Week Three

After the third week of being here (and the second week of classes) comes to an end, I'm definitely feeling settled and loving it here. I've been enjoying most of the classes, even though parts can get pretty ... uninteresting. I think the most interesting one would be Pauline Epistles. Even though it is taking a lot of effort to read the text, and the Bible, and even do some background (google) reading to figure out what's going and and to get everything in order, I love the type of things that I'm learning. The background behind all of Paul's letters and even just the basic timeline of Paul's life is some cool stuff. And, like the OT class, it helps to bring me to a better understanding that the happenings of the Bible actually, well, HAPPENED like thousands of years ago...on THIS earth. Even though hate geography, it's cool to see what happened where. 

I am absolutely loving choir. We're learning so many fun songs for the Christmas musical (which is the weekend of Dec. 4-6 if anyone is interested in coming, not because you want to see me - in the midst of a sea of people - sing, but because Briercrest always puts on a Christmas musical and it is a huugggee thing). And we're also putting together a few worship songs for leading worship at the Community church in a couple weekends. It reminds me of Seekers -- learning a ton of fun songs with different parts. I just love choir. 

I got to see Gavin (my old youth pastor) and a few other covenant pastor/leader type people on Tuesday evening. They were here for a conference/meetings to talk about ideas for our Covenant Conference. So, him and another guy I just met a month ago, and my pastor from Saskatoon, and I went to Starbucks and chatted for a while. There was another man here by the name of Phil that the Covenant Church of Canada just hired to be in charge of putting together something(s) for the college/career students. Since Covenant Bible College closed down, him and a team of people are looking at what is next for us. He wanted to meet with me (he knows my mom as she is on the board) and hear my thoughts and ideas about what we need. So I was up at the crack of dawn yesterday to meet him for breakfast before my 8:30 class. It was a good opportunity, and I was glad to have met him since he's going to our church next in s'toon and I won't be there. Obviously.

So, since I was up at 6:30 and hadn't gone to bed until 12 the night before, for the first time in my life I struggled to keep my eyes open and stay away in class. It was spiritual formation, and it definitely wasn't a very interesting class. But I was totally on the verge of falling asleep, and I'm the type of person who has noo control over staying awake when I'm at the point of trying to keep my eyes open if I'm just sitting still. (If movies are playing past dark, I'm always falling asleep during them. I think I can thank my dad for this.)

Next weekend Heather and my mom and sister are coming to visit me! Yay! Heather's going to stay with me in the dorm and my mom and sister have a room at the spa! So pumped.

Anyway, not much else to report for the week. I just had my 8:30 class this morning, am chilling out until choir at 12:20, and then it's officially my weekend! I LOOVEE this long weekend every weekend business and am not exactly looking forward to having a Friday class next term. Oh well, it's apologetics. It's worth it. 

I'm looking forward to staying here this weekend and having some fun times with the people I've met. I have a LOT of homework and reading to do and get ahead on, but so far I've been doing okay with trying to balance locking myself up in my room to work and being social/having fun. I have realized though, that no matter how badly I wish I was able to just not finish the reading for the day or just not do the homework -- I am a true perfectionist. It's in my blood.

P.s. My car cost $300 to tow it back to s'toon, but only $500 to fix. The alternator was broken. I have no idea what that means (it continually recharges the car while it's running?), but if you do, that's great.