The Week of Awkward...

Hello world! TGIF was most recently a very fun but competitive game called Bigger and Better. Basically, we all started with a paper clip and you trade that with someone for something they have. You trade that to a different person, and keep going until you’re satisfied, or in our case, until you have to be back in the classroom to see who won. My team got up to a mandolin, and probably would’ve won, but at the last second traded for a vending machine. Due to legal issues and the uncertainty of whether that is a profit or if we just went bankrupt, we did not win. The winner was a washing machine. Whatevs. We had fun, and I (we) owned a mandolin for a while. Our local Spaniard Xenia was in love with the mandolin and barely let go of it, but I played it a bit. On Monday in Worldview Studies, we talked about both Cosmic Humanism and Post-modernism, as most of us will be gone next week for a concert. Cosmic Humanism is the overall term for Scientology, Buddhism, Hinduism, Pantheism, etc. Post-Modernism is the The speaker this week Was BJ Thompson, and his series was called “Who am I? Who Are We? Why Are We Here?” The most memorable things from his talks were over our relationships with one another. He told us that we are so often hiding behind a mask that we don’t let people know the real us and thus never form true relationships. From that we can never know real love. He said that the reason so many of us love our mothers so much is that they know exactly who we are and we can’t hide from them. The very first people were naked and unashamed, but when sin entered the world, they were ashamed and wanted to hide from both God and each other. What’s remarkable about this is that this drive to hide ourselves has continued to plague us as long as sin has been around. We hide most often behind our own accomplishments and achievements in an attempt to put our best foot forward, but never actually take a full step and show our weaknesses and flaws. All in all, a very good speaker with a hard hitting message. That’s all for this post, and I’m currently very excited for the upcoming trip into Kansas City. Next week, same time?