LE Troisième SEMAINE (and the result of drinking iced coffee)

You'd think after the week of french hell I've had that I'd be pretty sick of the language (referring to the title). I spent 4 hours on Tuesday finishing the online french homework, I found on Wednesday I only needed to do half of what I did, and yesterday morning I wrote a paper a two page paper completely in french about a french poem. But I actually really do enjoy the course and the professor is very nice.

But enough complaining and whining because I procrastinated...now for the good stuff. I LOVE COLLEGE!! I don't know why, I just do. This week felt so much easier than the last couple, of course I'm sure the fact this week was only 4 days helped. Even when the classes annoy me or when there's a lot of homework, I love it (which is a HUGE blessing). Even in mythology when the subject matter kind of scars me for life. That class, my history class, and the honors seminar, I more or less travel with the same group of kids. We've kind of developed a sense of comradeship (is that even a word?)...is a fun group of people and we all get along really well, even when debating about stuff. Ya know?...come to think of it, I don't think I've had a bad day since I got up here.

This is really my first weekend on my our, for the most part, since getting here. So far, and it's only Saturday, it's been AWESOME!! I got up when I wanted, 10:30ish, I explored a little bit and discovered one of the most awesome places on campus. Market Street at MacCracken, it's like an on campus grocery store and really close to where I live. This place has everything, even french cheese. I literally spent ten minutes walking around with my eyes wide and mouth open. It even had food and drink that Walmart didn't. It was just awesome...I might just have to make it a weekly visit. Then, after eating the lunch I got from MacCracken, I went to Tuffy's and got an iced coffee (which is probably why I've been dancing around the hallways, writing in caps and the reason I'm feeling so enthousiastic right now...SO HYPER RIGHT NOW!!!). I think I need to be cut off...

Okay prayer requests: That my cousin would stop being in pain, Poppy would get more work, that I would start being more productive, for my roomie and her airforce physcial thingy today, for my buddy Emily that she would adjust quickly and well to the college life.

Praises: I ENJOY COLLEGE!!! and EVERYTHING ELSE GOOD THAT HAS HAPPENED!!!

....wow maybe I shouldn't drink coffee before/while blogging...hmm

I never was very good at keeping a diary...

Well sorry this has taken so long folks, basically week two kicked my butt. Thank God for three day weekends.

Week two was exhausting. Two papers and about fifty billion pages of reading took a lot out of me. Almost made me never want to read again. It was a bit of a rude awakening, week one was just an introduction and the rest of the year will be more like last week. My work ethic is really sucking right now, I keep procrastinating and it's biting me in the butt (having to stay up late and get up early to get stuff done).

I've already had my faith "challenged". In my history class, the professor basically our class that the Bible can't possibility be an accurate source...I beg to differ. Then in my mythology class we discussed the supposed different accounts of the creation of man/woman in Genesis. First of all, I didn't appreciate discussing the Bible in a mythology class, as if it were mythology. Second of all during the discussion when I said I didn't see it as two different accounts, but as one just providing more description than the other. The professor replied, "You're only seeing it that way because you don't want to see it the other way". I was kind of taken back and thought for a minute and said to myself (not out loud) "yeah pretty much". In my journalism class our professor asked us if there was right and wrong and if people should be punished for using other people's research and not siting them. ONLY FIVE OF TWENTY PEOPLE IN THAT CLASS SAID THERE IS RIGHT AND WRONG AND THERE SHOULD BE PUNISHMENT!! I was absolutely shocked...there is right and there is wrong, just as there's black and white. I really couldn't believe it.

Prayer requests: that I have more energy this week, that I keep my faith strong, that my work ethic would improve, for my family, for my poppy to get more work....and I know this is kinda lame, but for Reds' pitcher Micah Owings, that he would be healed of his head injury/ear injury (after getting hit by a pitch) and that he wouldn't lose faith (Micah is one awesome dude, check out his blog if you get the time)

Praises: that school is going well and going fast, that I'm getting along well with my roomie, and my cousin's boyfriend got a job...and for just about every thing :)