…Actually wasn’t the first day of school, it was more like orientation. But the students are finally here!!! We are still waiting on a couple, but the other 48 trickled in all day long last Thursday and now the glory can begin! =D The 20 of us who are staff have gotten so close over the last 3 months of training and preparing and now we get to welcome 50 new members into our wonderful family. Friday was orientation of everything from the base to our school to the island and our first class is early Monday morning. Aaaaahhh!!! XD One of my favorite parts of orientation is Aloha night, when the islanders welcome the new students with some amazing Island dances, each country on base is represented in a flag procession, there are dance performances from some of the countries, and we worship corporately for the very first time. It was such a fun night!! We took them to the beach on Saturday so they would get the chance to experience Hawaii before they dive into lecture phase, haha. The curriculum is pretty intense, so it was nice to take a slow weekend before everything really gets started. A big thing that all of the staff are looking forward to (nervously) is this first week. Instead of someone coming in to teach, the first week is when all of us share our testimonies on stage. Some of us are more prepared than others. For me, it’s been so long since I’ve shared my testimony at all that I had to first remember what it is and update it. I’m not scared to speak on stage, that’s something I feel more or less comfortable with in general, but I am a little nervous to see how telling my testimony to a bunch of strangers goes. They won’t be strangers for long, but still… I am so excited to be a part of this school! I can already tell this is an amazing group of people from all kinds of different walks of life, but the one thing we have in common is a hunger to know more about God and grow in our relationships with Him. How awesome is that?! DTS was such an amazing time for my relationship with God and I am so honored and thrilled to be a part of this process for these 50 people as well as to see what amazing things God does in and through this school and each of their lives. Go God!!!
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