Go Griffins!

This weekend was a blast, for the most part anyways.  I went with Trevor to Pennsylvania to visit Seton Hill University in Greensburg and Kristen in Clarion.  The drive up was long, and Trevor had some freak outs.

Clarion is in western PA and out in the middle of nowhere, but considering that I grew up out in the middle of nowhere that was not a big deal.  But Trevor lost it when we were on this little highway at night.  I think that he really believed that we were going to die.  It was completely irrational.  But drama and Trevor tend go hand in hand.  I love you Trevor!

But getting to see Kristen was great.  I have missed her so much.  I did not realize how much until I get to see her again.  And then we got there just in time to watch Supernatural together, just like old times.  There was girl talk, sharing, laughing, junk food and mindless television.  Just like last year, and the three years prior to that.  

Granted, Clarion is smaller than Wilkesboro, but it is cute, quaint, and charming.  I loved it.  And then there was my school.  It was WONDERFUL.  I had my doubts, it is a Catholic Liberal Arts University and that scares me a little, hell it scared me a lot.  But I was reassured over and over that it Catholic in history more than anything now.  

It is a 200 acre campus on top of a hill and surrounded by trees and grass.  The main buildings were built in 1839, and the campus just screamed home to me.  The center of the campus has joined the building together with a bunch of corridors, and it made me feel like I was in a castle.  And I know how lame this sounds, but I felt I was walking in Hogwarts.  I am going to a school that reminds me of Harry Potter.  

This is the Maura Hall, which is home to the art studios, granted they are exiled  to the basement, but that is normal, we tend to scare people.

The center of the campus.  You can see the connecting halls.

Then I got to talk to a current art therapy student, and she showed me the art therapy room.  And my heart soared when I saw that the walls were decorated with Buddhist spiritual flags.  No cross or Jesus, not one single catholic relic in sight.  She was informative and I feel good about this program.  I still have questions, but they will be answered at some point.

Then I spent the rest of the weekend with Kristen.  We ate lots of food and watched TV.  Kristen and I would stay up late talking and I felt like nothing had changed, that the last 3 months apart had never happened.  And that lets me know that this friendship will last, it will stand the test of time.

I got back to Asheville early this morning and then went to class.  It was hard to leave Kristen, not as painful as when she left, but it still hurt.  I feel the most at home with her, Aly, Amanda and my parents.  They are my girls, my soul-mates.  But it is nice to know where is lives, to have seen her haunted building (Super exciting!) and know that she will only be less than 2 hours from me in Greensburg.  

I know where I am want to go to GRAD SCHOOL!  And I actually WANT to go there.