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| I'm having a crazy time trying to figure out my classes for next semester and accessing my grades from last semester. The only grades I got were for my lifespan of human development class and that was by e-mail from my instructor. I got an A- in that class and I think that was what I got in all my classes last semester. Thanks be to God! Well Christmas was good for us and I've been making sugar cookies by myself this year. But it's been an experience for treasuring because I learned how to make icing. I got an mp3 player for Christmas which holds about 8 hrs. of music that can be replaced at any time. I also have about 3 books which I'm trying to finish so that I can get them back to those I borrowed them from. Well I'm going to go finish Butch Cassidy and the Sundance kid with Robert Redford and Paul Newman. Interestingly enough a salad dressing is made in his name. | | |
| Here are some quotes from the Markings book listed above which is a journal of poems and notes by Dag Hammarskjold a Swedish guy who studied law and economics at the universities of Uppsala and Stockholm. He also was elected Secretary-General of the United Nations in 1953 and then reelected in 1957. He died in an air crash in 1961 on his way to Northern Rhodesia to negotiate a cease-fire between the United Nations and Katanga forces. I found these sayings, from his manuscripts, to be thought-stimulating. "He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion." "A modest wish: that our doings and dealings may be of a little more significance to life than a man's dinner jacket is to his digestion. Yet not a little of what we describe as our achievement is, in fact, no more than a garment in which, on festive occasions, we seek to hide our nakedness." | | |
| I just got back from watching a film called "Invisible Children". It was a documentary done by three college kids who snuck a flight over to Africa. Originally they didn't know what they were doing. But after they had killed a snake and been thoroughly bored, they found that a reoccuring problem in African society was that children were being abducted in the night by rebels who were lead by a man who brainwashed them through exposing them to excessive violence. He plans to overthrow the government and his abductees are reported to be continually killing or to have been exposed to it. A child said that if he didn't see blood he would get a headache. Children flock to hospitals for safety from the blood-thirsty abductors. Once at the hospitals they rejoice with songs of thanksgiving and dancing to God because they've made it. It sounds like the authors purpose is to pressure the American government into spurring the African government to do something to stop the mass-slaughter. | | |
| I'm considering going to school in Dillion because I heard it was among the top teaching schools in America. Pray for my friend Brian Longnecker because his dad was found dead after he'd been missing for several days on a hunting trip. | | |
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