Arrival

Arrived at OKC airport safe and sound. (a little incident happened on the first leg of the trip from Columbia to Chicago. We were coming to land at the runway, the plane was quite low when it suddenly took off again upwards. Whooa I thought where are we going! The captain told us that there was a delay with the previous plane getting out of the way so we had to around the block one more time. That was a little hairy.)

Brent Nagtegaal had left me a voicemail earlier that I would be met by Sophomore Ryan Friesen (I had met him before so knew who to look out for) and sure enough he showed up with Kelly W..

We waited for some other arrivals - Alyssa and Kiana and Laura from New York and a young lady from Canada who does IA online. Kelly was really excited to meet her in person as they had become good friends.













When we got to HQ I was able to hang out at the Windsor girls dorm since the lady I was staying with - Marcela was out of town a wedding (David Brown and Shandise Jones, reside in Edmond). They were packing up in order to vacate for the campers to use the dorm.

Brianna L.

Alison P.

I also saw Sarah Icasiano, Jamie Hawkins and Autumn Kreuger.

Later, I stopped by the kitchen in the field house to introduce myself to Mrs Kreuger. They had a busy day preparing a meal for the Mark O'Connor artists and snacks for the concert-goer. Stephanie Greaser kindly fixed me a plate for lunch!

Around 5.30pm Marcela came and picked me up from the dorm and we went to her house which is located a couple of miles away. I had previously met Marcela from FOT in Colombia in 2005 so it was very nice to have the opportunity to get to know her better. Now she works at HQ with the Spanish department.  I really appreciate the hospitality in having me impose for 3 weeks.

Marcela