these boots were made for...dancing

renewed and refreshed spiritually...sore and exhausted physically.

we spent the weekend in the mountains of north carolina on a church retreat with ruf. we had a tardy arrival because becca took two and a half hours to drive what would hypothetically take an hour and fifteen minutes. oh well...at least she made it here in one piece. it was quite the reunion with all four of us (that would be becca, me, anna, and colette) finally together after over a month apart. becca ran her mouth about a mile a minute to update us on her experiences at tech. poor luke. i hope he didn't mind sitting through all the giggles and interruptions of eachother's stories (we tend to do that a lot...or at least i do), which involved people he'd never met before. he was a good sport, though. he was even willing to put up with a few of our "girly" songs like, "i need you" and "i will survive". i'm sure it seemed to him like being trapped in the cab of his truck with high pitch karaoke gone terribly wrong. well, maybe we weren't that bad...i hope.

our speaker this weekend was awesome. he had a wonderful way of linking analogies to what he was talking about. basically, the messages were about the attributes of God. the first night he talked about how amazing it is that God chooses to use us to do his work. the songs were good too. of course, being the typical presbyterian retreat, hymns were a favorite. who doesn't like good 'ole fashion hymns?

we awoke saturday morning to the wake up call of the bugle, which made me laugh. on saturday afternoon i cheered on the dawgs in their flag football game against usc (thats south carolina). after the amazing win of 6-4 over the lame gamecocks (haha), i got to dig, jump, dive, and make a fool of myself in a few games of volleyball. so much fun! i have a few bruises on my arms to prove it...haven't quite mastered how to hit the ball the right way. got a pick-up game of ultimate frisbee going after that. i got to do a jump, crash, roll over backwards defense move...didn't work, but i'm sure it was pretty snazzy looking. my team won...always fun.

we got to tend to anna in the early evening (that would be around 9:30 college time) because she got a migraine and really sick somehow. i'm sure the stomping and clapping to the blue grass band in the pavilion a few yards away wasn't pleasant to her ears. we finally got out there and joined in the event. wow. i must say that everyone had to look silly...but it was so much fun! i got to learn a few new line dances and dosey doe (sp?) with luke for a few songs. some people were fortunate enough to have some country-style clothes and boots for the hoedown. its all good though.

i'm finally going to skip a class. i know, i know. but this is the first one of my college days. stat class only consists of copying examples from the overhead anyway. it gives me a little more time to finish up these english journals i have to do. what made me decide to skip is that i don't have chem class tomorrow. i really want to be excited, but the reason why we're not having it is because my prof got in a car accident. he is reportedly okay, though. anyway, i'm about to zonk out on my keyboard...