School Starting

Thursday school starts. I am excited, mostly because I have been waiting all summer for school to start again. I think that maybe next summer I will try to take a class in the summer.

Preparing for this semester has been much easier than other semesters. I have almost all of my books purchased, and I have my notebooks. I will be ready for class.

This time I bought my books online. I don't know why I didn't do this before. Having them sent to my house, also made everything easier. And cheaper!

I am taking:
History of the Middle Ages
History of the Civil War
and Art History (the second part of the class I took last semester)

Looking forward to posting about my first day of classes.

Good Luck to all those who have started and are starting school again!

Freaking out about the little things

There are some events in life that are a big deal. Things that change our lives in dramatic ways. Or things that affect us in ways that we cannot completely comprehend.

Then there are the little events. These will blow over in a few days. Or at first they seem to have a huge impact in our lives, but turn out to be nothing.

My problem is that I often freak out about the little things. I blow things way out of proportion.

The result is that when the big event in life come my way, I have already stressed out about all the little things, that I can't handle the big ones.

So I am trying to give all things to God, He helps with everything

School countdown

Summer Update

For one thing I am so ready for summer to be over. I miss school, and cannot wait to be back in the classroom again. I have taken this summer to evaluate where I am as far as schooling. I calculated that I have only 9 more classes until I graduate. I am so excited to see the light at the end of the tunnel. Yet, I am also nervous. I don't know exactly where I will be going from graduation. I do know that I would like to get my masters. So I suppose that is the next step.

I have found some interesting things to do this summer though. The archery class is awesome. I am having such a great time. My third class was Monday, which means that I have two more classes. We practiced shooting from a longer distance this Monday, which meant that the instructor had to increase the weight that we were pulling. We got up to 20 lbs. My arms were hurting by the end of the night, but I had fun.

I am really glad that I took this class. It has helped me to realize something. That is that you can't loose anything by trying. Archery was something that interested me, and something that I wanted to try. However, there was this voice in my head that told me that it wasn't for me. I am so glad that I did try, and I am loving this opportunity.

I also joined an online book club. It is through one of the local libraries. Each day they send you a 5 minute reading selection. I thought that this would be an interesting way to read something new. When I look for books to read, I tend to fall into a comfortable selection. Reading generally the same type of book all the time. However, this will give me the opportunity to read some different types of books.

I hope that everyone is having a good summer.
I am, although I am looking forward to school starting again.

Have a Great Day!

Summer Adventure

My summer adventure for 2008 is ..... Archery.

Today was my first class, in a 5 week series. I really like it. It was so much fun. I learned so much. I am looking forward to our next class.

We started off by just learning the proper stance, and position. There was a lot of things to learn, but I think I remembered everything he told me.

We actually got to shoot our first class, and I hit the bale each time. Not always the target. But at least I stayed on the bale. I did hit the target a few times. The only time that I did something wrong, is when the arrow bounced off of something, and came back to about 2 feet in front of me.

Overall, it was a great time. I enjoyed the class, and got over my nervousness pretty quickly. I am so glad that I have the opportunity.

Hope that everyone else finds their own summer adventure.