Wow!!!

It's been a LONG time since I last posted on here! There's so much that happened, that I don't remember most of it, but I'll give it a shot!

I think most of you already know that I started school at the New Tribes Bible Institute in Jackson, MI, and I'm staying with David and Terry McClintic, some of my cousins. So far that's all going great. I have lots of homework, but so far it hasn't been too stressful =). I just got back some of my final grades for three of my classes, and so far I'm not doing too badly. The way the classes are set up we have the same three classes five days a week for three weeks, and then we move on to the next set of classes. So I'm already into the second set of classes, and those all end this coming Thursday. The teachers are all really nice, very helpful, and all, but I'm starting to wear out, and I've started zoning out during class. Hopefully I'll have a nice restful weekend, and be able to concentrate this coming week.

This week we didn't have much homework due, but we have a lot that will be due the beginning of this next week, so I spent most of yesterday working on one of the papers that's due Wednesday. It's actually not too hard to write, but after sitting all morning long for classes I get kind of sick of sitting around working on homework. But I usually do most of my homework at the school, because it's easier to concentrate, so I write for a while and then visit the gym next door for a few minutes, and that helps a lot. I spent all day yesterday at the school trying to finish one of my papers, and I had gone and done some other stuff, and when I came back in there was this other guy, Tim, in there studying too. Apparently I didn't make enough noise when I came in, so I was sitting there working away when Tim let out this absolutely huge belch! I thought about saying something, and decided not to, since he didn't seem to care if I heard him or not, and then he got up to leave the room, and realized I was in there, and got really embarrassed, and told me to throw something at him next time =).

Hmm, what else is happening?? I don't know! Most of my life is filled with school these days, so that's about all I have to talk about! Oh!!! I just remembered something that one of my teachers said today that I thought brought a really hilarious picture to mind. My mind anyway... OK, so he was talking about charismatic practices, and his description of some of their activities was that of a "jumping spider on a hot tin roof." I thought that was pretty good! I about died trying not to explode into laughter in the middle of class. Not very many people seemed to catch on to his comparison, so there were only a few of us that were laughing over that one. The teacher, Butch, has a very dry, sarcastic, sense of humor, and if you aren't listening very closely for it, you can very easily miss it.

Well, I really can't think of much else to say, so I guess that's it. I'll try to remember to post more often though.