my eccentric roommate!

So, I thought I would write a little something about my roommate, Heidi. I love how eccentric she is! For example, I came back this weekend, and she had bought a didgeridoo. At random times throughout the day, I hear this loud, weird, horn-like humming coming from her corner, and we both break out in laughter! Also, she is making sourdough, which requires this flour stuff to sit out for like days, and it makes me laugh at how unique she is! I love the random ideas she comes up with. She always has some eccentric idea or plan, or dream that she is working on. She is currently "training" to climb Mt. Shasta this summer. She has a resounding love for horses, and all living creatures, whether it is her pet tarantula (who, lucky for me, isn't and, in fact, can't be living here w/ us), or the nutria across the street that she wants to catch, she loves animals. Anyway, I just wanted to post some random pics of her and her didgeridoo, and her flour gunk. lol. :)
Heidi and her didgeridoo
Heidi and her sour bread gunk. :)

The Goings On

Hey guys. I know I seem to blog most when I am close to or just visited, but I can't help it. Kinda a lot has happened, and at the same time, not so much. I have joined a small group of young adults through my church on Monday nights. There are about 6 couples and a few singles who attend. The couples have several kids, one couple doesn't have any, and three of the couples are expecting kids all due within like 3 weeks of each other! lol. Kinda funny. It's led by the children's pastor of the church I attend in Stayton, called Foothills. I am really enjoying services there and am so thankful for a way to connect with others who are young adults. I went last week and tonight and i really enjoy it. It is really going to help to know people on Sunday when I go to church! I didn't really know anybody before this, and it's kinda a relief to meet new people, even if it is out of my comfort zone to go to stranger's houses. lol.
Last week the house was in a brand new development, so I couldn't get decent directions online, plus they are doing construction on the part of highway 22 so the detour threw me off, and I still don't know how I found their house, but I kinda just stumbled upon it, and that was pretty lucky, because I had no clue where I was. lol. This time I found the place alright, although it was kinda creepy because it was down this one way gravel driveway that was a tunnel of trees and I kept wondering where I would go if a car came up the drive, but it didn't. After the bible study, I came out and realized that I had locked my keys in the car because I had paused to make a phone call before going in, and left my keys hanging in the ignition and then locked the doors!! I luckily had my purse, cell phone, and a spare key handy, but I had to kneel in the wet muddy gravel because it had been pouring all day long. Oh well. At least I had an adventure.
Today in Chapel, our college kicked off a new club called the Sparrow Club, which is a National organization that partners with schools, colleges, and businesses to help support children and their families with medical needs. Each club sponsors one child and in return for any kind of community service done, the local business donates $10 per hour to the family to be used for medical needs. At chapel today, the child our school will be sponsoring was introduced to us. It was so great to see this club being put into action at Corban, and helping kids with chronic medical needs is one of my passions, so I am really looking forward to getting more involved with the club and seeing how this child is helped.
Formal is in 2 weeks, on the 7th of March. I am going to go with a group of friends from school, Emily, and Chelsea. My roommate was asked on a date, so she will be going separately. I am really looking forward to it. I went home last weekend to try on my dress from high school (among other things) and I think it is going to work just fine. :) I am looking forward to getting all dressed up! I am also looking forward to seeing David for his 1st birthday party!!! YAY! It will be fun seeing all of the family and such.
Classes are going well, and I am enjoying them for the most part. :) There is always one or two classes that you wish you could fix, but whatever. This week is semi-busy, I have a paper due on Wednesday and Friday. It will be fine though.
I look forward to seeing everyone in a few days! Have a great week!
Bye

Hey everybody. I figured it was time for another post. Life is good down here, it's been snowing off and on this morning, but nothing is sticking. I don't know if I am glad or sad about that. lol. I applied to be a Resident Assistant for next year, and I got through to the next round. I signed up for an interview slot at 10:30 on Tuesday, Feb. 1o. It will be good. I am really excited about it. I am excited about my new roommate, Heidi, and everything is going great! She was out of town last weekend, so it was pretty slow. I taught my friend Emily how to crochet, which was an adventure, becuase she is right handed, and I don't exactly crochet normally. lol. But she seems to be doing well and she has the basic stitch down, so we are going to move on to the double stitch tonight! yay. Classes are going well. I am really enjoying my Social Agency Counseling class. It is all about Social work, and it makes me excited about the future. I also really enjoy my Teaching the Bible class, which surprised me because it is the last class of five on MWF. However, it is taught by a really funny guy and we do fun stuff and act out skits and bring in props and stuff, so it's good to not have to sit through another lecture after a long day. So on MWF I start out and end my day with my two favorite classes.
I have been sick since the middle of last week with a runny nose, but thankfully it hasn't progressed into a cough yet. I have hope that it will just go away and not turn into anything. I hope it is gone by the end of the week, bucuase I am coming up for the quilting day at our church that we are leading. I have been very dilligent to do my reading early so that I don't have any homework over the weekend. I am excited to be home and see everyone. I miss you guys.
Love ya.
Teresa

