Waiting to Hatch

Furman

I'm writing this blog because many people have asked how Furman is, and I haven't really had adequate time to explain to anyone. So here it is. Furman is going really well, actually a lot better than I expected. Some of you may know that I was really nervous about going to college. Fewer of you know that I spend many nights this summer stressing/freaking out about my next 4 years here. I was honestly terrified. Ok, so the first night was really rough, and parts of O-week (that's what we call orientation for you non-Paladins) were extremely awkward. But things started to look up very quickly. First of all, I have a really fun hall. There's not a girl on my hall at this point that I could say I don't like. There's a square/rectangle of us on our end that share very common beliefs about God and our relationship with him and that's been amazing and encouragin. Also, most of our little block has a bit of an obsession with The Office. And when I say a bit, I mean I've probably watched The Office almost everyday I've been here...which is 13 days. and it usually ends up being like 6 of us that watch it. It's pretty much amazing. I also really like my classes for the most part. I've discovered that Spanish is a whole lot easier after you've learned it once before (I'm in the advanced beginner class, so I'm kind of getting to start over). Music History is really really interesting and I actually, surprisingly, found myself liking Music Theory today. So far all we've done in Music Technology is learn how to use a mac, which was kind of boring, but we get to play with gadgets. It's also really nice to be playin in a college orchestra. It's challenging, and we aren't every treated like idiots. It's productive and actually really enjoyable. Another thing I've discovered is the lake is really peaceful. Eating breakfast by yourself by a huge window overlooking the lake is a great way to start a morning. A few weeks ago I went to visit one of my best friends at Anderson, the college I almost went to. After spending an afternoon there, I knew that I wouldn't have been happy there at all. The atmosphere is just totally different and I can't praise God enough for leading me to the right choice, even though I wasn't sure of that until almost 2 days after i got here. So I guess the main point of this is to say praise God. He is so faithful. I could talk about that for a lot longer, but I do have some homework to finish. I hope all you are seeing God's glory.

posted by Shari @ 7:00 PM 1 comments

O-Week

My first college blog! Yay! I am now on the home stretch of O-week, and I gotta say, it wasn't as bad as some people have said and I was expecting, but it's not as good as the brochure says. But really the main point of O-Week is to scream. We scream a lot. And once you accept the fact that you're going to have to scream a lot on command, it gets a little easier to handle it all. When you hear other people screaming, you scream. After 4 days of this, it's kind been engraved on my brain to scream. It's become pretty much involuntary. Tonight I watched The Newsies which, if you haven't seen it, is about newsies starting a strike a forming a union to lower how much they pay per paper to sell. It's a strike, so there is lots of screaming and jumping (it's also a musical). I caught myself several times about to scream, thinking I was supposed to join in. And I almost felt bad for not joining in, like because of me the newsies were not going to get their demands met. People say college changes you. It has apparently morphed me into a automatic screaming machine. For those of you at home, know that I am having a good time, but I do still greatly miss and love all of yall. :)

posted by Shari @ 10:45 PM 0 comments