'll just create way to much stress to handle. I still haven't heard from him, but hopefully that will come soon.
NOW for Wednesday: Day 3 @ Camp Erskine
Today I had my second meeting with the seminar class I was in and once again I was impressed and do believe that I am going to thoroughly enjoy being in there. I will admit I was skeptical about any type of seminar class to start with - just never appealed to me as something that I would really care for; especially as the first class of the day. Discussion was not as intense today for the way freshman orientation was scheduled all our reading is now out of wack! One thing that was mentioned by Dr. Kuykendall that really struck me and made me think was a quote from Peace like a River on pg. 153, it said; "Could a person believe so strongly one way, yet take the opposite route?" Think about that for a minute. Can one person stand firm in a belief they hold if they go a justify or aid someone complete an action or say something that directly contradicts that which they believe? Its not a very easy to answer question, I must say I think that this quote is one of the most profound questions I have read in the book that really make you question things in a new light. I mean even in my own life, when have there been those times that I have justified an action or thought that may not exactly be in line with my morals or beliefs that I have been raised on or been living in the public eye as my entire life.
Going along with that quote; there was a comment made by Dr. Kuykendall that I really liked. He pointed out that when reading, even just a fictional novel "not to let even the most minute things or words that you don't know just slip by thinking they are unimportant." He made the point to inform us that there is a reason behind everything that gets written into a book. Even something seeming unsignificant as a character's name. Overall I have really enjoyed being able to ponder something new and walking away at the end of every class not empty handed.
Other than seminar this morning I didn't have much of anything else. My focus group didn't have any of the little meetings scheduled for us to be in today. After being done before 10am today Amanda and I went and ran a few errands. We went by ALDI's which is an amazingly cheap grocery store which will be a life saver because the both of us are not adjusting well to the food here, I've been sick for two days and Amanda started feeling really sick this morning. We also made a stop at Verizon because my phone has been a butt. I was not able to get any incoming calls - wasn't getting reception ect. (which reception for Verizon is suppose to be the best around here) Well it turns out the software on the phone needed to be updated - so they did that for me and YAY now my phone works haha.
I have nothing to do until 2:30 which is when we meet with our focus groups to plan for the debate... ewww. Don't get me wrong I enjoy debates and/or a mock trial type of competition but not within the first 5 days of moving in and attempting to adjust to the life of a college student. BLAH. Oh well; later we get too meet one more time with our small groups then there is a praise and worship session tonight if we wish to attend.
I promise to attempt to do better at updating daily if possible - but I have a feeling that won't always happen.
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