Weekly Schedule and Other Recent Activites

Here’s what I have going on this week:

Monday:

Writing About Literature – Reading

Tuesday:

Music Theory – Assignment

Wednesday:

Writing About Literature – Reading

Thursday:

Music Theory – Assignment

Friday:

Writing About Literature – Reading

Keep in mind that I have also been asked by my French Horn instructor to try to practice at least 30 minutes a day.

Anyhow, I went home again this weekend and got to go sledding on the hill of one of my friends’ house.  I got a mouthfull or so of the powdery snow, got to go flying down the slopes of the hill as speeds that I couldn’t even run, and it was a very relaxing activity.  After that, we watched The Iron Giant, played Catchphrase for a little while, and then watched The Princess Bride.

Oh, and I got to go to another friends’ house on Friday night before all of the snow started.  We played hide n’ seek for awhile until the two friends that I was playing with…well, let’s just say that they took a couple of years off of my life due to fright.  After that, we elected to play some Halo 2 against each other.

Ordinarily, I would probably be little panicked right now because I didn’t get much done this weekend, but I instead get the feeling that I needed the downtime.  Overall, as evidenced by my schedule, this week is going to be pretty uneventful, thankfully, so that will give me a chance to get ahead on writing my next essay for Writing About Literature and studying the Bible more.

Also, as a final note, I’ve picked up a couple of books from the library of the house that I live in.  One of them is called Be The Change by Zach Hunter, a 15-year-old Evangelical Christian who is spearheading an effort to end worldwide slavery and oppression.  Of course, the title definitely caught my attention since lately God has been teaching me that all the knowledge that I do have is useless unless I put it into practice in addition to helping me understand that while I can’t fix the many problems in our world that I observe, I can make a difference.

Secondly, I picked up Lee Strobel’s most recent work of journalism pertaining to Christianity, entitled The Case for the Real Jesus and, as usual with Strobel’s works, I’m just gobbling it up and enjoying it.

I really, really want to get some substantial work done for Kenushi Ryu soon, but I can’t make any guarantees.

Anyhow, that’s how I’m doing.  God bless!

SfC

The Last Few Days In Brief

This will just be a post where I catalog what I have been doing for the last couple of days.

On Thursday, I went up to my old high school to give a message at one of the Christian organizations that I participated in before I went to college.  In the process, I was asked to be a moderator and reader for a trivia team game that night, which I accepted.  So, I returned to my home until Thursday afternoon, at which point I returned to the high school to moderate for the game.  Overall, I enjoyed the experience.  One of the players on the teams I moderated for told me after the game, however, that I wasn’t a great moderator because I made quite a few mistakes in my pronunciations of different words (for a brief example, I pronounced Butane ‘but-ane’), but the same player told me that I was still a good moderator because I made people laugh.  While I am glad that my easy-going attitude counted for something, I am also resolved to be certain and review the questions more carefully the next time I am asked to help again.

Then, yesterday, my brother and sister-in-law were preparing to leave for my sister-in-law’s parents’ house, so by the encouragement of both of them (and my sister), I came with them and spent the night at their house.  In addition, I went to Friday Night, a youth gathering of my sister-in-law’s old youth group.  It was a very fun experience; they played several board games, did a race game with toddler-age wooden railroad tracks, and other various goofing and playing around.

Other than that, I’ve been playing my brother’s Gamecube for the last couple of days.  Having never owned a game system in my family (other than an old Atari, which does still work), I have spent the majority of the last couple of days playing either Mario Dance Dance Revolution or Super Smash Brothers Melee with them.  I have also read through a significant chunk of Eragon, in an attempt to finish it before I return to college.  I am also reading through the book of Luke in the Bible.

That is a pretty quick summary of my life for the last couple of days.

Have a great day!

SfC