Welcome to College
August 28, 2010
So I am officially a college student! It’s weird to think about. I feel like a freshman … in high school, that is. Well not really, but it’s hard to belive that I am a freshman in college, rather than in high school. Time really does fly by you. But let me tell you, I am loving it here. Oklahoma is not as beautiful as Colorado, but it’s still beautiful in its own.. flat way. Haha Thankfully the humidity has died down a bit. During Welcome Week (or Orientation, as some like to call it) It was averaging about 103 degrees daily. It was absolutely miserable. Not to mention everything was held outside. Naturally, being from Colorado where there is dry heat, I sweated through all of my clothing and had no make up on after an hour of being outside.
But in all seriousness, I am in love with it here. I love the beautiful campus and the wonderful people and I enjoy most of my classes. I’m beginning to make amazing friends and I already landed a babysitting job every Thursday for an hour or so. I still applied for other jobs, because I cannot live off of babysitting money. But I really feel like God is opening doors for me and I’m so excited to see how He will be working in my life.
Welcome Week was crazy. All of us freshmen and transfer students were swarmed by the Tri W’s (Welcome Week Workers) and all of our junk was taken up to our rooms for us! Then after we started to settle in and filled out paperwork and got our ID’s and everything else, the students went to a student meeting and the parents went to a parent meeting. Minutes later, over a hundred upperclassmen run in, dressed in outrageous costumes, and ran around the chapel, dancing to Eye of the Tiger. They were walking over the freshmen and screaming in our faces and throwing stuff around and it was awesome. We were all then split up into our ‘sub groups’ (1. Spring it On! 2. We Are Autum, Kiss our Bottom (mine!) 3. Snow Glad You’re here! 4. .. i forgot this one.) and we met the people in our groups and hung out and it was so much fun! We got to drive around Shawnee and see the town and started learning Ka-Rip, which is awesome! It’s a chant that everyone at OBU knows and if you want to say something, you have to say this: Hey Bison! Go with Ka-Rip!! And if you don’t say that exactly, the person doesn’t have to say it. So this is Ka-Rip:
Ka-rip Ka-rap Ka-riplo typlo tap
Oh! Oh! Rincto lincto hio-totimus
Hopula scipula copula gotimus
Chink-to-lack Chink-to-lee
Ka-willa, Ka-walla, Ka Victory
Oh! Oh! Hoogula choogula choogula can.
Ragula tagula melican man
Let’er go rip, let’er go ruse
Tingula Tangula, turn’em a-loose
Zip! Bang! OBU!
And if you don’t know how to say it, this is how we do things:
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And that, my friends, was my class. Literally. I’m somewhere in there! How cool is that?? That video was taken on Tueday, the last day of Welcome Week. It was on the Raley Chapel Steps, and it’s not only where we begin our OBU career, but it’s where we will end our OBU career once we graduate. So it was pretty cool. I’ve met some awesome people during welcome week! We’ve had a big group of people play Hostage (where Me, Lauren, and Carl got in trouble with the cops… which is a story for another day!) and we’ve had silly string wars and crazy stuff like that. And tonight Sanctus Real is coming and there will be a huge OBU concert till midnight.
Classes have been going good. It’s only the second day, and I can tell Chemsitry is going to kick my butt… But I know it’s going to be tons of fun being here. I love it so much. 
