July 24, 2007

Life

Well, my blog was looking a bit bare, so I thought I'd share the happenings.

Colorado was great. It was a nice change of pace and was just right in length and rest--even if I did have a horrible attack of the allergies due to "summer snow", a.k.a. cottonwood.

We got back, unpacked, cleaned up and than had a fabulous time--mini-reunion of sorts with the TSF which Jared describes very well. We had decided just to buy one copy from last year and picked "Harvey", but immediately after watching Much Ado about Nothing, we put in an order for that too because it was just that wonderful. I loved the stage version of Amadeus and seeing Man of La Mancha live! Othello was good too.

Then, after everyone left, i rested from people and read books, lazed around, and generally enjoyed solitude. Although I really should have been productive--organizing the many boxes brought from Colorado and the stuff that I just didn't get at the end of the school year. But hey, I have another month :-)

This last weekend was spent sleeping and reading Harry Potter 7--and I was satisfied. It was quite the shift in style for the series in terms of writing, but it felt right and in the end, it was a children's series again. I found the first six books in a nice boxed set at Hastings that was a good buy with my happy teacher discount--it saved me about $13-14. I've also been reading Wheel of Time series courtesy of Josh who gave the first book for Christmas. I'm not sure how this stretches out into 11 and then some books...but I guess I'll see. I've started to get into it a whole lot more with book 2.

Otherwise, I go to Bible Study which proves for lots of interesting discussion, especially as we have begun to not the like the book quite as much as we did at first. The author gets a bit fundamental with some things and maybe too....petty? It's hard to describe. She does have a lots of good points still. But hey, the only book I'd probably ever agree 100% with that isn't the Bible would be a book I write myself.--and then who knows what I'd think a few years down the line. But the study is good in that we are all thinking, discussing and learning. Sometimes i feel quite at odds with the group--I'm the youngest by a margin and have a very different perspective. I'm, believe it or not, probably have one of the more conservative viewpoints--but it's friendly disagreement. I just have a different appreciation for doctrines. It's a struggle sometimes--as I mentally cringe as a few things I hear in discussion--because I begin to struggle with pride from what I learned through my Biblical Studies minor--studying doctrines and studying how to study God's word.

For example, one lady was explaining how she wishes the church was doing a better job of teaching--especially younger ones--how salvation isn't just a one time thing--how it's a process of living out your salvation. I replied in agreement that I think we need to teach teenagers more of the biblical doctrines. She disagreed and continued to explain how so many people don't have a real good understanding of what salvation and being a Christian is...when she was done, I pointed out that we said the same thing-what she described is the doctrine of salvation--but she doesn't like the word doctrine. A few ladies are touchy about "Christianese" words. So I go, okay then--what the Bible teaches about salvation.

At any rate, it's usually a good time and the ladies seemed to like my first try at fruit pizza although I need to work on my dough still. I think adding extra butter trying to make it chewy may have been a bad idea--and using part wheat flour shouldn't have made a difference. It's also funny because I've been told by one of these ladies that I should consider going to seminary one day...it does provide an interesting thought.

As I consider what I'd like to do--since I don't see myself just teaching my entire life--seminary is an interesting consideration. But more and more I find that I want to focus my later studies on curriculum and mathematic pedagogy. I still would love one day to travel around the world and visit schools to compare how math is taught differently in different cultures, countries.

So, that's my rambling for tonight.

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