Diane’s World

I don’t know if any of you had heard that new song “For you I will (Confidence)” - by Teddy Geiger. Oh man am I addicted to it. And the music video too. It’s not a song I usually would like (it’s way too mainstream for it’s own good), but it has a theme that really strikes home to me right now… sigh. And this kid was only 16 when he wrote this song - talk about talent.
Anyways. RA training was 8 very intense days. Every RA was exhausted from a mix of emotional, mental, physical and spiritual testing. Today - our first day off of training - was dull in comparison. I don’t have any freshmen in my building, so I had nothing to do.

So, to spice life up a little, I decided to have Mason and Jon show me the infamous “scariest place in sioux center” - which is odd that I’m in my third year and haven’t been there yet. I got pictures…but I’m too tired to post them. If you never been there, then let me borrow your car and I will show you. Quite creepy.

I also am in the progress of doing my first advertising job for RA business. Here is a rough draft of the ad for the best East Campus Block Party ever!:

If anyone has any magical cures for a canker sore or cold sore (I have both), do tell.

K, I’m tired. Church tomorrow. Must sleep.

Deeds

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Quick update: RA Training has been exahausting but very good. The RA staff this year is very easy-going and fun, and I’m enjoying it very much.

Some Highlights:

Walking to Sandy Hallow every night for a bon fire

Bob’s talk on grief where a fourth of the RA’s broke down into tears. (me included)

Having 5 hours of designated alone time with God on our camping trip, where I fell asleep in the sun and got a sunburn. (woops).

Being thrown, fully clothed, into Lake Pahoja by Corey, Nathan DG, and Dave S. (urg)

Having our first East Campus staff conversation (which is co-ed staff) be about tampon commercials.
Sam’s talk about Conflict.
Hanging around the coolest people ever. I’ve grown a large appreciation of this year’s staff.
Words don’t express it at all….

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Hey yall.

What a weekend I had.

We went backpacking again - this time 13 miles on the other side of Mt. Rainier. It was so gorgeous that there is absolutely no words to describe it. These pictures hardly do it justice either:

(once again, you can click on the picture to see them bigger and better.)

At summerland, there was a cabin. And in the cabin was this:

(it says “bear journal”) We actually almost ran into three bears - they were 20 feet on the path in front of us. It was a mother and two cubs. We just stopped and let them pass, and we survived. Yes, we are now bear survivors. We “bearly” survived. Haha, that was a bad joke.

Ok, this chipmunk was the cutest little guy in the whole world. he’s not afraid of humans. I named him “fish”.

And this guy even crawled into Andrew and Dad’s lap. I named him “shark” cause he’s bigger than fish. But he was cute too.

Yes… and we hit SNOW!

We got to do a bit of snow hiking. It’s rather interesting especially while wearing slippery tennis shoes.

My dad and Andrew at the top

And, of course, the traditional top-of-the-mountain cigar!

And my pa and me together.

Back down to summerland, the summit of the mountain, and me running into Andrew’s pictures because he’s not allowed to take better pictures than me :).

Welp, we are back and alive. I’m not nearly as sore as I was last time, thank goodness.

And yesterday my “relative” from Germany flew in. Actually I have no clue how he’s related to us, but he has the same last name and he is really nice. We’ve stayed at his house in Krefeld, Germany twice already so it’s nice to have him in the US. He brought me one of my three favorite things in the whole world - HARIBO GUMMI BAREN!!! (gummy bears, go figure). (I’ll get pictures of him later, so hold your horses).
So for the special occasion of meeting his German relative, Patrick donned on some Lederhosen. Oh man, if he was any cuter I think he would burst.

This morning I was going to wake Patrick up, but when I walked in his room it was too adorable to disturb:

I think it’s funny how his big bear and his duck dog are doing the exact same position.

And finally… SAMUEL!!!

Man I have cute nephews.

SO that’s all for now. Probably one more post will come before I go back to dordt in THREE DAYS! AHHH!

Love y’all!

Diane

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Hey world -

Today I finished making a possiblity for my building’s door decorations. Sure, I have a few weeks, but I prefer to have them done before I get on campus before things become hectic.

