I pulled a muscle in flag football

This is my new name tag =] :



And this is my new door magnet greeter:


I got those from a friend across the hall; Corrie: don't be mad at me, but I traded some of your magnets for these. We swapped two for two, so I still have the Kip one and the Vote for Pedro one.

College Part Dos

So these second and part-of-third weeks have been pretty full. I had my first exam [A&P] on Monday and that went well. I got a 90, which is an "A"! I was and am so excited about that! I heard over and over that so many people bombed their first test in that class and our floor was freaking out over it, especially when he said we should study around 10 hours. Now...I hardly studied in high school, so this was new to me. I was behind on reading since I ordered my book online, but I finished ALL of the reading and got some studying in. Everything went well, and I passed =] Pretty happy about that.

We've played our first two flag football games on Monday and Tuesday and we played the Lodges and Carmin [both teams have pretty big girls and are known to be pretty tough], and needless to say, we lost. We did score against the Lodges, which was something. Our first game we just weren't organized. We were running all over the place and we hadn't practiced. So that night, our coach [my suitemate, Colleen] made up some plays and we "practiced" them. Tuesday, we looked a ton better! We are all incredibly sore!! Geez! And since those girls play tough, we have bruises. At the end of our Carmin game, a couple of the girls from the other team came up and asked us if we'd want to play tackle football....and I was pretty excited! =] Another girl and I said yes, and I don't know if others will or not, but they said they'd get in contact with us.

And as I told some of you, we Shatty girls pranked Bowman while they were on their house retreat. Each floor was in charge of pranking their brother floor. We did good, but there was some miscommunication/bad communication between the RD, the RAs, and the girls on the other floors. Things got outta hand. Plus other houses pranked them pretty bad; like, we weren't allowed into the room, but one or two other guy dorms got in and did some pretty bad stuff. So we [Shatford] aren't allowed to prank anyone until we gain their trust again, which kinda stinks because our floor enjoys pranks. A lot of the guys don't know what happened because some leaders cleaned it up before they got back, so we're not supposed to talk about it.

And here are pictures of my room for you all, from the door; from the closet; the bathroom; my desk; from the window:


As you can see [or maybe not] it's TINY. =] And even though I clean my desk on the weekends, it just can't stay clean during the week =]

I love you guys a ton! Give all the kids hugs and kisses for me!!

College Life

So here’s my update for my first week of college! Things have been pretty great and I’m loving it here. My floor is pretty amazing and even though we’re the biggest unit because we’re not divided into east and west ends, it sounds like we’re the coolest and closest. And that’s from my RA, not just my opinion. =] I’ve made friends with almost all the girls in my floor and we all can’t believe that we’ve only known each other for a week. It’s crazy. But really cool. I know quite a few of you have said that I wouldn’t have any trouble adjusting, but I didn’t really believe you. I thought it would take me a while to make friends. But it didn’t! We’ve watched movies, read a bedtime story, rolled around in pudding, had dance parties [but me being an Easley with no dancing skills whatsoever, I helped work on our cardboard boat =], had unit devos, and many more things. Our brother unit, Bowman first floor, has bonded a lot, too, so we’ve heard, but they haven’t come out of their shells to really meet us yet. We’ve had dinner with them at Baldwin, but it was pretty awkward; not a lot of talking going on, even with our talkative girls going at it. But I guess we’re supposed to go over to Bowman Friday night for a while and hang out and we’re supposed to have a scavenger hunt with them this weekend.

Last week was Resident Life Week, so each unit/floor was their own team, meaning there were tons of teams. There were activities like Pudding Tug-O-War, Egg Toss, Monkey Bicycle races, a canceled cardboard boat race [it was POURING], Lodgeball [dodgeball hosted by the Lodges] the Shatford Gong Show [talent show that was amazing! There was a group from Scripture that had a guy dressed like Dwight from the Office with an accordion and a guitarist and bassist and percussionist and they played The Office theme song, and that was SOOO cool! And Bowman staff won with a real enactment of the Mario Brothers theme song], and other activities. So that was a blast!

Emily and I have too much stuff. =] I kept saying it wasn’t going to be, but she hadn’t told me all the things she bought from IKEA. She bought a TON of little stuff it seems like. Hopefully we can bring some stuff home on our first trip back. The two beds, the papasan, her bookcase, the fridge, two desks AND her couch-chair is too much. We’ve made it work, but it’s a tight fit.

Our suitemates are pretty cool. Their names are Kristin and Colleen. They knew each other before, too, and they’re hilarious together.

I’ve already pulled a few pranks =] Saran wrap on Kristin and Colleen’s bathroom door and Candace and Abbi’s bathroom door [neither worked, but now we know how to do it] and peanut butter on numerous doorknobs. One girl got it 6 times because she tried to leave it there so her roommate would get it, but she never did. Most of them don’t know who did it =]

I’m still checking out churches; I went to College Wesleyan Sunday and the pastor there is really good. I’m going to check out one called Exit 59 in Gas City this Sunday. The pastor at the College church is also the preacher for Summit this week. Summit is like…more chapels in one week. Chapels MWF at 10 and 11 are really Summit services and there are evening services. It’s really cool and really good to go to.

So that’s my life for right now. This post is long enough =]

Here are our SWEETmates:

This is Colleen:

This is Kristin:

before caito left