Roberts, and Waffles, and Canoes, and Music, and Sleeping, and Christmas songs!!!
Where to start? Has it really only been two days since I've updated????
Mommy, Daddy, and I made it to Roberts an hour early, cuz it only took six hours, not seven (and on the way home we did it in five. Speeding??? of course not ;). We just kinda walked around campus for almost an hour. One of the first buildings I saw was this really old-looking (in a good way) stone building, that kinda looked like it was the chapel or something. It turns out, IT'S THE MUSIC BUILDING!!!!! It was amazing! We walked in and an orchestra was playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto (No. 3, my favorite :) in one of the auditoriums, there were people having voice lessons and practicing in some of the other rooms, and the building was just amazing. It's at least 150 years old, but they just redid the inside, so it's not falling apart. There's three floors, and to get to each one, you have to take these really cool old staircases. And just when you think you've seen everything there that you can, there's another hallway, with five more practice rooms and a grand piano hidden behind some door!!!
After wandering into a few more buildings, we had to go back to the one where everyone was supposed to meet to get their packets and stuff and meet their hosts. Mine wasn't there, so Daddy and I went to get my stuff, and by the time we came back, she was there. Her name's Anna, and she was so amazing and nice. I went back to the dorm with her, and met her roommate, and then we talked for a little bit and went to dinner. There were these two other families at our table, but neither of them was very talkative, why are smart people usually quiet and hard to talk to??? After dinner the twenty-eight other victims and I walked to the "boardroom" (seriously, that's what it was called. as soon as they said that, all I could think of was "You're Fired!!!" What's that supposed to do for your self-esteem and confidence??) and wrote for one hour on the following topic: If you could change one event in history, what would you change, and why? Think about it! You have only one hour, and you have to pick one event in the past 6 or 8 or whatever it is thousand years to write about! It was really hard!
But the yummy pie after we were done made it all worthwhile :) I had a mocha and whipped cream one! and fruit punch (the kind with the sherbert in it). And I got to talk to Constance Fee, a vocal teacher there representing the music department. She was super nice, too. In fact, practically everyone there was :) I met back up with Anna and a bunch of her friends afterwards. Most of them were music or music ed majors. And they were super-crazy! We wandered around campus, first to the Living Nativity, but it was already closed, and then to B.T.'s and the basketball game. Then we left for the Quads to have a dance party. Don't ask, haha!
In bed by 11:15, got up at 7...went back to BT's for breakfast, said bye to Anna (although when we were taking the tour later, I kept bumping into her- by the auditorium, then the music building, and then in the dorms :), and waited for them to call me into the interviews with the faculty. I was in the third group, so I only had to wait for, like, 20 minutes. I think the interviews went the best of everything I had to do for the scholarship. Cuz the next part, the "Analytical Thinking Test" was killer!!! There were 50 questions, and we only had an hour to answer them. Stuff like: If there are four ppl in the Smith family, and five in the Casperin family, and there are three canoes, and each one has three seats, and there have to be girls and boys in each one, and there has to be paretns in each one, and at least one member of each family, who can go in each canoe. Fifty of those!!! I only got thorough 35 of em, and then just guessed the rest.
Roberts has a Belgian waffle maker and batter, so I could make a waffle anytime the dining room is open if I went there!!!! How cool is that?? haha :) And, they have ice cream, all the time. And they have a dance team, and they do musicals, and it's a Christian school, and they have a really good music program. And, if I drive fast, it would only be five hours away!
We got home in time to go to YP's. There were a lotta people from Wayne. And I thought I was gonna fall asleep in the Bible Study. Not cuz it was boring, just cuz I was so exhausted.
And then this morning, I didn't have to play for SS!!! Mr. Hausheer wanted to, becuase we sang Christmas songs, so he played! Yippee!! This was the first time I actually got to sing for SS since VBS, and if you don't count VBS, when they have guitars, I haven't sang in about two years! And, Alexa wants to play next week, so that'll be three weeks in a row since I was in New Freedom last week! Now, if only Pauline would play the week after that, it would be an entire month I wouldn't have to play ;)
Gordon Bennett spoke in Sunday School about the verses I was memorizing last month (well, last week :) "We have the mind of Christ."
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, and taking the form of a bondservant, came in the likeness of men. And being found in apperance as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the Christ, wherefore God also has highly exalted Him, and has given Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth and of those under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father."
