H ow do I even begin to write about the three best months of my life. I can remember everything just like it was yesterday; the trips, the cities, the trains, t,he fun, the friends, the frustrations, and the excitement. Just the feeling of living in a villa that was built 200 years before America was founded was worth the trip. How can I ever forget those long train rides when we played Rook and Spades until we just couldn't keep our eyes open. As I write this, the memories just overwhelm me: catching wrong trains, eating foods you can't pronounce (much less recognize), trying to follow the rule "pack everything you think you will need and then take half of it out" before leaving for a trip. There is just too much that happens to a person in Europe for a semester. You begin to consider many things that you had taken for granted. I had never really realized that God wasn't American until I went to church in Florence and heard the songs and prayers in Italian to a God that understands and knows everything, in every country. I loved the independence, the feeling of being lost in a city where no one spoke English as you tried to get back to your hotel for the night. I couldn't imagine before I left the U.S. that I would carry in my small backback enough clothes for a 10-day trip to Greece (two pair of jeans, two shirts, and a sweatshirt). Learning to like hard bread, cheese, crackers and water as a meal was hard but fun. Traveling isn't all of the HUF experience, you go to classes, too, sometimes for seven days in a row. It's rough getting up for classes on Saturday morning and going to class after church on Sundays, but you learn to discipline yourself and your study habits. Living with 42 other people is a challenge, especiall those mornings when the girls use all the hot water. But we change our habits and learn to put up with other's quirks, like those Garth Allan Hughes - Southaven, MS. Computer information systems. Band, jazz, house for Spring Sing; Data Processi ng Management Association. James Dustin Hughes - Tyler, TX. Management. Theta Tau Delta , Vice-president; Intercollegiate Athletics, basketball, All-NAIA District 17. Shannon Paul Hughes - Tyler, TX . Management. Theta Tau Delta , Vice-president; Intercollegiate Athletics, basketball, All-NAIA District 17. David Wayne Hull - Ft . Recovery, OH . Radio-television . Knights, Athletic Director; HUF; lntramurals, All-Star; KHCA staff; TV-12. James Bennett Humphreys - Jackson, TN. Marketing. Kimberly Jo Hunter - Pearcy, AR. Nursing & biology. William Todd Hunter - Searcy, AR . Management. Chi Sigma Alpha: American Studies; lntramurals, All-Star; Pi Gamma Psi; SAM, president, case study team. Michael Lee Hupp - Washington, WV. Public relations. Andra Hurst - Henderson , TN. Elementary education. Tammmy Susanne Irvin - Bentonville, AR . Advert ising. Ka Re Ta , Historian, President; Art Guild; Dean's List; HUF. Cynthia A. Isbell - Mountain Home, AR . Management. Kirei Na Ai, Athletic Director, Devotional Director, Spirit Director, ICC representative, Spri ng Sing Director, President; Campaigns - Germany; Resident Assistant; SAM, vice-president of finance. Drake L. Jackson - Temple, TX . Management . Laura Linda Jackson - Malden, MO. Art. Gary Lee Jernigan - Searcy, AR. Elementary education. Terri Lynn Jewell - Searcy, AR. Elementary education . Zeta Rho, Treasurer, Vice-president; Alpha Chi, secretary; Campus Ministry; Dean's List; Friends; HUF; JOY; Kappa Delta Pi . Life at Via shuffling feet or the sound of ping pong all day long. Harding's program in Florence could not exist if Terry Edwards didn't put 200 percent or more into making the semester great. Whether it was shuttling us down the hill in the rain or just helping us adjust to the Italian lifestyle, he goes beyond the call of duty. Renata, washing those mountains of dirty clothes after every travel period, and Miranda, trying to fatten me up with seconds and thirds of pasta as she sighs to me that I'm too skinny, both add an Italian element to living in Firenze. Briefly, HUF is trying to find your way through the Paris subway, or wading through the Communist red tape in Budapest, Hungary. It is changing your comfortable dollars to Guilders, to Lira, to Schillings, to Forints, and to Drachma. It is the excitement of riding the Orient Express from Munich to Paris. It is jumping on bus 27A instead of 278 and ending up on the other side of Florence. It is wat-
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