Anyway, finals, right. Trying to stay on task here - well, so far I have had three finals, and only three more to go. However, my one this afternoon in the Ministry and Literature of Paul definitely involves pizza, so I'm looking forward to it more than I should ever look forward to a final. It does feel good to know that all my papers and worksheets and everything else are done, turned in, and most of them are even graded. No more Art History, Western Civilization, or International Relations.
What a strange thought. It always feels strange at the end of a semester to know that a class is over forever after you have just spent four or five months of your life devoted to it, and taking for granted that it is just assumed to always be there. But it's not. However - usually, by the end of the semester, I am ready to move onto new classes, to be honest. Only having a class for a semester rather than an entire year like in high school is definitely one of my favorite aspects of college.
Tomorrow marks the last day of my sophomore year - and I'm celebrating by taking a trip to Falling Water, a building about an hour from here designed by Frank Lloyd Wright. I went once when I was very young, but barely remember it, so this time I am taking my friend Christopher to take a tour of the awesome house once again, and hang out at the rapids and waterfalls that are also in the area - to be totally honest, I was definitely inspired by my Art History course because we were just talking about Falling Water, and it suddenly occured to me that it really was not that far away, so why not go to celebrate the end of the semester?
And the celebration only continues on Friday when we go to see the new Star Trek film, but that's a different story entirely.
Well. I do have some bad news to share as well as the good news. Yesterday our mission trip to Thailand was cancelled. My best friend and I tried to go on the Argentina trip instead, but considering it leaves in two days...well, it was just not plausible to do. It is really hard to accept at the moment, but both of us have been praying about it and helping each other through it, and we are coming to understand that somehow, though we may not see it now, this is all part of God's plan - and someday, we'll understand why.
I do, however, still have some great plans for the rest of my summer! I am going to be spending the end of June in New York City with a friend for a few days just shopping and sightseeing and generally enjoying being in New York City. Oh, and hopefully going to Ninja New York for my birthday, which is this awesome-looking ninja-themed restaurant in Manhattan that...well, it's ninjas, so that makes it exciting in itself. At the end of July, my friend that was going to Thailand with me and I are going to Baltimore, Maryland for a weekend to attend Otakon, one of the biggest anime conventions on the east coast (yeah, Tekkoshocon was not enough for us, so this time we're going to a bigger and better one). As for August? Well, its still up for grabs, but it's hard to tell where I will end up! I'm excited for the surprise, really.
Right now, though, I am just happy that the sun is finally out when I am writing this, and that we're having a warm day in the middle of a never-ending spell of rainy weather. On Saturday, I spent another day out enjoying a small spell of sunshine in the rain to walk on a bike trail that is only about fifteen minutes away from the campus, and we had a great time enjoying the fact that everything is turning green again, and just the peace and quiet before finals started and everything got out of control again.
Oh! I almost forgot some of the most exciting things I am going to be doing this summer, and that is preparing for my semester in Northern Ireland! My goals for the summer are getting a United Kingdom student visa, getting a plane ticket for January to Belfast, and getting my courses for the spring picked out so they can hopefully be approved by the registrar here at Waynesburg when I start back in the fall. With each of these steps done, I take a step closer to a semester that has the potential to be one of the greatest ones of my college experience, and to say I am excited is definitely an understatement.
Well, other than that, it looks like this is goodbye for the summer, and I wish you the best one. See you in the fall!
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