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I really didn't want to start off my blog by saying, "Hey everyone! I've started a blog!" or "Well, folks, I've hopped on the blog train!" or "This is my blog," but then I ended up saying all three so I guess I am fated to sound like a technologically challenged middle aged cat lady attempting to make shallow friends via the internet.

Ventana has been incredible, but not in the ways I had imagined. The school work is intense and challening, the work days are long and very physical, the people are amazing and strange, and God continues to show up in ways I had never expected.

I love our classes. I am learning so much and love it. All of the classes seem to overlap and connect together, and a lot of our textbook authors quote each other (one has even quoted himself...it was kind of weird). I am really excited about how real the Bible is becomming, how I have been able to dig into passages and extract meaning that applies to not only my life, but life in general.

We work three days out of the week with the camp we're staying at, Mission Springs. It's actually calledd "Service Learning" because we're being taught valuable lifeskills...I think maybe they are trying to market mannual labor as a fun opportunity. But the staff we have been working with are great and I've actually learned a few things, believe it or not. I have stained and sanded and unbolted and rebolted and hammered and and mannually inserted earplugs (in my own ears, by the way) and swept and even used power tools. And only one blister so far.

We don't have a lot of free time and have limited access to cell phones and laptops (so we don't isolate ourselves and forgo socialization), but I think it is for the best.

Anyway, it's getting late and I have homework I should go pretend to work on.