Happy Monday!
I hope things are going well for you all, and that you're remaining cool in this insane heat.
To give some quick updates and flash through the summer...
Rachael moved out to Altoona in June which has been awesome. This is the first time since I graduated that we've been in the same area longer than a week. I have spent the majority of my summer preparing for both our wedding and the school year. I've been working on lesson plans, activities, big events, and more. In July I also went to CIY MIX with First Church's jr high kids which was a blast. I didn't realize how much I missed a week of high output!
Now for the nitty gritty!
This past Monday classes started at Penn State. Our first "meeting" was on Tuesday on campus, and we just got some pop and chips and hung around playing board games. We had two new freshmen show up which was awesome getting to know them and playing Star Wars Risk with them. Rachael played Exploding Kittens with some of the girls and another guy.
Wednesday was spent preparing for the Activities Fair on campus. One Thursday rolled around it was non-stop for the majority of the day. We had the activities fair from 12-2, were getting all of our things to campus before that and setting up. During those two ours we gave away 100 bags to students full of awesome stuff, got 75 students to sign up for more info about CSF, and had countless more conversations and interactions with other students. After that I got to spend a good amount of time discerning the handwriting of 30+ students that wrote their information down and sent an in depth email to them all thanking them for coming out and letting know who we are and what we're planning on doing throughout the semester!
This weekend was a time to regroup, meet with some students, and just figure out what the attack plan for this week is going to be.
Tomorrow we're having our first official CSF which will be at the church where we'll be having a bonfire, short lesson and then just hanging out!
I want to thank you for all your support, prayer, emotional support, and anything else you may do, even just reading this. As always feel free to contact me at any time! And I promise that this year I will be keeping up to date with all these updates!
Thanks!
