Shiona Rae

yummy, right?  Well today I had a lunch "date" with my friend from home. He apparently goes to LU also, so we spent the whole lunch getting caught up. he asked if I liked Sweet Frog, and I looked at him like, "sweet what?" So he explained, "Sweet Frog's a frozen yogurt place in town," and proceeded to ask if I wanted to go sometime.  I looked at him blankly and said, "I've never had frozen yogurt before."  His mouth dropped open. He looked at me, and I looked right back at him. It was like an old western showdown. He closed his mouth, started to look serious and said, "I'm going to take you to Sweet Frog. And then once you've tasted the wonders of frozen yogurt, you're going to cry tears of gratitude and hug me and you're going to wonder how you went so long without it. Then you're going to beg me to take you every day and I'm going to have to look at you and say 'no' and it's going to be diff...

Everybody likes to shower, right? I know i do, and when you finally get to see a safety shower in use, your life gets a little better. Today in chem lab, we were learning all about safety equipment, where it's located, and what to do in case of emergencies. While our teacher was showing us how to use the eye wash station she almost put her face in the stream of water, she pulled out some fabric from a tub full of cloths to wipe up spills, and so when she went to show us the safety shower, we all knew what was coming. But I don't think our professor did. See, our lab doesn't have a drain in the floor like normal, ordinary labs. So when she turned on the safety shower, a whole corner of the room got flooded, and made everyone laugh. Except our professor. She stood there, in disbelief that a chem lab would lack something as necessary as a drain while the class just started to talk. She eventually returned to herself and cleaned up the water, but the rest of the class, that wa...

I am a registered voter, I like to stay informed politically, but put me on the spot and I will flounder like a fish out of water. Just so you know what's going on at Liberty: the upperclassmen have to have a certain amount of christian service (CSER) hours, and these CSER opportunities set up stations in a busy hallway to try and get your attention. Sometimes the tables that are set up have nothing to do with CSER credit, but they have permission to be there, like banking and scholarships. Today, it was a video camera. My friend and I had just finished eating our lunch after convocation, were headed back to our dorms and we had to walk through this crowded hallway. We had barely gone three feet when we were stopped by this guy with a camera. He asked us if we were registered to vote, we said yes, and he pushed the camera into our faces. "look into the camera," he said. "tell it your name, and why you're voting." So my friend steps in front of the camera, p...

This was my first week of college, and one of the most nerve racking things I have done. I've left home,   become self reliant, and now am starting to get into the swing of life in college. I have it easier here than most of my friends at secular schools because I get to experience God every day, I get to snowboard whenever I want, and I'm pretty sure no one has better roommates than me. Yet even though things are going well, I am having difficulties reaching out to others. So a note to myself: don't be afraid to show who you are, because true friends are the ones who will be there no matter how crazy you seem.