So I get back from and awesome weekend in the States only to find out that I have 4 assignments due by the end of the week, 4 interviews to go to by Friday, 2 volleyball games to play this week, 2 days worth of notes to catch up on and 3 midterms to study for next week. AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!! So I have made a commitment. Absolutely no TV until June 12th.
Back to Work!
Dave Westy
Wednesday, May 31, 2006
Tuesday, May 30, 2006
What a weekend
I just had one awesome weekend!!! After finishing up class on Thursday I left for the Van Eyk's by around noon. 12 hours of uneventful (and boring) driving later I arrived in Greensboro, North Carolina. Of course I stayed up chatting and catching up on the news with Re and Greg until about 3 in the morning. The next morning we got everything together and then headed down to South Carolina for Matt and Stacy's wedding. It was a beautiful wedding. The Bride was simply stunning, the bridesmaids were all beautiful as were their dresses, and the men were all wearing suits so I guess they must have looked good too. Matt and Stacy know too many ministers and so we had to listen to three 'semons' but the messages and exhortations where all very good and well worth listening to so all in all it was one of the best wedding I've ever been too. The church was so full that some people had to stand in the back and the reception afterwards was great too. I got to meet all my Greenville friends again and it was sooooo good to see them.
After the wedding a bunch of us went over to the place we were staying at (thanks so much Vandoodewaards for letting us use your house!!) and visited for a few hours. Saturday we out for lunch with Thomas and then visited the Spears and Bob and made all the Greenville rounds. We visited with Mrs. Karr for a while until Steph got home and then we all headed back to the Vandood's place to watch a movie and hang out.
Sunday we went to Second Pres. For the morning, where Mr. Spears had a great sermon, and then to the new OPC church that is meeting at the Seminary for the evening service. We stopped by the Karr's on our way home and Mrs. Karr made us some food and of course we talked a lot and didn't leave until about 10. As we headed home we where making really good time until we had a very disturbing and traumatic experience. You can read all the gory details on Re's blog but the gist of it is that a young girl died on the road about 200 feet in front of us and we saw pretty much everything except the actual event. It was definantly one of the worst and most sobering events in my life. Remember to pray for her family and especially for those friends that were there and saw her die.
I had a safe trip back on Monday although I spent most of the trip wishing I didn't have to go back and I didn't even get a ticket although I saw 18 cops on the way. So that was my weekend in a nutshell. It was a funfilled and awesome weekend!!! I miss y'all down there!!!!!!!! Love y'all too!
Dave Westy
After the wedding a bunch of us went over to the place we were staying at (thanks so much Vandoodewaards for letting us use your house!!) and visited for a few hours. Saturday we out for lunch with Thomas and then visited the Spears and Bob and made all the Greenville rounds. We visited with Mrs. Karr for a while until Steph got home and then we all headed back to the Vandood's place to watch a movie and hang out.
Sunday we went to Second Pres. For the morning, where Mr. Spears had a great sermon, and then to the new OPC church that is meeting at the Seminary for the evening service. We stopped by the Karr's on our way home and Mrs. Karr made us some food and of course we talked a lot and didn't leave until about 10. As we headed home we where making really good time until we had a very disturbing and traumatic experience. You can read all the gory details on Re's blog but the gist of it is that a young girl died on the road about 200 feet in front of us and we saw pretty much everything except the actual event. It was definantly one of the worst and most sobering events in my life. Remember to pray for her family and especially for those friends that were there and saw her die.
I had a safe trip back on Monday although I spent most of the trip wishing I didn't have to go back and I didn't even get a ticket although I saw 18 cops on the way. So that was my weekend in a nutshell. It was a funfilled and awesome weekend!!! I miss y'all down there!!!!!!!! Love y'all too!
Dave Westy
Tuesday, May 23, 2006
Yes I am Alive
Its been a while since I posted on here which of course means I've been pretty busy. School is starting to pick up and the assignments are coming, although no labs this terms means that the workload isn't too brutal. I'm playing volleyball again this term and so far we won our first two games! We just played tonight and it was probably one of the best games we've ever played. Very good playing from both teams and a close fought game made for good times.
