Alberta Bound...

In actuality I'm not Alberta bound, I'm Alberta stuck. So far I have been back in Canadia for three weeks, and it's been a doozy. Before coming back to school, I drove all the way to California with my dad, which was a great trip by itself. I then got to spend a couple days hanging out with my sister who happened to be ridiculously fat. We went to the beach a couple times where I got to swim in the ocean!!! Drank some good coffee (does this ever not happen in my life?), rode my bike up a crazy steep and twisty mountain road (trust me, I am out of shape), and just relaxed with my prego sister. Thursday morning I flew out at 4:30 in the A.M. so of course at four o'clock we got a call saying my sister was in the hospital having a baby! Suffice to say I stopped by the hospital on my way to the airport to say, "hi, bye, have fun having a baby"...and promptly flew off into the sunrise.

Arriving in Thrills (Three Hills, Alberta), I quickly got wrangled into dinner at a friend's house (she makes a mean white sauce), and started to unpack. On Saturday morning the party started, about a hundred freshman piled into dorms and quickly discovered the realities of Prairie life. We spent the weekend pretending it was summer camp, playing games, doing some worship, and generally partying hard. After that it was an intense two weeks of class, the freshman doing Bible 101 while most of the upperclassmen who had made it were in Leadership Foundations for five and a half hours a day. Btw, my sister had a terribly handsome baby arrive eighteen hours after I left California...he definitely got his shockingly attractive blue eyes from me :p



This week we got to chill out over the weekend and then tackle regular classes. I have been leading an Impact Group, which is a heck of a lot of responsibilty, but also a great opportunity to invest in my guy's lives. They are all pretty stellar and ready to become authentic men following Christ this year. Just for kicks (and mostly for money) I decided to get a job this year. I was originally lined up to work in house keeping, but God in his infinite wisdom pulled together a job at the library for me at the last second which will be much better for maintaining my mental health as I try to do far too much in far too little time.

On the health note, about a week and a half before I left, the doctor had me start a new diet, which is really helping me. I went from functioning at around sixty percent to being more like eighty five or ninety percent. It is however interesting eating tofu hotdogs, vegi burgers, and soy cheese pizza. For being such a tiny college I'm amazed at the flexibility and creativity of the dining hall staff in feeding me.

That being that, I'd just shout out "keep it rock'n, later ya'll!"