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orget the endless lines of

checking-in, registration, The

or buying textbooks; it is activities of the

F-U-N time. Let laughter the first week are

chase away the anxieties great for making

and pressures of classes. new friends. The

The first week of college is planning leisure activities. Students intermingle

always the best (unless one Although the idea was to

is a graduating senior, have fun, the elements of and talk freely.

finished with finals, waiting competition and the testing

for commencement). of one's skills were not left They are truly

Everyone is on their best out. (Remember this is

behavior while making new college — there has to be a interested in learning

friends and adjusting to test.) Bowling and miniature

college life. One way the golfing tested eye-hand about one another.

campus family helps new coordination. Ice-skating

members become assimilated required a demonstration of

is through the opening week balance. Even though the

activities. cruise was a time to totally

The evenings of the first "kick back," traffic

week are reserved for F-U-N. negotiation skills were tested

Bowling, miniature golfing, on Pinellas highways. The

ice-skating, and going on a annual campus picnic

cruise are the agendas. These brought the full week to a

activities help break the ice close.

between students and The evening activities

provide them with the accomplished their purpose.

opportunity to become better They enabled new

acquainted. The pressures of friendships to begin and old

registration, buying books relationships to become

and supplies, and the first stronger. Roommates and

few days of classes are prayer groups became closer.

quickly forgotten. Everyone discovered that

The foreign students what we have at Clearwater

learned that Americans can Christian College is a close-

be quite inventive when knit family.