first students are here!!

wow it has been two whole weeks! and students are finally here... what in the world did i do for that long? work part was not too bad today cause all we had to do was put stuff out for sandwiches. but this is summit, so we had to slice all our meat like a sub shop. no fingers gone yet!

after i got off kitchen duty, i went to find students to talk to... and it was so much fun!! its amazing how much easier it is to make friends here when you are wearing a staff polo :) this session is the one a lot of homeschoolers come too because a lot of other schools are not out yet. i don't think there is anyone from south carolina here this session... at least i haven't found them yet. dinner was lasagna and it was SOO good. afternoon kitchen did a very nice job with their first meal. then we had orientation and it was so good to hear Doc-isms again. the staff introduced themselves at the end and then we broke into our small groups. i really think my small group girls are amazing and so diverse! one plays ice hockey! how nifty. anyway, then we had the "hall meeting" which means guys meet in the classroom to talk about who know what and girls meet in the dining room to talk about mostly dress code. we do this little fashion show to show them what is not cool like rolled up shorts or inappropriate shirts and the skit involves two boy characters played by girls to gawk at the models. i got to be one of the guys and it was sooo hard not to laugh!! but i did it. and it was funny.

reading over that sounds weird... but it has a purpose lol.

then we had a fire alarm which sounded like a dying duck.

now lights out for staff is at midnight but since i have to be up early, i'm going to bed.

by the way. tomorrow i'm going to have my phone with me from 2-5 my time in the afternoon... so call me if you want. that is mountain time so it would be 4-7 eastern. i think. maybe.

i GET to wake up early

yes, you read correctly. i am on morning kitchen staff. so my hours are from 6am to 1pm. i am actually really excited about that because i get to sit in the classroom during my time off. and i won't feel like i've wasted the morning hours! and i get to learn how to cook a really good breakfast :)

today we had more staff training in the morning and then lunch and then prince caspian!!! i liked the movie. a lot of people didn't like the ending... i don't want to spoil it, but it reminded us of PDA on graduation night here in the hotel. after that, we went to 36 acres for dinner, which is a piece of land owned by summit with a little one room building for the faculty and staff to enjoy. we had steak for dinner and it was like my dad made it! and a guy named phil from NC made SWEET TEA. i think i was going through withdrawls... i'm going to have to just make some. and i can now that i'm on kitchen staff :) doc showed up and said a few words. i looove it when he talks because you never know what he is going to say! and i could really tell he cares a lot about the students and only wants the best for them... which means a lot of hard work on our parts.

i got my official summit polo today! don't worry mom, it is a large. it is navy with a white logo... and it is so surreal having one! i wear it tomorrow because students arrive tomorrow. actually, one student got here tonight and experienced 36 acres with us. lucky him. anyway... i'm thinking i might just watch a newspring service online for church in the morning because i have to be in the kitchen by 11 tomorrow. real work starts monday. i do get one day a week off... but it will probably be filled with appointments or something of that sort with the girls in my small group.

speaking of small group, i'm co-leading with mish!! my roommate. she's amazing and i'm soo excited! we wrote notes to our four girls tonight and put them in their notebooks on their desks and prayed over their desks. wow, talk about powerful. they are going to go through a lot in those desks!

so that is pretty much it for tonight. cept i got a really sad voicemail from allison that she left while i was in the movie... I LOVE YOU ALLISON!! MISS YOU TOO!!! i'm sure stuff will start happening soon... you should call taylor or LG and go to grouchos for me :)

beaver

sorry its been so long since i've updated... once staff training started, time seemed to disappear!! its been fun though. lots of intro stuff to the rules and the basics of worldview stuff... always good to review. last night we took a personality test and i am a beaver. this means i'm organized and i think that there is a right way to do everything and i want to do it that way. beavers also desire to solve everything... hence the math major :) they do not like sudden change and need reassurance. so comment on my blogs to reassure me. my strengths are high standards, order, and respect while my weaknesses are unrealistic expectations of self and others. it also said i was too perfect... but whatever. i thought it was pretty accurate. there are not a lot of beavers here, but there are a lot of otters. those are the silly ones that love to be the center of attention and make everyone laugh. this is fun because that means i don't have to be much of an otter at all.

