College classes, day one

I finally started classes today. My roommate and I have been getting along more, as we slowly get used to each other. What can I say, we're guys, we don't just go hug and start talking about everything we can think of right off the bat. It'll come in time though.

Today I had to set up a stand for a pro-life group that I am the webmaster of at a student involvement fair. I was the only board member of the club that could make it there during the setup time, so I got drafted/I volunteered. However, what I failed to remember was how soon my first class, elementary French, started after the involvement fair began. My replacement came, and after getting him some much needed info from our website, I checked my schedule and realized I was already about 15 minutes late for my French class. Oops.

Luckily, I apologized to the teacher after class, and she was okay with that lateness because I had a good excuse. However, I am more afraid of taking French now. The teacher plans on speaking in French for most of the class. I have ZERO French experience. She seems very nice though, so I'm still hoping for the best.

Second class, mythology, was good. It's non-Western (i.e. no Greek or Roman) and it's a large lecture class, with 100+ people. However, I managed to participate a fair amount because really, everyone has thoughts, they're just too afraid to say them. Heck, we got asked what we thought someone who had seen God would say what He looked like, and someone suggested "Like Willie Nelson." You know that kid will get a good participation grade.

That's all the classes I had so far, but tomorrow will be much bigger. I have intermediate programming, French again, Social Psychology, and Creative Writing. The programming language is C++, which I never was too good with, so it kind of looks like I'm learning two languages this semester, haha. I'm worried about creative writing though. The syllabus says we'll probably have to write about what scares us, and, well, I'm scared to do that.

Quick update

Sorry I haven't been updating, life has been trying to make up for the fact that I leave for college and schoolwork in less than a week. So, a quick series of updates.

Cats suck. Being allergic to cats sucks even more. It feels good to go on runs again. Superbad was SUPERAWESOME! Except for the bum reel our theatre got. For about three minutes, the screen would go sporadically dark green, and the sound would drop out. We have a new reel that was sent to us now though. Velvet Marauder is awesome and addicting superhero goodness. I need to find a copy of C.S. Lewis' "The Great Divorce," because not only did Ariel recommend it, but I also randomly found a review of it in a blog of one of VM's commentors. Two coincidences means I'm probably meant to read it.

Only two more work shifts and then my summer is free until I'm back up at school.

If you're really starved for forgiveness writing, I found a blog post about forgiveness. It takes a view of God's forgiveness in a different way that you don't really see too often.