1) The First "Official" Week of Class

That was this week! Today is Saturday. And on Monday, we'll begin week 2 of class.

This last week... it may have consisted of seven 24-hour intervals... but believe me, sometimes a single day lasted for three weeks. It was a BUSY WEEK!

Week one usually isn't this full. But there was a guest speaker for several evenings, so we spent the day at class, then the evening at the service. And we didn't go home in between each time. And class isn't just sitting in class. This week we cleaned the facilities and set them up for a funeral. There's worship in the mornings. There's the different possible activities of lunch time. There's quiet study time, which never lasts long enough. There's... a lot of stuff. ;)

The week was also an internal roller coaster. In a million different ways, with elements from a dozen different sources. I loved the seminar we watched in class this week... the things Malcolm Smith spoke of in "A Search for Self-Worth" were by no means foreign to me, but still... It's always lovely to gain a richer and fuller understanding of a concept. To think about things in ways you hadn't before. To focus on things you'd all but forgotten. To come to realizations that had never fully sunk in before. To see healing for wounds you'd forgotten were even there. It really is a beautiful thing.

Yes. Overall, this has been an excellent week! =]

And it has now been one month! As of the day after tomorrow, it has been one solid month.

... O_O

Have I really already been here a MONTH? The unit of time I've been here... feels like years, while at the same time feeling like only a week. It feels like a long time, but more than that it feels like a short time. A VERY short time. This unit of time I've been here... do I really only have ten more units before this is over? Only ten? So few?

Wow. I will never understand time.

Oh, and by the way! GL paid for us to have our hair done professionally. ;D You remember Jude, the baby who swallowed the sleeping pills? His mom is a professional hair-cutter. Tammie (the awesome assistant director) picked me and Sarah up yesterday and brought us to the salon.

Well, there we go. I've brought my blog up to the present! Hopefully I can easily fall into the habit of posting once a week. That would be neat. :)