I went home this past weekend and saw all my St. Thomas peeps. And speaking of St. Thomas, the St. Thomas Free Reformed Church is having a conference on June 9th and 10th. It starts at 7:30 and registration is from 7:12-7:27 :-P. Pete Vandoodewaard is speaking on "God the creator; The Doctrine of Creation and your Life" and Pete is a great guy. I also hear that there are lots of fun events planned for Saturday, so you should definantly go. It'll be a blast, and I better see you there ;-)
I'm heading down to South Carolina this Weekend for Stacy's wedding, and I am starting to get PUMPED. I can't wait to see y'all down there! Well, the homework is calling me so I better get back at it. Just wanted to let y'all know that I am still alive.
peace
Dave Westy
I went home this past weekend and saw all my St. Thomas peeps. And speaking of St. Thomas, the St. Thomas Free Reformed Church is having a conference on June 9th and 10th. It starts at 7:30 and registration is from 7:12-7:27 :-P. Pete Vandoodewaard is speaking on "God the creator; The Doctrine of Creation and your Life" and Pete is a great guy. I also hear that there are lots of fun events planned for Saturday, so you should definantly go. It'll be a blast, and I better see you there ;-)
I'm heading down to South Carolina this Weekend for Stacy's wedding, and I am starting to get PUMPED. I can't wait to see y'all down there! Well, the homework is calling me so I better get back at it. Just wanted to let y'all know that I am still alive.
peace
Dave Westy
Tuesday, May 09, 2006
Fun times
What a fun weekend. The end of the first week of school and so it was time to have some fun. :-) On Friday night we did some stuff with the younger young people at the Colenbrander's. The events of the night involved getting dirty and somehow I ended being a team leader and having to participate instead of getting to run an event. That made for some crazy fun times.
The first event involved a bunch of stuff like leapfrogging and walking across 2 by 4's with your whole team. Crazy stuff, but no one got hurt so there's not much to tell you about there. Then it was the mud slide climb where we had to get our whole team on top of an eight foot hight structure by going up a mud covered sheet of plywood. I was bosting everybody up and managed to get a scrape on my head as well as a nice big one on my arm and bruised elbow. Now that game was worth writing about :-D. then the last game involved finding fake eggs in a pool full of mud, and I'll make this short and sweet. I got thrown in said pool of mud. I got really dirty and I didn't have a change of clothes with me. it was AWESOME. :-P
Saturday I went to Canada's Wonderland for the first time!!!! Lots of fun there but there was alot of people so we didn't get on too many rides, but hey, half the fun is waiting in line. Saturday night we went to hear the AOC (All Ontario Choir) Finale. Got to see a bunch of people I hadn't seen in a while and listen to some good music. So that's what I've been doing with my life. but now its back to the books.
The first event involved a bunch of stuff like leapfrogging and walking across 2 by 4's with your whole team. Crazy stuff, but no one got hurt so there's not much to tell you about there. Then it was the mud slide climb where we had to get our whole team on top of an eight foot hight structure by going up a mud covered sheet of plywood. I was bosting everybody up and managed to get a scrape on my head as well as a nice big one on my arm and bruised elbow. Now that game was worth writing about :-D. then the last game involved finding fake eggs in a pool full of mud, and I'll make this short and sweet. I got thrown in said pool of mud. I got really dirty and I didn't have a change of clothes with me. it was AWESOME. :-P
Saturday I went to Canada's Wonderland for the first time!!!! Lots of fun there but there was alot of people so we didn't get on too many rides, but hey, half the fun is waiting in line. Saturday night we went to hear the AOC (All Ontario Choir) Finale. Got to see a bunch of people I hadn't seen in a while and listen to some good music. So that's what I've been doing with my life. but now its back to the books.
Tuesday, May 02, 2006
Good to be back
Well, I'm all moved in and back into the school schedule. I went grocery shopping and spent over a $100 stocking up on all the essentials like chips and pop and pizza and the odd bit of healthy food. Speaking of healthy food I've been eating great since I got here. Supper yesterday was a half a bag of Fries, a couple of greasy burgers and a half a tub of yogurt. Man I love being a student :-)
Seriously though, its going pretty good so far. Most of my profs are pretty good although I don't know if I'm going to be able to survive my Organic Chem class. I must make sure I don't bring a rope to class with me cause if I had one today I wouldn't be writing this right now. :-p I hope things improve cause if they don't I might just be learning everything from the textbook. Ah well, the joys of being a student.
I better get back to putting off doing homework although thankfully I don't have much to put off this week. Just a little bit of reading and some touching up on my work report. Peace.
Seriously though, its going pretty good so far. Most of my profs are pretty good although I don't know if I'm going to be able to survive my Organic Chem class. I must make sure I don't bring a rope to class with me cause if I had one today I wouldn't be writing this right now. :-p I hope things improve cause if they don't I might just be learning everything from the textbook. Ah well, the joys of being a student.
I better get back to putting off doing homework although thankfully I don't have much to put off this week. Just a little bit of reading and some touching up on my work report. Peace.
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