International Friends Bible Study

Sunday 2-13-11

These are some of the students that we meet with to study the Bible each week. The guy on the left and the girl on the right are the other two leaders.

Christmas Eve!!

Friday 12-24-10

Every year on Christmas Eve, my dad makes fondue for us. This year, a couple of my friends from International Friends came over for dinner and to our Christmas Eve service at church.

I hope that the girls enjoyed it, fondue takes a little bit of getting used to sometimes haha. They seemed to really enjoy the service and had some good questions.



Oh, and I don't have a picture, but we also taught them to play spoons. Needless to say, it got a little violent haha.

Christmas Cookie Time!!

Saturday 12-11-10

We had an International Friends Christmas party Saturday night and made Christmas cookies. It was so much funny. A first time for some of the students decorating cookies and they loved it!

Everyone working hard.

We made so many cookies! It was a little ridiculous haha. They were really good though.

The two different versions of a Christmas wreathe. Which one is prettier? 

 

Ok I couldn't get this picture to look right. Ben had to make a UNC cookie of course and not really sure what the other one is supposed to be. I'm saying its Nagini after Neville got a hold of him (if you don't know what I'm talking about, I'm sad for you). 

Game night

Saturday 10-9-10

Had an awesome time hanging out with some international students playing games. This was in the middle of a game called pterodactyl (who knew that had a 'p' in it, interesting). Kinda an awkward picture taking game haha but it was the only one that I took cause I was too busy teaching some people to play nerts. SUPER fun haha.

Side note- my birthday is in exactly a month from this day. And so I'm starting a countdown until I am no longer a teenager. 31 days to go. (I'm turning 20 haha, thought I should point that out)

Blogging study break

I thought I would post my weekend pictures tonight before my crazy week begins.

Friday  10-1-10

Some fun friends and I at the International Festival in Raleigh. We took a group of international students to Raleigh to enjoy the Festival and different cultural booths and food. The food was definitely the best part. It was set up like food stalls with each country having a different booth. It smelled absolutely wonderful and was not an easy decision to make haha. I love food from all over the world!

Yo-Po

Wednesday

I got to meet a fun new friends, Chex, who is from China and studying here for the next four years. She joined A and I for dinner and then we introduced her to the Tar Heel favorite, Yo-Po. She loves it now! (of course)

And we're off!

I'm a little behind, so this is a long post, sorry! I'm going to try to post every couple of days, but last week was pretty busy so I never got the chance to blog. 

Friday 

This day is pretty much for my sister, K, unless the rest of you guys are really desperate to know what my room looks like haha. Nothing terribly exciting happened last Friday, so I thought I would put up the first picture of my room. 

This is my bed, desk and comfy chair (where I'm sitting right now). Last year we had a futon, but this year our room is much smaller and it wouldn't fit haha. But we're loving being in Morrison and have made our room very cozy and homey. I have another picture coming later (probably a couple more haha).

Saturday

This year, I will be working a lot with International Friends, which is a part of the larger group, Campus Crusade, but focuses on reaching international students. Saturday was our first big outing and we all piled into four vans and drove to Topsail island to spend the day at the beach. It was the perfect way to relax after classes began and also meet some fun new friends and get to know people better. 

We stopped at Smithfield's Chicken and BBQ on the way back for dinner. These are the fun people that I sat with at dinner. You'll be seeing lots of pictures of them, I'm sure. I don't eat pork, but after smelling that BBQ, I may have to start haha. 

Sunday

Another day where nothing too exciting happened- mainly did homework and stuff haha- and so, another picture of my room!! K, do you recognize the curtains?? haha, they look great in our room.

 

This is my dresser and my roommates bed. I know, such an exciting picture. 

Monday 

I picked up my really great parking spot that I applied for. The parking lot is like 3 minutes away from my dorm, SO convenient. Last year I had to walk 30 minutes to get to my car, but now I have it so close which means that I can babysit and do all sorts of fun stuff that require leaving campus. 

Tuesday 

Another International Friends event. Did you know that the majority of students who come to study in the United States will never be invited into an American families home? This is something that we want the students to be able to experience, to see what a home is like here. Last week and this week, several awesome families opened their homes to allow the students to come and eat and spend a meal in their home. This is the group that I was able to join. 

Wednesday 

We also planned an Amazing Race Scavenger hunt around UNC's campus for the international students to help them learn the campus in addition to having a great time. 

One task was to look up a book in Davis library. The book was To Hate Like this is to be Happy Forever, clearly we are not just trying to teach them about the school, but also the very important hatred of the other blue. 

Thursday 

This is my best friend, H. I babysat for him over the summer several times a week and had been suffering severe withdrawal from not being able to see him for a couple of weeks because of school. But, since I got my parking permit, I'm going to be able to babysit for him at least once a week, if not more. He's almost 2 and absolutely precious! This is him dragging around his favorite stuffed animal, Roo-Roo, which is stuffed Kangaroo that is about a foot taller than he is haha. I'm sure I will have many more pictures of this cutey as the year goes by. 

Friday

Another goal for this year I think is to be a little bit more of a college student haha. I didn't go out very much last year and it's really not my thing to like go out with huge groups of people or go to parties and stuff, but I would like to be a little more social this year haha. Most people have gone home for the weekend, but my parents are out of town, so there isn't much point so I'm going to be sticking around campus. Tonight I went to dinner and dancing with my friends K and G and their apartment mate and some of her friends. We went salsa dancing at the Spice Street restaurant in Chapel Hill. It was so much fun! Lots of people and loud music, but still fun. For some reason, they let us go up to the VIP room, where there was food and water and stuff. 

That was my week. In between all the fun I read a ridiculous amount about India and Latin America and wrote my first paper of my sophomore year (I know, the second week of school and I already had a paper- what a bummer).  So far I really like my classes and, although they require a lot more work, I'm enjoying the topics a lot more than the ones I took last year. I'll see you guys next week!