It seems that my monthly summer update is due. This eventuality has been impressed upon me due to the number of my 'readers' who have contacted me thinking that I have been living on my own for the last month or so. Although my brother Timothy is in Ontario all summer, my parents were only gone for ten days. All the same, it was an enjoyable and educational experience.
Today is the second day of the Leadership Summit, a live teleconference with over a hundred sites around the world participating. It is an annual event, but this is the first year that Newfoundland is participating. So far, it has been quite impressive. I have really been surprised by the quality of production, performance, and message. The Summit is mainly for adults, includes many pastors/officers/shepherds/clergy/etc., and many non-Christian business people attend simply for the quality of the speakers and leadership training. Today, Bono is the featured speaker. I'm looking forward to that. There are a bunch of people attending from my corps, and we're meeting to discuss our thoughts from the conference at lunch today. Hopefully this will positively impact our corps in some way.
On a completely unrelated note, I just finished watching the last of Firefly with Zach. I can't believe that they cancelled such an amazing show. Oh well. Apparently Joss Whedon feels that there are still possibilities for movies and new seasons to continue the story, so I hope that will come to fruition.
I have realized that I haven't been tying my posts together here. Mostly, you just get a sporadic splatter of my most recent thoughts. To rectify that, here is a brief overview of the more 'plot intensive' points of my life:
I just finished my fourth academic semester out of eight at MUN, which feels amazing. I now have five weeks to relax and do all the things I had wanted to do while I was in university all summer, which also feels amazing. Three weeks into that wonderful break, I'll be heading to Calgary with my family to take in the joy of Lindsay and Michael's wedding, which is most amazing of all. Lindsay is the oldest of my generation in my family and the first to get married. I am the second oldest, but not the next in line for matrimony. I think Ashley will beat me to that one, what with her dating a superhero and all.
Once the wedding is over and the marriage has begun, I'll be heading down to Vancouver with my family for a week's vacation. When my parents and Timothy fly back to Newfoundland, I'll fly back to Calgary for my third work term. I'll stay with my wonderful relatives there until sometime in December, at which time I'll come home for Christmas just to leave the next day for Urbana in St. Louis.
I think that's enough of a life view for now. I'm told that life can't be planned out as much as I plan it, but somehow that never stops me from planning. To end this month's post, I would like to list out the movies I am most looking forward to seeing (in no particular order).
1. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
3. Spider-Man 3
4. Pirates of the Carribean 3
Today is the second day of the Leadership Summit, a live teleconference with over a hundred sites around the world participating. It is an annual event, but this is the first year that Newfoundland is participating. So far, it has been quite impressive. I have really been surprised by the quality of production, performance, and message. The Summit is mainly for adults, includes many pastors/officers/shepherds/clergy/etc., and many non-Christian business people attend simply for the quality of the speakers and leadership training. Today, Bono is the featured speaker. I'm looking forward to that. There are a bunch of people attending from my corps, and we're meeting to discuss our thoughts from the conference at lunch today. Hopefully this will positively impact our corps in some way.
On a completely unrelated note, I just finished watching the last of Firefly with Zach. I can't believe that they cancelled such an amazing show. Oh well. Apparently Joss Whedon feels that there are still possibilities for movies and new seasons to continue the story, so I hope that will come to fruition.
I have realized that I haven't been tying my posts together here. Mostly, you just get a sporadic splatter of my most recent thoughts. To rectify that, here is a brief overview of the more 'plot intensive' points of my life:
I just finished my fourth academic semester out of eight at MUN, which feels amazing. I now have five weeks to relax and do all the things I had wanted to do while I was in university all summer, which also feels amazing. Three weeks into that wonderful break, I'll be heading to Calgary with my family to take in the joy of Lindsay and Michael's wedding, which is most amazing of all. Lindsay is the oldest of my generation in my family and the first to get married. I am the second oldest, but not the next in line for matrimony. I think Ashley will beat me to that one, what with her dating a superhero and all.
Once the wedding is over and the marriage has begun, I'll be heading down to Vancouver with my family for a week's vacation. When my parents and Timothy fly back to Newfoundland, I'll fly back to Calgary for my third work term. I'll stay with my wonderful relatives there until sometime in December, at which time I'll come home for Christmas just to leave the next day for Urbana in St. Louis.
I think that's enough of a life view for now. I'm told that life can't be planned out as much as I plan it, but somehow that never stops me from planning. To end this month's post, I would like to list out the movies I am most looking forward to seeing (in no particular order).
1. The Pirates Who Don't Do Anything: A Veggietales Movie
2. The Chronicles of Narnia: Prince Caspian
3. Spider-Man 3
4. Pirates of the Carribean 3
