Well I dont have any news really except for one thing....it snowed today!!! haha not very much or for long but it snowed!!! lol We were in the dining hall having lunch and we had to go outside! It is so cold here today though, 6 degrees celcius! But inside is nice and warm! It hasnt snowed here in years and since it is only November hopefully this means that we shall have some more over the winter! As I said that was really the only news that I had. I ventured...

Hey Everyone, I am sure by now that everyone has heard the results of the US election. I must say how many people care about their policitics here and know so much about it, even college students! You would never get that in Australia. I had a feeling Obama was going to win as almost everyone that I had spoken to was voting for him. That said every tv in America was tuned in to the election results all of Tuesday night. We even had a peak after bible study at ou...

As you will all know last Friday was Halloween...and yes Americans still love this holiday, even college students!! So there was much excitement all week about costumes, and parties and whatever else. As you can probably tell Emily and I dressed up as a bumble bee and lady bug as we could not possibly get out of the Halloween tradition! We ended up going to Hillsborough Street on the adge of campus to a nightclub and danced the night away. Quite fun, and interest...

Hey guys, Sorry I havent updated this for awhile, I thought I had written a new entry and it turns out that I was dreaming (I even remember writing the blog, i dont know what happened, maybe it didnt save properly) :P So anyway last Saturday a group of us went to the NC State Fair. Its just like the Royal Show back home but with more fried food, smaller and no showbags. But it was still cool to go, we went at night so the atlmosphere was pretty cool. And we got ...

This weekend Emily and I headed off to our church's fall retreat (for you Mounties people, its exactly like Salty Weekend!). Over a hundred of us headed north of Raleigh to Camp Oak Hill. We left on Friday night arriving at the camp just in time for the 8 o'clock start. After quickly signing in and settling into our cabin we headed off to the first session. For the weekend we had a speaker Tracy who had kindly joined us for the weekend with his family. I wont go...