Stuart Hall Community

If I’ve not shared previously a small fact about my living conditions then here it is now. My residence hall is the furthest hall from the center of campus and located on a hill that my New Jersian friend Andrea would call a mountain! When my parents came to visit me my first weekend here they kindly brought me my bike, which has come in handy many days. It makes getting to campus/class/campus ministry as quick as a minute compared to the ten it would take me to walk. Unfortunately God will not answer my prayers to have the earth tilt further on it’s axis when it’s time to return up the mountain! Ultimately however, my legs are looking good!

Because of this fact, the Stuart Hall community is by far the best community on campus. This is because once here, no one wants to leave and no one wants to come! BT (Brother Tom), Jim (another GA) and myself took a group hiking on Sunday. We had a great time! Unfortunately it rained the entire time and we came home soaking wet! But it was a blast! The trip really helped to start forming the core group of students in my hall that will be getting involved in campus ministry! This excites me! We even have a substantial group of guys, which I’m learning from past experience and now that every campus ministry has a problem attaining! One of the guys on the trip had the entire van singing Billy Joel’s Piano Man to the karaoke he had on his cell phone!

The down side to the hike in the rain was that Monday meant I was in bed most of the day not feeling so hot. I don’t know if it was allergies or the start of a cold, but I pumped myself up with vitamins and chilled for the day and now am feeling significantly better!

BT has asked me to go to Kentucky with him and a group of students for the weekend. . . I’ve not decided yet if I will be going. It depends on class this evening! He is taking a group down to experience the people and location of the UDSAP (University of Dayton Service Appalacian Project) that runs in the summertime from Dayton. It would be a wonderful experience but I have to weigh a couple things before I completely decide what to do with my weekend!