Week 1

So here are the first week in pictures, starting on Wednesday.

I woke up on Wednesday with pain in my left eye.  It hurt all around the eyelid and into the inside corner, so now I'm on the look out for pink eye.  Let's hope it is not coming for me.

Thursday morning was much worse.  I had stayed up until 3am working on a presentation about Bonhoeffer and Nazi Ethics for my Western Theological Traditions class.  Here I am at 7:30am getting up for class and freaking out about it.

I woke up today very happy!  Todd was getting me some breakfast and we are going to Red Wing today for just over a week.  I'm in the library right now watching Todd work and posting, while waiting for class to come and go so we can get on the road!  

So my week in pictures:  painful, scared, and very happy.  We'll see what next week brings.

Youth Ministry and A New Project

If I have to hear one more time that youth ministry is a slacker major, I may go balistic.  I work very hard at learning how to talk with youth and develop curriculum in the classroom while putting it into practice with internships and at Sojourner (my church).  People cannot learn the same thing I am learning in the classroom with a good internship.  Without some sort of committment to studying youth ministry's practice for three years of your life while emmersing yourself in a youth group to practice what you are learning, you will struggle in youth ministry.  Youth ministry is not something you can do just because you care about youth.  It is something you have to learn how to do, through study and practice.  

On a lighter note, I have a new project.  Until Todd and I get married, I am going to take a picture of myself everyday of my mood when I wake up and post them all at the end of the week.  I need something to distract me until I get married.  Here is one to get you started.

More BTS Fun

Brad Nassif is our prof for BTS Senior Seminar class.  He is a very intelligent man and I have a lot of respect for him.  I have not had a class with him before this semester, and he has impressed me with even the fact that he remembers my name.

The class was invited to his home on Sunday for dinner with him and his family.  They made wonderful middle eastern food and it was a great time to get to know Brad, his family, and classmates.  This post is really to highlight a certain event of that night.

Thanks to Katie Kuehn, Brad Nassif now knows how to say "What's up big pimpin'?  Balla!" with the appropriate head nod and hand symbols.  Just take a look at his picture above and imagine him saying such a thing.  And then having him say it again in class a day later.  Like I said, it was a highlight of my night.

Obama?

Really?