Update

Hi everybody, I just wanted to give everybody an update on my life as I sit in my room on this beautiful Sunday afternoon listening to Rich Mullins and looking out at the construction of the new academic building that is starting to obstruct my wonderful view from the top of this gorgeous mountain. For once it is quiet in my room as the guys might finally be tired of playing Halo 3. I have to admit that it is a pretty sweet game and I have definitely improved my play since it came out at 12:01 am on Tuesday.
I had three exams this week, all of them went well. I got an 89 on my CHOW exam, 94 on Calculus and 96 on Greek.
This has been a good weekend overall. It was campus preview weekend which means about three or four hundred more people on campus and numerous high-schoolers sleeping on the floor that you have to try not to step on when you jump off your bunk. What it also means is great food in the cafeteria. Many people call preview weekend deceive you weekend. The food quality was noticeably better this weekend. It also meant many great events, including battle ball, Mountain Affair and Cafe Literate.
Battle ball is a massive tournament of dodgeball with teams of 25. There were eight teams and you have to lose twice to be elimiated. My hall entered a team and we started out with a win. The second game we lost to our rivals 2nd Central. We had to win the rest of our games to stay alive. We won our next two games and again met Central but this time we left no doubt who was the better team. Since they lost another game they were eliminated. This left two teams, South and Blackwatch. Blackwatch had not yet lost so we had our work cut out for us. We slaughtered them the first game but in the next game it looked like they were going to win. They outnumbered us 2-1. But in a heroic effort we pulled out the win and secured our title.
Mountain Affair and Cafe Literate were both showcases of Covenant musical talent and they were very good. Mountain Affair is a more official event with auditions and prize money while Cafe Literate is more of a loose, unoffical event put on by the students. Its is nice to see people other than soccer players get noticed at this school. And these musical talents definitely deserve to get noticed. There are a great many talented people at this school and they are very enjoyable to hear.

Update

I now get to play soccer. I have been officially declared an amateur and my professional career is at an end. It wasn't a particularly great time in my life. To all the fans that I have collected over this past month I would like to say thank you for you support and if you are considering being a pro like my I ask you to seriously reconsider.
I had two exams today. Calculus and CHOW (Cultural Heritage of the West). Both were fairly easy. I have a Greek exam on Wednesday and I am confident that that one will go fine as well. Not much else to say. My hall is great again this year. The all of the first years (for you Tim ;>) are really cool guys. And now for a few pictures.

Some of 2nd South at Carter's (lying down) house for his B-day

Covenant Scots Junior Varsity Mens Soccer Team (a.k.a. the Bombers)

Barton cutting M'cheyne's hair in the hall

My new RA, Mark Wantanabe (Naboo)

Ross after a work out

Kartoon Kilter

Kilter is an annual dance that CAB (Covenant Activities Board) puts on for the students. It is a Sadie Hawkins-esque dance "the girl asks the guy - its always a surprise - there's nothing better - oo - oo - oo Sadie Hawkins dance in my khaki pants..." you get the point. It was held at the Creative Discovery Museum. We were supposed to go as Disney characters. How did we do?

Jasmine (Victoria) and Aladdin

Poison Ivy and I forget who

Batman (Chase) and Aladdin

Cat Woman (Julia) and Jasmine

Batman and Catwoman

Cinderella and Prince Charming (Tanner)

Aladdin and Raphael (Naboo)?

Thoughts

Covenant College is having its annual Neal Conference this week and the speaker is the Archbishop of the Anglican Church in Uganda, His Grace Henry Luke Orombi. His first message was in chapel today and I'm very excited to here the rest of his talks. I just want to mention a few things that he said.
He mentioned that Africa was once called the Dark Continent becuase its people had never heard of Jesus. Now, he says, this name belongs to North America whose people have forgotten about Jesus.
He also said that he once thought that their were only demons and evil spirits in Africa. He now sees that they are just as prevelalent here. The difference is that in Africa the devil works in visible ways but here it is disguised.

I also want to mention something partially unrelated. As I was reading through James I came across the passage in 4:4 "Do you know that friendship with the world is enmity with God? Therefore whoever wishes to be a friend of the world makes himself and enemy of God." What is the world? Would that not be most movies we see? Many video games we play? Some music we listen to? Idolizing sports teams? Might particiating in these things be friendship with the world? Would we then be alienating ourselves from God? Maybe we have to make sacrifices for God. Thats something we're certainly no used to. But didn't Jesus say that if we served him we would suffer persecution. Maybe this is our persecution. Its kind of light, don't you think, compared to what our fellow brothers and sisters undergo in China and other countries.

Robert Jordan died and now I will never know what happened to the Dragon Reborn. I still am not playing soccer. And I will update my blog when I am not so busy

Soccer

O that I could play the beautiful game again. I seriously wonder if it will ever come to pass that I will be able to for the Bombers. I've already missed two games and am about to miss a third. If some of you who are reading this live in a box and haven't heard my infamous story, I will expound. Over the summer I was playing Tier III soccer for the Coaldale Thunder. We entered the Cosmos invitational tournament and swept away the competition, winning the coveted gold medal. As a consequence of this the team recieved a hamson reward of nine hundred dollars. Half of these earnings went to the organization but we as players each got thirty dollars. We were professionals! At the time this was great, we got paid to play the game we love! Now I relize it was a grave mistake, accepting this money. Because I am such a honest and trustworthy guy as I was filling out my eligiblity form and came to the section that said: Since you finished high school have you won any cash prizes, accepted any money etc...for playing soccer? I said "Yes, in fact, I did make some money playing soccer. I made a magnificent thirty dollars after my team won an invitational touranment." What do they say. "Well that's to bad you are now ineligible to play for the NAIA (National Association of Intercollegiate Athletes, I think)." I'm like, "well that sucks but they should be able to clear it up in a few days. I'll miss one game and it will all be settled." I wish. Two weeks later I am still unable to play. My team is gelling nicely together without me and I am slowly wasting away in despair.