Autumn

I think I can say that autumn is one of my favourite times of the year. The warm and pleasant aftertaste of summer meeting with the crispness and change of season and time. For me its a time marked with an influence of maturity, a moving on, and the warmth of summers joy and a harvest complete. Haha, I think I just REALLY like the colours, especially in New Brunswick. It seems each tree explodes with its own hue; yellows, oranges, browns, greens and reds. If I take the time to appreciate the world around me it can be captivating... and sometimes distracting from the studies (like right now). But its good to enjoy the things around, and appreciate and value what things are worth. This seems to be one of the lessons I'm learning lately:

What value do I place on the people around me? Is my opinion of their value influenced for what I receive from them? Or from the value that is intrinsically placed within them because that person is a creation of God's hand?

Moving to a different note. This week seems to be a week for tests. Two down and one more to go. The need to read material for class and for upcoming papers is becoming a constant, one that I'm hoping I will get used to, haha (I'm just going to have to get used to it). The weather definitely has been beautiful. Yesterday, I believe the word was that the temperature rose to around 26 degrees, which was just balmy and great. However... I think we're about to begin experiencing a real fall, and, as it goes in Canada, winter could happen at just about any time.

I have a few upcoming events that I'm looking forward too. My parents are coming in just over a week, so I'm excited about showing them what I've been up to for the past two months and also traveling and hanging out with them for the weekend. Another cool thing, myself and 9 others are planning a trip to see the David Crowder band. The venue is just outside of Boston, November 10th. We'll go to the concert and get a chance to check out Boston a little bit too. Haha, sounds like I'm having just a jolly ole time here (and I am), but I'll be needing to hunker down get some studying done in the meantime.

I have a couple more interesting facts. Did you know... ?
~ Elephants have four knees. Apparently they are the only animal that has four knees.
~ There is such a thing as an apple burp. Something you don't really think about, but it seems to happen with most people (I've tried it and it happened to me). Eat and apple and a little while later you'll have an apple burp. It may just be little, but its there. Try it out.