Well, summer ended in a glorious blaze of…something, but I had a good last hurrah, the Idaho trip and Ruth’s mini reception were good. Roommates have changed, and I have received three new, great ones, and there has been much change around the ward also, probably 50% new people. There was a stake opening social the first week of classes where we went to a home up the canyon and ate a lot of pizza and listened to music and watched people ride the human sling-shot, and there was a dance also. There have been other activities also, a leadership retreat up to the bishop’s cabin (I’m the assistant executive secretary in the ward) and an opening social where they taught dance lessons.
Classes are going full swing, and I’m taking 14 ½ credits and working part-time at early morning custodial still. Mondays and Wednesdays are my busiest days, with four classes on those days. I have: Adolescent Development, Infant Development, Cognitive Development, History of Math, 2nd half of the D&C, and beginning swimming. The development classes are all for my major and the history of math class is toward a math minor, and the other two are general education requirements. Infant and Adolescent development are both being taught by a visiting professor from Arizona State University, and she is way cool, I just had a test for the Infant devo class, and one is coming soon for the adol devo class. Both classes are very interesting, and insightful. Cognitive development is taught by a full time BYU professor, and the topic is very interesting, about how our brains and thought processes develop and change from when we are born, or even before. Unfortunately the class is 8:00 am so many of us in the class have trouble staying awake. (I’m not the only one, I promise) My history of math class is also very interesting to me, and is probably my most intense class so far, we have learned about pi, number systems with different bases, Pythagorean therom and a few other things, the class is taught by an Indian professor who is a tad mumbly, and he has an honor-code violating beard, but I guess it’s ok for him. My D&C class is great, it is taught by Bro. Fluhman, he is pretty funny, and good at inciting discussion in the class, which some teachers have a hard time doing, but his class is good, and I’m learning a lot in his class. Last and least is my swimming class, on Monday and Wednesday nights, it is a good class, the first few days were very difficult for me to keep up, but it has gotten better now that the class has been going for a few weeks. The teacher is a grad student who just has shoulder surgery, so he can’t get in the water and swim with us, so he stands on the side and tells us what to do.
What else… I’ll put some new links on the page for you all to stare in awe at. The first is another blog from a friend of mine, Bukran, he was in my freshman ward, and has never been the same since, and that is his blog, the bukran blog. For a short while longer you can go on the internet and watch a series of student films, and one of them is produced by none other than my FHE brothers, go and watch them and vote for them (good through the end of September only) in Glad I got a Sword Today. And if you want to support some of the weird stuff that I do, and you like video games...a lot you can check out battlereports.com and look at the report submitted by Rabid Fox (that’s me) about Jedi Academy, or even look at some of the other reports written there. So there you have it… that’s my story and I’m sticking to it.
Enjoy General Conference and the time change. (I know I will)
-Singing off, The matador
