Hi again! Life has been getting even more busy lately. However, I think we are all starting to get used to routine, so it doesn’t seem as stressful as when we first arrived. On Tuesday and Wednesday night, I played ultimate frisbee with my floor and brother floor against another bro-sis floor. It was incredibly exciting! At first it seemed very intense, and we girls were slightly nervous about playing, but it has quickly become one of our favorite things to do as a group! The second night we beat the other team 6-4, and we girls think it was because we usually take the stairs up to our dorm floor at the top of Houghton, which is the 10th floor. We are having a competition to see who can climb the stairs the most times, and we log our progress on a chart. We’ve counted the stairs, and came up with 145! Some of us have taken them over 20 times, so our floor is going to be in outstanding shape by the end of the semester. We also do push-ups, stretches, and situps together every night before we go to bed. None of us are extremely athletic, but it’s been fun trying to get in shape and alert for classes and homework! I’ve never had this much energy, especially on top of all the stress of college-life.

Another advantage to living on the top floor is that we are right next to the roof, which has a gorgeous view of Chicago. There are lawn chairs and picnic tables up there, and they make for perfect study areas. I’ve even played my violin up there as a different way to practice, but it’s starting to become too difficult because of the wind, and the fact that my music would blow away in one puff.

I hope to write more this weekend, but I also have to read the rest of the Pentateuch by 8:00 a.m.Tuesday. (I’m only in Numbers right now :)

I love you all! Please write me when you get a chance. Even though I’m busy, I make it a priority to check my mail almost every night.

Blessings,

April

“To God be the glory, great things He has done! So loved He the world that he gave us His son, Who yielded His life, an atonement for sin, and opened the life gate that all may go in.” (one of the songs we are playing in band)