I'll take Potpourri for $500
Last week's trash collection day was a particularly windy one. Numerous empty blue boxes and garbage cans were left homeless because they were blown a block or two down the road or hit by vehicles. My housemate and I were looking out the window, watching these containers race each other downwind when someone caught our eyes. He was weaving on and off the sidewalk, picking up whatever trash holding device was on the road, and flinging them back onto their respective lawns. What a thoughtful thing to do for complete strangers!
I'm so thankful for the house (oh Hansel) that we've called home this term. My housemates are absolutely crazy and the past 3-point-something months just wouldn't have been the same without them. Who else would take very, very random (albeit hilarious) pictures of firemen, Andy Lau, and hair-do's? Butcher...er, remind me of the Cantonese songs I used to hear as a kid? Decipher my nightmares after a day of studying polisci and wars? Eat cream cheese with hot sauce, or kimchi with tuna? Grow in ways that I didn't know were possible when living with good friends?? As the year is winding down, so must my attachments to Hansel...next term promises to be just as challenging as the past 14 weeks, and after that, we'll be back for the summer! And so with my sentimental hat on for a second, allow me to say - thanks for the experience, you've been grand!
So exams don't seem to be terribly worrisome this year. I think that by the time you reach 3rd year, the ebb and flow of stress becomes routine. With life busy happening around me, school has definitely dropped a rung or two in my ladder of priorities. It's still important, but so are family, friends, and figuring out what it really means to live, instead of going through the motions of being a student.
On that note, a reminder from my small group leaders amidst a time of late-night crammage:
I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you. ~Isaiah 46:4
God is SO good : )
Last week's trash collection day was a particularly windy one. Numerous empty blue boxes and garbage cans were left homeless because they were blown a block or two down the road or hit by vehicles. My housemate and I were looking out the window, watching these containers race each other downwind when someone caught our eyes. He was weaving on and off the sidewalk, picking up whatever trash holding device was on the road, and flinging them back onto their respective lawns. What a thoughtful thing to do for complete strangers!
I'm so thankful for the house (oh Hansel) that we've called home this term. My housemates are absolutely crazy and the past 3-point-something months just wouldn't have been the same without them. Who else would take very, very random (albeit hilarious) pictures of firemen, Andy Lau, and hair-do's? Butcher...er, remind me of the Cantonese songs I used to hear as a kid? Decipher my nightmares after a day of studying polisci and wars? Eat cream cheese with hot sauce, or kimchi with tuna? Grow in ways that I didn't know were possible when living with good friends?? As the year is winding down, so must my attachments to Hansel...next term promises to be just as challenging as the past 14 weeks, and after that, we'll be back for the summer! And so with my sentimental hat on for a second, allow me to say - thanks for the experience, you've been grand!
So exams don't seem to be terribly worrisome this year. I think that by the time you reach 3rd year, the ebb and flow of stress becomes routine. With life busy happening around me, school has definitely dropped a rung or two in my ladder of priorities. It's still important, but so are family, friends, and figuring out what it really means to live, instead of going through the motions of being a student.
On that note, a reminder from my small group leaders amidst a time of late-night crammage:
I am He who will sustain you. I have made you and I will carry you. ~Isaiah 46:4
God is SO good : )
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