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I'm probably a little late on the whole blogging thing, but better late than never!

On the days leading up to becoming an official college kid, millions of questions were running through my mind. Will I make any friends? How hard will the classes be? Did I make the right college decision? Is it normal for someone my age to have gone to Chuck E. Cheese's 3 times in the past month? Am I at all prepared to make the transition from high schooler to college student? Am I mature enough to be living on my own, without my family? Without my warm bed, or my mom's homemade mac 'n' cheese?

Needless to say, I was a bit of a wreck on the inside.

Well, I'm happy to say, the past week and a half of college has been a blast and a half (didn't mean to write "and a half" twice in one sentence). Better than I could have hoped for. here is a list:
Courtney's list of wonderful college happenings since Sunday, September 20 (move-in day):
-Movie party with new friends on the first night
-Shopping at Fred Meyer at midnight (they opened it up for Western students only. Madness.)
-The Inn (Christian club, reminded me so much of Westminster. It was great!)
-Football at 1 am with a glow in the dark football
-Glee parties on Wednesdays
-Ultimate Frisbee team! I'm in love with it :)
-Swing Dancing club (super awkward but overall fun)
-Joined a small group through The Inn
-Painted sweet mugs with said group
-80's dance party!
-Bought 3 fish with my roomie Rachel. One of them is adorable and the other 2 are dumb
-So many other things that I can't think of or don't feel like adding to the list

Obviously, the week hasn't been perfect. Here is another list:
Courtney's list of less-than-wonderful happenings since move-in day:
-I woke up one morning, looked in the mirror and saw part of the ceiling in my hair!
-The ceilings are scary. They look like angel hair pasta made out of ceiling material. At night they look like worms, and the only thing that makes it better is the fact that there's tons of glow in the dark stars that somebody stuck there. But still.
-Sunday night, my friend Hana and I took the bus to downtown Bellingham because we didn't make it to dinner in time. We didn't know that the buses downtown stop running earlier than the rest of the week, so we were stranded. We met a concerned lady who had called a taxi for herself. We waited with her and the taxi turned out to be a van, so we asked for a ride to Western, which was on the way. It was all good until we got back to campus. We owed the driver $4.50 or so, and Hana and I had 2 dollars each and were gathering up the change. After about 10 seconds the driver growled "just give me 5 bucks and get out of my cab." eek.
-Creepy, persistent guy during swing dancing. I don't really feel like elaborating. It just needed to be on the list.
-I slipped down a wet grassy hill on the way to frisbee practice, yelped with terror on the way down, and was greeted by the sympathetic looks of the whole team at the bottom.

The good things definitely outweigh (and outnumber) the bad. So I love college. I think I made the right choice, and I feel like this is where God wants me to be right now. I'm coming home this weekend though so I'm pumped for that. Kirkland (1st home) and Westminster (2nd home), here I come!

That's my first 12 days of college in a nutshell. A giant nutshell, because this was a pretty lengthy blog. You're awesome if you're still reading this. You're a true friend :) And I probably miss you a lot. Unless you are a Western student reading this. In which case, I'll see you soon :)

Court