Week one, Orientation

OK, first I would like to say sorry for not posting anything to this for like a week. But aw well there is nothing I can do now. I probably will only do one post each week actually. You know what to expect now.

So far my time here in Moody has been awesome, even better than I expected ☺ it. The orientation week was last week and it was so cool to meet all the different M.K’s (Missionary Kids) and international students like myself, from 22 different countries. It is so humbling to be in such a diverse community of people. There are people from Brazil, Korea, Romania, Russia, Guatemala, Canada, India, Honduras, Japan, Morocco, Haiti, Russia and Ukraine, Kenya, South Africa, Scotland, Norn Iron, and England. (I know that’s not 22 I just can’t remember the rest)

The different things which we have been doing are just classes showing us how to use the library, computer system, where to go if you need certain things etc, quite boring sessions really, but they ended at lunch time and then we could do whatever we wanted. Little trips to the beach became a regular occurrence for us. Its so awesome how large the lake is, you cant see the other side, it actually feels like you are on the beach of the ocean, and best about it is, there’s no salt water ☺

On Wednesday Night we all went to Navy Pier to watch a fireworks display, it was pretty cool. But sadly, I hadn’t purchased my camera yet so I couldn’t get a picture of them, too bad I suppose because it was a really calm night and the sky was so clear, until about 10. That’s when it clouded over, we were walking back and the biggest storm I have ever witnessed began above our heads, it was lethal, the rain was bouncing so high off the ground. Then the thunder and lightning started, it was so loud, and the lightning was shooting off everywhere. By the time we got back we looked as if we’d been thrown into the lake in our clothes, it was terrible, but a little fun too. On the Thursday morning we heard that there had been a tornado out in the suburbs so that’s why there was such a massive thunderstorm.

I finally bought a camera on the Thursday so I will get some of the photos up as soon as possible, I have magnificent view of the city from my floor, I have taken some photos of it, so you can get a wee glimpse of what its like. I will endeavour to go to the top of Sears Tower to take some photographs from there. I expect they will be good from there.

All of the returning students returned at the weekend and boy it is so much different now, there are people everywhere, I had gotten used to our small group of internationals and M.K’s that’s it just felt weird going to the SDR (student dining room) and all the tables were full, in contrast to the 2 middle ones, like it had been for the past few days. But it is cool to meet all of the people and find out their opinion of the place since they have already been here for at least a year already.

This past week has felt like a little bit of a holiday but I’m sure that feeling will soon diminish when I have to start classes and my workload piles up.