First Week Back, Already?

Hello everybody,

So I know this did not work out well the last two times I tried to blog about my college life, but I feel that since this year I will have more time because my job is to sit in the dorm and be available to my residents and I also now how an internet connection in my room (yay!) I will actually (probably [maybe]) be able to keep up with it. If you didn't know about the few posts I did last year, I basically give an update about what I've been doing recently, my friends, how my team is doing, and this year I'll be able to share any crazy stories I have about my residents.

This year I am a Resident Adviser (RA) in Irwin Hall, which is the dorm I was in last year and it is also a freshmen dorm. All (or most) of my girls will be new to Lindenwood, so it will be new, scary, and exciting for all of us. This year I will be in the basement with community bathrooms, but I have my own room, which has been amazing besides the first night when I was scared out of my mind that someone was going to come through my window to get me. I've now been living in the dorm for 8 nights and no one has tried to come through window though. My friend Alyssa is also an RA in the basement. We decided that the theme for our floor is going to be Dr. Seuss. Today (Monday), we spent all day making door decs, which our name tags for the girls' rooms. Each room is going to be a different book.

Last week besides putting my room together we had "training." What we did for training was sit through many lectures about (mostly) common sense things like calling security when there is an issue we can't handle. The only other thing we did was for training that was actually like training was "Behind Close Doors." They set up different scenarios that could possibly happen during the year like finding alcohol in somebodies room. Other than those few things I've been hanging out with the other RAs and getting to know them since I came in only knowing 3 of them. It has been fun being back early and seeing a few of my friends that live around here but it has also been boring since most of the girls from my dorm left after we finished training on Thursday. 

All in all I'm extremely excited to start this year. With the friends I've made and the plans we have for this coming year I know it is going to be a great year. 

~Heather