I'm really looking forward to this next semester. I miss my friends from school. Although I'm really going to miss mom and brother, and of course Abby. =] I even got to see one of my old friends, Ginny. I haven't seen her since probably some time last May. It was nice talking to her and being on good terms again. I forget sometimes how much I like her. I don't like myself when we're friends, how I treat her but I do like her as much as I like anyone. She has thinks about her that annoy me but so does everyone else at some point when I get to know them well enough.
Also about this coming up semester are the classes. A good thing about being in college for me is the time length of the classes. In school I get comfortable and slack off. A semester is really short enough I really don't have the time. By the time I get comfortable enough to start slacking the semester is almost over. My other problem with last semester is they aren't classes that I would call 'brain stimulating'. They were more 'deep thought' classes. Which isn't a bad thing. It's just that after eight months my head starts to feel foggy without taking classes that challenge me to think. I will be taking math, it should be boring but it should still be math. I'm also taking IBLT (Introduction to Biblical Languages and Tools) meaning I'll get some Greek and Hebrew. I'm really looking forward to a foreign language. After taking Latin the last two years of High School I miss it. Then I'll be taking History of Israel which is a history class which I'm extremely looking forward too. Especially when I realized it involves the books of Samuel which I studied for Bible Bowl. The other class I'm taking is Intro to Psychology. I'm not looking forward to it since I've taken it before. Hopefully it will be better this time. I'm also looking forward to next year when I take Chinese. I really wanted to take Spanish since it's spoken so much throughout the US but I haven't very good things about the teacher. How even people who have taken the language before are having problems. I wasn't so sure about Chinese since it has characters and I'm very bad at drawing. Then I was talking to my aunt and she was mentioning how my cousin is majoring in Chinese. She told me that Chinese is actually the base language of Japanese. That made me alot more excited because Abby has gotten me into Manga, which are pretty much japanese graphic novels. It would be amazing to take Japanese and learn more about the culture I'm reading about. Ginny, who also knows Chinese, told me it's an amazing language.
So I am excited about going back to school. I'll just miss home. I'll miss my church alot. Church hasn't really felt like church, like a family. The only church I really liked a lot that I went to was Woodlawn. It was because I went to Sunday School and got to know some people. The rest of the churches I don't feel like I'm really a part only participating. At home it feels like I'm surrounded by people who care whether or not I'm there. I'm going to miss the people here. There are so many amazing people in my church. I don't think I'll be home until spring break meaning I probably won't seem them until the end of May. It's time like these I'm happy that the internet was invented. =]
