Thursday, August 28, 2008

RA Training/First few days of school

RA Training ended this past week and was a BLAST! It was a week full of worshiping and serving along side 76 other students that were passionate about living to serve others as Resident Assistants on this campus. Not going to lie, it's kind of hard being an RA when it comes to confronting people about things. Nevertheless, I have an apartment of 39 girls that I get to serve for the entire year. We had our first meeting and it was pretty fun... and I've planned an apartment BBQ for next Wednesday where we're going to grill some hot dogs (the girls are all bringing their own side or drinks) and play bags and hang out with one another... so I'm REALLY excited for that to happen next week.
Classes started yesterday (which I only had two!) It wasn't too bad... I do have Physics at 8:30 in the morning so that may be hard to stay awake in :) However my 1:00 class is with Dr. Kent Olney and is Intro to Sociology. He is one of the most energetic and passionate professors here! He is so fabulous I'm definitely going to take more classes with him (which are all Sociology based).

Another WAY exciting fact is that intramurals are starting up soon :) Ollies Follies (class games) start this weekend with softball, football, and sand volleyball... hopefully the Juniors will dominate! This will be my first time getting the chance to play Intramurals since I'm not playing Varsity volleyball anymore, and have already gotten hooked up to play girls flag football and co-ed outdoor soccer (where if the girls score it's 2 points!) There is also the "All School Block Party" taking place this Friday night which will be awesome with inflatables and music and food and lots of fun... and then the pre-release showing of Indiana Jones out on a big blown up screen on the football field. So I'm definitely looking forward to this week starting up with a lot of fun activities for all the students. It's awesome to have all of my friends back at school too! I have an awesome RA team with a great RD and am SUPER pumped about the school year kicking off!
(pic is of my RA team with the Bourbonnais Fire Department... their chief came in and talked to us about fire safety so we got to go up on the truck and it was WAY sweet!)

1 comment:

Brenda said...

YES!!! What a sweet pic! LOVE It!