Ups and downs

Another busy weekend we had, as expected. Friday night we went to Cincinnati Brew Ha Ha, which is a beer and comedy festival that takes place at Sawyer Point along Cincinnati’s Riverfront. We (mainly Aaron) sampled a bunch of different beers and just socialized with friends, instead of watching any of the comedy acts. Tom Arnold was on the main stage that night, but he just wasn’t all that funny. After the festival I dropped Aaron, TJ and Craig off at some bar and went home, as I had my first “Understanding the Old Testament” class on Saturday morning at 8:30am. Good thing I didn’t stay out with those boys, they didn’t get home until 4:30am. 

Saturday morning’s class was almost as stressful as the Wednesday Poetry class I was in last week. Again, I was so overwhelmed and just unsure of things that I started to tear up in class. I’ve never opened a bible or been in any sort of religion class, I’m completely clueless when it comes to this stuff. Lucky for me, I had two fantastic ladies (Julie and Patty) sitting beside me who immediately started helping me figure out how to read the bible and offered to help me out as much as they could in the class this semester, and told me to try not to get discouraged. Another lady, Lori, at break also offered to help me out as much as she could. She told me that Aaron actually just taught her the most recent class that she was just in, which finished up last week. Anyways, I powered through the class taking a lot of notes and am going to try and stay as positive as I can about it. We only have 6 classes left this semester, so I can do this!! That afternoon we had the ADG Fraternity’s Alumni Picnic, and as much as I didn’t want to go after being so down on the class that morning, I decided to go and it was a lot of fun. Played a little bit of beach volleyball, played a game of trivia, and just socialized with some of the Alumni from many years ago, to the group I’ve gotten to know very well in the last couple of years, to some of the current active members of the fraternity who currently are still attending Thomas More. It’s been nice to meet the current actives, as I will be seeing them around campus this year. After that we headed off to this bar called “Pirate’s Den” for Seymur and Kelsi’s birthday, where her Uncle’s band was playing. It was a fantastic night. Sunday, I didn’t accomplish nearly anything that I wanted to for school, and that stressed me out a little bit, but Aaron’s dad, mom, grandma, Uncle Paul and Seymur all helped us out with things outside, so that was very much appreciated. We now have a back-door sensor light, our outdoor lawn furniture is painted, and we have the dance floor for our party this weekend almost completed!

Today has been pretty good. Had my psychology and world civilization classes from 10-12, then I ran a couple errands, went to the gym, picked up the last of my textbooks, and went to my first Economics class. This class is going to probably be the most work out of all my classes, but his theory behind the teaching style I totally get, so I am looking forward to it in a weird way. The class is going to be a lot more interactive, and for a night class, that is going to be nice. We have to write a 3-page summary each week before the next class on the readings, and then we will discuss the topics in class the next week. Essentially it is like we are teaching ourselves as he’s going to have no notes for us, and told us that our midterm and final exam are open book, but that’s because he wants us to be able to really understand things and be able to give reason to why we have an opinion on something and relate it back to Economics. There are only 8 of us in the class too. I’m really liking these super small class sizes. The classes at Grant MacEwan weren’t large by any means, very similar in size to my psychology and world civilization classes, it’s just nice having a couple classes where there are less than 10 of us in class.

I’m going to end todays post by saying that this last week has been pretty rough on me. This blog is supposed to capture the good and the bad, or at least that’s what I think. I don’t want people thinking that things are always peachy-keen and that everything is perfect, cause it definitely hasn’t been this last week. I’m going to be honest about things, and I don’t really care if people think differently of me.  I knew that all of this, the moving, going back to school full-time, trying to maintain a healthy relationship, etc. was all going to be a lot of change and that it wasn’t going to be easy. Not for a second have I ever thought that it was going to be. It’s really nice to have the supports around me when I seem to be breaking down lately. In all honesty, this past week has had probably a lot more downs then ups, and I have thought about going home a few times, and even have told Aaron that it might be easier, but I don’t really mean it, and I am trying my best. Aaron is so patient with me, probably one of the qualities I admire most about him. The two of us are doing fine, it’s just my adjusting to things which has been really hard. Overall, I don’t regret my decision yet. :)