The First Week

We have officially completed one week here in New Haven and are continuing to learn more each day. My parents and two sisters got to come out this weekend and help us get some more furniture. The apartment has come a long way in such a short time. This weekend we had the opportunity to walk down to "old campus" (a little over a mile) and explore. Yale is very unique in the fact that they randomly assign students to one of 12 colleges. Each college has a dorm, cafeteria, library and many other amenities. I heard today that one of the colleges has a three story suite with a dance hall. The requirement of living in the suite is to host a dance party once a semester. We got to see where Chi Alpha meetings will be held this semester. Dwight Hall was the original library of Yale and is now used for small group meetings and a capella groups mostly. Although we will meet in another room of this building I wanted to post a picture of the chapel because it is quite beautiful.


Dwight Chapel

We got to go into Beinecke Library. It is focused on rare books and manuscripts. All the books are kept within sealed glass walls and controlled closely for temperature and humidity. The walls are made of marble which is supposed to prevent harmful UV rays from coming through. A Gutenberg Bible is there as well as some of Emily Dickinson's original, handwritten poems.
Yesterday we got our car fixed for free because it was recalled! yay! Monday we were very blessed to have access to a furnished apartment to take whatever we wanted. We got some end tables, a knife set, dresser, lamps and much more. God has been providing wherever the need has arisen. We are both still looking for jobs. I am waiting to officially hear. We would appreciate your continued prayers. We are beginning to feel like our apartment is home and enjoy coming back after busy days and relaxing. Our cooking skills are improving each day and right now we have our laundry hang drying in our bedroom. We are looking forward to classes and jobs starting soon. God is good! I added some pictures below so you can get a feel of what it is like here!

Joshua and Alissa





Our bedroom with some furniture in it and a real bed!

our new living room



 Joshua studying at the Divinity school library.