Yep. I’m back.
About 1:30 on the afternoon of August 21st, I arrived at Union University… totally elated. I was sorta jellyish from the car ride, but as I wobbilyly signed my name to get my keys, I couldn’t help but smile as numerous different thoughts scrambled through my high-wired (at the moment) mind. SO MANY things were on my mind: would such and such a thing happen, would the reunion with people be as I hoped? Would I like my new dorm? How different were things gonna be? Soooo many questions without answers… right then. Answers to all have, I’m glad to say, surfaced. First of all: I’M BACK!! And I LOVE my friends!! They’re so wonderful… a wonderful, blessed group of people that I wouldn’t give up for anything. They’re such a support with the Prayer Warriors group, and seeing everyone again? Gosh.. it’s awesome and… wonderful. Soo many hugs, bear and otherwise, were gladly received. Talking and joking around, and hearing about summers and missions work and a plethora of different things made my head spin, but in the middle of hearing them talk about their summers and such, I realized how wonderful each and every one of them are; how unique and beautiful God made them… what with their personalities and character… their whole PERSON. God is cool, isn’t He? Just thinking about two people down at the table and evaluating how different and similar they are, thinking about their history and all that… every event in their life shaped them somehow… and then you start thinking about how the events happening now.. how the events that I’m involved in will affect them.. it’s strange, but something cool to think about. =)
To kick off the year, I managed to knock my right ankle out of commission… again. It wasn’t completely un-swollen from the last time (the 13th) I damaged it… heh.. of course, I didn’t think about my ankle when I went to go play a game of Ninja with a couple freshmen. I lasted halfway through the game, and I enjoyed it quite a bit… but…. gosh.. that first “dispersal” jump got my ankle, so now it’s swollen like a fat person’s ankle… again. Thankfully it doesn’t really hurt that much, but.. still. Yay for injured body parts, right? In other news, while we’re on the same topic as pain and injuries, the old familiar “I walked wayy too much today” feeling is back in my feet and legs.. and.. it’ll probably be there until about half of this first month of school is done. Or more. But, no pain no gain, right?
Mmm yesss… many things were answered today, some of which had been on my mind quite a bit lately… it’s good now though. And I’m very, very glad… and probably more than that, but you’ll never know, now will you?
Aw geez.. and I just had a nice little earwig crawling on my arm randomly. I really hope this dorm doesn’t have bug problems.. T_T I do have to say, though, I love the place my window is at: right at the level of my bed. I’ve got a lovely light kinda lighting the thing up, so thank goodness I don’t need pure darkness in order to sleep. I’m sure it’ll get annoying though… I’m sure. My first impression of these dorms was… probably a little less than favorable because the rooms seemed so small! But… I can deal with that. The thing I have a harder time dealing with is the lessened surface space. I LOVE surface space, and my other dorm sure had a ton of surface space. Heck, they had a hugeeee shelf running all along two walls of the room where I could put ANYTHING and nobody would know. The highest piece of furniture is the closet (naturally) which has a shelf thingy on top.. but it’s hard to reach. I won’t complain though. We’e got two bathrooms, which have.. at least 6 shelves in them (but no sink drawers?! What?!) and a HUGE living room…. and a cool bed. This bed is so springy it’s ridiculous. I love it. PLUS it’s elevated. Bouncy plus elevation = happy Allison. =) I think I’m just purely happy tonight… tired right now and ready to drop off to a pleasant sleep, but happy and.. I think you could say content. Yes. I’ll leave it at that =)
Peace.
