Soo tonight...we turned on the news only to find Erie's beloved cider mill burning.  Thats right, the Cider Mill is officially gone :(  they proceeded to let us know that there was nothing they could do to save the Mill but would contain the fire so it wouldn't spread elsewhere in the community.  I have to admit, I was sad!  We just bought cider there last night and I've taken lots of trips there in elementary school and just thought it was a really cool place.  I guess not all good things last forever! 

I'm heading toward the end of the term.  It's been rough but good!  I'm glad I transfered, I've learned alot of new things and I really love what I'm doin at Mercyhurst.  It's tough but soo interesting!  I've got all B's right now, I guess I'd rather have a B in everything that have an A in a few things and fail the others.  I just don't have time to give 5 classes justice and get more than a B...I'm always striving for higher it's just hard to devote the time to everything equally.  Next term will be much more difficult though.  We are starting Anatomy 2 and Kinesiology along with a few other classes so it should be tough. 

Soo I've been thinking alot about God's Will...I think I am realizing more and more, that it's not so much about finding God's will for my life, but rather getting involved devotedly to the things of God and accomplishing His will.  God is going to accomplish his will whether we are part of it or not...I guess the thing to do is hop in for the ride and be willing to be used and He will get his agenda accomplished through us. 

Okay I suppose I am ready to share a really funny story with you all, if you lasted through the last three paragraphs of boringness :)  I've been a little too embarrassed to put this story on the internet but I have finally decided that I don't care anymore and it's gone from funny embarrassing to just being plain funny!!                        

I believe it was about the second week of school and I was still figuring out my way around the building that I have all of my classes in.  I decided to go down to the student union to get something to eat.  It is very difficult to get reception in NE without being in a basement but the Student Union is in the basement and I happened to get a phone call.  so I took it but the reception was going in and out and was getting really frustrating cuz I just wanted to finish the conversation!  This building below is the chapel at Mercyhurst, built onto the chapel on the other side of it, are a building where many classrooms which once used to be used for a seminary for men striving to be catholic priests.  If you continue through the building there is a recently lower level book store that was built onto the building.  the roof above this bookstore can be looked down on from the upper classroom levels...almost as though it was built where a courtyard used to be.  Anyway I came up one flight of stairs from the basement hoping to get some kind of signal.  I saw a door at the top of this flight of stairs and thought, hey perfect I'll just step right outside this door and hopefully get a signal quickly.

I was soo intent on my conversation and getting a signal that I did an incredibly blonde thing and stepped out the door and let it close behind me without reading the sign on the door that said "Fire Door Only: Do Not Exit"  Right outside the door was some grass and some sort of tar like pathway but I was sort of just focusing on the conversation and hadn't turned around to see where I was yet.  I stood there and finished my conversation, as I pulled on the door handle to go back inside it wouldn't open.  hmm I thought, I'm locked out!  I thought I would just go around the building and try a different door.  As I turned around to walk around the building I realized that I was standing on the roof of the bookstore.  You think this is a little funny...you haven't heard the half of it.  At a loss for what to do and realizing that I was surrounded by classroom windows I thought the best course of action was to look like I was supposed to be there and just knock calmly to go back inside.  Afterall I had a class to get to and I didn't want to spend my whole day and potentially my whole night ( if by some horrid chance I missed the last bus)  at Mercyhurst NE on the roof of the bookstore surrounded by the classroom windows! I heard some students in the hall but that was the moment I heard them say...well someone is knocking but we aren't aloud out there cuz it says "fire door only"  haha... so I stood out there for what seemed like an eternity when I hear someone coming...I was a little relieved and a little nervous when the president of the College opens the door and asks why I was on the roof!  I answered him and said that I was just trying to get reception...he thought that was pretty funny and very kindly asked that the next time I needed to get reception to get it somewhere other than the roof!!! We both laughed and I prayed he wouldn't recognize me the next time I passed him because that is not one of the better ways to get a good name in college.  Usually you try to impress the president of the college...not make him think you are a complete moron.  Soo there you go...a little piece of my stupidity for you all to laugh at!! 

Anatomy...hmm who knew it could be soo hard!!  I'm definitely not getting an A, I spend 7 hours on it a week between lecture and lab, not counting the time I spend in the lab just studying ...and somtimes I come on weekends just to study, it takes up my social life on an average day, and has a major role in my GPA(that rhymed)  Even with all these seemingly negative things, I don't hate it at all...I actually really like it.  If only I had a photographic memory so I didn't have to spend so much time in the lab trying to memorize the 50 billion models in there.  I really do like it though...it's so amazing!!  The human body is truly a phenomenal thing...and if you ever have the time to sit and study it, it's definitely worth it!! Anyway...I just wanted to share that and remind myself how interested I really am in this stuff...even though it is time consuming and difficult.

I do want to share with you all...my love for fall. This past weekend the young adult sunday school had a fun night of "apples and guns"  that is really what we called it.  haha...we all got together shot guns(they live way out in the country)  and we all brought something apple.  They even had a bunch of fun games...which I admit I cheated at the apple bobbing game.  I reached right in and grabbed one when they said "go!"  haha...so I suppose I didn't really win.  It was fun though just to sit in the cool fall night and sip some fresh hot cider and chat!  I love fall nights!!!

So this is about how i feel right now...really bored!!  This is my first day of school out here at Mercyhurst North East and I must say, I'm at a loss for what to do!!  The bus dropped me off at 11:40ish and my class isn't till 2:15.  I thought it would be good to explore a little before classes just to find out where things are...but ummm I think this campus isn't big enough for more than 30 minutes of exploration, haha.  I was thinking about my boredom...and I guess I'd rather feel bored than how I felt when i first started at Edinboro!!  My first day at Edinboro was muddy and slippery so before my first class I slipped in the mudd and stained my white capri's.  Funny now but not so much then, heehee.  Anyway my emotions were flying and I didn't know where anything was and I just felt so stressed!!  So I guess bored is a good feeling to have considering what it could be. The bus hasn't been bad at all...today there was one other guy that boarded the bus from Mercyhurst main campus and apparently he is helping coach basketball this year for the North East campus.  I have to admit that I am rather jealous of him...he was called during the summer and asked if he would be the assistant coach and have his education paid off for free as he finished his last 2 years of schooling at the main campus!!!  awesome stuff.  Everyone seems pretty nice out here, helpful and stuff.  I miss some of my edinboro friends and some of the professors even. I never thought I'd find myself saying I missed Edinboro but I really do.  I do kind of feel refreshed knowing that I have a clean slate out here.  I mean I didn't get bad grades at Edinboro but I know I could have done better.  I will start out with 12 gen ed credits  that transfer over here!  That will be nice, because I will just have to concentrate on the PTA major courses and hopefully pass with flying colors!!  Exciting thought that I could do my very best and come out with super grades!!  yay...alright well I'm off to find something else to fill my time with out here until my class which is actually only a half hour away!!yay...have a super day!