Merry Christmas Eve

I just love Christmas time. :)

It's especially great this year because being at home is an extra privilege instead of just normal routine. I've been to two parties, one with my friends from high school and one with some old quizzing friends and a friend or two from Briercrest. It's so fun seeing everyone again and hanging out. It's also kind of interesting because you can totally tell we're getting to be more like adults. Our parties consist of standing around, eating food, and talking...playing a bit of games too.

Last night a few friends and I went through the enchanted forest. We paid 20 bucks to go through the forestry farm which was set up with the same displays that there has been for the past 5 years. But it was still worth it. I love Christmas lights.

Teagan and I have been wrapping presents and putting them under our tree. Our fake tree. Christmas tree branches should not be able to bend in order to have the ornaments hang better.

Tonight is the Christmas Eve service. It really is one of my favourite parts of Christmas, even though the Christmas songs that are sung are always way too high. So either I sing opera style, low and manly, or random lines of harmony that I can actually find. But, they still sound pretty, the atmosphere is always so exciting and wonderful, and it means that tomorrow is Christmas morning! Wow. It really doesn't feel like Christmas Eve. But I will welcome it anyway!

Free Like a Bird!!

I wrote my last exam this morning, took my stuff to my car, ate lunch, and headed off with Jireh for home! I'm so excited that term one is over and that I'm home for three full weeks! Three cheers for freedom!

The past week of studying, hanging out, and exam writing has been really good. I finally feel like I'm getting a consistent/core group of friends at school, and we're getting to know some of the guys on our brother hall really well, too. We went to the spa with them a couple nights ago and to BP's, and on Sun. night we were going to play board games, but that turned into sharing our testimonies, which was very cool. We've been having lots of fun girl time lately too. On Sat night we watched Stepmom and three out of the four of us were sobbing. :) On Sunday afternoon we watched Pearl Harbor, and throughout the week we've been doing some studying together. It has been a really balanced past couple of weeks regarding socializing and studying; it's been great!

On Wednesday I wrote Old Testament and Spiritual Formation. OT was brutally hard with way too many specific details and random questions. But everyone felt that way and I still think I did well, so I don't feel so bad. Spirit form. was really easy and I pretty much felt like I aced it. This morning was Pauline Epistles and I pretty much have never had to work so hard for an exam in my entire life. As far as reviewing went, the profs words were, "Anything in Paul's letters are fair game." Hah. Thanks, Carl. That totally narrows it down. He ended up giving us about 30 principle passages to know, but pretty much I had to studying every topic according to it's chapter and have a general sense of some verses that were under each heading in every letter. It was hard work, but very cool that I was just studying scripture the whole time and now I have a very good sense of what exactly is in each of Paul's letters and where to find it. It ended up being much easier than I was expecting, (I went into the exam with the impression that the prof was insane and would pull random verses out and expect us to tell him where it was - a skill that he has spent his whole life obtaining and wanting us to get in a couple of days) and I was happy with how I did (we marked the objective questions in class). However, if I would have spent some more time on some of the questions and thought more carefully/thouroughly I could have done even better.

All in all, it was a good wrap up to my first term. I said good-bye to people and was happy to be heading out of there for a good, long, relaxing Christmas break.

I love Christmas.

Countdown is On

I forgot how much I enjoy being on the go all the time and always having something to do or be involved with. The musical weekend was busy...and fantastic! So fun! I got a little sick of the songs by the end of it, but now I miss it. Everything went very smoothly and it was all in all an exciting experience. :)

On Sunday night we had a dorm date with our brother hall. We dressed like people from the 80's and then did a Richard Simmons work out video. It was hilarious. Then we made gingerbread men and just hung out for a good 3 hours. 

Tomorrow is my last day of classes and then the countdown is officially on. (Well, I guess it's been on for a while.) I started studying yesterday for my three exams that aren't until next week, then I write them, and then I'm home for 3 weeks. Heather and Matt are coming to visit me on Monday too because Matt's just getting home from BC on Saturday and he wants to see Briercrest. It should be a fun week and a half, well, it either has potential to go very slowly or very quickly. Hopefully the latter. 

Welcome to Patawash!

Monday officially started my week of Musical overload - but I'm loving it! They had a 5 hour technical rehearsal that the choir was allowed to watch since it would be the only time we would see it from the front of the cast. And then last night we had our first all out rehearsal. Tonight is the second act, tomorrow night is the whole thing, and the Friday the real games begin! I am actually so pumped! 

I finally feel like I have something to do! A friend just asked what I was doing tonight other than choir, I said, "Ha. There is no other than choir this week." It's so true. From 6:00-10:00 tonight I am in the chapel, dressed in my black and white that I just flippin' washed to have them ready for the actual thing not realizing I had to wear them all week too, sitting-standing-singing-sitting, etc., and enjoying every minute of it. :)

I am so weird. 

ps. I think the snow is finally here to stay. I woke up this morning to the sound of a snow scraper machine thingy and knew it had snowed again. It's cold today. Welcome back Saskatchewan.