Orientation!

Well, I had orientation stuff all all this week. (well actually just wednesday through now) But anyways, it wasn't nearly as bad as I thought it was going to be. I'd venture say that I almost enjoyed it. I'm really just trying to open up and be on-campus as much as I can that way I can really get to know people. I know I'm probably not going to meet my best "college friends" in the first 3 days, but this is a start...and I've got to start somewhere.

On wednesday, all the freshman checked in and got to wander around on campus for a while until we went over to First Christian for a short seminar and worship servie. Then we met our humanities group. At first I was pretty uncomfortable around that new group of people. So after that, I was going to go down to muggswigz but ended up over in haviland hanging out with Laura and her roomate. I hadn't seen her all summer, so it was fun to get to catch up. So after that there was new student olympics (not exactly my idea of fun) but then I got to see Chris and JR after that so it was all good.

On thursday I had an extra long seminar on rules and stuff that I already know in the morning. Then we ate lunch and split up and went "into the street" doing different community service activities around canton. I ended up at the turnaround center in downtown...which is pretty much exactly like the refuge of hope, except that it was planted by the church formerly known as CCF. It was a lot of work...we did just about everything you could think of that had to do with cleaning or organizing in a building.

Then yesterday we went to camp gideon. The interesting thing was that I was completely dreading this part of the week, but it turned out to acutally be pretty fun. It really gave me a good opportunity to get to know the people in my humanities group a lot more. We did a bunch of rope course/team building exercises...which aren't my favorite things to do. But I think being put in a situation where I had to do most of them made me equally forced me to open up to those people. We did some spider web thingy, a telephone pole challenge, a wire course, and "the wall." Not that I was really ever alone, but I was able to get a lot of thinking done.

So anyways, today was campus tours and a technology information seminar. Both of which I really didn't need. But, I'm beginning to realize that the more I'm on campus, the easier it's going to be for me to get to know people. So I went even though I didn't really need to. Same thing with tonight...I don't really need to go to the "main event" but I'm going to anways. For now though, I've got to go work on some worship stuff for tonight. I'll try and write again soon!