This week has been full. We not only had a few more orientation things to cover with all of the new faculty and staff, we also today met with all of the LCC faculty and staff to see eveyone's face and to get a picture of what the year holds and some better insight into the workings of the university. We also had "Serve Day" today. This was a time in which the all the faculty and staff gathered to serve LCC. People were walking around campus picking up litter, some were washing windows, some setting up classrooms, and others were in our dorm, Karklu, trying to organize a whole mess of keys that lost there label. (Thank you to all of you who helped me organize all of that.)
Serve day was cut a little short because there were more pressing matters to tend to...the Lithuania/Spain Olympic Semi-Finals in basketball. For those of you who don't know, I have heard it said, "For Lithuania, basketball, is like a religion." Everybody loves basketball and therefore we gathered as a community to watch the game between work and a bbq.
The bbq was fun. I was the "grill-master." I am not sure I mastered anything but that is were I put my name on the list of jobs.
Amongst all of these other things, we both have been working hard (especially Laura) to get ready for the arrival of students. Laura's Student Orientation Staff (SOS) leaders come tomorrow and begin training. My RA's begin training on Sunday. We are both looking forward to the year starting and the students arriving, but there have a few long nights and early mornings already. A lot to do and think of before it all begins.
Pray for us that we will have energy as we kick off this academic year and welcome our student leaders back, as well as all of the incoming first-year students. Pray for us as we continue to learn and as we begin to build relationships with our students and fellow staff.
Now it is time to get to bed.
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