Turkmenistan

Currently, this blog will be used for my thoughts, pictures, and excerpts from letters I send home from Turkmenistan. I will be in Turkmenistan from October 1, 2008 until December of 2010. You can send me letters and packages using the address to the right.
Many thanks to my family for posting updates to this blog as I will most likely have limited internet access over the next few years.

Sunday, September 02, 2007

Back to School again

Well, it's that time of year again and I am back at school having a blast! This year I'm an orientation leader for new students. Specifically I'm in charge of a group of transfer students. All first year students have a three day orientation that started today and since the transfer students don't have to go to today or tomorrow I get to have a blast and help out in lots of other areas of the orientation process. For example: tonight after all of the required orientation things there was soccer and sundae's where people went to go see women's soccer and got ice cream sundaes. And then after that there were Piper Lawn Games where any incoming students who want to come show up and play tons of large group icebreakers. Things like Captain's Coming, Birdie on a Perch, among other things. (Ask if you have no idea what I'm talking about). Anyway orientation is so much fun!
Other things....I am taking Immunology at Hamline, Advanced German Conversations and Composition at Augsburg, Shakespeare at Augsburg, and German in the Media at Macalaster along with Band and Biosem this semester. I'm also doing some more volunteering at the hospital that I was volunteering at last spring. Plus I'm in charge of Hamline's chapter of MPIRG in addition to being the group leader for the Hunger and Homelessness task force, being in Wesley Scholars, and on the exec board of a new org that was started last spring. The semester is going to be busy but well worth it! I'm so excited! But very sad that it is winding down so quickly!

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