First Chat

We are working on moving. It is so fun going through boxes and finding all kinds of memorabilia. Today was a pack of papers from my first University of Minnesota event. I am not sure I was really considered a freshman because, although I had been accepted into The U, I had not actually started classes.

I have spoken of Freshman Camp frequently in this blog and if you want more info, scan away in my archived posts.

Today I want to talk about 'today' not 'yesterday'. Remembering the past is fun especially when you can remember the past with a friend. When I discovered these first FC papers I skimmed them with a smile on my face. I sent through a second time and picked out a couple of names and entered them into Facebook. Bingo. my first try I hit pay dirt.

It is quite a hurdle to leap over to message someone you think you know. Many times you have to go through an extended list of people. This time, Paul was the only one on the list (thanks to his name!). And luckily, he remembered me. We spent a while on Facebook chatting.

It is a bit hard to decide how much, how fast and how specific you should be on your first outing. You don't want to overwhelm your new old friend with facts and figures or to tell everything so that there isn't anything to talk about later. So the question is, How far should you go on your 'first chat'???

Cloverleaf

I was reminded yesterday of an event that took place during my first year of college and I giggled.

On an outing with my UofM Freshman Camp group we were headed...somewhere. Now, SOOO many years later, I can't even remember where we were going or what we were planning on doing. But there was a two car convoy, it was dusk, cell phones were not prevalent.

I have the feeling that I was driving one vehicle (Mom's van?) and Mike T. was driving his white pick-up truck. While driving on the highway, we lost Mike. We decided to turn around and try and meet up with him at the exit we felt we had gotten separated at.  When half way through the loop someone said, someone is following us. Apparently, we had not lost Mike, he was right behind us the whole way. In order to get back on track. Our two car caravan did the entire four-loop cloverleaf interchange to get back on 35W.

We cracked up the whole time. When we reached our destination. We were confronted with confusion from Mike and his passengers for the detour. Needless to say, no one heard anything that anyone had to say with 10-12 people talking at the same time.

I have often wondered what happened to my Freshman Camp friends. I look them up occasionally and have found a few, but not as many as I would like. Oh, what fun it would be to get together 30 (help, I think I am Hyperventilating!) years later.