The First day of the Trip to TN!

As I have mentioned in a later post, I left on the 1st to TN!!  What a trip it was!! There was no internet access so I am way behind on posting about all that we did and learned. So I am very excited to share with y'all the fun that I had!! So here is what I would have said that evening.

 November 1st  2011

Today is the day we left today for Nashville TN!! What a long day!! We flew for over 8 hours, leaving at 9am and getting here at 7pm Central time (2hour difference from home). We had one plane we were on but we made two stops before arriving at our destination. We stoped first in Phoenix AR, then in Dallas TX, and finally at Nashville TN. Here are some pictures from the flight, when I had the window seat!! Which was between Arizona and Texas.



Every thing is so small!!



Some sort of mountain/ hills. Besides these, everything was flat land, what a change from home.

 

Seeing circles!!

More circles!! :)

 

Pac Man seen from above!! :)



Now Lydia, Galena and I arrived a day early, due to the fact that we could not find any reasonable flights that left the day of the first class. Now this conference was held at a old hospital out side of Nashville. What a large building!! Though we couldn't see it when we arrived but it sits on 42 acres, mostly concrete, from the parking lot. There will be more about that later.

So we to got unpacked and got to meet the three instructors, Grace, Krystin, Meagen and her little 9 month daughter Aspen!! All such nice ladies!!



There were 9 girls in the course and each door they labeled with a verse under there name.

 

After we got our stuff in our rooms, we decided to go exploring this huge building we were staying in. We found that there are 6 floors and a basement. We were aloud to "explore" the ground floor, and the 1st and 2nd. The ground floor was very nice, with a grand piano, a bookstore, and a office/ meeting area.( I think I have some pictures of the ground floor, I will post them later)  The first floor was a conference type floor, with a auditorium. There were allot of halls with no lights and a chill in the air. And then the floor that we were staying on, had allot of hotel like rooms. We also found out that there is a family living/ taking care of the place, and they live on the 3rd floor. And then the 5th floor is offices for ACE, Accelerated Christian Education. In which 80 people come in each day to work. The rest of the building is for the most part unrenovated, with dark cold halls, and some rooms are still in the same state as it was when they closed the hospital down. I would have to say that is was alittle creepy... Well soon after that we decided it had been a long day and in need of some shut eye.

Well there you have it the adventures of the first day!! Stay tuned for more to come!! :)

Thanks for reading, ~RebeccA.