Life-Giving

At Concordia, all of the first-year students go through orientation a couple of days before the first day of classes. And at Concordia, orientation is taken very seriously. My orientation experience freshman year was fabulous; it was exhausting, as my first blog posts pointed out, but a great experience. I felt at home and I learned so much about myself and who I wanted to be in college (hence, the blog).

Preparing for Orientation: Round 2 has proved to me yet again the changing experience it can be - for anyone involved. We started training today and I have gained more bruises today than I had all summer from the games we played and I have lost a few pounds from how much I have laughed because of it. I'm doing what I love and I feel like I know what I'm doing, but I know I have a lot to learn and I'm going to learn it. It, as my mother would say, is "living-giving". (Gosh Mom. Your little catch phrases are coming in handy lately.)

As I get older and especially as I enter my final year of undergrad, I am beginning to notice more and more about my reactions and emotions I have when I am in a certain group. There are things that feel like work but then there are those things - like orientation, speech, and theatre - that give so much life to me that I cannot fathom a life without experiences like this.

My last blog post pointed out that doing something life-giving is what I need in my life. And although I have no idea what my career will be or what my plan is for after I graduate in May, days like this prove to me how much my life journey needs these experiences.

Peace!

-Nicole

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Check it out! It is going to be an epic, awesome, fantastic year.

Let the adventure begin.

Note: Wrap Up

First off, too wrap up this blog's "first year at college", here are some statistics.

Most common tag: Friends

Total posts: 107

Most viewed post: Note: Glances with 66 views

Best month: October with 1,009 views

Total views: 5,562 (as of right now)

Oh and we have 235 views from people in Russia (2nd next to the US)

This summer, all of here on Dorm Room 718 will be taking a break. There will be occasional posts, but it won't be on a regular schedule. Us writers will be brainstorming some ideas on what will come next for the blog during our sophomore year that will be revealed just before we start school again in the fall. But until then, enjoy our other blogs (plus a few I enjoy reading):

My Epic Life: Megan's other blog

Musings of a Poetess: My poetry blog

Undefined: My friend Meg's blog (she wrote the article on the blog for our school's newspaper)

Bound South: A classmate from high school is just finishing up his bike tour across all of the Americas

Late Nights, Street Lights: My friend Andrew's blog

Sleeping with the Sunrise: My friend Geneva's blog

The Zenith Perspective: My friend Blake's photo blog

Enjoy reading and enjoy summer and enjoy life.

Peace!

Until next time,

Nicole