End of Spring Semester at PIU

Well, another semester has ended at PIU! We have been busy with a lot of "odds and ends" types of activities, so I thought I'd post just a few photos and some captions to bring you all up to date.

At the end of spring break, our dive class put on a lovely barbecue and beach day at Family Beach! They had dive equipment on hand and some folks got to try it out to see if they might like it!








On a Friday night, some of us ladies (staff and students) took a trip to Leo Palace Resort and got a private karaoke room. We sang, had snacks, goofed off - you know - just generally had a great time together!












Afterward, we hung out in the lobby area for a short time and took some fun pictures - it is a really beautiful place!





















Another semester's end event was a gathering of PIU faculty and staff for fellowship and appreciation of one another before many left island for the summer.









The gathering was held in the home of our librarian, Lisa. Each person was honored with a certificate of appreciation naming a character quality that was appreciated in that person by all the others. It was a fun night!











For those of you who have followed our blog for four years, this may be a familiar sight! Every year (sometimes more than once), a bunch of the students come to our house for a BIG cooky making night! Here you see three of the girls with our HUGE batches of cookie dough. This time, we were baking for graduation.










After we got the dough done, a couple of staff members and their families arrived as well as a carload of more students. Tim had barbecued ten pounds of ribs and about the same amount of chicken - with rice, cole slaw, and fruit added, we had a nice "last day of school" celebration! Our tiny little boonie cottage was really packed with 24 of us for dinner! But it was so much fun!







And with students more than happy to gather in little corners and on the floor, seating was NOT a problem!















By the time the evening was over, we had all eaten our fill . . . including the helpful participation of all present in conducting a "quality control check" of the cookies as they came out of the oven!

(Don't worry - we made plenty for taste testing AND graduation!)




By the time I baked more of the dough Saturday, I had plenty of chocolate chip cookies and snickerdoodles to share for graduation the next Monday, May 9!! I also got two large cakes baked and in the freezer for Sunday decorating!










Sunday evening, after baccalaureate, I came home to frost and decorate a large cake for the next day's graduation ceremony. The graduates chose "Forever Faithful" as their theme for graduation, as you can see on the cake at the left. I found my cake decorating skills had gotten quite rusty since the days of having little kids around the house and annual birthday parties, but it turned out just fine!



Check back in a few days - I hope to have baccalaureate and graduation photos up by then! :-)