Today I (almost) single-handedly conviced 6 6th grade girl scouts to come to Baylor. The campus wasn't giving official tours today due to an on campus marathon event, and a nice troop of Dallas girl scouts were having an exciting excursion to Waco's must see venues, such as the Dr. Pepper museum and Baylor University. The leader of the troop is an ADPi alumnae from Baylor, and called our chapter advisor to see if any current members would be willing to give a tour. Since Laura and I work in the admissions department and are now walking Baylor fact spouters, we decided to go ahead and give the tour. It was a beautiful slightly chilly day and let me tell you, by the end of our amazing tour, those girls were like, 'I can't wait until I'm a bear!" We had them stand on the seal in Founder's Mall and listen to their echos, they walked through the practice rooms, the science fountain, the SLC swimming pool, the library garden. My favorite moment of the tour was in the BSB in front of Java City when one girl asked me: "Do you have to like coffee to come to Baylor?" erm, no. But she'll soon find out it makes hangouts, study groups, and dates a whole lot easier if you're down with the Common Grounds. It was very refreshing to walk around campus for the sake of walking around campus on such a beautiful day. As I described the different buildings to the girl scouts I had flashes of various memories made in the same buildings. It made me realize my time here at Baylor has been quite extensive, action packed, and looking at those buildings, I realized I'm leaving a solid footprint on Baylor's paths.
This past week was long and hard. It rained a lot as well, and since George (my car) has a nice wide hole in the soft top (due to a vandalism incident a while back) I left him in the parking garage for the majority of the week. My kind roommate was nice enough to drive a crazed me to work on Wednesday, during the heaviest downpour (thanks again, Jessie!). This next week is also going to be intense. I leave for New York City next Saturday. I have a lot to accomplish until then- I must get homework done ahead of time for the week I'm gone, I need to finish researching my topics extensively, and plan outfits/pack for the trip. These things are all doable. Along with getting to be in NYC for an international Model UN conference, I'm also way looking forward to visiting the MOMA and MET and hopefully finding some good knock off deals on the sketchy streets of Chinatown.
I've been pondering the verses of Matthew 4 all week long.
The spring weather makes me think of sailboats.
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