Happy New Year everyone! I have been at Corban now for 4 days. I arrived on Monday afternoon around 3 because I thought that was when my roommates were moving in/out. My old roommate, Megan, arrived around 4ish and began to move upstairs. Heidi didn't arrive until Tuesday night around 9ish. She told me to rearrange the room however I wanted, and we both decided that we would like to bunk our beds. So I went to the task of bunking our beds on Tuesday afternoon. However, it wasn't just a simple task of stacking them, because when we tried, it wouldn't shift the right way, and we thought we had mixed matched beds. That meant I had to go around and try to find a bed that would work with my pegs and be the right length. After a thorough search, I came up empty handed. So we decided to try to stack the same beds again, but take off the bottom board so that it would be lighter and easier to shift back and forth. It worked! YAY! I have the top bunk and Heidi has the bottom bunk. Once Heidi arrived, we rearranged a little more. We moved one of the wardrobes over next to the bunk bed so that I can use the top of it for a night stand of sorts for my alarm clock and lamp. I still need to move over my dresser so that it is closer to my desk, but everything is shaping up nicely. I am so glad that I am rooming with Heidi! We get along and laugh and talk. She is very good for me and the basement because she brings us up to the top levels for interaction with other people. lol. She's kinda our ambassador to the 1st floor. I actually spent about 4 hours in the lobby on Wednesday night because Heidi made tea and then we played fooz ball with some other people.
My classes are going well so far. On Wednesday, I had five classes in a row. It was less stressful than I thought it was going to be, mainly because the majority of the teachers let us out early because there was little to do but go over the syllabus. I signed up today for sack lunches and so that will be good. I will be able to pick those up in between classes and eat them then. Today was pretty simple. I had a class at 9, then I just hung out until about noon when I went to lunch. I worked from 1-3 in the dish room. It's my first time working in the dish room on a permanent basis, and it is my first day shift. It is a very different dynamic. There are fewer students working. It is better than janitor shift, but I don't like getting wet, and I don't like how hot the dishes are when they come out of the dishwasher. However, I am very greatful that I am no longer doing the Janitor shift!
That is about all for now. I will try to blog on a regular basis.

There's no place like home

While JonTon+D were down for Christmas, Tonia and I took a walk around the lake. It was so beautiful! The lake froze over almost all the way, there was only a section of it that wasn't frozen because of the fountain. It was a great walk. Enjoy some of the pictures we took.

This is Tonia and I next to the new pathway that was just put in at the lake. It's a great background for my pictures.

Wrapping up the semester

Hey guys. Sorry it's been a while since I've blogged. Life has been pretty routine around here, work, homework, friends, facebook, sleep. lol. But I only have 10 more days till I go on Christmas Break! YAY! I'm really excited. Sunday and Monday and this morning were all pretty packed with homework and schoolwork. Sunday night I got home (w/ no bee incidents I must add) and continued to work on my paper for Personality Theory. It took a long time becuase the professor wasn't really clear on what he wanted from us. I worked on it until 12:30 when I finally finished it! Then the next day I had class until 3, (and I slept through chapel! but I don't feel bad because it is the first time I did that this semester.) then I worked from 4-8. I then finished my discussion question for Youth and Adolescent Psych. Then I the dorm had a mandatory Christmas party, which was a lot of fun and a good break from studying, but I still had a paper to write and I hadn't even started on it! So I went down to my room around 11, and quickly started laundry and took a shower, then started on my paper around 12:00 and finished arount 1:30. Luckily it was only supposed to be 3 pages long!
I think the rest of the week will be less stressful, and I have 5 finals next week, so I have to work on those. But I think that it will all turn out ok. I'm less stressed now that Sunday and Monday are over! lol. I will be in bed at a decent hour tonight! YAY!