I really am a small town fellow.

Today I went to register at the university. This is the 3rd largest university in the Middle East. Isn't that nice. It is so easy to say. "The 3rd largest university in the Middle East." You see how nice that rolls off your tongue. But saying it and seeing it are two completely different things.

Now let us recap on my life. I grew up in a town of 18,000 people. I went to that high school and then went to the university in my little small town. You could run around my alma mater and you would have only have traveled 1.3 miles. Get the picture. Small town university. Small town guy.

Today, I walked on campus and I was overwhelmed. Sure, we live in a city of 5 million people, but it doesn't feel like that. We usually just stay in our little borough and shop at our little supermarkets and visit our neighbors and so on. BUT THIS!!! Whoa, no, this was big! Really pretty, but really big. It has cedars lining all the streets and was hilly. It reminded me of Ruidoso, New Mexico, with people every where.

I went in what I thought was the main gate. Turns out that it wasn't, so I quickly got lost and roamed around the campus looking for the language building. In my aimless wandering I passed the fuutball stadium. It was huge! But like I said, small town. Easily impressed. All you folks that went to somewhere like UT or Texas A&M or any other college with more than 10 people in it are probably laughing at me....

Well, try being on campus the first time and doing everything in another language. I have so much more sympathy for international students in the States now.

I searched and I walked. You could have changed my name to Moses, because I wandered around for years. Finally, I found the building. Found the right office and signed up. Now all I had to do was go to this one office and pay my registration fee and then go to the financial building and pay my tuition. That was easy. I saw a map, figured it out and took off.

Found the office, paid the fee.
Now on to the financial building which was two buildings down.

Passed the first building...

Stopped at the second building....

I am stuck standing in front of the second building that is completely empty. Nothing inside. Only a sign saying, "we have moved."

I went back and asked someone, "Where's the financial building?" This bright, young mind replied, "Oh, they've moved........

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"Sooooo, where did they move to?"

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(more akward silence)

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"ummm...I am not sure"

This same conversation happened over and over.

Finally, I gave up and came home. I will fight this battle of the missing finance office tomorrow, if God wills it.