Saturday, 24 August 2013

Hey guys,
So this is the closest thing to free time that I can foresee so I'll just talk about the important things and then I will fill in the gap at some stage when I can.

Okay so we have started classes, in fact we just finished our second week. So the people are so fantastic, I have made so many new friends (never forgetting my old ones of course).To start with, the two girls I have in my apartment, Katey and Megan. I laughed so hard this week I chocked twice within the time span of about twenty minutes. Katey is in a room by herself, she is so sarcastic and it is hilarious because only like four people get her, I think she fantastic. And then there is Megan, what to say about her?? She's my roommate, she's so sweet and funny and the more you get to know her the crazier she gets. She allows me to play music right before we sleep and will set her alarm even she's not the one who has to get up. Then everybody else, we have 45 students this year, one from South Africa, one from Austria, one from Scotland, two from Mexico and two fantastic girls from NZ ;P  We've only know each other two weeks but it already feels like years. The environment is wonderful, so many like minded kids all together. We're a singing class, so I'm stoked.

Then there is the classes, which I am loving. This term I have New Testament with Gibby, he's really funny in a quiet sort of way, then Historical Christian Evidences with a teacher who talks a mile a minute, it's all really good stuff.  That's Monday and Wednesday. On Tuesday and Thursday I have Katey's dad in the mornings teaching Old Testament. He has his daughter's sense of humour. In the afternoons we have Pat, whose mission in life is to get us all (mostly but not always girls) to cry in every class and he teaches The Life of Christ. About that, I cried his first class because he was all "home is really far away isn't it?" staring straight into my eyes, it's okay though, he told Megan it wasn't about her. His classes have so many emotions in them, one second he's telling a joke and then he's making us sad, we're exhausted by the end of the day. Friday's we have Kris Smith, who is teaching us stuff, I'm not a hundred percent sure, we've only had him twice. The first week he talked about Philippians and this last week there wasn't enough time for his class because at the moment he is sharing that half day with Chris Jo, the counselor. Kris does all like the speeches and stuff. He talks about keeping our attitudes in check and giving second chances ( we haven't had any problems but some of the houses have), he's really funny too. He'll be talking and add in something really crazy into what he's saying but he'll do it in a very discrete way, he uses "poof" a lot and something dramatic will happen. It's funny. I am really loving all these classes, because you can tell the teachers really care and have a passion for what they are teaching. It's so refreshing and they all care about us too. I am however struggling with the thought of having them in more than one concept, because when I was five, I decided all teachers were robots so it just doesn't fit my mold.

So today there was a youth rally for the church of Christ kids all around Texas and a few from New Mexico. I have never seen so many church of Christ teenagers in one room in my life. It was fantastic. The room was so big that there were like two different timings for the song and exciting, Duran the Acapella group preformed tonight. However today on the way to the conference a kid who got into a car crash and died, his name was Caleb, so can you please pray for comfort for his family at this time.

So on that rather sad note, I had better hop off to bed because electronic curfew is almost upon us and I have to wake up at six in the morning to go to my area church, we'll talk about that later. And while you have that on your mind, I thought I should tell you I have been renamed Suzanna, those two things fit in together.

Good Night

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