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.

Wallpaper!

I had an idea and I was wondering if it might work...
In some of my moments when I need to get away from studies I have made some computer wallpapers on Paint. I thought that maybe I could share them with you.
We'll see if this works together:
1) I'm going to put a picture on this post. If you want to make the picture bigger, so you can see what the picture is, simply click on it.
2) If you want it for your wallpaper on your computer right click on the large picture and I think there is an option to immediately make the picture your wallpaper, but if not...
3) you can right click on it and save the picture on your own computer, then you can go to your computer settings and make that picture your wallpaper!

cool. If it works let me know!

Some Scientific Facts

I think its been three weeks now since I wrote a note, so I its more than about time to write something down. I thought I'd start off with some interesting facts that I've been learning from one of the students here...
Did you know...
~ that you sleep better when its just a little bit colder in your room? Apparently your body temperature is lowest in the morning, when at a restful state. As you work throughout the day the body temperature increases as kinetic energy increases. At the end of the day when you want to go back to sleep, to bring your body to a restful state again the temperature needs to be lower. Optimal temperature is 18 degrees!
~ that elephants are the only mammal that cannot jump. Yes, thats right. And for anyone who knows the "Miss Mary Mack" clapping game song... yeah, the song is wrong.
~ you only breath out of one nostril at a time.

So two weeks ago the student population lost about half of its number as the Asia study abroad student left for their term away. They will be spending time in South East Asia (Philippines,
Malaysia, Thailand and Hong Kong I think are the main places) touring with a prof, working on assignments related to their travels and I'm sure having some amazing experiences. It is one of the two study abroad terms that has a part in the BA program here. So, the school has been feeling a bit emptier the last couple weeks, but the first years have been bonding well.

I want to be able to describe more of what I've been up to, but there isn't a whole lot to say. Most of the time during last few weeks I've spent cooped up with my books and my computer. Tonight we played some good 'ole hard hittin rugby. Ok, it was full contact in a sense... but it wasn't full on, there were girls playing so we couldn't hit too hard, but when it came the boys we could hit a bit harder. Good times, good relief from the stresses of a student, and no-one was injured this time either! What a success!