Main Street Pizza

Friday night a bunch of us sophomore girls escaped campus and headed for the attractions of Iron Mt., MI. Our first stop was Main Street Pizza, a popular hang out for Northland students, which is why almost everyone else there when we first got there was a Northland person. The pizza there is good. Pizza isn't really a favorite of mine, but Main Street Pizza is probably right up there with Pizza Hut, and would be even better if it had the stuffed crust. :) Anyways, we girls had some good times talking and laughing - a few of the things girls do best (like shopping, which is why we made a stop at Walmart when we were through eating) :) We're going into our 4th week of school now, but it's been busy, so it was good just to have some time to catch up with each other and have fun together!

Slessor Night Cont...

The Freshmen have to jump in the Northland lake water. The girls were very cooperative and jumped in of their own accord. (only one got carried down and thrown in - she was a second semester freshmen and managed to drag one of the society officers in with her) I felt bad for them all though because the water had to have been really really cold and since it was evening, i was already cold and couldn't imagine how cold they must have been! Poor Vanessa was so cold she was shaking all over and had to walk all the way back to the far away trailers. The walk back to campus is kind of spooky - the girls like to hide in the trees and jump out and scare each other. So far I've made it through without getting scared (besides when I made the trip during camp), but I have done some scaring myself -- right Jenelle? Heehee! :)

Slessor Society Night

Thursday morning, the 14th, during chapel, each of the societies gave their presentations to convince the freshmen which society was the best to join during society rush which was to follow. There were of course the usual funny presentations by Cary and Carmichael, the dramatic presentation of Dreisbach, and the redeeming presention of the Judson society, presentations by Champlin, and Spurgeon, and then the traditional presentations of Slessor and Brainerd. And like the tradition of our presentation, our evening "welcome to slessor" activity has remained traditional. At 6, the slessor girls meet out at the beach front to have a good time together and welcome the freshmen. We start out with fresh fried bread topped with honey or chocolate and powdered sugar. It's very yummy - before "Slessor" I'd never had it (Jenelle got a picture of me cleaning the very last of it off my plate very well. heehee)!

Then we chose our KEYS partners. Jenelle and I were KEYS partners last year, and got to be again this year! We always have good times together. As KEYS partners we get together once a week to pray with each other and encourage each other. We also sit by each other in chapel every day - it is not mandatory to sit with KEYS partners this year, but we like to. :)

As soon as everyone has chosen their KEYS partners we play our traditional games - they are actually very wierd games, and not favorites of mine, but everyone gets to know each other really fast, for sure. We usually have a bonfire and sing and give testimonies, but for some reason this year, we didn't. We always meet our brother society, Brainerd, outside the coffee shop, though to sing and stuff, so I guess it's okay. :) I'm going to finish blogging the night, but this post will no longer load pictures...

Julie's Room

Haha! I just found this picture on my camera when i was uploading my pictures onto my computer. Evidently Julie took a picture of her room while she was packing for school. This is only a small section of it - the rest was very similar, and we had to carry it all down and fit it into the van. Yet, I think this was her best packing job ever. Good job, Julie! Hee,hee! I, on the other hand did not take a picture of my room while i was packing, so there is no evidence of the chaos of my packing job. I didn't start packing for this semester until 10:30 the night before I left - so i was up till 4. But it was worth it cause I got to spend quality time with mom and good friends on my last day home. I must have packed the car in my sleep cause I hardly remember the process. It just seems like we got here and somehow everything fell into place. Now we're almost done with our 3rd week already. I have some catching up to do on my blog, so here goes....

Happy Birthday, Sara!

This is quite late, but now that I'm back on blogger, I want to be sure to say Happy Birthday to Sara Marie Andrews! Charise hosted a "surprise" birthday party for her at the beginning of August when we were all still together. It was a fun time. She made a delicious cake, and then we played games, talked and laughed, and watched "Pride and Prejudice" - a perfect movie for a girl's night. Sara's actual birthday is August 30th and she turned 18 years old - officially an adult! This picture is from her graduation open house this spring. It's fun being your friend - you know how to make me laugh! Have a great fall and I'll see you at Christmas! Keep in touch! Miss you, girl!