It's 3:43 am and I just got back from the vending machine park with two of my residents. We sat around talking about pretty much anything and everything for the last ninety minutes. I can only hope that I'll have the opportunity to bond with all my residents that way.

I went into the summer looking forward to this year--with the conviction that being an RA would be a ministry. Now that I'm actualy in the trenches and in the world I'm not as idealistic, but I'm still hopeful that God will work through me to redeem my time.

This year I'm an RA. It's been a lot of work so far: tons of training. Fortunately, the vast majority of the training is over and the reasidents have arived! It seems to be a very social group, which is deffinitely a good thing. As to problems or hang ups there have been very few. I think it'll be a good year. Class starts on moday...I have exactly $1.40 to my name. Buying books is going to be intersting...