round 2, photoless.

Jordan pointed out that he is kicking my butt with this blogging thing…I’ve got to get better about this! But life is reallllllly busy. I hardly know how to sum it up at this point…let’s give it a try.

Still balancing LOTS of hw and practice… and things are picking up with the bands, which is exciting! Went to see Jordan and his crew play at the Plantation extension campus last night… they killed it! My band is playing in the gym, one of the overflow services on Sunday, and I’m sooooo pumped about it. It’ll be great to get back to playing for real J and we’re singing with the choir this weekend too… you can watch it live @ 6:30 Saturday, 8:30 or 12:30 on Sunday (I’ll be missing from 10:15) on calvaryftl.org. It’s gonna be a party.

Lots of mind blowing has been going on… from seeing U2 live (WHAT?!) and driving home through the night, b/c we’re idiots J and watching the sun rise on alligator alley. I took lots of pics of that on my phone, but I can’t reeeeally figure out how to upload them to the internet. Lame. But regardless, God’s glory kinda blew me away… and Your Love is Strong came on shuffle right at daybreak..gotta love those coincidences, huh? ;) My new favorite thing since the weather has been so awesome is to lay on the golf course and look at the stars (time willing…ha!) and it’s been so awesome to just be truly overwhelmed with God’s faithfulness, His love, His massiveness, and His purpose. Those are just a few themes ongoing.

I’m still kind of amazed also at the talent around here…holy cow. But the best part is that despite how good some of these people are (namely staff), they’re so encouraging. I feel really be blessed to be a part of this community. Of course I miss my community back home, but from what I hear of back home stuff is going really awesome, which is also a blessing. (bearsies…) I’m praying for Do It BIG 09!!!

Oh geez…not going to get long winded. HA. Sorry I have no pictures this time… fail. I was planning on having several from my phone but… cool, Verizon. Hopefully I’ll pick up my camera soon. If you want to watch my homework on youtube you can. Kidding…don’t watch it please… but it’s really on youtube, homework?! And studying with a Bible always… school is so awesome. Blows my mind. (There I go again….) PEACE AND BLESSINS.

in the beginning...

Hi friends :) I realized once I had been here for some time that…it was not going to be particularly fun to re-explain my life like a gajillion times, so here I will keep it (hopefully updated) once and for all! And I’ll try to stay as to-the-point as possible….heh.. Soooo..here I am! Umm… Let me just break it down.

Technical stuff: I’m busy as allll get out, but it’s all awesome. I have some classes in a classroom: Music Theory, Ear Training, Communication, Music Technology, Theology of Worship, Songwriting, and Old Testament survey. All of that leads to lots of reading (not to mention 8 chapters of scripture a day) and homework..

Then I also have private lessons on guitar and voice (which means lots of practice on those), and class labs in both of those too. On top of that, the staff is in the process of dividing us into ensembles who we’ll play with for the rest of the term. So… phew! But the staff is so legit and helpful, and the OE class of ’10 is awesome. Yes, I have friends ;) haha. 37 to be exact! And the church body/ church services and everything are always such a blessing. I sat in on a youth service last week too… we’ll see what happens with that!

Spiritual Stuff: So already, God has shown me so much. The first week of school the staff provided worship sets for us every morning, and it was such a blessed time. For one, it was so incredible to spend such edifying time in intimate and reverent worship with almost total strangers at that point, but still feel like they were my family. And then God goes “*BONK* because they are your family!” …oh right. And by now, we’re all friends and it’s sweet. Also, I realized on day 1 that I had previously had a totally wrong attitude about coming…essentially that “yeah God better have some really awesome stuff coming my way from all this stuff since He’s called me down here and I have to miss out on lots of opportunities for stuff back home..” ummm wrong. Haha. God slapped me in the face hard with that one... I’m here for reasons beyond my comprehension and it is 100% a privilege that I am here… the opportunities and resources before me here are insane. So needless to say… now I’m really grateful to be here. :)

I would go into further detail but therein lies the temptation for you to stop reading because it’s too long and blah blah. So I’ll try and just stay on top of this to get the most detail possible. OH! Here’s a big deal: Charlie Hall came on Friday to play a show, and he hung out with us the whole day and taught us and stuff! Its was incredible. Be jealous. ;)

I miss home for sure… but I’m really doing great. Keep me and the rest of my class in prayer, as the enemy isn’t too pleased with what we’re doing…and it we can’t afford to lose any focus/camaraderie! Um…thanks for caring about my life and suchlike.