The textbook, The Visual Story by Bruce Block has been very fun to read. So far we have been talking about contrast and affinity in class, so it feels almost like the art classes I took in high school. I met a girl named Elizabeth in this class, and she has been really fun to get to know. She wants to be a film critic, so she is minoring in Cinematic Arts. Also, in our last class meeting we watched The 5th and 7th by Alex Roman. Here is a link to it on YouTube so you can check it out! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PSGx4bBU9Qc
I have New Testament with my roommate, Ashley, which is fun because last semester we had the same Old Testament class. Our NT teacher is a northerner who prides himself in talking very fast, but he seems like he is going to lead a very interesting class. I already like that part of our class assignments will be to read through the NT for ourselves. I wish my OT teacher had required reading through the text itself as well. I got myself a new Bible, and ESV study Bible, by suggestion of my professor, for the class. I can't wait to get started pouring over its pages. Our first readthrough assignments are Matthew chapter questions, and Mark penta-reflections questions. For the chapter questions we are to write one thing we would like to know the answer to for each chapter and for the reflections, every five chapters we reflect on how the chapters affect our personal lives.
Western Civilization looks like it could be a lot of work, but I like the teacher's thoughts on how to teach the class the meaning of history, rather than focusing simply on what happened. It should be nice to dig deeper and reflect on how history has affected our present world.
Biblical Worldview II is my only 7:40 class. I don't really like having to wake up so early, but it is worth it for the professor. Professor Matthews is Australian and very fun and energetic which makes the class more interesting.
My English teacher is great, she has a very sarcastic sense of humor. The readings look like they might be a little tough, especially since I am a slow reader, but the way the class is organized it shouldn't be too bad. The readings are homework, and she goes over what the piece means the next class before we have to take our quiz. Another exciting thing about that class is you can get 50 extra credit points for reading Pride and Prejudice, writing a paper on the character of Mr. Darcy, and taking a test on the book!
University will be an easy class, but at least my friend Ashleigh is in the class with me. She was in my screenwriting class last semester and we have a lot in common. Information technology should be easy too. All the assignments are online, so it will be easy to get ahead on things for that class when needed. Also the great thing about UNIV and INFT is that they are both only one day a week, so I get out really early on Friday, the day that I don't have either of those classes.
On Wednesday morning we had our first official snow here! Our morning classes were canceled and everything. There was so little snow actually on the ground that it seems rather silly that things shut down until 10:00, but I enjoyed sleeping in a little bit. The only class I missed as Cinematography, which as disappointing because it is my favorite class, but at the same time, as I said before, the extra sleep was nice.
Besides school starting this week, we also had Campus Church start back up on Wednesday. Our pastor is making a lot of changes. Even the name has changed to Campus Community. I do like that we will be going through Galations together as a campus now, but it will take some getting used to having our hall meetings and prayer groups on Wednesday night. It is a lot to have church, hall meeting and prayer groups all on the same night.This week I also got to go see the Alluvian production of Peter and the Starcatchers here in Lynchburg. My roommate, Ashley, and I went together last night. It was hilarious! All the actors did a wonderful job, and the minimal sets worked really well. The most unique thing about the production was during intermission, they asked the audience to vacate the auditorium for a "major set change", and instead of changing scenery as you might imagine, they rearranged all the audience seats!
I haven't had too much time for reading and watching movies with the new school semester starting, but I did finish rereading Surviving the Applewhites, which was one of my favorite books growing up. Also tonight our RA's have invited us to watch The Maze Runner with them, so that shall be exciting to watch again now that I have read the first two books in the series.
Overall it has been a good week, I can't wait to see what next week brings.
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