Hey, Roberta here!

Hey!  Roberta here!  I also have never blogged before, so I don’t know how this will turn out.  I have failed Belle’s challenge to us.

I am at Bethel University.  I have met some amazing people here!  I’ve made friends who make me laugh uncontrollably and who let me think out loud, who are friendly and brilliant and crazy and incredibly different from each other!  I have very interesting classes, and they are all kind of accidentally integrated—we talk about Humanities writers in Meaning and Persons, history intersects with Beowulf, and French verbs show up everywhere.   I’m in Women’s Chorale, and it’s killing me—WAY bigger time commitment than they claimed it was—but I’m beginning to love the music again.  (We’re singing selections from Handel’s Messiah!)  And I’ve taken up running for all of 3 days—yeah, we’ll see how long that lasts. ;)  I’m learning so much, having so much fun, and losing so much sleep.  And—this may surprise some of you—I have a calendar on which I write all of my classes, events, and upcoming assignments.  I have organizational skills—who knew?

When I wrote the above, I was sitting in my room with one of my lovely roommates.  I’d just pinned my latest fortune (from the fortune cookie I had for lunch) onto my bulletin board.  “Good health will be yours for a long time,” it said, which is ironic, because on Wednesday I developed a heinous cold.

And right now, I’m sitting in my house for the first time since I went to college—I’m home for fall break!  It has been so refreshing to see my family, and I hope to see some of you tomorrow!