Oh how I wish for some silence!

What a day, oh what a day! Somehow I've ended up extremely tired, yet I only had one class today. Go figure. This one class though depleted my spirits of being a person. Yes, sounds harsh, but this man was mean. He is my Photography Appreciation teacher and today he lectured for over an hour about how we aren't trying hard enough, and we need to study at least six hours a week on line and black and white photos, etc. etc. He then went on to state that the U.S. is Goliath and the Japenese are David and they will overcome us. What the heck!? Way to tear me down and tell me i'm terrible! Then he adds, "I'm not trying to make you guys feel bad. Don't take it harshly..." YES SIR...=/ riiiiiiiight. To top things off, he hands us back our first projects and a quiz today and I am at 92.5 points out of 100 in the class. I'm only in school like a month, and I have an A-. Usually this is by all means nothing to fret on, but in his class, you start with 100 and only go down. there is no such thing as gaining points back or anything. I'm screwed...

Well anyway, last night I realized, this is not the school for me, no matter who says what or what everyone thinks God is telling me. I took a step back, took away the people, drinking, cliques, classes, and anything else, and just looked at what was in front of me. This does not feel like a "comfortable" atmosphere, or like my home away from home. The instant I'm here, I want to return back to home. Besides me and a very few others of my friends, I've noticed that they LIKE where there are...should that not be the same everywhere? I'll answer my own question and say heck yes! So I don't know when, I don't know where, and I don't exactly know anything (haha) but I will sometime switch in my four years.

Invervarsity (on campus church organization) was extremely uplifitng as usual tonight. This is my favorite thing of the week because I get to be with people like me who are nice and friendly, and don't form those cliques like everyone else. (FYI: that's the reason I want to go to a Christian school...everyone around you is like my intervaristy large group!) It's just a nice place to be. They also got me super stoked for the Fall Retreat this weekend, even though I still have to figure out how the heck i'm going to pay for it! yikes!! Oh well... that stuff comes later right? OoO! One of my friends that I find that i am getting closer to slowly was there! It made me really happy, and now i'm trying to get her to go to this retreat thing. Let's see how it works!

I ran into Lissie Bendell today! For those of you who may not know her, she is the one that has been to Village before, went to Heidi Fair's Wedding, and looks and acts a lot like Laura Koenecke. Which by the way, Laura if you read this, totally gimme a call cuz I miss you like crazy hun! Anyway, I was talking to her for a while and she just made me super happy! I like her and have decided to actually start hanging out with this girl. She is also Christian! What a plus!

I've had a huge realization today...that I have many times in the course of my life. I love my friends! I have a wall of all these pictures on it, and it makes me smile to remember all of you. But I've realized that all of you are so important in my life. Without one of you, I would not be who I am, and that alone makes you so wonderful! Plus all of you sorta watch me and help me be led to Christ, and that, that is an amazing thing to have in a friend. So to all my friends, you rock!

I had more to say but my stupid blog didn't save entirely so I lost a lot of it, so this will have to do!

College Moment: so this picture was taken one of the first weeks Anna and I were here, in the pit of despair as I have liked to call it now. Ahh yes, the ingnorant days of what we were getting ourselves into...

FrIeNdS Quote: "Yes, it was really sad when the artist stopped drawing Bambi's mother..." Is it sad that I can quote that? yah...yah it is...

Sister in Christ,

Amy <3