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.