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Hey y’all! I am officially moved into my dorm!! *Happy dance* It’s Day 3 of Jacket Journey (Freshman Orientation) and so far… It totally didn’t take as long as I thought it would to get all of my stuff moved in, everything fit in my closet with room to spare, my desk is perfect, the caf (eteria) is like right across from my dorm, our student body president has a curly mustache and wears bowties all the time (and he’s a ginger!), and today at lunch I met a kid who saw me perform at LiFT camp (refer to last blog) and knew who I was!! We are split up into groups for what they call “Jacket Games”. We are basically spoofing the Olympics this week to get to know the staff, other students, and HPU as a school. I’m on the fantastical team known as Great Britain! 🙂 Yesterday, we participated in a competition known as Messy Rec! Which is basically a crud war of sorts. The countries are combined into four teams, so we were put through a series of activities that involved getting incredibly dirty with our team. These activities included: Human bowling across a tarp covered in glitter, chocolate syrup, and baby oil (but first you had to be spun around 10 times so you were crazy dizzy before you went headlong into the inflatable pins), an egg toss with the egg covered in chocolate sauce and your hands covered in baby oil, a relay involving a large strainer filled with cooked oatmeal, a water balloon toss competition in a sand volleyball pit, and to top it off, a massive shaving cream fight. By the time it was all over, I resembled what would happen if someone dunked that sparkly fish in that one children’s book into a bowl of oatmeal with chocolate sauce and whipped cream… Afterwards, we had the opportunity to tour the University’s President’s massive house a few blocks from campus, have a picnic on the grounds, and end the day with some awesome student-led worship! Today was less exhausting as we began our day with what they call a “Traditions Assembly” where we learned all the interesting historical facts and cool past profs’ habits and crazy comings and goings at HPU. Then we went on a team scavenger hunt to further explore the campus! I’m actually about to leave to meet up with my group right now, and I’m about to be late so I better go! Peace and Blessin’s!
~Rachel
