Fall Break
Fall Break!
The time when all of the local people go home and the international and western students and football players stay here. Its cool - I'm about the only person left on my hall. I've been able to get a lot of programming work done, and studying stuff for a civ arts exam on thursday. Oh Joy. I did pretty good on the last one though, so, Lord willing and help me, I should do decently well on this one.
Our last rugby game on homecoming weekend, we lost 40-something to 0. Oh well. The opponents were a good team, and they were larger on average than us, and they knew their size advantage, and they used it by piledrivering themselves through our bodies. That was a painful game. And it was snowing for part of the game.
And of course, after that completely painful game ( in which we had a handful of injuries), the rest of the surviving players had to play another game vs. the alumni rugby players. These guys were generally very large, and hurt very much to tackle. Our team was better in the past, and for some reason our current good players dissapeared immediately after our first game.
Other than that, Homecoming was rather boring. I did go to the homecoming dance on friday night, and that was interesting, and almost fun. As always, I tended to observe the people there for my entertainment. The dance was held inside the atrium of HAL (our main classroom building) which was packed full to bursting. In the beginning of the dance, the region could be classified by chaotic turbulence ( to the extent that walking people can be characterized as fluids), which would at times coalesce to steady-state flow before becoming chaotic again. Over time, the friction of movement tended to decrease the desire to move in the crowd (or people left - I couldn't tell) , and as a result, groups of stationary (or dancing, which is pseudo-stationary. The dance floor was so small, that I don't think anyone could actually be dancing - jsut vibrating. In that case, it could be said that the dancers were 'frozen' from a moving fluid into a high-energy solid. ) people emerged, leaving more substantial walkways for me to wander on. Then a friend of mine convinced me to learn how to swing dance, which I surprisingly enjoyed. I may be tring the swing dancing again and learning more.
Jonathan, my roommate, knows of a church in New Jersey called Liquid. They have a podcast, and thier pastor is not afraid to tackle some very interesting and rather controversial topics! For example, we have been listening to a 9-part sermon on Song of Solomon. Thier pastor is very good, and that series is very thought provoking - and (warning and, yet, a good thing) holds nothing back.
Here is what their web site says about their current sermon series ( the song of solomon was done a while ago).
'Join us at Liquid Church this Fall as we explore God's design for marriage, sex, and relationships that go the distance. Whether you're single, married, or single again, you won't want to miss this practical and provocative message series.' I will say that, they are not afraid to tackle these tough and taboo'ed ideas!
I would recommend listening to it. The web site is www.liquidchurch.org. Look under the free podcasts section.
Well, there are my musings for the week. That is about all of the time for musing that I have - back to sleep, work, eating, studying, and testing. Oh Joy! Praise the Lord that we live in a nation where people have the ability pay to work and slog, committing four years of thier lives, merely to improve the ability of our minds.
Praise the Lord for his blessings on us all -
Jeremy Turpin
The time when all of the local people go home and the international and western students and football players stay here. Its cool - I'm about the only person left on my hall. I've been able to get a lot of programming work done, and studying stuff for a civ arts exam on thursday. Oh Joy. I did pretty good on the last one though, so, Lord willing and help me, I should do decently well on this one.
Our last rugby game on homecoming weekend, we lost 40-something to 0. Oh well. The opponents were a good team, and they were larger on average than us, and they knew their size advantage, and they used it by piledrivering themselves through our bodies. That was a painful game. And it was snowing for part of the game.
And of course, after that completely painful game ( in which we had a handful of injuries), the rest of the surviving players had to play another game vs. the alumni rugby players. These guys were generally very large, and hurt very much to tackle. Our team was better in the past, and for some reason our current good players dissapeared immediately after our first game.
Other than that, Homecoming was rather boring. I did go to the homecoming dance on friday night, and that was interesting, and almost fun. As always, I tended to observe the people there for my entertainment. The dance was held inside the atrium of HAL (our main classroom building) which was packed full to bursting. In the beginning of the dance, the region could be classified by chaotic turbulence ( to the extent that walking people can be characterized as fluids), which would at times coalesce to steady-state flow before becoming chaotic again. Over time, the friction of movement tended to decrease the desire to move in the crowd (or people left - I couldn't tell) , and as a result, groups of stationary (or dancing, which is pseudo-stationary. The dance floor was so small, that I don't think anyone could actually be dancing - jsut vibrating. In that case, it could be said that the dancers were 'frozen' from a moving fluid into a high-energy solid. ) people emerged, leaving more substantial walkways for me to wander on. Then a friend of mine convinced me to learn how to swing dance, which I surprisingly enjoyed. I may be tring the swing dancing again and learning more.
Jonathan, my roommate, knows of a church in New Jersey called Liquid. They have a podcast, and thier pastor is not afraid to tackle some very interesting and rather controversial topics! For example, we have been listening to a 9-part sermon on Song of Solomon. Thier pastor is very good, and that series is very thought provoking - and (warning and, yet, a good thing) holds nothing back.
Here is what their web site says about their current sermon series ( the song of solomon was done a while ago).
'Join us at Liquid Church this Fall as we explore God's design for marriage, sex, and relationships that go the distance. Whether you're single, married, or single again, you won't want to miss this practical and provocative message series.' I will say that, they are not afraid to tackle these tough and taboo'ed ideas!
I would recommend listening to it. The web site is www.liquidchurch.org. Look under the free podcasts section.
Well, there are my musings for the week. That is about all of the time for musing that I have - back to sleep, work, eating, studying, and testing. Oh Joy! Praise the Lord that we live in a nation where people have the ability pay to work and slog, committing four years of thier lives, merely to improve the ability of our minds.
Praise the Lord for his blessings on us all -
Jeremy Turpin
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