Packing & leaving

Wow, we're FINALLY going to leave.  Phew, today has been a LOT of work and I'm really glad it's over.   I woke up early to finish grading and went to the SJ&C to drop all the newsletters off in Ms. Chamberlain's office and then texted her to let her know they were done.  I said bye to Mrs. Ellis, Mrs. Ball, and Mrs. Herod, who were all talking in the SJ&C office and they all said that I better come to Ty's grad next year to see them all again.  I said I would try my best.  Then I drove to the house that Emily (our photographer for the family pictures) was staying until she left for home and picked up the pictures from her.  And then it was back to the apartment to pack.

When our apartment was pretty clean, Jonathan and I took a bunch of stuff away to the Samaritan Center and then to recycling.  We stopped by campus on the way back and helped Ty finish up his room.  I also went dumpster diving to find Ty's old shoes.  My dad had convinced Ty that they were awful and needed to be thrown away, but later Ty had second thoughts and wanted to keep them until he could get another pair.  I felt bad for him because I know what it's like to love clothes or shoes that are really comfy like that, so I went and found the garbage bag we had just thrown out and saved the shoes.  Ty was happy and so was I.  And I found out that dumpsters aren't really all that gross or smelly.  At least that one wasn't, but maybe it had recently been emptied.

Ty and my dad went to get the last few things out of Ty's room and so Jonathan, my mum, and I went to the Campus Shop to get some last minute things.  Then Bryn and Josh met us at the ABC and we spent a happy bit of time looking at our favourite kids books.  All of us had enjoyed all the same good old Adventist books and tapes as children and it was a lot of fun to reminisce together.  Then Ty and my dad met us all at the Village Market as we got some final food items to eat as we traveled.  We went back to our apartment to put the last few things in the vehicles and give the keys back to the Martins.  And now we're about to leave so I'd better pack up this computer and get going.  We still have to stop at the KOA in Cleveland to hook up the trailer and THEN we'll finally be on the road to home.

Accent pdfs

I am now the proud owner of three years worth of Southern Accent pdfs.  That's right.  I went in to the Accent office this evening to get the pdfs of the pages with my articles on them to use for my digital portfolio. But I ended up just taking all the pdfs for this entire year since I didn't want to have to look through all the folders for only my articles.  Then I found backup folders from the past two years as well.  Since I'd written some articles in last year's paper, I took those. And then, since I'd already got the files for two years, I figured might as well grab the last one too.  So, that's my exciting news of the day.  Oh, and also, I had no exams today, so I started packing my clothes.  But then that wasn't very interesting so I stopped.  I hate packing.