GREEK IS OVER.....THANK GODNESS!!!

Well....I've gotta be honest, I REALLY am happy that Greek is over! This was the most stressful, emotionally draining class I have ever taken! I am praying that this was the worse of my seminary days, but something tells me.....I'm in for a lot more. Besides....I still have to take Hebrew!!!

The Greek final was a take home exam. We were allowed to use all our helps...the Greek Lexicon, our textbook and lots of charts with verb tenses...one was even laminated. It STILL look me about 7 hrs to complete!! It was difficult, but I did take a few breaks just to remain sane! I left the main building after turning it in and yelled in the main quad! I dunno to who....I suppose just to Marty...the statue of Martin Luther that's in the main quad....who didn't answer...Thank goodness! We had a little get together last night to celebrate....I was the only one who wore a toga! Complete with a gold halo I made with ribbon!
Don't know what I made on the final yet...but I know I passed.

My prologue starts next week. I'll have 7 classes this Fall. My registration is on Tuesday. I actually already have homework for Prologue...but it's just a long article to read...not bad. My Greek professor will actually be my Christian History professor this Fall. I'm actually looking forward to her class; although she did require 6 different books for her class, so perhaps I'll be swallowing my words mid-term!

So I have posted a lot of new photos here. One is of a few students from my Greek class. The older gentleman is Don. He is from about an hr from here. He's a former FBI agent...so he has some cool stories!
The first set of pics are from the city of Galena, IL. About 25 minutes from campus. REALLY neat little town with a lot of history. The old little cabin is the birth place of one of our former president's,....Ulysses Grant. The red brick house with Green shutters is the home he actually lived in. The little trolley car is how I took a tour of the city. The White stone church with the red door is the church Grant used to attend when he lived here. The long stairway is the 2nd longest set of stairs in the United states and the cobble stone stairway is the longest and oldest road in the United states. Then the following pictures were from last weekend and this week. All the beautiful flowers were taken at Dubuque's Arboretum and a few shots I took downtown yesterday at the Riverwalk and then the cable car pics are from the Felenon Elevator; the story is the first Mayor of Dubuque in the 1800's wanted to be able to go home for lunch/dinner at noon everyday, but the problem is he worked downtown as a banker and lived over the high ridge. But it would take him over an hour by horse and buggy so he'd only have time to eat and have to head back...not giving him enough time to do his favorite thing after lunch/dinner...NAP! So he came up with the idea of building something that could take him over the mountain. THUS...many prototypes and years later people started paying to go over the mountain using his lift and the Felenon Elevator Company was born and is still used today; Mainly just for tourist now!

So I have a few more days of break before classes start. Plan on doing a few more cool things. It's been hard having this break not being able to go home to Dallas. Chatting online with my webcam to my best friend, Julie HELPS. More students have been arriving on campus. My neighbor moved back in today. His name is Rob, married, nice guy. I also met a few people from my Synod back home....but I'm terribly home sick! So...till next time, enjoy the pics. Peace and many blessings to all reading!