This Is It! (By: Tim Cahill)

It was a long, but wonderful weekend! It was graduation, so of course my family and friends drove down to see my 10 seconds of glory, walking down the stage and shaking President Ellis' hand. My family arrived on Friday and stayed until Sunday.

Graduation went so smoothly. All week I was worried about how hot it was going to be, then on Friday there were chances of rain, but after all it was one of the nicest graduations there has been in a while. I didn't expect Riverside to be 70's with a breeze in May, but it was! After graduation, my roommate Ryan and I had a bbq at Citrus Park. It is a beautiful park, and we were blessed to have so many family and friends there to celebrate with us. This was my favorite part of the weekend because it was a chance to see a lot of my friends that I will not see for a long time.

It has been very sad thinking about leaving all of these great friends that I have been blessed with over these past four years. This has become my home. They have become my family. The thought of moving away has shown me how much I care for these people. It has given me the strangest feelings, and I know that I will miss this community sooooo much.

I am ready for change and am excited to see where the Lord is going to take me next, but I know I will never have an experience that resembles college. CBU has been a wonderful place and a perfect fit for me. I have grown, I have seen, and I am much more ready to face the world than I was when I first came in. CBU's environment and community has allowed me to figure out myself (as weird as that sounds).

I will miss it dearly.

Tim Cahill

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Graduation!! (By: Courtney Weatherly)

Graduation was yesterday, it was awesome. There is nothing like wearing a black trash bag (not literally) and cardboard hat with hundreds of others just to hear your name called. It was supposed to rain and it didn’t which just made everything more perfect. After finding all of my friends and taking pictures in our academic regalia my whole family went out to lunch to celebrate (YardHouse).

Afterwards, my family came back to my apartment so my dad could attach Josephine (my bike, remember?) to my car so she wouldn’t fall off during the long drive home. Once she was secure, they left! I was so happy that my family was able to come down and enjoy the day with me because they are so much a part of my education (if it wasn’t for their constant support, I would have never come to CBU or gotten through it). Hillary and I then did what we do best, we went to Disneyland. Of course we couldn’t go in our regular clothes but had to sport or new and appropriate CBU Alumni Shirts. When we got into the park, we got pins that said “JUST GRADUATED!!” that we wore proudly. We were sure to tell everyone that we graduated (Hillary even asked the guy on the tram ride to announce it on the way back to the car).

By the time we got home we were dead tired but knew there was work to be done. We spent the next few hours packing our cars and cleaning the apartment. I worked on the bathroom and let me tell you that the Comet detergent I was using in the bathroom was so strong it was making my nose burn. When we woke up this morning we had a few things to do and then we did our very last check out! We then went to Panera for our last breakfast together.

Surprisingly I haven’t cried about this whole process. I’m not really an emotional person (it drives Hillary crazy) but I am surprised I haven’t shed one tear yet. Probably because I still can’t believe that I am graduated already! I think it will all start to sink in around August or September when I am supposed to be heading back to CBU for school. - Pray for me then!

I have loved all of my time at CBU but know that moving on is also great and something we have to do. Experiences are what help us to grow and I know my experiences at CBU helped me so much. I can’t wait to see what God has in store for me next in the next chapter of my life.

Well, that’s all for me. Thanks for reading!!

Courtney Weatherly

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Fin (end): By Christina Fuentes

+Finals - check.

+Bags packed - check

+Return apartment key - check.

Lancer Diaries has been such an awesome opportunity for me. In these past couple of months, my only hope is that someone (even if it was just one person, anywhere in the world), was encouraged to live their life for God and share Jesus with someone that didn’t know Him. It was cool to write some fun posts about the shows I’ve been to, Christian university stereotypes and the random in-betweens. But more importantly, I was more stoked to share what God put on my heart.

Thanks for letting me show you my heart.

*Special thanks to my amazing roommates (Alex, Lauren, Nikki & Kelli) who previewed all my blogs and the several revisions I made to them. I’m more than blessed to call them friends and share my CBU experiences this year with them.

Well, folks- I’ll see you around campus next year. Don’t be shy too say what’s up.

~Christina [You can find my personal blog here].

+Last Lancer Diaries post - check.

Christina Fuentes

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The End of Something is the Beginning of Another (By: Tim Cahill)

This past week we got our yearbooks. Usually, when the yearbooks are handed out, you know the school year is just about over. It's surreal to me that this has come to an end! I remember freshman year, thinking that I never wanted this to end, and I mean how could it, I still have 3 more years of this! But now here I am, done with everything, and looking forward to this weekend of graduation; the gateway into the "real world".

The question I am always asked is, what do you do now? I am not sure, I don't even know how to make that decision properly. It's such a strange feeling knowing that so much weighs on where to go next.

Even though I am unsure, I know that my time here at CBU has prepared me to face whatever life presents me. I have grown so much spiritually, socially, and academically. I know these things would not have been possible without my friends and professors at CBU. I truly believe that CBU presents this opportunity to all students, and although we experience different things here, I would venture to say that most people feel the same way I do when they graduate.

