when friends come visit...

yesterday trevor dow, trevor johnson, kendra partch, and chito elias came and visited katie, becca, shannon and i!! we only knew the 2 trevors were coming, so kendra and chito were a WONDERFUL surprise :) we showed them around campus and hung out for a while, then they all went out to dinner but i couldnt go because i had class :( we made a midnight run to donut man, and they left a few hours later. it was so fun to see them tho, we LOVE visitors!

our san diego excursion

for our first saturday on campus, 5 of my friends and i drove down to san diego to support our football team in their game against USD! it was our first little road trip of the year, first of many im sure :) we made it smoothly to the campus, thanks to mapquest and Laura's excellent driving, and we met up with 2 more APU friends at the game, and my friend Mac and his friend Justin met us there too! our team lost kinda badly... :( but it was still fun. after the game we drove to downtown san diego to get pinkberry, which took us probably 2 hours to get there, but when we did, it was ALL worth it! we didnt get back to school until 1:30am... but we slept a little on the way home.

the fearless driver Laura, and copilot Chelsy
kristin, lauren, and lauren
eating dinner at zpizza, soooo good!
representing APU with some school spirit
good job boys!

kareoke night

adams hall girls kareoke night :)

the day of my birth

i guess since its 1:30am right now, its technically not my birthday anymore, but while it lasted it was one of my favorite days here so far! as soon as i went to breakfast people were wishing me happy birthday, and i went to BJs for lunch with some of the girls for a special little outing together :)
and when i came back my room was full of balloons and streamers...


and then i went with my alpha group to take a little tour of the classrooms and figure out where our classes are going to be so we wont get lost on wednesday... then went with my alpha group to have dinner at a faculty member's house which was very fun. she made mexican food and a special dessert for my birthday that she called "crap in a pan" and they sang to me and it was very nice! then we came back and at 9 we had an all-hall meeting, so everybody from adams hall met in one room, which is a whole lot of girls, and they covered some ground rules and different things, then our wing (3rd west woooo!) had a meeting in our own little lounge where we met the other girls living in our wing and then they brought out a huge cake and sang to me :) and everybody had cake and ice cream and sat around and talked for another hour or so :) and since tonight was the premier of gossip girl, and since we missed it when it came on live earlier, we set it up on a computer in the lounge and some of us watched it together
goodnight!