A good question indeed.

So today was my first day of classes. All in all, it was pretty good. I woke up fairly nervous, after a really wicked good sleep.. I walked with four other girls down to the school, and went into the classroom, 633, Intro to the bible. It's arather larger class than what im used to, around 50 people at least. Anyways, we got this immensly huge reading list, which kind of scared me.. Seriously, it's about 3 pages long. Anyways, then the prof explained the course, and our one assignment (a HUGE paper) which freaked me out, im scared by it, but it's gonna be ok, cause .. well it just will. When I looked at the reading list, tho, i felt like dying, but then i remembered this email I got that said "You dont have to do all the work on the syllabus at once, dont freak out when you see it" and so I took a few breaths, and calmed down a bit..
Anyways, after that, I went home for a few hours, because I didnt have another class until 2:30.. So me, Shaunna, and Crystal went to the co-op for no reason at all, but before we could get there, this train decided to cross the road where we had to walk to get there, so we were standing there for like 10 minutes , watching this 122 car train go by.. yep, i counted.
So I tried to make a couple of phone calls, but no one was home, and i didnt figure it out until on my way back to the res that everyone was probably in school.. Im not too smart.. oh well.
Sooo then, me and Crystal headed back to the school for our second class of the day, the one I was most looking forward to, Intro to Christian Spirituality, with Rev.Tim Moore.
One of the reasons i was looking forward to it, is becasue Tim moore is a hilarious guy, and cause i knew he'd have lots of stories to tell me about my brother.. True enough, he looked at me, and said "I have a story to tell you about your brother, wanna hear?" and he told me this funny story that im not going to share with you till I check with my brother. But anyways..
I am really excited about this class. It started right off the bat, when Tim asked a really thought provoking question.
"Why are you a christian?"

at first, my thought was .. well.. I've always been. When Tim asked a boy in class, he basically said what i thought, and thenTim goes.. "That's not good enough"
So I started thinking more.. Why am I a christian? Is it cause it's such a good deal? I mean, think about it, eternity in heaven! Mabye it's cause I need something to believe in.. and it's there. Mabye it's because god is so good. But then again, my life hasnt been perfect. So that's not the answer. Then I thought, mabye because it's the easy thing to do. But that's not true, bieng a Christian is so hard, especially today. So now here I am, stuck trying to figure out why the heck I am a christian! I've come to the conclustion that I am a Christian simply because Jesus chose me, not because I choseHim. Im not sure were else to go with that, but I realize that the farther we go in discussion in that particular class, the more I will come to the answers, the ones that Tim said are already inside of us, we just don't know how to express them.
So yeah, that's random, but it makes me really excited for the classes. And there's a chance that I might get to go to Coasta Rica! it's for this thing called Intersession, and I might get to go there to visit this crisis pregnancy centre, and help the young girls there, aged 13-18.. and help them with their little babies and stuff.
anyways, I will talk more about that another time, at the moment, people are waiting to use the computers, so im going to go.. Just know that all is well with me so far, so no worries!

love to you all!
love forever: shle
xoxo

"A product of the environment
Pour some liquor for those who passed away
I told my mom I'ma get up out of da hood
My dad taught me the American dream, baby
You can be anything that you wanna"