Three busy days....

Tuesday, September 8
Thought I had to watch a video before MMC class on Wednesday...turns out I didn't, but at least I got it done that way. Entitled Empire of the Air, the two hour video outlined the history of radio especially in light of the lives of three of its main promoters. Right after I watched that was chapel.
This week was Spiritual Emphasis Week here, which meant we had an extra chapel Wednesday morning and the same speaker Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday. Her name is Margaret Fineberg, and she is a really good speaker. This week she talked about hearing God's voice. I enjoyed listening to what she had to say....now it's just the application part.......
The rest of the day was basically homework and my English Comp class. We didn't really get into any serious discussions that day. Lots of reading that afternoon/evening since I had spent most of my morning watching the video.
In the evening I had three back to back meetings for various CAUSE ministries...One is a Nature Society, which I think will be really fun! The other two were a community service group and a group to provide leaders for CEF Good News Clubs. I don't know which ones I'll really be active in...we'll just see how it all goes.

Wednesday, September 9
It rained off and on ALL day....definitely annoying and somewhat depressing. I ran in the morning. Three miles again, but in a MUCH better time! (30:10!!!!!) Because of the special chapel, all my classes were pushed an hour later than they normally are. So instead of finishing at four, I finished at five....I'm definitely glad that's not the case everyday!
My News Writing 1 professor returned the letters to the editor we had written. He didn't really really grade them...he just wanted to get a feeling for where we were at with our writing. He said mine was "pretty well written" even though he didn't agree with what I said.
After class I had 30 minutes before the BBQ back at the honors center. Sadly, I could basically only eat before I had to head to the cafeteria to work :P Working was a lot more fun this time though, for several reasons: 1) there were a lot of other student workers there too; 2) I was only working for two hours instead of five! 3) I was doing a great variety of things rather than spending most of the time on one job. One of the things I had to do was go get new ice cream tubs from the freezer room. This freezer room was FIFTEEN DEGREES!!!!!!!!!! I had to find four kinds of ice cream amidst dozens of tubs...all while trying not to touch the metal rack...I found and retrieved three without too much trouble, but the last one was back behind some others and really really hard to get out...it wasn't really as bad as I'm making it sound, but I was definitely ready to get OUT of there! When I came out into the warm steamy kitchen, my glasses clouded up really bad. I just took them off until they warmed up...next time I'm tempted to leave them outside the freezer room or something.......
I went with Shannon (my Ogroup leader) to the dodgeball tournament championship. Her boyfriend was on one of the teams, and his team won! :D That was fun....but I should have thought about doing homework before I went to see that....I wasn't late with anything, but it would have been better if I had worked on it some last night. I was tired though and didn't want to think about doing homework.

Thursday, September 10
This morning was kind of rough...it may have been partly due to a "hangover" from yesterday's cloudiness. I feel much better now. My RA Steffi is great...she could tell I wasn't really having a good day, so we ate lunch together and talked it over...basically it just registered in my brain today that my grandpa has cancer now....after my grandma died of it in July...and I was feeling helpless and not understanding why this was happening. I just needed someone to talk to about it. Before I did it was really weighing on my mind and I couldn't concentrate.
Classes and homework filled up the rest of the day...this evening we had a "hall dinner" but I could only stay for the first few minutes because then I had my first Worship Ministries Ensemble. It went ok...I don't really know what I'm doing yet though...it's a different style than I'm used to. Always before I have just read music when I play, but this time all I had was a chord chart...the teacher was very understanding that I was really new to all this. So hopefully it will get better...I just tried to do my best playing along by ear. She said I was doing great, but I don't think I really did all that well.
I finished up my homework for tomorrow...sometime tomorrow I need to start on my first real turn-in essay. It isn't due for at least another week, but I still want to get it going now. I work again tomorrow night...then Saturday will be a nice quite day off!!!!!