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!