Sunday, August 9, 2009

Back to where I began....

Six years ago give or take a few weeks I moved in to Chrestman as a freshman at MC.... and now I am back where I began, and hopefully about to start classes again. A week ago we moved everything one building over. The next day I went to work, and Joe went on the RD retreat. It seemed strange in the middle of unpacking and putting away to go back to work. I realized I had never had to do that before. So instead of hitting unpacking head on we kind of stretched it through the week, but we are pretty much finished. Things aren't staying on the walls as much as we would like, Joe's Shakespeare has jumped of the wall twice (I'm ok with that), but other than that we are putting our homey touches on the place before students start moving in.

I'm excited about this year. I have always, well almost always, loved Chrestman. It just has a feel about it as you walk through the door. I remember sitting in the front lobby watching Princess Bride, and having a girls day with pizza while watching Lauren's VHS copy of Pirates of the Caribbean. I know there are great memories for Joe as well. Freshman dorms always have more of a community feel, you get to know people because you have to. All that to say I am looking forward to having students stop by, who knows I may pick up Kristy's tradition of cooking for the RA's on a regular basis. Some students move in Tuesday, football players move in wed. and RA's move in thursday or friday.... so start your engines, the year is about to begin!