We may not feel professionally ready, and we recognize that we still have a lot to learn about life, but we are confident that we will be successful in our endeavors after our time here.

It has been very sad to think about leaving friends and this amazing community. I plan to move back up to Northern California, and pursue a teaching career in mathematics. I would love to teach high school, either in the states or overseas, wherever I have the opportunity. So as this chapter in my life ends, I am excited to start a new chapter in my life.

This is it for my time blogging, it's been fun!

Tim Cahill

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Time to Say Goodbye!! (By: Courtney Weatherly)

So here I am in the final week of school at CBU. The end brings mixed emotions, excitement, nervousness, overwhelming feelings of sadness, the feeling of accomplishment, and a sense of moving on. I have worked so hard on my education at CBU and am ecstatic to finally receive my diploma on May 2nd. Graduation night, Hillary and I will head on out to Disneyland to celebrate the only way we know how. On May 3rd I will be moving home to Visalia. I will be home for the month of May and will travel to Ukraine with my ISP team in June. In July my older sister is getting married and so I will be helping her with the final touches of wedding planning (not that she needs any help, she is very organized) and beginning in August I start school again. Because I want to be a high school teacher, I will have to continue my education and get a California credential. I will be credentialing at Fresno State (go Bulldogs!).

Though I will be moving back home and to a different school, CBU will always be a second home, and it will always be MY school. I have had so many memories here and I know that they were all part in making CBU what we know and love. I am able to say I have survived Intensive Training Weekend, I have played in Fortuna Bowl (and won), I understand that recreation sports is more than just a hobby, I have participated in Campus Days, Some of my favorite Breakfast’s were served by staff and faculty, I know what a kugel is and I feel unimpressed when I see one at Disneyland, I have cheered with the CRAZIEST and most rowdy crowd in the GSAC (Golden State Athletic Conference), and I know exactly what comes after “C-B What??? C-B What???”.

This week really put everything in perspective when I got my cap and gown and acquired my first CBU Alumni t-shirt. I will miss CBU but I am able to take what I learned here and apply it in a different place.

So rather than listening to Vitamin C’s “Graduation (Friends Forever)” or Green Day’s “Time of Your Life” I think I will enjoy my last few days as an Undergraduate student focusing on the friends I have made and cleaning out this old apartment. (Plus working on walking and receiving my diploma without tripping on stage like this unlucky guy I know of...)



Thanks for reading my blog, whether it be the first time or the tenth. God Bless!

Courtney Weatherly

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No Butts About It

Usually, as a break from finals week, CBU puts on a little diddy called Campus Day. This is where all of the living areas on campus (and even commuters) get to compete in different games. My Team consisted of the awesome ladies of the Lancer Arms apartments. Our team was named “No Butts About It”- our shirts had a zebra butt on the back, clever, right? If you saw us we were probably recognized best as Team Zebra. We came into the competition with face paint, giant flags and the coolest shirts. This wasn't just my opinion... other teams and even the boys thought they were pretty sweet. Those names will be kept confidential.
I competed in the giant obstacle course, over-sized basketball (where I got elbowed in the ear) and the toilet races. BOOYAH. It was brutal, but we had it handled. Other games were human foosball, bocce ball, extreme pictionary, and, of course the team cheer (*note it had to do with zebras going extinct and the judges giving us points to save us, trust me you had to be there). To the tune of "I don't know but I've been told...", a call and response, if you will. I present to you, the Zebra cheer:

Listen Judges hear our plea
Save our lives we're on our knees
Campus days are mighty fine
On our backs is a zebra behind

We competed to the best of our abilities. We won some, we lost some. All in all, we won 3rd best cheer and one of our girls won most spirited. Shocking? Not at all, when the Zebras came around, we made ourselves known.

Zebra, out.

Christina Fuentes

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Pass le Torch and other CBU greatness

Pass the Torch- Wednesday night, I went to “Pass the Torch” (or Pat's the torch- as evidenced by the Smith Hall guys), where current RAs passed the torch to the future RAs of 09-10 (woot woot!). R.A. stands for Resident Assistant, which is basically like the supervisor of a designated living area. Anyway, the current RAs of each living area put together a short presentation of experiences and introduction to welcome us to the Residence Life staff. Among some of my favorites were UP Men (hip hop dance off), and the Cottages (the possum song). Needless to say, I am proud to announce that I have been chosen to be an R.A. next year, and I am stoked! Congrats to the new 09-10 Residence Life staff (or as we like to say "Rez Life")!

ISP Commissioning Chapel- ISP, a.k.a. International Service Projects a.k.a. CBU missions is an awesome opportunity to spread the gospel to the nations as God commands us to. Today we got to worship and pray with the teams that are embarking on this summer mission. Among them, my roommate Alex who's going to Panama, SO proud of her! If you missed chapel, remember to pray for the teams and for the lives that will be forever changed as a result of their courageous and willing hearts. CBU is truly a university dedicated to the Great Commission.

Only a week left of school, folks! It’s the final stretch! Best of luck to you all!

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