Not that I wasn't good at keeping busy before college. Last summer was definitely the busiest one of my life so far. May was full of scholarship and job applications and finishing a couple of dual-enrollment courses at a community college. June was occupied with a full-time job and Bible quizzing (lots of practices with my team, lots of reciting and studying on my own, and the National meet to finish things off). In July, I started working 48-hour weeks because yolo while preparing for a missions trip to Kenya. The first half of August passed in a whirl in Africa where I fell in love with the people, the landscape, and the food. When I came back, I had a week to adjust back to American time and then rushed off to start my freshman year of college in a city so unlike the small-town that I come from.
This is my fourth week being a college kid. Routines have started to fall in place, and I've actually had time this week to catch my breath. It's been a wonderful week.
I've been having picnic lunches before spending entire afternoons in the library. Some friends and I joined a book club. The chapel services this week have been amazing. I found a care package from a sweet lady at my home church at the post-office today after my first college test.
And God is filling me with peace and joy and hope.
The cafeteria offers ice cream regularly, and who can resist after a long day of textbooks and notes? 
The campus is beautiful, even when fog tries to blur part of it.
Lists and notes and lists and notes...
Three things: the on-campus coffeeshop with Pumpkin Spice Lattes offers daily temptation, it's nearly cool enough for sweaters, and sometimes I listen to classical music when I study.
"Find rest, O my soul, in God alone;
my hope comes from Him.
He alone is my rock and my salvation;
He is my fortress, I will not be shaken. " Psalm 62:5-6 (NIV)
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