Pictures!

Well folks, I finally managed to get some pictures online. However, it took me two hours... and they are all on facebook. The rumor is that blogger won't let me upload pictures anyways (or so I've heard from other HDU students who have tried in the last couple weeks) so I guess you are all stuck.

Since that will please none of you, you can try this link: http://houghton.facebook.com/album.php?aid=2010100&l=cfdff&id=100301115. I have no idea if it will work, but facebook says it should. Hopefully from there you'll be able to get to the other album as well, but no promises.

Should that link not work for you, get on facebook. If you can't / have no desire to, track down someone who does have it and make them get on for you so you can see pictures :-) Mom and Dad, just make Jaron or Ivy get on and show you. Anyone at church, just corner Jaron and make him do it at church for you :-)

This week has been much more relaxing... kind of. I'm still struggling, since right now I have 150 pages to read by Friday morning for my Independent Study, and I have a paper due for Australian Lit. tomorrow by 7. That doesn't really help one relax and find the balance between work and play... But, then, I did just put about 100 pictures online over the course of about two hours.

Really, one of the things that we American students have found out is the difference of communication styles, specifically the technological, between Australia and the US. You pay for internet here by download rate, instead of playing a flat-rate for continuous service. I can't imagine what the library's bill is every month! And even with phone service it's different. You have to pay a monthly fee, but then you pay for every minute on top of that; and at Kingsley, you have to pay 50 cents every time you dial any number on top of that! I imagine that they waste less time online here; but even for me, who doesn't really use it that much, it's quite frustrating.

As far as contacting me goes... Keep sending me e-mail to my Houghton website. But, since it's been ridiculously patchy - I'll get nothing for four days and then get a weeks worth of backup - go ahead and copy my hotmail address as well (keyboardsoccer@msn.com). That way you will definitely get ahold of me.
The caveat here is that I'll only really be able to get on my hotmail once a week or so, unless I make it more of a habit to spend long periods of time at the library on more than one day a week. Which isn't really my plan, with so much else I want to do.

Fun events at Houghton (and by fun I mean not so much) have added to my stress, mental and emotional, so if you could keep that in your prayers it would be great. It's weird to me that something so far removed from me can still affect my emotions here, especially when I feel very little most of the time. So, in one sense, I suppose it's a plus that I'm upset about what happened; but in another sense, it does still suck.

I'm starting to get excited about a couple opportunities that I have to get involved with leading worship, as well as connections that I'm starting to make with some Kingsley families and some families from St. Paul's, where I've been going to church. It's especially great to have opportunities to be surrounded by kids again - after two months of camp I've missed that so much!

Well, I should get to working on my paper, even though I know I'm going to write a couple e-mails before I start on it. And then it will be time to leave, so really I'll just be up late tonight. Hurrah!