Settled in.

I am finally settled in my room for the semester. It is good not to have to live out of boxes anymore. They put me in a dorm room which wasn't what I was expecting but it will work. Its a very small room with lots of girls surrounding me so please pray that I'll get as much sleep as I need throughout the semester!

Amber, my roommate is another girl in the Outdoor Leadership program and we were in the same group on our hike. So it is a blessing to be able to know her and we will have similar scheduals all year which will work well. We both have lots of gear which has been hard to find space for in our little room. And niether of us have, or can afford much for decorations so if you happen to feel the Spirit lead you to send us decorations, we would really love that! I have lots of pictures to hang from back home. So it will work out even if it isn't what I had pictured. Classes start on Wednesday so soon we'll be able to also settle into a routine.

Our next trip is September 11-15 where we're heading north along the coast for a sea kayaking trip.

Amber and I on the coast.

Olympic National Park

Here are a few pictures from my first week at school. Along the northern coast of Washington, in Olympic National Park.

It was a great trip!

Settled in at school.

Here I am, in the south west corner of Canada. It was a super long day of traveling, catching planes, customs and some more driving but I arrived in Abbotsford and slept really well in a quiet hotel room.
Colleen, a good freind from WWC picked me up from the airport and I spent the evening with her Friday and then helped with a pre-reception for her and her fiance who live with his parents here in Abbotsford. It was so great to see her and she was so willing to help me out and deliver me to school on Saturday. Her and Andrew, her fiance, are getting married Saturday in PA and then will be moving back up here until March so I will have a good friend clsoe by! A super blessing!
Our first two days of "school" were classroom work going over many details that we needed for our seven day hike along the coast in Olympia National Park down in Washington. We left here early Tuesday morning and drove down to Oil City, WA, dropped off Bravo group, who would be hiking north, then my group, Alpha, drove north to Ozette where we would start hiking south. It was awesome to hike along the coast adn in the rain forests. All new terrain for me. We had to pay attention to the tides and know when they would be low at certain spots so we could cross. Our last night, low tide was at 1 am so we stayed up, hiked through it and set up camp around 2.30. It's crazy hiking on the beach at night because even though there is nothing around, I still felt pretty clostrophobic.
We had a fair amount of rain but more than half of our hike was gorgeous warm sunshine. About 14 -16 degrees these Canadians were calling it. It averaged out to be about 60 farienheight with warm sunshine so it was perfect. I took a lot of pictures and as soon as I get my lap top from customs, I will post some on here.
I am a lot more settled in now and am thankful that they reschedualed the hike for our first week so I could forget about all the traveling and packing stresses. The rest of the OL group is great and I have become good friends with several of them. It seems like it is going to be a great year. Tough, but great.
I would love your prayers, mostly that I will be able to get back into the school routine quickly and easily but also have plenty of time to sleep so I can really enjoy all of it. Thanks! And thank you also for your prayers for my travels. If it hadn't been for them, and for how I knew God was working everything out, I think I for sure would have chickened out!
Here is my address also:

Emily Adler
Columbia Bible College
2940 Clearbrook Road
Abbotford, BC V2T 2Z8 Canada

I'll keep posting as often as I can and will get some pictures up soon too. Please forward this to anyone else whom you think may like to read it. Thanks!

Going to Canada, eh?

Hey y'all.

I am heading off to school on Friday. I am flying into Vancover and will be getting to school Saturday afternoon. Orientation begins Sunday morning.

I will try to keep you all updated as often as I can through photos and writings on this, and maybe some videos. It looks like I'll be able to travel quite a bit with school this fall so I'm pretty psyched about that.

I hope y'alls summer wraps up well!