Tuesday, 25 September 2007

• Sometimes me being in the kitchen is just a bad idea,  Like yesterday.  Being a klutz and being around boiling water do not go well together.  Thankfully, by the time I managed to pour it on myself it was no longer boiling, just really, really hot.  Still, it stung.  The lady over the kitchen, Diane, brought me some ice packs for my shoulder and neck and we put my arm and hands under cold water.  What can I say?  I keep the place from getting too boring.

   

  I had pulled a gallon of water out of the spaghetti (I was making 17 lbs. of it at once) and was taking it to the line when I slipped on some water.  Normally I don't slip in restaurants, I'm pretty good at handling slick floors but this water was out of the spaghetti and had starch in it and was like wet ice.  Thankfully I had set the container down for a few minutes first so my burns were all just first degree, no water blisters, and so not near as sore today.  In fact, my hands don't hurt at all, I think the skin is tougher there.  But my right wrist is pretty red even today and it's sore to bend, and most of my right arm and my shoulder arm feels like they've been sunburned.  And when I slipped I didn't hit the ground because I caught myself on the counter and the kettle, so I have a narrow burn about an inch long on my shoulder from the kettle and a very impressive bruise forming on my left arm.  Like I said, I keep it from being boring.

   

  We finished our first class, Old Testament Survey, and started a new one yesterday, Theology 1.  I'm already enjoying it.  I love being pushed to think about topics I might not otherwise, to really have to study what the Bible says about something till I understand it well enough to write something coherent about it.  It's fun.  And our teacher is the Director of the school, Ken Krause, who is a great guy.  I'm looking forward to the next weeks.  Of course, out last teacher was so amazing to listen to.  No, he wasn't exciting and sometimes a large amount of caffeine was required to have a hope of focusing BUT I had never heard Genesis and Creation taught from the prospective of a physicist before.  It was amazing to hear him talk about the way our Universe is made and how little scientists actually understand about the vital parts of it, like four fundamental forces.  (And who said I wouldn't learn any science here?)  Listening to him erased any lingering thought in the back of my mind that Christian's studying mathematics or physics or any kind of theoretical science is a waste of time.  It's not.  It's amazing stuff.

   

  Last Saturday was graduation here.  The senior class was small even for Bethany, only 16 students, but it was diverse,  Students from places as dissimilar as Georgia and California, Maine and Colorado, and as far away as Ecuador, South Korea, and Pakistan.  As they gave out the diplomas they flashed pictures of each student up on the screen, mostly shots of them over a past couple of years but also some childhood pictures.  My favorite one was of Cory, the guy from Pakistan.  It was a picture of a group of about 8 men in very "authentic" clothes-robes, turbans, etc.  They looked like men who had been living hard lives in the desert for a long time, like a National Geographic photo.  And sitting right in the middle of them was this little blond haired boy in bright clothes with a big smile on his face.  It was a great picture.

   

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