Thinkingness

It's been a while since I blogged. School is going well....I'm taking History of growth in Christianity, Spiritual Formation and the Church, Intro to the New Testament, Psychology and Intro to Theology. All my classe are going well, although theology is definately not my favourite course. The teacher is kind of a weirdo and for some weird reason likes to be up at 8:00 in the morning...which is when that class is! Ha! go figure! That is when Swim team actually gets out too and so it is a little bit of a rush to get from the pool to class in relatively decent time. One of my friends brings me some snacky food from the dining hall breakfast menu so that is awesome. I actually get to eat before noon!! Yay! The toss up for my fav classes is definately between History and Spiritual formation. Just because I actually get my history fix with that class, but spiritual formation is designed to really help you grow and mature as a Christian and the discussions are very interesting to have. We talked about prayer and solitude in today's class and it is really cool. We also talked about the difference between relationship and religion dealing with Jesus and what the difference between having a relationship with him is and just participating in an organized 'religion'. Oh my gosh, it is a lot of fun. My history class is actually a 200 level course so it's a little intimidating to have juniors and seniors in this class that I am in. There are sophomores too...but they are older. There is also a lot of married students in the class so mostly I stay quiet, and try to understand what the teacher is saying. It's cool though b/c a couple of the ppl in my class are good friends of Carm's so I'm not so frustrated about being the youngest.
We had our first extension of the new year in Bow Island last weekend. It was a VERY long drive and really exhausting and frustrating but a good time.....I liked being able to connect more with the ppl on the choir and it's so much fun travelling with Jubilation(the instrumental group) that goes a long with us. We have some pretty sweet tunes with them and they are all AMAZING instrumentalists. But we lost some ppl from them, like the electric guitarist, and a couple trumpet players. We managed...but it was weird not having them here.
I'm doing ok spiritually. God has been teaching me a lot over Christmas holidays and over the last few weeks here. I am trying to branch out and get to know some more ppl on campus and choir is helping a lot with that. I'm excited for my next extension but also frustrated because I won't get to go home until at least the middle of February...which is annoying. But that's the way it goes I guess. I have a meeting with the CEF person here in Three Hills tomorrow and we're going to meet for coffee or talking or something. I'm not exactly sure what's going to go on with that. But anyways, I'm going to go get some more studying done. Hasta luego mi amigos. El Dios Bendice!

God Bless 2007

Good morning/afternoon/evening and I hope that everyone has now embraced the year of 2007 and is not messing up too much when writing down the dates of the year. I thought that it would probably be a good thing to kind of go over how Christmas/New Years/Birthday went for me this year.
I finished my last exam on December 14th...hallelujiah! Praise the Lord! And promptly came home and spent a delightful first night away from school with my head in the toiler. And no, I was not drunk. The flu is a nasty little bug that should die a painful death! Got all the needed Christmas shopping done in Red Deer on the 18th, which was a monday with my sis Carmen. It was fun since we hadn't been able to really hang out for a while so the drive was fun. Tuesday she left with Barry to go to Melfort Saskatchewan to spend Christmas with his family and left little Jeff and I home with mom and dad. Sam finally made it home on the 24th and was around until the 26 when she had to go back to work. The Holloway family Christmas which is usually on boxing day didn't happen this year. Mom was stressed out enough as it was and didn't want the hassel of preparing the house for the presence of some 30+ people. So most of the holidays were spent relaxing and enjoying the company of just family. Carmen and Barry made it home on the 27th and opened their presents and stockings when they got back. On the 29th we went over to Vern and Peggy's and enjoyed a night of pool and games. It was nice to visit with everybody.The 30th brought the Pratt family Christmas around which was VERY layed back with about 15 of us. The reason there are so many Holloway's that usually come is b/c dad has 7 siblings and about 14 cousins, plus their spouses and kids, so ALOT of people. Mom just has a brother and a sister and none of their kids are married so it's a lot more relaxed.
New Years eve(which was also my 19th b-day!! Woot woot!!)with the Richardson's coming over for dinner and spending the afternoon with us just visiting and playing games. They are always a nice family to have over, but they left at 5 along with Carm and Barry who went over to a friend's house to ring in the new year. Oh! I should mention that Sam made it back on the 29th and left after dinner on the 31st to go to work.
And that brings us up to date for the time being. Back to school on Tuesday the 9th and there's a group of us that are hoping to go to Red Deer I think that night to be able to spend some time with the Explore/Discover people who are leaving on the 12th for Montana and Guatemala respectively. I will add some more about what's going on at school when it actually starts again. Anyways, have an awesome time in the beginnings of this new year, and God Bless!!
Love you all!! :)