Greetings from pleasant 75-80 degree temps here in Dubuque today! I hear it is 100+ down in Dallas...NOT missing that, but man I do miss being home; especially on the weekends!
As of tomorrow, I'll be half way through my Greek classes. They say what we have learned in the last 3 weeks is equivalent to ONE SEMESTER of Greek....so NO WONDER WHY MY HAIR SEEMS TO BE GREYING FASTER....and I am n0w officially going INSANE! I can't help it....now when I read something, my brain starts analyzing whether I know the words in Greek and starts parsing it! (Parsing is what we do to figure out the tense and case of nouns and verbs...to figure out how to read it!) Each Summer Greek class have T-shirts made usually with something Greek on it to remember going through all this. As a class, we decided, to write in Greek, "If you can read this, you feel my pain in Summer Greek!" One of the guys in my class came up with the idea and is designing the shirt, which I will proudly wear once I get through all this.....which I am feeling more confident that I will. They say Hebrew is much worse, which is not till Spring semester. Not looking forward to that either!
I started my part time job yesterday at State Farm. All I'm doing is making phone calls asking people if they'd like a free auto insurance rate quote. Some people hang up on me, some say they already have State Farm, some actually want a quote. It's easy money and literally 2 minutes from my campus, so I can't complain. While the pay isn't great...its better than nothing.
It's actually nice to get off campus and do something OTHER than studying Greek which is all...or at least it feels that way. I'll kind of be glad when Fall semester starts so I'll have some other stuff to do.
Summer Greek ends on September 2nd, then I'm off until September 8th. On the 8th Prolog starts and then classes start on September 11th. I will be taking 7 classes this Fall, with no classes on Friday and I also won't be working on Fridays....which is SWEET! Nice long weekends to recuperate from the weekend and just relax. Makes me wish I lived a tad bit closer so I could go home on the weekends; Many students do that. Unfortunately, don't have that luxury! I will be going back to Texas for sure in December to attend a Candidacy retreat; it's required by my Candidacy committee, but I'm just glad I get to be home for Christmas and New Years with my friends and church family. I wouldn't want to stay up here for 2+ weeks during the holidays. I do hope to go home to see my family in North Carolina for Thanksgiving. But we'll see.
Speaking of family, my baby sister, Myra is getting married on April 17th, so I have another wedding to be in. Not looking forward to the expense, but I'm glad I'm in her wedding. Argelia, my former SLAVE DRIVER is also getting married around that same time, but she and her fiance haven't made any real concrete plans yet.
Well...gotta run back to class. Many blessings to all! PEACE!
Enjoy the pleasant 75-80 degree temps while you have them. In a month or two those temperatures will be considered a heat wave. The temperature in Cairo actually dropped to 80 degree the other night which was a relief. The A/C in my van is on the blink which sucks.
ReplyDeleteYou'll have to give me the lowdown on Hebrew. Once we get to Israel I'll most likely try to learn the basics since we'll be there for three years. Egypt hasn't been too bad so far but I'm ready to go.
Is your Mom still living in Fayetteville? Tell your sister I said congrat's.