How then shall we live?

As a Christian, how should I be living my life? I have to ask myself this question sometimes. In the middle of this crazy, fast paced world that we are living in, I still want my answer to remain the same - my life should be lived for God and for others. This semester I will be studying in Rwanda and Uganda, and doing mission work with Food for the Hungry. These next few months I want to make a drastic change in my life by living not for myself, but for others. Through my studies and my interactions I hope to find a new and better understanding of what it means to be a child of God. I want to leave with no question in my mind that there is so much more to my life than my own happiness. I want to make my Creator proud, by loving his children.

Wednesday, February 17, 2010

2/17/10 - Insert Foot into Mouth

Stayed up to 2:30am doing my research paper on bananas and reading the book for today's discussion. Then I woke up with a bad dream and had a hard time falling back asleep. Got up at 6:30 to answer the questions for our reading before class.

We have been so spoiled lately with our professors coming to the house that everyone groaned a little bit this morning when we had to walk up the hill.

Okay, so this morning I had a total, foot in your mouth, embarrassing moment. It has been a while since I said something stupid, so I guess I was due. I figured I would blog about it so that you can cringe with me. It really probably wasn't as bad as I thought it was, but I felt pretty bad when it happened. I'm building it up so that my readers don't think it is as bad as they are expecting. So our professor has a cold that has slowly been getting worse. Every day it gets harder and harder to hear his voice. This morning he came in and his voice was almost completely gone. Without thinking at all I exclaimed "Dr. Impagi, you seem to be too sick to teach class today, it's fine if you want to cancel class". OOPS. I meant it to be a statement of concern, but the way it came out was completely rude. Halfway through the sentence I was already wishing I could take it back. I am not sure if the professor heard what I said because he didn't say anything, but everyone in class went silent and stared at me. Embarrassing..

Class ended at 10:30, it was our last morning class. Then we had until 1:30 for lunch. We ate and then played cards. Then I put some chairs together and fell asleep to Owl City playing on Nathan's laptop. I woke up when Dr. Susan got to class. We discussed the book and then got out early around 3:20.

Back at the house we all needed to relax. Last night was not a fun night of homework, but our next assignments aren't due till Friday because tomorrow is Practicum Fair. We got in bed right after class and rested until dinner. Dinner was yummy sweet and sour meatballs and rice. Then we played cards for the rest of the night. So yeah, at this point I am thinking about all the work to accomplish tomorrow, but it was worth having a few hours of relaxation after yesterdays stress.
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