Greetings everyone reading!
Sorry for my delay. Been a tough week of Greek. We are now into dissecting Participles....I.E...creating sentences direct from the New testament...part of which the words aren't even there! This process is quite difficult for me since, I am a VERY visual learner! If it's NOT ON THAT PAGE...I'M NOT GOING TO TRANSLATE IT!!!! But it's all a process and I've only got 3 more test (other than tommorrow's) BEFORE I'm all done! THANK GOD!!! I have started discussing to several of my classmates, that we ought to have a celebration...a party at the end of everything. I was thinking TOGA, TOGA...seems to go with the Greek theme, but all I got were "deer in the headlights" look when I mentioned it!!! So I may just drag a few people who hang around on the weekends and have a smaller get together in a few weeks. We'll see!
So. Last Friday, I invited everyone in my class to come join me for a cookout to celebrate being half way through Greek. Only 3 of us were there; my classmates, Shannon, Lee & I. Lee had bratwurst, while Shannon and I grilled steaks and had some baked potatoes and even grilled some asparagus. It was quite the feast! It was the closest I felt like I had to a REAL home cooked meal since I'd been here...so I enjoyed EVERY BITE! We then hung down there and played my favorite card game, Phase 10, until a few other students came around and then we just started chatting about Greek and school stuff. So we all sat around just chatting about our homes and drinking a few beers. It was fun.
Saturday, slept in and really didn't do much of anything. Went to swim at the Y and just relaxed most of the day. I did start working on my Greek vocabulary for the this week. Then I got a text message from Darrell & Julie back home that my precious God Daughter started walking, but of course, they couldn't get their web cam to work, so I haven't seen it LIVE, but Julie did send me a video of her walking that I have watched over and over again. Just makes me want to drive home now to play with her!
Sunday, I went to the last of the 5 ELCA churches in this area. I went to St. Peter's Lutheran. The church is beautiful, has some very friendly people and the important thing...they have coffee after the service (If you're Lutheran - you UNDERSTAND how important that is!!!) The Pastor's sermon was very good and I really enjoyed it. It to me was the closest to "feeling" like home, so I'll probably be going back. NOT to mention, they have a few corn farmers who are members there who sells the corn after the service...once he found out I was a student at Wartburg, he allowed me to take 2 huge bags home. So I cooked me some corn for dinner on Sunday. IT WAS DELICIOUS!!!! I can still taste it. I think I still have some more downstairs in the kitchen (in the dorm basement). It really doesn't need much butter or salt. It's just so naturally good!
Thanks to my home church, I was able to buy my books for this Fall. Quite a different experience from the last time I was in school!!! My campus closed down its bookstore, so you have to order ALL your textbooks online. I found a few websites where pricing was better than the suggested Amazon site, so I decided to do that. But then the bank thought someone had stolen my credit card since I had all these charges hitting at once....so that was a quite a mess to clear all up...but I should be getting all my books before my Fall semester classes start.
My Fall semester looks pretty cool. I'm actually looking forward to everything EXCEPT the Greek...yes, I'll have 2 hours of translating in the Greek New Testament this Fall....YEAH! (that was sarcasm in case you missed that!) The rest of my classes seem quite interesting. Spiritual Practices & Foundations of the church just to name a few. And the best thing about this Fall...NO CLASSES ON FRIDAYS!!!!! That is AWESOME! That means a long weekend, every weekend! So I am pretty excited about that!
My part time job at State Farm is going ok. It's not all that exciting, but the schedule is quite flexible, I can wear what I want and it is literally 7 minutes from campus. I can actually see the Campus Tower from the office at State Farm PLUS I am getting a discount on some insurance for working there, so I may switch insurance companies.
My eyes are doing ok. My vision is definitely NOT better, but the haziness, fogginess is gone. My vision just seems to come and go; where I just have occasional blurred vision. I actually go tomorrow for a follow up appointment. I'm just glad they were able to figure out what it was before it got worse.
So I think that's about all I have to report for now. I am venturing off campus this weekend to explore a few new places that my former associate Pastor Jill told me about. I've started making a list of a few places nearby to go check out. So I'll let ya'll know how all that goes. I will post my pics from the Retreat Center and hopefully some new ones this weekend. Peace, many blessings and LOVE to all reading.
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