It's the end of our first Monday in Gateway, and I am happily tired and ready for bed. Today we had our first full class session. This first couple days will be about learning to know ourselves. It was so interesting and I absolutely loved it. We talked about our intrinsic value as children of God. This example was used: A hundred dollar bill all crumpled, torn, and ripped is still a hundred dollar bill! Just as it's value doesn't change even then, neither does ours! We also each completed a DISC personality profile before Gateway and we went over those. It was so interesting and helpful in understanding myself as well as others and why they act or do or see things the way they do. At Lunch, a group of us got to eat with the speaker, Doctor Andrew Clark. He is on the Mercy Ship staff and lives here on campus. He is originally from South Africa but has lived in New Zealand for a long while. He is an incredible speaker that I could listen to forever. After class me and one of my roomies, Becca, went for a run on a circle path through the woods back around to campus. It was Extremely hot (in Texas, it apparently just gets hotter as the day goes to where 5 or 6 is the hottest time of the day!) and as we were walking by the pool all hot and sweaty we just decided to jump in fully clothed! It was fun. Then later we went and played wally ball and soccar with other gatewayers and again people wanted to go in the pool. So we went in the pool again, me and Becca fully clothed for the second time today!! now we have run out of clothes... :-p JUST KIDDING! haha but we found the whole thing funny. So now I'm off to bed. Up at 6 tomarrow, hopefully run at 7, and class at 8. Nothing like jump startin the day!
Lunch with Doctor Clark
(Me, Gemma, Murrey, Doc. Clark, Christina, Noah Son or Young Pyo, & Hayley)
Soccar!!!
More Soccar...
from left: Micah (Holand), Elliot (Canada), Me
Hot and Sweaty after playing! front: Becca & Micah Back: me, Elliot, Christina, Murry
Swimming to cool off. Me, Christina, and Becca (taking picture) Were fully clothed :-p hehe
Texas has scorpions! I've seen 3 so far. They are quit small tho. 
Conducting DiSC profile assessments during team buildings is always a great activity to ponder on as each person gets to learn a lot more about her /his co-workers.
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