Hey everybody! It's already the second day of school and I am feelin pooped! This past weekend was super busy! My campus ministry, Chi Alpha, helped everyone move in and had parties Friday, Saturday, and the big BBQ Sunday night. It was madness! Saturday ruled, though, cause it rained for most of the afternoon and my awesome team and I helped a ton of people and we all got soaked. I liked that so much better than being hot and sweaty all day long. The BBQ went well. But, I still have many problems getting myself to introduce myself to new people and then maintain an interesting, non-fake conversation. I didn't have such a good day Sunday before the BBQ; I was literally crying my eyes out before the BBQ, in front of everyone. However, I had some of my good friends come over and talk to me and that was good. I was just mad at myself (I hadn't been able to help sidewalk chalk because I had to arrange my room) and also feeling this enormous burden for all the people on campus who don't know Jesus, and it was breaking my heart. I was listening to all these new kids talk about how they are gonna rush to get into a fraternity, looking at all the posters for our school's "Phat Bash" (which is basically just a big dirty dance party on campus) and stuff like that, and although I know everyone that does those things isn't horribly lost or something, it just eats at me to know how many of them are going to become corrupted or more corrupted because of college, and how many of them I can't reach. But Charity, Logan, and Mel all were reminding me that it isn't up to me to change them, it's not all up to me to bring them to Christ, and that just because I have never seen someone come to Christ doesn't mean I don't have a part in other people's relationship to Him. So yeah, I felt better after that, and we all prayed before the BBQ.

School has been going good for me so far. I think I will enjoy all of my classes except Management 340. :) I have a backpacking class that might be cancelled if we don't have more people sign up for it though, cause stupid SMS forgot to put that class in the catalog. Usually there are 25 people in the class with a 10 person waiting list; nope, yesterday there were 4 of us. 4. So we are all gonna rally our friends and my teacher is gonna put out flyers and stuff. So if you are going to SMS and interested in an awesome, easy 1 hour credit course from 11-12, Mondays and Wednesdays, just the first block, then SIGN UP!!! Yeah, there's my plug.

Hey I have a "Random Memory!" It's from the third or fourth grade, I can't remember:
Every year when pictures would come around, my mom would do up my hair and tell me to SMILE. With my mouth OPEN. Yeah, didn't happen. In case you haven't noticed, I have a gap in my front teeth (or maybe I just didn't HAVE front teeth then) and I didn't want to show my mouth. Well, the photographer that year couldn't get me to smile for real for quite a while; she tried everything from "Say 'cheese!'" to making faces at me. But I wouldn't laugh. Then out of exasperation she said with much exuberance "PICKLES!" and for some STUPID reason I thought THAT was funny, and burst out with a snort of some sort. Pictures were returned, and there I was, with my nose completely scrunched up, looking like a major dork. I showed my best friend on the bus home and got some snickers from my jerky bus, uh, comrades? mates? compadres? I don't know what to call them but they made fun of me all the time. Anyways, my mom was all,"You're getting RE-TAKES (this happened several times)! What happened?" All I could say was,"Mommy, she said,'Pickles,' and I laughed." I wonder if I still have that picture somewhere.

I have some quotes, two are from Andy, one is one that only my Scotland mission team will understand:

"My butt is defeated."--Logan, during dorm move-in when she realized her jeans were dirty on the butt.

"I don't see a sign...."--Classic Andy Phelps quote I had to put on here.

"I got hugged by an ape!!!"--Andy, telling me about his trip downtown the other night.

Emperor's New Groove dialogue of the day:
"I don't think you're my great aunt...You're more like my great, great, great, great, great, great, great........"-Tipo
"Are you done yet?"-Izma
"...Great-great aunt."-Tipo

Ta ta for now!