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!)

Summer is coming to a close...

Two weeks from today classes begin :( Summer has FLOWN by so fast! Tomorrow will be the first day without the Chicago Bears on our campus for their training camp which means... campus will be back to normal... and no more random run-ins with Rex Grossman or Devin Hester :( It has been crazy with them on our campus though, sweet to get to see them since they are pretty much a big deal, but crazy with traffic too. I went to two practices this camp and got to see Brian Urlacher up close which was pretty cool. No autographs this year though, or personal chats with Hester or (ex Bear player) Benson.
Yesterday while working the switchboard phone at Admissions the band DecembeRadio was in... who I had never heard of until I googled them and realized I had heard their music on the radio before... so they were in and had to borrow a friends hair dryer and hand towels just so they could dye their hair for the 9pm concert at Moon Monkey. So me and a few friends went to their concert which was pretty sweet (pics will be up soon)... their more of a southern rock type of group which isn't my most favorite type of music but it was still fun just hangin' out at the Moon Monkey.
Saturday starts the RA Training for 2008-2009 RA's which is VERY exciting. I finally get to move into my apartment now that the Bears coaches are out of there. I've started making my door decs for the apartment and am looking forward to decorating the whole building! More to come throughout RA training... :)