60km's, Camp, Fire Alarms and Tornado Warnings

It has been a long time since I have written anything... so this is a brief update of what I've been up to.

I moved down to Wheaton, IL on July 16th. A few days later I was in Minnesota for my friend's wedding. After that I went BACK home and spent a few days there and in that walked 60KM's with two friends as part of the Weekend to End Breast Cancer (that was GREAT by the way). The next day I hopped back on a plane to home back to Wheaton to stay! On July 31st I began my new job and I have definitely not stopped since that day!

First I had GRA training with the other new GRA's and time to prepare for the arrival of the RA's. Then the RA's moved in (they're AWESOME) and we began RA training (including a week-long trip to HoneyRock camp). We came home fromt he Camp last Saturday and all the new students moved in yesterday! The volume has definitely increased in the Fischer lobby (where I live) and I love it!

My favourite story from the chaos of the last few weeks is from yesterday. The campus was crazy all day because new students were moving into their new dorm rooms and getting all their information for the coming school year. Freshman orientation had begun. Sometime aroun 3:00, right when things started to get crazy, the sky turned black, rain began pouring down, the power went out and the tornado sirens went off. We moved fast to get everyone into the basement (protocol for Tornado warnings). Thankfully the warning didn't last too long!! BUT, in the midst of the tornado warning the fire alarm in the entire building went off. Once the tornado warning lifted we had to then evacuate the building and put everyone on the lawn in the middle of the thunder storm! It was totally crazy, but a fun initiation into Residence Life here!