anyway, if that made any sense then congratulations because i'm still thinking about it! we have also been reading some C.S. Lewis essays about getting along with others. one called The Problem with X and the other called The Sermon and the Lunch. look them up and read them if you're interested or just really bored cause its summer :)

we just finished lunch and are about to do some MORE cleanup work... we made all the beds yesterday and it was such a blessing to have so many people helping! not that they had a choice... its just that before there were only four of us and now there are over 30.

we are going to the park tonight for BBQ dinner and "play" haha this should be fun. maybe its supposed to be like sports time or something. i still don't know what work crew i'm going to be on, but i think they take into account the personality test so i'm not too worried.

i can't believe students get here on sunday!! crazy how fast the summer flies...

couscous!

so today was fun. we finished up a lot and are almost done cleaning... i'll try to get pics of the finished product up soon. today i replaced light bulbs for at least five hours all over the hotel. my arms were tired is an understatement! but at least they're doing something.

saw chuck edwards today and he said Go Cocks! i thought he was saved...

dinner was amazing again tonight. ruthann said she felt heavy cause of all this food and i have to agree... time for smaller portions.

then mish and i went to Starbucks for coffee and i had a honey latte(amazing). there were some pretty strange people there... then we went to walmart(our favorite place) and got a fish!! its name is couscous and i can't really explain why except to say that we eat a lot of it here and it is really good.

i heard we got a lot of new staffers tonight, but we got in late(like 10 something) and so they have all gone to their rooms... so i'll tell you about them tomorrow.

gnight!

one week down...

monday. that pretty much describes it. it was a good day overall and went by really fast compared to saturday. i cleaned the laundry room and then proceeded to do laundry in it for a few hours. i wasn't sore today from the hike on the incline... and that weird cause i expected to be dying. i guess going to clemson did me some good! just found out today that a group on their senior class trip from Oklahoma is going to be staying here until thursday morning... kinda feel like we are going to have to reclean a lot of stuff, but that just means everything will be extra clean! we should be really close to done by tomorrow night, which is good because a lot of the staffers get here wednesday. we start "staff training" wednesday night. i'm looking forward to everyone being here.

short post. i think we're going to watch horton hears a who. thanks lindsay for the movies :)

the incline... ugh

so i climbed a mountain today! actually its called the incline and it is 1 mile long and you go up 3000 feet in elevation. yeah, ridiculous. but it was pretty fun! i went with angela(ohio) and jess(florida). i almost didn't go because i wanted to take a nap, but i'm glad i went and hopefully i will catch up on sleep later. not that i'm behind on sleep, just tired because, well, i climbed a mountain. we said we are going to try to do the incline at least twice a week and do pike's peak by the end of the summer. i think we can do it :)

this morning we went to a church called woodmen calvary chapel. it was pretty cool. the guy taught from romans 15:13 May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit. so it was all about hope and wether or not we have any. after church we had cereal and raspberries for lunch. then we did the incline. then when we got back, we had a new staffer!! his name is trevor and he is from pensylvania and he goes to Auburn. so we had something in common. he is a gymnast and on the cheerleading team so he was on the field at the bowl game. pretty cool huh? he is a finance major and will be a senior next year.

tonight's dinner was salmon and couscous and asparagus and amazing fruit salad. yes. i think i'm going to have to make sweet tea soon because this whole green tea thing is just not the same. i think i am also going to have to make some ms. field's cookies soon in this very large kitchen we have.

tomorrow is more cleaning. yay! hopefully we will get a lot done with the new help we have. there is so much left to do. staffers get here wednesday so we need to be done with most of it by then. prayers for energy and motivation are appreciated :)

yay saturday!

so today we had the help of jen, olivia, and tori from the office... what a day off for them lol. so we pretty much finished the third floor and most of the second floor, aka the dungeon. yes that is what it is called. the room that the 16 year old boys stay in, aka the princess room, has three bunk beds in it. there are all sorts of things written on them. one of them said Spartan. one said Kennan, lord of the nightwatchmen, bestowed mercy on us... blahblah it was kinda funny. some of the things written on the bathroom were just crude. silly boys.

today we got another staffer!! her name is jess and she is from Florida. but she has never had sweet tea, so she doesn't count as a southerner. she is pretty neato. tomorrow we are supposed to get a boy... oh what fun. i'm not sure what we are doing tomorrow... seeing as it is Sunday and all, i think we might not be working. but we might be. i really don't know. shold probably figure that out soon.

we just went on another walmart run. this time because jess didn't bring any toiletries. so we all went and we all got stuff even though we just went two days ago! we are such girls.