I'm Here!

Hey everyone!

I successfully made it to Denver! I didn't chicken out, or get lost in Chicago airport..or miss the shuttle from Denver airport to Colorado Heights University campus. I MADE IT! When we first got to campus we had to check in and all that jazz. My roomate's name is Riley and she's from California! She's very sweet...when I saw her I felt instant relief to be living with her, because you never know what you might find! Riley and I went about unpacking our things together...our dorm is small but it'll be just fine since we won't be here much. We at least have our own sink in our room, so that's nice. The bathroom's like 2 doors down from us and then the showers are on the other side of that. Riley and I are opting out of showers tonight though. They're a little disgusting and something we just dont quite want to tackle yet. After we unpacked we went and had dinner in the dining hall. Salad and pizza! :) One whole wall is windows with an AMAZING view of the Rockie's. I think I can get used to that! After dinner we had our first unit meeting.

Oh yea, on Sunday before I came I got a call from my "temporary" team leader Josh..who informed me that I'll be part of the Earth unit! We still don't know our official teams yet though. The names of the units have hint as to what projects we'll be doing or anything..all it does is help them organize us. We met our Eart unit leader Kevin today. He is an older man who is in charge of all the team leaders...and essentially in charge of us as well.

So Riley and I are back in the room now and we're exhausted. Most people here are though right now...it seems like we've been up forever. It's 11:00 at home but only 9:00 here...yikes! I'll get used to it though. Something else I need to get used to....the altitude! They've been hammering us about drinking lots and lots of water because the altitude dehydrates you so quickly. But I guess we'll get adapted to it in like 7 to 10 days. So until then we just suffer through workouts, haha. I'm really excited for training to officially begin. It'll be a lot of lecturing and classroom, paperwork type stuff, but I know that it'll all be worth it in the end!

Ok that's all I have for now! :) If anyone has questions just post a comment or something and I'll try to answer it :)

Love,
Abby