Back in Business

So I'm not sure what things I've been doing that have prevented me from writing a post for this amount of time. Life was crazy busy between the end of work at The Tyler Place and the last few days. I had two days between the time I finished work and the time I moved into my house on campus to start Orientation.

Reinhart and I on a windy cruise on Lake Champlain.

Orientation was completely awesome. The O-Leaders were on campus for three days before anyone else was here. We had days full of training and nights full of fun activities. Then came the First Years. The first morning was spent moving them in. For five and a half hours. I don't think I've ever been more tired. Did you know that almost every single FY lives on the fourth floor of some building or another? If that's not the case then somehow I was attracted only to the cars with tons of stuff heading to that floor.

This has to be my favorite picture of Group 31
during the scavenger hunt.

After the initial move-in we were with our groups for the rest of the weekend. My partner, Reinhart, and I had Group 31 and they were fantastic. We had the dance, scavenger hunt, hypnotist, fun for all, and not so fun things like the library orientation. It was exhausting, but I'm so glad that I was able to be an O-Leader during my time at SMC. We had a great group of people to spend a week with and it was so sad to see it come to an end after Connections on Sunday morning.

Since then I've been trying to get into the swing of things with classes. It took a bit of re-arranging, but I ended up with a great schedule. I'm taking Spanish, Astronomy, a math class, and, most excitingly, a graduate course in education called Emerging Technology.

It's been hard to get used to managing time and doing work, but I'm getting there. So far so good, anyway. Things are starting to get rolling for ski practices (so early!) so it'll get a bit busier, but it'll be nicer than having to go out and run by myself all the time. Hill workout today. Yuck.

I'll probably be writing a post about life in the 300's townhouses for next week so check back in! Ahhh I can't believe I'm a SENIOR!! So sad.

O-Leaders 2011 and Grace Kelly
Heroes of the Knight