All HBU fresman are required to take a course called Freshman Year Seminar (FYS) which aids in the transition from high school to college. This is my second year teaching FYS and it is so much fun! I co-teach with Bob and we have a great class.

Part of the course requires a service project - this year our class went to Kolter Elementary to help with their International Festival. Kolter is a unique elementary school in that it requires their students to choose a language to specialize in starting in kindergarten - they can choose from French, Spanish, Japanese, or Chinese.

Our entire class before the start of the festival:

Paige, Kayla, Mark Stephen, & Ashley:

Setting up:

Passing out flags:

Kiddos all dressed up!

Kayla is loving her job with the flags!

Practicing their flag waving skills:

Overall, I think our class enjoyed our service project! I am so blessed to be able to teach such a great group of kids!

{Ashley}

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SAN ANTONIO! I will be in San Antonio and surrounding areas visiting college fairs from Monday, October 26 - Thursday, October 29. Hopefully I will see you there!

Go Huskies,
Chelsea Purifoy

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My favorite thing about October is that is means Fall is here; well for the most part. It is has been extra humid this year the early part of October and has finally cooled off a little. I love the cooler weather and being able to eat outside or just open the windows at home. Its so nice and fun!

However, my most favorite part of Fall is when the leaves change color.

Those are two neat pictures I found that could explain to you what I mean. In Houston we get leaves that change colors but what I love is when I am driving through East Texas on different roads seeing all the beautiful leaves and trees. Fall is such a great time of year and I hope you all are enjoying it just as much as I am. The holiday season is upon us and this is the start to beauty within nature and wonderful weather!

Enjoy and blessings~
Page Butera

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So I know it's football season right now but since I'm not a fan I'm super excited about basketball season starting. With basketball season about to begin that means homecoming (which we center around basketball) is also right around the corner. This year's events take place November 4th-9th and we have a lot of fun activities planned like a pep rally, dance, chilli cookoff and of course the big game vs University of the Ozarks. I look forward to homecoming because I get to see a lot of friends come back and see all the new and exciting changes here at HBU-from the new soccer field to the new pipe organ. There's always something new going on on HBU but you can keep up with all the HBU news at hbucollegian.com or through HBU's twitter.

So if you know any HBU alums-friends, family or neighbors please remind them about HBU homecoming. You can also come and check it out-it's a lot of fun! Go to hbu.edu/homecoming to see the schedule.

Kiza, our mascot will be there cheering her team on...will you?

(Picture from Kiza's facebook fan page)

Hope to see you there!

Go DAWGS!

~Dianne, class of 2004
HBU Homecoming Host Committee

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As a part of Freshman Year Seminar (which every Freshman takes), each class holds a movie night. We choose from a list of approved movies and then the entire class gathers somewhere to watch the movie together. Since I teach a class, tonight my class is coming over to my house! I'm cooking dinner - various types of pastas and sauces, complete with brownie hot fudge sundaes - and we're watching Last Holiday with Queen Latifah.

It's always fun to get to know my students better in an environment other than the classroom. Many of our professors open their homes to their students, through this movie night, Bible studies and other events that they host at their house. It's something that I think is fairly unique to HBU and one of the things I love about our university community.

-Sarah

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Page talked about HBU Preview that we had two weekends ago, but I wanted to share a few more pictures and fun with you!

Dianne, Chelsea, and I can't wait for Preview to get started!

Chelsea helping students check in:

ComedySportz!

Friday night after ComedySportz, we had karaoke at the "Blue Dog Lounge" on the Lake House Terrace. Our Husky Ambassadors took on an old Britney Spears tune that really got the crowd going:

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Here's John getting his Michael Jackson on:

A little Boyz2Men action:

Everyone loves karaoke!

Overall, Preview was a ton of fun! Check out our campus visit page to see what events we have coming up so you can join in on the fun!

{Ashley Bouwer}

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It has been a long week! We here in Admissions have been traveling all across Houston and beyond!! Have you seen us?
While I was on the road, I have been listening to some old school music and it has made me think about old movies! I love to watch old movies!! We don't have people to entertain us like that anymore. Below I put some pictures of some old school actors, actresses, singers, performers. See how many you know!!! Watch out....some of them are really good looking!! Enjoy!

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These were only a few that I could think of.....more to come later!!!

Answers: 1. Audrey Hepburn 2. Harry Belefonte 3. Debbie Reynolds 4. Dick Van Dyke 5. Dorthy Dandridge 6. Elizabeth Taylor 7. Gene Kelly 8. James Dean 9. Jimmy Stewart 10. Lena Horne 11. Montgomery Clift 12. Rock Hudson 13. Sidney Poitier
14. Ginger Rogers 15. Pam Grier

Talk to you all soon!!

~ Mon'Sher

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As you all know if you read this blog regularly, I am a huge animal lover...of all kinds! Last week I found a really cool spider outside of our building at work. I had never seen a bright green spider before. With the help of Bob (HBU's Assistant Director of Admissions) we caught the spider so we could show everyone in the office and look up what kind of spider he was.

We discovered he is a Green Lynx. Pretty cool, right? Just another day at the office at HBU!

Hope you are having a great week.

Go Huskies,
Chelsea

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This part weekend at HBU was Fall Preview. This is fun filled weekend where prospective students get to come and see what HBU has to offer. On Friday night students came and spent the night on campus as well as particpated in some fun activites. The evening started with an awesome show by Comedy Sportz and wrapped up with karoke on the roof top terrace of our newest residence college. Below are a few photos from the fun evening!

Some of our wonderful Husky Ambassadors singing and getting the crowd pumped!!

If you missed out on this fun event maybe you can come check us out at out next event which is Experience HBU. That is going to happen on November 4th here on HBU's campus. Check out this link to get more information http://www.hbu.edu/visit

Hope you all have a great rest of the week and look forward to having you come visit soon.

GO HUSKIES!
Page ;0)

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Wow! This school year has just been flying by! So, I'm very glad to be back in the office-I was out for two weeks recruiting in south Texas and Corpus and let me tell you it was hot! I met a lot of interested students though and ate a lot of good food which was my problem my first year here at HBU. I gained like 20 pounds from all the food I ate-it's hard to say "no" but I've learned my lesson and I'm trying to be good. This was also my first year to be on the road during my birthday-which was a little hard. I did enjoy it though because my best friend lives in south Texas and she made me cupcakes for my bday. I actually met her at HBU and we've been friends since our freshman year. We were tour guides together (ambassadors) so she helped me at some of the fairs too. Here's an old pic:

You make friends for life in college-something to look forward to while you're here!

Go Huskies!

Dianne

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