back to school, back to school, to prove to dad that i'm not a fool.

disclaimer: for those of you who don't know what i'm referring to in the title of this entry, it's a funny line from billy madison. :) one of my favs.

anyway. that was my intro to my first day of school! man, this campus is large. i thought ucsb was really spread out, but going here, you practically need a car to get around to each building. and our dorms are pretty much the furthest point possible from my classroom. how convenient.

today i had 2 com classes. they'll be mon-wed-fri, so it'll be nice to have tues/thurs free. yahoo. hopefully i'll get in a lot of activities then. so far, i plan to surf, hike, go to northshore to see the sea turtles come out, shop, workout, and soak up all there is to do in hawaii.

first class today was all right. the prof was nice, but talked A LOT. haha. she took up the whole 2.5 hours! i've never taken a class that was more than an hour and a half that wasn't art. i guess that's what i get for taking a semester class in 6 weeks. haaa.

second class was better. the prof was really nice, and i clicked well with her teaching style. the only hinderance was that the class turned out to be something way different than what i expected. originally i thought it was going to be an international communication class, but it's actually about telecommunication. so i'm really hoping this is going to transfer. my advisor is out of the office for the summer, so we'll have to see!

oh! and let's rewind to last night. last night nina came over with robyn and we had a jolly good time. they're both so sweet. we ended up talking with this guy from ucla and even got into a conversation about god. it was so interesting to talk to someone about what the think and believe in regards to the Lord. it was also cool to hear from nina and robyn about summer project and what they've been doing! the Lord is doing some awesome things. please keep them in your prayers. hawaii needs jesus.

after being able to have a great conversation with matt about christianity, it was interesting to see how tolerant and respectful people are of each other's religions here in hawaii. while this is an awesome thing, and the people here have a lot of harmony between them, i think it makes it difficult to get the good news out here. it'd be truly amazing to see a movement started here. and that's what epic summer project is doing. :)

there are actually some summer start freshmen dorming in the same building as us, and i'm hoping to get to talk to them and even possibly share! we'll have to see how that goes.

anyway. i think i need to go & start my list of things to do while i'm here! haha. payyceee.