good morning all!
today i was pleasantly surprised when my clock read 6:35, instead of 5:53. one reason might be is that i was up until 11:30 last night and had a beer and a glass of wine. either way, i slept "in" sorta. and it was good!
obviously i'm blogging this morning because i crashed hard last night! my day yesterday was just as good as the others! we are all hitting the overwhelmed point now though. we have so many notes, ideas, and things to think about that we are all about to just shut down! but one more day of information-we think we can squeeze it in!
one very nice and totally awesome thing is that we've gotten a LOT of free material! St Marys Press and Ave Maria Press are 2 leading publishers in the Christian book writing world. they have, along with our speakers, sent numerous books as gifts for us! i seriously have like 7 books and 2 DVD's that i'm bringing home! PLUS 2 free 1-year subscriptions to online materials! HOW COOL IS THAT!??!!?
one thing that IS overwhelming is looking at reading materials from these publishers and deciding what to purchase. i'm spoiled in that fact that i can basically just call up Pat and he'll tell me what he thinks is the best and what he's seen work for others. since not everyone has a Pat like me, this is nice because now we have these new materials to read over, and if they are good then we can purchase more to use for our parishes!
Eric from Out of da Box productions did a little presentation for us last night. they are a production company-duh-that has written and produced a bunch of films that are relevant to Christian learning. some of them are super funny and some are super insightful! they just came out with a new DVD and the name is CateQUIZem. its, as you guessed, a quiz on catechises! this one just happens to cover the 4 things that OUR books have been covering over the last 4 years! (Divine intervention?) so he was nice enough to give us this dvd, plus 2 others AND a free subscription to their membership that will give us access too ALL of the videos they've ever filmed! we can then download these and use them in our parish as we wish!
on our evening break, before dinner, me and Kim and Lexie(2 girls i've been hanging out with from Mississippi) took a walk around the grounds here. they have a bunch of buildings, including the church buidling, and a couple ponds, a bridge, walking path. its simply beautiful! and it was so very nice yesterday(mid 80s) that we couldnt not be outside! after our walked we met up with Dominik(i know i didnt spell that right) and chatted with him for awhile. we then kept seeing girls with lacross gear walking past us. so we wandered over there because we were all interested in lacross! Dom pretended like he knew a bunch about it, but then kept saying "sure, i'm sure thats what its called!" so we talked to a couple of the girls and one very nice mother and found out a little more! if you've never seen lacross played its amazing. we only got to see them practice a little, but that was still crazy! Lexie and i wated to ask the girls if they'd teach us how to throw with the sticks,... but they were getting ready for some championship game, so we figured we shouldnt bother them. these girls were between 6th and 9th grades! i told Dom i hoped Ethan played lacross. it should be in Iowa by the time he's ready to play right!?
well, today is Friday. i'm happy and sad all at once. i get to go HOME today which i'm SO excited about! but i'm sad to have to leave all of my new friends. i've gotten close with quite a few of them! but we are getting everyone emails, facebooks, ect, so i know we'll all be keeping in close contact! its a wonderful feeling to know that you'll hear from more than just 1 person after leaving something like this!
bad news, i have to pack up all my crap and check out before 10..... so i have to find something to do with my suitcase so i dont have to take it to class!!
one more day then i'll be Iowa bound once again!
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