i look back, and i'm happy. the pictures below, are from my journey. i have more, but i figured this would be suffiecient. what's been going on you ask? well, more orientation type stuff. learning about how all the internships are going to go, and whatknot. how we will choose where to interview and etc. interesting and exciting stuff. learning "how to talk about jesus and not freak out" a talk i didn't exactly enjoy, but was interesting none the less. the are suggesting that LA / Hollywood is the biggest mission field today. i would disagree somewhat, it's more about living our lives as christians wherever we may be, and working as missionaries all the time. i'm not sure that hollywood is any more special than sioux center, but maybe a little more blatant about it's non christianity. their point was that the things created here do influence a lot of people, and if there are small changes here, that can affect people all over. which i don't disagree with, but the way it was presented i didn't like, and i don't know what can and will be changed. their is a lot of God talk at lafsc. lots of leave it up to God...type things. which i guess i'm a little uncomfortable with to some extent. i like to do things, and see how God worked in those things, nothing gets done without me doing. but there is a sort of interesting understanding that God really is in control here, that i guess wasn't said/vocalized at dordt. you know, the whole marshall mccleaun thing about the medium is the message, i felt that with this couple that presented these ideas, they were so very very polished that i didn't even feel like it was new or exciting, even though they were "excited".. it was more of this, practiced, polished and shiny excited. it didn't feel real.
i got to screen a movie that wont come out for a few months yesterday. it was called hooligans or the yank. it was pretty good. i was impressed. more so than i thought i would be, from the things i thought and learned about it before getting there. on our way there, we really experienced la traffic. it took like an hour to get there, and about 10 min to get back. it wasn't that far, but it was packed with cars all the way there almost. how fun!
i am meeting new people, i did some fixing of computers today. funny story actually. so, doug, the old director at lafsc, old as of last semester, is doing our initial orientation. so he'd got his laptop up front and it's hooked to the projector nand everything is working fine. all of a sudden, a message pops up, "your battery is charged" great he says. he then hits "enter" to make the powerpoint go, and nothing happens. he struggles a little bit, and says, "c'mon you computer guys, what do i do?" so i holler out, "Alt-tab" and he's like what? and i'm like, press the alt key, then press the tab key. the what key he asks? the TAB key, ok, he does it and magically it works. people may have clapped. they seem to like to clap around here. so then, at a break, like three different girls come up to me, and are like, um, so are you good with computers, because i need to hook mine up, make the internet work, etc. etc. etc. so today i go over there and help out three girls in one apartment. it was kinda fun. a good way to meet people.
things are going well. tomorrow looks to be a fairly slack day, one meeting, one short assignment due on friday, and i think that i'm going to get a phone. (cellular)
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