SURPRISE!!!!

This past weekend my biggest planning event ever took place! I'm sooo excited to share it with you guys! For the past 3 months I've been planning a surprise for my best friend who is going to school in Virginia. See, her 19th birthday was yesterday and I knew that being in a state 12 hours away would be hard so I wanted to make it special!

Longgggg story short I flew up there Saturday morning! And boy did we have a great time!!

I'm going to do this post in pictures :) because I don't have the energy to write out a whole post ;) We had a lot of late nights while I was up there but it was totally worth every second of missed sleep!

here's me on the plane :) I had to write that note backwards cause my camera takes pictures mirror image 

the surprise!!!
Zach (my partner in crime) me and Lauren!!!! 
we took a splendid trip to the beach and had a fantastic time! I loved meeting all of Lauren's new friends; they're a great group!

Mrs. Denise, Me, Lauren and Alli cooking!

Lauren's mom, sister, our friend Alli and Alli's mom drove up Friday night to surprise Lauren too!!! We had a fun seeing each other again! It's been like a month! haha that sounds like such a small amount of time but it felt like years!

Saturday was my surprise day! I was hiding in Lauren's dorm room when Alli, Mrs. Denise, Mrs. Rhonda, Bethany and Lauren got back from a college tour! After that we headed to the beach and had a fun time getting beat by waves and playing volleyball. As we were leaving we saw about 12 dolphins out where we had been swimming! One of them jumped up and did a twist in the air! Beautiful! That night we came back and had a delicious meal baked by the wonderful Mrs. Denise and then surprised Lauren with decorations and cake in the boys dorm room.

Sunday morning we went to church, out to lunch and shopping and went back to the dorms for a yummy meal of lasagna that Mrs. Rhonda had prepared for us. We ate and talked and then headed to the beach to worship! We stayed out til about 2 oclock, had a dance party in the parking lot and then went back to the dorms for some games! We ended up going to bed around 4:30!!! :O

It was such a fun weekend! I didn't want to come back to school!

I love it here though.

Just a few updates:

Today we had convocation and a really impressive author came to speak to us. Her name is Carmen Agra Deedy and her story telling skills are phenomenal!! Her challenge to us was to not be timid but to embrace every opportunity as it arises. "Timid women seldom make history"

Tomorrow is the start of recruitment. :/ 

I'm pretty sure I kicked butt on my global warming essay exam. We'll see how the professor grades it though.

Life here on campus is going splendidly. I've loved every second of life here!

I think my friend Alli is going to come visit the school this weekend- I'm pretty excited about that! I love to have visitors! :) And mail *hint hint* ;)

Anyway, that's all for now!

 I hope you had a great Labor day weekend!

*here's my verse for the day/year- 2 Timothy 4:3-5 "³For the time will come when men will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. ⁴They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. ⁵But you, keep your head in all situations, endure hardship, do the work of an evangelist, discharge all the duties of your ministry."

Hope you guys had a great Labor Day weekend!