welcome weekend

tons more freshmen are coming today!!!! excitedddd.
anw international orientation went super awesome! so sad its ended. I LOVE MEETING ALL THE NEW FRESHMEN!!! they're so fun to be with!! miss living in our 'co-ed' dorm for the last few days. still love my small group!! they're so awesome. they're so ready to share about everything! really thank God for them. thank God for guiding me and using me to speak to them too :)

we had combined small group the last day with dan's group..so it wasn't homogenous..we went to a random place..this dock in the middle of the lake, which was SO ulu. we had to go behind the environmental science building, trek through some jungle, walk across a rickety bridge to finally get to the dock. what an experience. and it was SO dark cuz it was like 9++pm. i was freakin out! some other girls were too. haha. it was TOTALLY the setting for a horror flick! a bunch of college kids to go some ulu place in the jungle, sit in the middle of the lake, get eaten by some gigantic croc or monster or something.. heh. but after a while it was ok. the stars were nice..

anw i was really surprised at how open they all were with each other! like, dan and i just told them we were gonna hang out..no bible lessons or anything..but this guy, sam, just took the initiative and started reading verses and leading the group in discussions! and from there they all started sharing about themselves, their struggles, their fears about college.. i was like, wow. this group is really cool! so open and vulnerable with each other! and it was all unplanned! and they only met like a few days ago! God is really SO good. can tell that alot of them are pretty nervous about college..so was trying to encourage them and all.

ystdy i went to work on the newspaper with my co-news editor, hannah, who's also my roommate :) and today the first issue of THe Echo comes out! specially for the freshmen :) had an awesome international dinner..alot of pple cooked stuff from their own countries, so we had like ethiopian, kenyan, hungarian, chinese, italian..all kinds of food. yummy. we got to hang out afterwards..watched some random movie..started a massage chain. there was like a guy massaging my back, and two others massaging my hands. ahahaha. they were really good too. so yeah. hope i still get to see them around campus after classes start.

so been running around between the newspaper, orientation and meetings for my other job this week. getting a little more stressed each day about all this stuff i'm supposed to do this sem!!! 16 credits, news editor of the sch newspaper, coordinator for american ethnic scholars... omg. i didn't realize how much i'd have to do as coordinator of ethnic scholars..but oh well. it'll be fun. :)

i finally moved into my new room!!! set up our stackable furniture and stuff. will take pics soon!! getting my stuff from storage on sun. i think i have wayyy too much stuff to squeeze into our room with its new furniture n everything. plus my roommate has like 10 times less stuff than me! feel so bad. haha.