Frustrating!

Stupid Computer won't let me upload any pictures! Ahhhhh!

It is Official

So up here at school it has been great. I have made some good friends and become connected in the community here in the dorms. The major role that lead to this was Sean and Jesse, my Corefa’s (Core Facilitator), or small group leaders. They are the leaders of our men’s bible study group in the dorm. CCF (Campus Christian Fellowship) is the club behind the groups here on campus. They have been around for almost 40 years and are very well grounded. To be a corefa there is a long process that involves being recommended by your present corefa, long application forms, an interview and to take a Discipleship class that they put on that goes for Winter and Spring Quarter.

As some of you know, I had expressed an interest in being a CoreFa next year. Beginning about midway through Fall quarter I began thinking about this and God has definitely led me in coming to my decision. All the complications and fears I have had He has addressed and given me confidence in Him.

So about 4 weeks ago, I decided I wanted to do it and began the application process. There was an application form that was most definitely the longest form I have ever filled out in my life and it involved a lot of questions regarding my spiritual life, past present and foreseeable future.
I had an interview and then yesterday I got an email informing me that I have been excepted (or whatever they call it). So next year I will be a CoreFa here in Eden’s Hall. It is a little overwhelming but it will be a great growing experience. The other corefa, (the one I will be co-leading with) in Edens is James Tomlinson, a guy I know from Core this year. We are very very different but hopefully we can each play to our strengths and let the other take up our weaknesses.

If good things lasted forever, would we appreciate how precious they are?

Cinco de Mustache

Yesterday was Cinco de Mayo and as well as the wonderful celebration of Cinco de Mustache. All the guys from the core (who could) have been growing out their beards and yesterday we all shaved and had mustaches. It was pretty silly looking. We went out to dinner and a Mexican restaurant and it was pretty sweet, well, actually it was spicy but who cares! Those who couldnt grow any type of facial hair or choose not to were allowed to participate by wearing stickon facial hair. It was a blast and the food was amazing!

Classes

Classes! Wow, well this quarter I am what you might call a procrastinator. Thats right, I am putting off the work. Really the only one that will come back to bite me is the ETEC class.

For Dad, who wanted to know the projects, we have two in that class.
The personal one is to reverse engineer a kenetic flashlight and model it on Catia with some improvments. Then do a whole report on it.

The team project, to create an ergonomic hand tool is great in that we can actually make it but the usefulness is kind of low on my list. Just to clarify, you are assigned teams and you have to work on that team. Your grade is based on a lot of your team project. My team members are not interested and I have to keep dragging them around to get them to do anything. So, because of the apathy of my team, our project is quite simple. We are designing a money clip with a built in bottle opener that conforms to your body. It is a cool idea but I don't use a money clip or a bottle opener so that is annoying. Anyhow, those are the projects. Both are do in less then 5 weeks and I haven't even started modeling either of them. Ahhhh!

That's about it from up here. The weather is getting really nice and I don't have to have my jacket zipped up all the time. :)

Week 5

Ha! This is the 5th week of the Quarter! Do you know what that means! It means that there is only half a quarter left in my first year at college. Wow! It has gone by quickly.

Spring has come!

Spring has come and with it beautiful days. The days are still cold but the skies are getting bluer and the clouds are running. Last Saturday a group of us went out to Lummi Island. It was actually petty boring but being with friends was still enjoyable.



Time to lay back and smell the flowers.







Tyler, Chris, Jon, Levi, Sarah and Genna. It was cold and windy but you could see all the mountain ranges in stark contrast. It was beautiful.
We had a long wait for the bus ride back so skipping rocks (and other things) filled our time.
Jon was stoned.

The Ultimate Viking Challenge (Day 1)

The Ultimate Viking Challenge (UVC) was last night. Teams of 4, two girls and two guys, compete in different challenges to be the Ultimate Vikings.
I did this competition with Sean Edwards, Kelsey Hinde and Anna Holt. It was really fun.
There are five events in the challenge, three on the first day and 2 on the second.

There is Power ball, a fast game where you try to run a ball and dunk it into a trashcan while 3 large football players try to knock you away from it with large pads. It was a blast.
The second event was The Joust, an inflatable jumping gym where you stand on a small circular section of the inflated thing and try to knock the other guy off with a giant padded quarter staff.
The last one was the Pull and Plunder, one on one tug of war in which you try to get to a rag that seems to be just out of reach.
Unfortunately, the person in charge of taking photos did a rather poor job and didn't get that many of the competition. Here are the ones he did get. Also, the second day is two weeks from now and includes an obstacle course and flipping an 800 pound tire.

Left to right,
1)Ben, Will, Chris, Jon, Brooks, DK
2)Levi, Mike, Sean
3)Brooks pulling and others
4) Nicole pulling, Jesse on left, then Sarah then Kelsey in black ninja suit and Sean on right
5)Group photo with multiple teams. Don't know everyone.