This is also our first official roomie picture. I am on the far left, then heading toward the right we have Meagan, a theology major from Texas, Marissa a music major from Pennsylvania, and Kat an anthropology major who goes to the same school as Marissa in Pennsylvania. In a couple weeks the four of us are traveling south with our host mom to visit her parents who live on a house on the ocean. Apparently there is a beach near by where kangaroos just roam free!!! I cannot wait, it will be amazing. Plus, I have not been to the ocean yet. I know, I know, horrible, however it is the middle of their winter... yes these 70 degree sunny says have been absolutely dreadful =) Moving on, the past week or so we have been getting initiated into the Australian culture by eating all the strange things they have in this country. Our (meaning the entire ASC) favorite so far is the lovely Tim Tam slam. Now a Tim Tam is the chocolaty rectangular nugget of which you bite off the corners on opposite ends and stick one end in hot chocolate or coffee and basically use it as a straw. Well after you taste the hot chocolate you have about 2 seconds before the entire cookie melts so you have to sling your head back and shove the Tim Tam in. Oh my goodness it tastes like a chocolate piece of heaven. To model to you the lovely Tim Tam packaging two of my lovely roomies and I will show you...
...and in case you are wondering if you look like your snorting something when you do a Tim Tam slam, I will also show you...
Ah yes, life here is very hard. On a different note, I know I mentioned classes before but they continue to impress me. I am taking a life drawing class, of which we will be getting to study the bones, muscles, and skin of the human body. I don;t know what any of you know about life drawing and private Christian Universities but most don't have it and if they do the models are definitely clothed. Well ours are not. Our teacher (In Aussie they are not called professors, they just go by their names) for life drawing is an amazing man. He can draw people like no ones business and use to be a priest in the Catholic church. Random I know. So he spent the first class explaining to us why it is important to take life drawing as an artist. He also fueled us with info on defending it from a Biblical view point and took time to talk about art vs porn, naked vs nude... It has been really really interesting, and I mean that in the true definition of the word. Needless to say all the teachers here basically just come to teach one class a week and work the rest of the time in the field they teach in (for the most part), so your getting the newest, most up to date, "in style", trendy, accurate, info possible. It is great. Also the new discussion topic in Faith and the Contemporary Artist was "are miracles real & do they prove there is a God?" Once again absolutely amazing. This teach, I forget his name at the moment, also amazing, shoots documentaries and has so many friends all over the board from a religious and occupational stand point. He always tells us stories of his agnostic/atheist friends and their discussions on a greater being. But what I really love about the class is that we all come from such different back grounds and believe different things, some may not believe anything at all. But at the end of the day no matter what happened in class everyone walks out as mates and it is like nothing ever happened. This all might be a little repetitive from my last post but it is so new and so good to me I cannot get over it. I am so pleased and so honored to be in a class full of people who are willing to put their faith on the line for you to test it and so they can test it themselves just so that they can get one step closer to knowing who God really is. I will leave you with this picture I took the other day at observatory park in Sydney on the opposite side of the Harbor bridge from the opera house.
Ok and maybe this...
And maybe this...
...the opera house well never not look like helmets from mid evil times again =)
2 comments:
It sounds the way your teachers work is how it should be done. You make a good point about how they, by working in the field they teach, keep up to date with current things.
I think that too many professors and teachers get stuck doing only that and in a few years are so out of touch with what they're actually teaching it is next to useless. I remember an art teacher I had in high school, ha. It wasn't that she was bad but I felt she was more into arts and crafts from the 60's than current art. "Shall we knit hats for kittens today?" No, no we shall not.
It seems education is just a bit, sarcasm, better over there than here. Too many people here think that what they think is right and infallible. There is little to no room for intellectual debate and instead you get one person cramming your head with their ideas, 'This is what I think and if I think it you better believe I'm right! BELIEVE IT!' Lame.
Ugh I so agree!!! i have people trying to cram your head full of their idea of what is right! People should not be trying to change one another to fit their image of perfection, instead they should try letting people become who they are and encourage their confidence as an individual. Silly bad teachers. But what I really want to know, out of everything you said is why on earth you do not want to knit a kitten? That sounds ever so adorable! You could then by a purse (or in your case a man purse) and carry it around carrying on the Paris Hilton tradition. I know, dream come true right?
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