Scarfie City

After a wonderful year of playing everyday all day, apparently it's time for me to go to school and be serious again... that's unfortunate.    No, I lie, I'm really excited to get back into study and school and libraries and nerdy things like that.
I've been down in Dunedin for almost a week now and am loving it (for those of you who are not familiar with the term "Sacrfie" it's a name for  student who studies at Otago)

Here's a quick summary...

Things I love about this so far:
1) My room is bigger than texas and has a big ledge up by the roof which I can climb and sit on.
2) My house is on a hill so I'm going to get fit walking back and forth from classes all day
3) There are students EVERYWHERE and everyone seems pretty friendly for the most part
4) I met other people who love Jesus within a few hours of being here and it really encouraged me
5)Dunedin is full of wonderful quaint old houses which are now dirty breaking student housing which no one looks after.... the irony and contrast in this fascinates me and I would love to photograph them sometime but have to try and do it while people aren't watching... apparently its not okay to take photos of other people's places
6) I've got to reconnect with friends from my school year who I haven't seen in a long time

Things about this which make me a little nervous:
1) My house is on a hill so I'm going to get fit walking back and forth from classes all day
2)There are 2000 students doing health science and only 200 places for them to fit into med
3) Alcohol runs like a river through these streets as soon as dark hits and it sort of breaks my heart seeing people lying in the gutters too wasted to move


It's been interesting coming back to the school environment after being away...  Last year I worked full time and was so far removed from the school scene. I grew up and stopped caring what people thought of me, and for the most part lived and worked with other people who felt the same. Now coming back into an environment of 17 year old freshmen who just desperately want to fit in and be okay, it's exhausting. But I understand. Because I was the same, completely.

I start class officially on Monday and will write more about that once it gets underway :)