the Year in Review

They say a picture is worth a thousand words. So today I thought to myself, "Self? Why not post a thousand pictures to give everyone the basic idea of what the last year was like?" And then I thought, "Now, where on earth would I get a thousand pictures? And why would I want to be THAT verbose?!" So I'm not posting a thousand pictures. I'm just posting a few...to give ya'll a brief overview of some of the memorable moments from the first semester at Liberty...

To kick off the semester, we had an all-night-of-prayer, committing the campus, the students, and the academic year to the only One capable enough to handle all that that entails...and after thus spending the night, people went to various local businesses for breakfast...

...the nice thing about being up all night...is that it makes everything seem funny.

Lenn and Rachel, possibly the most entertaining pair of debaters I have ever met...she practices her kick-boxing skills on him, and he...shows off his evasion tactics while slinging sarcastic insults over both shoulders. I'm crossing my fingers they both survive the next semester...

Gina and Gabriela, after our first (and only) roommate swim outing...

and...Gina had a birthday! We love birthdays. So we got her a cake. And we put candles on it. And then we found out that candles aren't legal in the dorms. Oops.

Anthony and Andre went with me to WalMart one day, just because...and by the time we'd gotten to the vitamin aisle, we had done some skillful deductive reasoning...and that's how we realized that we were ALL wearing red t-shirts. So we took a picture...

...and Anthony texted it to all his friends...

...and we discovered that texting causes Andre's blood pressure to rise. Or maybe it rose because we were threatening to confiscate his chocolate milk. (trying to help him break the addiction...duh. That's what friend are FOR)

And then, a few weeks later, we went on a dorm outing, taking a whole lot of girls, and about half as many boys. The purpose of this gathering was to encourage the formation of deep and meaningful friendships while engaging in possibly brain-damaging or life-ending activities...

So...we went to the little creeky thingee with the big rock doohickies? And we jumped off the rocks...in order to show how much intelligence, common sense, and general wisdom we had gained from our college experience thus far. It. was. amazing. Especially if you didn't jump out far enough to avoid the rocks at the bottom. Heh.

And then, a few weeks later, just because we could...we decided to do a "Nerd" theme for one of our hall meetings. Yeah. Kelly doesn't always wear those glasses. She doesn't want to frighten other students with her obvious intellectual abilities.

The umbrella was really a nice touch. Some people can totally make an umbrella look nerdy...

The conglomerate effect of nerd night was quite...overwhelming. Never before have I seen so many pairs of glasses with tape covering the bridge...