Mommy, Daddy, and I made it to Roberts an hour early, cuz it only took six hours, not seven (and on the way home we did it in five. Speeding??? of course not ;). We just kinda walked around campus for almost an hour. One of the first buildings I saw was this really old-looking (in a good way) stone building, that kinda looked like it was the chapel or something. It turns out, IT'S THE MUSIC BUILDING!!!!! It was amazing! We walked in and an orchestra was playing Bach's Brandenburg Concerto (No. 3, my favorite :) in one of the auditoriums, there were people having voice lessons and practicing in some of the other rooms, and the building was just amazing. It's at least 150 years old, but they just redid the inside, so it's not falling apart. There's three floors, and to get to each one, you have to take these really cool old staircases. And just when you think you've seen everything there that you can, there's another hallway, with five more practice rooms and a grand piano hidden behind some door!!!
After wandering into a few more buildings, we had to go back to the one where everyone was supposed to meet to get their packets and stuff and meet their hosts. Mine wasn't there, so Daddy and I went to get my stuff, and by the time we came back, she was there. Her name's Anna, and she was so amazing and nice. I went back to the dorm with her, and met her roommate, and then we talked for a little bit and went to dinner. There were these two other families at our table, but neither of them was very talkative, why are smart people usually quiet and hard to talk to??? After dinner the twenty-eight other victims and I walked to the "boardroom" (seriously, that's what it was called. as soon as they said that, all I could think of was "You're Fired!!!" What's that supposed to do for your self-esteem and confidence??) and wrote for one hour on the following topic: If you could change one event in history, what would you change, and why? Think about it! You have only one hour, and you have to pick one event in the past 6 or 8 or whatever it is thousand years to write about! It was really hard!
But the yummy pie after we were done made it all worthwhile :) I had a mocha and whipped cream one! and fruit punch (the kind with the sherbert in it). And I got to talk to Constance Fee, a vocal teacher there representing the music department. She was super nice, too. In fact, practically everyone there was :) I met back up with Anna and a bunch of her friends afterwards. Most of them were music or music ed majors. And they were super-crazy! We wandered around campus, first to the Living Nativity, but it was already closed, and then to B.T.'s and the basketball game. Then we left for the Quads to have a dance party. Don't ask, haha!
In bed by 11:15, got up at 7...went back to BT's for breakfast, said bye to Anna (although when we were taking the tour later, I kept bumping into her- by the auditorium, then the music building, and then in the dorms :), and waited for them to call me into the interviews with the faculty. I was in the third group, so I only had to wait for, like, 20 minutes. I think the interviews went the best of everything I had to do for the scholarship. Cuz the next part, the "Analytical Thinking Test" was killer!!! There were 50 questions, and we only had an hour to answer them. Stuff like: If there are four ppl in the Smith family, and five in the Casperin family, and there are three canoes, and each one has three seats, and there have to be girls and boys in each one, and there has to be paretns in each one, and at least one member of each family, who can go in each canoe. Fifty of those!!! I only got thorough 35 of em, and then just guessed the rest.
Roberts has a Belgian waffle maker and batter, so I could make a waffle anytime the dining room is open if I went there!!!! How cool is that?? haha :) And, they have ice cream, all the time. And they have a dance team, and they do musicals, and it's a Christian school, and they have a really good music program. And, if I drive fast, it would only be five hours away!
We got home in time to go to YP's. There were a lotta people from Wayne. And I thought I was gonna fall asleep in the Bible Study. Not cuz it was boring, just cuz I was so exhausted.
And then this morning, I didn't have to play for SS!!! Mr. Hausheer wanted to, becuase we sang Christmas songs, so he played! Yippee!! This was the first time I actually got to sing for SS since VBS, and if you don't count VBS, when they have guitars, I haven't sang in about two years! And, Alexa wants to play next week, so that'll be three weeks in a row since I was in New Freedom last week! Now, if only Pauline would play the week after that, it would be an entire month I wouldn't have to play ;)
Gordon Bennett spoke in Sunday School about the verses I was memorizing last month (well, last week :) "We have the mind of Christ."
"Let this mind be in you, which was also in Christ Jesus, who being in the form of God did not consider it robbery to be equal with God, but made Himself of no reputation, and taking the form of a bondservant, came in the likeness of men. And being found in apperance as a man, He humbled Himself, and became obedient to the point of death, even the death of the Christ, wherefore God also has highly exalted Him, and has given Him the name that is above every name, that at the name of Jesus, every knee should bow, of those in heaven, and of those on earth and of those under the earth. And that every tongue should confess that Jesus Christ is Lord to the glory of God the Father."