Feet-Wetting

Currently: listening to my roommate's piano practice.

Today the whole freshmen class was taken to a nearby summer camp (which is in its off-season at the moment). They had a ton of things to do there--a man-made lake with volleyball and basketball and a trampoline and zip lines, as well as a scenic train ride through the forest and frisbee golf (which I didn't do) and mountain biking (which I don't do) and free ice cream (which I very much did). They even had a plastic chess set, and I managed to find a couple people to play, although I'm still looking for some serious players.


They let us loose for the whole afternoon, then rounded us up for some planned games (which strangely enough weren't nearly as fun). In the evening they served us dinner and held a worship service in a tent erected for that purpose. After that they lit a bonfire and we had smores and played some more volleyball until the buses came to take us back.

It's astounding how many people I'm meeting every day. And then trying to remember which names go with which faces, and which ones are doing what, and which room numbers they have, etc. Someone remarked how many people they've seen that remind them of other people they know. And it's true--I've seen half a dozen people that look so much like someone else I know that I want to call them by the other person's name.

But for the most part I'm enjoying it. I talked with someone today who is in my mentoring group (of about fifteen students) who loves to play Risk, and agrees with me that Lord of the Rings Risk is far better than the standard one; so we might have some gaming in the future...