Orientation Day 1 -Reunited at Last

After 3 days of longing for Deena to arrive in Jville--the Khalil sisters are once again reunited and ready to begin their mission;)

Deena and I met up this morning at the Jville airport this morning around 10:30am and were then picked up by Andrew Lekos the Teams Director from OCMC and another team member, Rodney Morrey. The four of us piled into the VW station wagon and headed out towards Marywood Retreat Center, where we are staying during orientation. The drive was about 45 minutes from the airport bc Jville is HUGE-- It's the largest city (geographically) in the US. We stopped for a quick bite at a local pizza eatery and spent some time talking about the goals and missions of OCMC. We learned quite a bit about the different archdioceses and their contributions and support of OCMC.

We arrived at the conference center and were truly impressed with the facility and its surroundings. If you'd like to see where we're staying you can check out their webpage: http://www.marywoodcenter.org/. It sits right on the St. Johns River--which as I learned today is one of 4 rivers in the world that flows north.

There are several different pods of rooms and we are all in pod A. Deena and I were originally assigned to different rooms--sharing with other individuals, but we vetoed that!

We're looking forward to meeting the rest of the group tonight. Everyone basically gets in between now and 6pm. We'll all meet for dinner at 6pm and start orientation then. So until then...we're off to explore the grounds!

PS: This is also a summer camp and it totally reminds us of the Antiochian Village (our church camp)--where's our counselor???
And gimme shop???

Hakuna Matata ;)
-Kera & Deena