One Week Down.....

Oh yes, my first week (if you can call three days of classes and then a three day weekend a week) of being a sophomore at Georgetown is now over! I have been to all of my classes and have not dropped any of them so I guess that is a good sign.

The first class I went to was Astronomy with a professor that I like to affectionately refer to as Santa Claus. Yes, I hope you currently have a sufficient mental image in your head of this guy. He is short, stout, with a long white beard. (Fun Fact #1: Come to find out he is a marathon runner... never would have guessed it.) Surprisingly, this class doesn't seem as intimidating as I once thought. My professor is animated and goes through everything step by step, so I am hoping it won't be too bad.

My next class was History of Ireland. I have to say the professor was quite into Irish history... who would have thought? Anyways, I was somewhat disappointed in this class because i was very bored as my professor outlined the background to Irish history, but hopefully that was just a bad first impression.

First Christians and Christianity Today was my next class. My professor is quite an old priest, but he seems to know everything there is to know about Christianity so I am very excited about this course. Unfortunately, I can rarely look at him when he is talking because he looks like he is in enormous pain but what he says is interesting. (Fun Fact #2: He hand wrote his syllabus, which is kinda awesome.)

Intro To Justice and Peace Studies is by far my most interesting and exciting course, mostly because I have never taken a class like it. The subject matter of the course is very hard to explain but basically it is looking at peace and justice studies from a neutral stance. The material is covered in so many disciplines, like psychology, philosophy, theology, government, and history, but peace studies tries to fill in the gaps and connect all of these disciplines. Anyways it sounds like my cup of tea!

Community Psychology... ya.... this class is extremely intimidating. Most of the work is intensely hands on and on our own time. For example, I am pretty sure next week I am going to be interviewing a principle of a school in downtown DC with a group of people that I have never met from the DC community. So that will be a challenge. Another assignment we are doing is collecting research to evaluate different community building organizations in DC. We have a reflection paper due every week and an intense group project. ya we will see how this one goes...

So those are my classes!

Softball starts tomorrow but drum roll please..... I PASSED my run test! Yes, that thing that I have been worrying about since the middle of May, yup it is over and I passed for the first time on the first try! I am so happy that my hard work paid off and I got my freaking sweet practice gear! People who didn't pass it are running again tomorrow so hopefully the whole team will have gear by practice tomorrow afternoon! We have our first game in two weeks which is RIDICULOUSLY soon! I can't believe everything is starting up again....

Chi Alpha is so exciting this year and I can't wait to see what God has in store for the semester! Jon, our new campus pastor, is so passionate and fired up about impacting this campus that everyone can't help but be passionate as well! We have already done events where we handed out free snowcones one afternoon and free pancakes one morning. This weekend we are teaming up with NCC the local church to do a service project in downtown DC. I am so fired up and excited about being involved with this group!

This weekend has been a long and enjoyable weekend. My friends celebrated Sophie's birthday by going out to a nice dinner, I got to catch up with Jill, go to a movie at midnight, and eat WAY too much food at my second home (Jill, Melissa and Demi's apartment). And to top it all off, Christina came for a surprise visit this weekend! It was awesome.... I miss that girl way too much! So all in all I am loving life right now. God has really blessed me with amazing people in my life and I am so grateful!

Mackenseylicious... (or however you would spell that)

P.S. Check out my parents blog at www.teddyandglenda.blogspot.com