WP =)

Welp, I'm officially a college kid! It has been such a wonderfully busy time here so far and I can't wait for everything to get into FULL swing. :)

Here is a little recap of Freshmen Orientation so far:

On Thursday we all arrived and unpacked all of our crap, that took most of the morning. Then after lunch we had our first Freshman Year Experience class which was actually really fun. I'm in Dr. Baker's class and really lovin it. We have a lot of smart kids in our class and Baker is an awesome prof. That took up most of our afternoon so after that, we had a little luau out on the lawn then said goodbye to our parents. After that we were off to our "knighting" ceremony which WAS pretty cheesy, but hey we got a free t-shirt so it's all good. :) We concluded the night with watching some of the volleyball game (We dominated, btw.) and a trip to play broom hockey at Lloyd Center.

Friday started with FYE class bright and early. After we were done with that, we had just enough time to squeze in a little office scavenger hunt before lunch. Next, we went and did some community service at a local high school, pulling weeds and cleaning up stuff, ya know the usual. ha ha. When we got back from that, they set up a giant waterslide down the hill.....in the rain. So my roommate, Rakay, and I decided to run to Wal-Mart and get some snacks instead. Then we had a little President's dinner and ceremonial class tree planting, followed by a pretty awesome hoedown. :)

Today we spent pretty much all day doing a "City Search". We went all over downtown portland and found some pretty sweet locations while answering scavenger hunt type questions. Once again, my FYE class was bomb. We never got lost and actually finished early. Then when we got back to campus, we had a little debriefing with all the other classes and answered some questions about what we saw. And of course, our class won the city search trophey. :) So yeah, excellent experience so far. Now we have a bit of free time before dinner and Brent and Nancy are actually gonna come visit me since they were already in town. :)

I'll have to give you more details about things as I have time....and as they come up. :)

-Gina