A Quick Update

Ok, for those of you who maybe don’t know anything about what I’m doing I’m going to do a quick catch-up.

I’m at Harding University in Searcy, Arkansas. I’ve been here since Aug. 18. I drove down with my roommate, who is one of my best friends from church back home. We left The Sun. of that week and ended up getting here on Wed. the 18.
School started a week later and I’ve been extremely busy since. I had a hard time trying to make a schedule, and my advisor and I spent over and hour and a half trying to figure out classes that I could take. It was hard, because of a few things. One because I didn’t register until I got to school, while most of the other freshmen came during the summer to what Harding calls “Summer Experience” and registered then. So a lot of classes, even the freshmen classes, were already closed. The second thing that made it difficult was that I transferred in 30 credit hours which basically puts me at sophomore level (that’s nice) but that was just that many more classes I’d already taken. So in the end we finally figured some stuff out for me to take. I’m only taking 14 credits but with the classes I’m taking, it keeps me more than busy.

The classes I’m taking are: Calculus I, Western Civilization, International Relations, New Testament Survey and Concert Choir. My Calc class takes a lot of time, sometimes I work on calc homework for 3hrs a night on top of my other homework. My Western Civ. Teacher is really mean and hates freshmen and there’s a lot of reading I have to do for that. My IR professor is the head of security here, so I have to be sure and not get caught doing anything…questionable J My NT professor is the new missionary in residence here at Harding and I don’t know how much experience he has teaching, which makes the class really easy (I just got a 99% on our last test). So as a whole I stay pretty busy with my classes.

When I’m not in classes or doing homework, most often I’m playing ultimate Frisbee. I’ve joined the Ultimate Frisbee here at Harding and absolutely loving it! The team is just a group of guys who love the sport and we play five times a week with two of those times being organized practice. We have practice on Mon. nights and Thurs. nights for just the team, and then on Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday afternoons we have free-for-all games where anyone can come and play. We have about 25 of us on the team and when we have open games sometimes as many as 60 people will show up to play. It’s great fun! Throughout the semester, the team goes to tournaments in and out of the state. I’m actually leaving in about and hour and a half to go to our fist one this weekend. Wish us luck!

Well aside from all of that, I think the hardest thing for me has been getting use to Arkansas and the difference of the people from the south from the people from home. Arkansas weather is incredibly different from the NW. It was over 100deg the whole fist week I was here and it has only slowly cooled down since then. Today was about the nicest we’ve had and it was 85deg. It’s rained a few times but it still stays very hot even when it’s raining. The difference between people from the NW and people here is just as drastic to me as the weather. It’s not bad, but it’s just different. I don’t know how to describe it, because I’m still trying to figure it out, so you’ll just have to be content whit that for now.

Well I’ve spent longer on this than I meant to so I’ve got to get going, but there’s the quick update.