Ramblings

I spent a really great evening over in the Quad with everyone last night. I got off work at five and headed over, but nothing really happend until much later in the evening. About eight o’clock or so I met Justin’s parents again. Real nice folks. We talked for a while about work and school and all those things that you are “supposed” to talk about with the parents. At ten we had a “meet the leadership” meeting. The new freshmen coming onto the floor are all here and they were supposed to come to a meeting on the floor. Almost all of ours showed up, which is better than I expected.

We introduced all of the returning students that were there at the time, which were mostly in IMPACT in some form or fashion. Each returning student got a second to talk about themselves, then we started with the fish. We had each of them introduce themselves, tell us where they hail from, what they are planning on majoring in, and whatever else they could come up with quickly. Sounds like this group is going to be really cool.

After the introductions, we broke out the ice cream. We had four gallons of it for about twenty people, plus about nine liters of various sodas. As we ate the ice cream we just sat around, or stood (which I think most of us did), and just talked. Some of the new guys seem quiet, but none of them seem too introverted. We should be able to get everyone involved this semester.

We also have three soccer players. That is the one sport that we have historically had the biggest problem with … all of the soccer players that have lived in Q4 have left fairly quickly in the past. These guys seem much cooler though, and even ended up bringing some of their new teammates over to get some ice cream … which was fine with us since we had so much.

Well, time to head off to work since I’m sitting over in Advancement right now … and it is a bit warm in the room. Later …