Hey y'all!
I don't know how appropriate it is to begin a blog entry this way, but I seem to have found myself surrounded by very interesting people. And they speak the cowboy/country English. It's beginning to rub off on me a bit, but I'm still trying to resist :)
So I find myself in this new environment, this new setting that I feel I have been trying to avoid for a very long time. UNIVERSITY! I knew that I was coming back to school for the fall semester, working on finishing this degree of mine that has truly been taking too many years to finish, and trying to get back to Swaziland next year. I am excited about this opportunity that is before me. You see, I have a close friend that doesn't live too far from campus, but even on the drive through part of Dallas in the morning gave me too much anxiety to do that multiple times a day. I get to campus to meet with some of the staff, trying to figure out what to do with my life for the next however long and meet and greet the other newbies in this DBU pond we find ourselves in. I walked into one of the dorms and asked if they happened to have any rooms open so I could move in. (Keep in mind I had been in Texas about 2 days and still hadn't made it to my belongings I had left in storage in Abilene.) I sat around for a bit, filling out paperwork, trying to figure things out and then I went back and met with a few of the dorm "mothers."
The new chapel at DBU as the sun was setting and the storms were just overhead!
They first asked me how I felt about living in a 3 person dorm and I told them I had spend the past year living with multiple people in close quarters. What's another 2? Then she came back showed me the room and I had to fill out information about my new room. Not really sure how that all happened so quickly, but Praise the Lord! I moved a few of my bags in that I had brought back from Africa and had been living out of into my new area. Shortly there after my new roommate moved in. The more I have gotten to know her over the past few weeks, the more fun we have together and our room is great to hang out in.
Our room, well only a portion of it.
I absolutely love the time I have spent at DBU thus far, as they encourage the students to serve, they encourage accountability and discipleship and Boundaries. I haven't been in a Baptist setting in a while, but I'm starting to really enjoying it, not in a legalistic way, of course.
