Sunday, July 12, 2009

Life as an OL

Hello,

Hope all of you have had a great summer so far! The last weekend of June I headed up from Virginia to Elmira for Summer Registration 1. I was super excited because I was reunited with my friends I hadn't seen since before my big Australia trip. I flew up and got to Elmira around noon which was the beginning of check-in for OL's. I hadn't mentioned that I was a Concurrent Session Group Leader, which means I, with two other OL's, took a group of parents to each information session.

We started training off with an ice breaker, which was a lot of fun! It was a great way to get all of the OL's in a laughing mood. We then had training all day Friday. This was when we made all of the door tags for the parents and the members of the Lucky class of 2013, made balloon arches, and made all of the other decorations that would be around campus.

Saturday we all woke up bright and early to get ready for the freshman to arrive. We did a lot of singing!!!!!! I was stationed up by towers to welcome members of the class of 2013. It was a lot of fun to be the loud and somewhat annoying people this time around instead of the scared and nervous freshman. It was a lot of fun to watch them go through the same things I went through a year ago. Except none of them were on crutches like I was for my SR.

The parents were great, nervous just like mine but great to talk to. It would have been nice to spend more time with the students in order to get to know more of them, but I can't complain. It was a great experience, I wish I could be an OL at the other two Summer Registrations.

Have a great rest of the summer!!!
Ashley