All the drawings are by Sam Brown (yes… once again I obsess over explodingdog.com). I’m starting to realize that I’m the only one that understands that website. I think that I managed to make these door decorations somewhat asthetically pleasing regardless to how much sense they actually make.

If you click on them you can see them bigger… and better.

I don’t know. This is the point in my life where you are all allowed to say “Diane, I love you, but you are strange.” Go ahead. You know you want to do it.

Ok. Well let’s see… interesting things I can tell you all. Oohh I have a few.

First of all, did you know that you can get MAIL ORDERED HUSBANDS? So if any of you females get desperate enough, you can buy one!

No! Honestly! This is one of the funniest things I’ve seen all summer! Go to http://www.mailorderhusbands.net/order/ . These are quality guys! I mean think of this - Andrew (on the website, not my brother in law) says, “As a 23 year old balding man I’m in a hurry to find love!”

Bertram says, that he doesn’t want any good girls, “because I plan on committing a few sins and misdemeanors in my time.” Also, “I got booted off Match.com for cyber stalking but I’m better now.”

Oh man - Too bad I don’t qualify for this guy named Steven. “I prefer a woman that has insurance and a car would be great as I need to make the occasional trip to Mexico to pick up “souvenirs”.” My roommate has a car - I think she should go for him.

And Earl - in his advertisement - assures his future wife that he takes a bath… every week.

Oh man. Shows how great idea meeting people off the internet is. At least these men are… uh… honest. Be safe on the internet kids.

Well I’ve got work to do. Be good everybody!

I get back to Dordt in 8 day!

love, diane

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Howdy world.

First of all, I would like to claim insanity for the last post. Thanks for understanding.

So I said I was going to go backpacking.

I lied.

What we ended up doing instead: (the Purple line is our road trip)

Yes folks, that’s right. My dad and I went on a wild goose chase - 402 miles - around the Olympic Pennisula. In the car, of course.

Don’t get me wrong, we had every intention to backpack. When we got to the trial head, however, we were told that the place was packed and there was no room for us. Boo.

SO - we took a nature drive. Stopping once at a really nice beach to gather some Vitamin D (sun rays…).

Still inclined to get a hike in, the next morning we woke up and got Andrew to go with us on the first leg of the the Wonderland Trail (a 94 mile trail that circles the timberline of Mt. Rainier - the biggest volcano on the contiguous united states… you can see it on the lower right corner of the previously posted map).

We did a 14 mile hike with a 3,000 foot elevation gain to Indian Henry’s. It was a hike, (not a backpack trip), so it was relatively easy to do.

It was a beautiful day, and Andrew was nice enough to let me use his iPod the whole trip. So in the 7 hours of hiking time, I got to listen to all the best music. My theory is that anything you can do while listening to good music is well worth doing it.

Other aspects of the trip were just as interesting. Andrew forgot to bring a belt, and I had to hike behind him the entire trip. I guess I was really bored, and when you hike up you have to keep your attention at the area around you. So the only thing I really got to entertain me was the occasional dramatically acted Andrew-pants-pulling-up time. Yeah, weird things happen when I get bored. Like measuring my nose.

Oh yeah. Another interesting thing is that when you burp in the wilderness, it ECHOS! I know! So cool! (My mom’s gonna kill me that I told that to the world!)

So here are some pictures to prove one thing: My state is prettier than your state!!!

The Valley and Indian Henry’s (Near the Top)

One of the many bridges on the way up:

And at the very top, my dad rewarded us with a Cigar! Yay! And I even got my favorite type, a Vincent Sinclair. If anything, the cigars proved to be EXCELLENT bug repellents. So keep that in mind the next time you go outside:

Me and my Dad

And good Ol’ Andrew.

So it was a grand time. We are planning to do a hike on the other side of the mountain this Saturday! So things will be interesting.

Besides that not much has gone on. I have a few pictures that will make Rachel happy:

First me and my good friend, Patty-Wack.

And here is Andrew with Sammy and reading to Patrick. Isn’t that precious?

Anyways, I’ll be back at Dordt in about 10 days. Still lots to do till then. I’m thinking another post is coming soon.

Take it easy y’all!

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