"make new friends but keep the old; one is silver and the other's gold"

when i was in girl scouts (way back in the day... :) ), we would always close out our meetings with interlocked arms, singing the words to the song in the title of this post. upon the conclusion of our song, which was quite pitchy, i might add, as is often the case for pre-teen girls :), we would try to spin out, still interlocking arms to see if we could keep our tight-knit circle in tact. as i'm sitting in my dorm, alone, at 1:40 in the morning, i'm reflecting on the now previous day...

as i was approaching the door to my dorm (i had gone home in the morning to shower and pack clothes :) ), i had a surprise waiting for me, hanging from my doorknob! :) my good friend, elizabeth, who is going to liberty in virginia with mandy next week (she's also the daughter of one of the seminary housing staff that hooked me up with an awesome room!), had baked flower shaped cookies for me! (the cookies literally match the flower on the card!)


not wanting to be alone (and with lolley hall practically a ghost town...save the random noises which i cannot so much as hazard a guess as to their origin), i hung out with vince! we went to bojangles, my new food obsession, and talked about life, love, family, missions, and God. it was awesome! i'm so glad that he moved from new jersey to wake forest of all places just to be my best friend! i don't know what i'd do without him!

after i ate (vince is a yankee and doesn't appreciate the finer things in life, such as the combination of fried chicken, buscuits, sweet tea, and seasoned fries :) ), we played frisbee at southeastern and were later joined up with by my "first southeastern friend," ryan. this was the first time, admittedly, that i met the alabamian ryan...but he was very nice...and talkative! haha then we went to happy hour at sonic and all was right with the world :)

i was reluctant to head back to my dorm because i didn't want to be sad and alone...so within ten minutes of dropping vince off at his house, he selflessly agreed to hang out with me...again. i don't know how he puts up with me, but he does! we went to falls dam and talked. he gave me quite the pep talk; vince is always good for that kind of stuff.

this is a night light that vince made for me from a trash can :) it's supposed to scare away my room mate if she ever acts crabby to me :) haha

my palm tree and my glowing trash can night light :)

luckily, i had plans to go see the sisterhood of the traveling pants 2 with some friends that graduated high school with me. it was a really good movie; the right mix of comedy, romance, and inspiration to put me in an optomistic mood about things :) although, it did make me "homesick" for greece, being that the last scenes of the movie were filmed in santorini! i can't wait to go back with my church this summer! hopefully, i'll be bringing vince with me, too!

i went home for a while to finish some laundry (and mooch off of my parents for dinner!) and catch up on facebook :) and i've been cleaning and organizing my dorm...including decorating amie (my room mate) and i's message board on our door and our mirrors :) i can't wait until she comes on friday!

anyway, i'm going to bed soon...i'm hanging around the dorm tomorrow to see if i can meet some new people! (that is, if they ever decide to move in! :) )

my friend ashley, who's going to wake tech (so i'm glad she'll be sticking around :) ), gave me a flip book of index cards with Bible verses and quotes and stuff and this one really sticks out to me, so i figured i'd share it...

"let no one ever come to you without leaving better and happier. be the living expression of God's kindness: kindness in your face, kindness in your eyes, kindness in your smile."
-mother teresa

ah, words of wisdom. the world could use a lot more kindness.