Saturday, January 3, 2009

In Plain View

Hi,

Today is such a fun day. I didn't have to do much at all. Wake up late, eat heavy lunch and hang out. Today as i was eating my free breakfast(past few days i have been doing that). A guy walk in and start talking to us about the school and his home and who he is. He is the Dean for international students. Yea, they was a bunch of us people, all internationals eating breakfast together. So non-of-us volunteer to help him.

Anyway, so of the international wanted to go to the international student office today. So we went. They are the few friends that i said earlier in the post. So we head down, went to the office. But the people working there say that their server is down, so they can't do much work. Anyway, i didn't have anything to do. I follow one of the senior fellows to play ping pong there. So this dude, his name is Quintus(he is from South African). So he show me around the school and told me some many things. One thing i can remember is that one of the school building is built as the same dimensions as Noah's Ark. Yes, Noah's Ark. As i saw the building, it was huge and big, no wonder all the animals can fit inside the Ark. Will load up pictures.

So he show me the gym(he say is the one of the biggest in the America). Anyway, he show me this new building that the school brought over from Sony Ericsson. And it was a huge playground. They have a hair salon, bookstore, indoor track(running track) and field. Indoor swimming pools(three), 5 indoor basketball courts(dreaming already), 2 futsal courts, another gym, several ping pong and a lot of snooker or pool tables. The best part is that they provide PS3 or Xbox for you to play. And is all the latest games too. The very best part all the over is free for all Liberty students to use. Pictures are below...
Ping Pong and snooker and pool
the TV screens there are for us to play PS3s or Xboxs
more pool/snooker and leisure
This place is the lounge, where you drink coffee and whatever(the LU students say that the coffee here is better that Starbucks)
Sorry couldn't take a good picture. Here is the 5 indoor basketball court, the other end is the gym and inside here again is two futsal court.
Here is a better picture of the basketball courts. Awesome right. Yea i got to play here. The feeling is different.

Besides that, i want to show you something even more cool. This school has a whole mountain stretch belong to them and over the other side, the land still belongs to them. They haven't even finish using up the land they have. My friend told me that they are using only 10% of their land there. Anyway, showing you the mountain...
the big circle up there, shows LU means Liberty University. Couldn't take the whole mountain cause is just to long.
There you go.
Okay, guys hope you can see this. This part of the mountain, the top doesn't have trees, why? This is cool. Can you see the red color line on the top of the mountain? if you can see, you have good eyes. Is there la. Anyway, the school is building something there. That something so happens to be a artificial skiing slope. Means you can ski all day long, no need snow. Those trees will be cut down soon when it is done. But this skiing slope is said to be the first in America, and Discovery Channel is going to document this and show it on TV. It is said that this slope will be friendly to the environment too. Cool right?

Coming to think of it. I think the school owns this town. There are like almost buying every land in Lynchburg. Hopefully they might buy over Virginia. haha. This school is just simply amazing. They are truly doing so much for God. And really producing real man and women of God.
Same picture. The LU sign is on the left and the slope is on the right.

Oh today also i get to play basketball with a bunch of Americas. Well i feel quite lousy in the game. Cause they are playing in a different level. Well for me, i have to train even hard and become better. Man, the America people were flying here and there. Dunking and doing crazy moves. If i continue to play with them. Eventually i will get better and start playing their level. The best part was that they say that i was not bad. They say i understand the game quite well, know how to move and all. So that just gave me a fuzzy feeling in my heart. Which is encouragement to do better. =)

That is my day, oh i went out to eat with my friends. Yea, i made friends already. To this place, is better than McD, KFC, BK, and other burger stores. The food is cheap and is big and super tasty. YUMMY. The meal there is about 3 something and i get even more cheap with student ID. YEA!!! awesome.

Anyway, I'm super tried now. Going to bed soon. Got church tomorrow morning. So nighty night

Tomorrow will come,

3 comments:

Esther said...

O_O wow....your school is awesome!!! omg...3 bucks meal....+ student ID....1 buck? O_O seriously... cool eh!!

Yeeeerrrrr.....I'm so jealous of your school adi!! if that's college life I shall forever stay in college!! muahahhaha....or maybe it;s just your college XD O_O but how come no people playing wan? or was it a Saturday so all balik liao or something like that?

Hey! Your basket ball skills not bad! train more!!! TRAIN MORE!! XD then when you come back you shall be the ang mo among us! and lead all the youth guys here to play more pro ball!! XD *they're training quite hard adi XD wanna give you a good game when you get back*

JPtoh said...

all the people are not around cause many went back home or holiday. They will be back. Ask your dad to send you here to study la. hehe.

What are you going to study again esther?

Yea, che that not all they have. More pictures to come.

Esther said...

Lolz....Studying Dietics & Nutrition :P will ask him laaa.... XD but of course must get some form of scholarship or something to reduce the expensive college fees...

O_O OWH NO!! SAT!!! TOEFL! X_X