SNOW!!!

So it is snowing here at PLU and I am very excited. Because I have lived here my whole life I know that it won't stay around for long. We need the temperature to drop another 10 degrees to get some quality snow. I think that because people on this side of the state don't get much snow, at least in the Puget Sound basin, we get real excited and everything takes a back seat to the fact that it is snowing.

In class today, when it started snowing, our entire discussion about plant life on Mt. St. Helens after the eruption in 1980 pretty well stopped and we all stared out the window. I am very excited to get classes over with but I know that I have a lot of hard work to do before they are done. I have a large lab exam next Thursday and I have started studying for it fairly hard. I will need to recognize at least 50-60 organisms by their fur or their skull and tell what the comon name is and the scientific family they belong to. This won't be easy but I think I can manage ok.

On the Thursday of finals week, some friends and I are going snowboarding. I am very excited about this, but I do have a final in the morning. That will be a great end to finals week for me and the snow should be excellent up on the mountain.

Summer in Aberdeen

So I was thinking today about the internship that I did in Aberdeen this summer. Talk about a great time!!! The more I think about it, the more I miss that small, economically depressed town. Sure the living arrangment was not ideal, but the Shath more than made up for it.

The Shath was just the start, I remember Jake Broady and I driving around Aberdeen trying to find parts to convert an old claw foot bathtub into something like a shower. We eventually got it finished and the Shath was born. You could not stand up in the Shath due to the sloped ceiling overhead, but we put a plastic milk crate and sat on that. The Shath highlight was when the band Coretta Scott used it to clean up before their show in Aberdeen.

The Shath was just a small example of the cray things that happened in Aberdeent this summer. I really learned how to spend time with the Lord and that caused me to grow in ways unimaginable before. All the teaching, road trips, fights and Go Camp changed my life in ways I will not soon forget.

I really love al the people out there. Such a real family atmosphere, they really love the Lord and it shows. I especially miss a lot of the youth group that I got to meet and hang out with a lot. I will see you all soon...

I would recomend the summer internship in Aberdeen to anyone, seriously you will grow in the Lord so much because you get to teh point where you have nothing left but God.

So there is a llittle about my summer, I don't know why I was thinking so much about Aberdeen today, but today has been a really awesome day in the Lord so maybe that was it. Church today was great and I got to spend some time with Pastor Tom tonight and talk to him. Anyways, this should be a very random blog, sorry about that!!!

Just getting started

Hey so this is the blog about my life...
Random moments and other things that impact me in some way.
A little about me, I am a student at PLU in Tacoma and I love it. I play football and am invoved in the campus ministry from my church (PSCC) to PLU called Ignite. We have lots of fun and generally stay out of trouble. I really love playing football at PLU because of the EMAL tradition. We care more about being a team and daily choosing to become better football players and people than we do about winning. I really enjoy the fact that all our coaches are Christians and they live their witness on the football field. I started my college career at UPS and then I transfered to PLU. On weekends during the fall you can find me at a PLU football game on Saturday and then watching the Seahawks on Sunday.
I am the oldest of five kids and the majority of my family lives on Vashon Island. I really enjoy the Island and find it interesting the type of people who live there. Some of the things I did on the "rock" was to play Football, Basketball and run Track. I also was a volunteer firefighter/EMT for the fire department on the Island. This led to my last job at Tacoma General Hospital as an ER Tech.
My current passion is in worship and music in general. I am on the worship team for Ignite at PLU and I lead worship occasionally for the youth group at PSCC. I love to experiment on the guitar and try and write music. I really enjoy finding new ways to worship the Maker of the Universe. I am not sure as to what my calling will be in life/ministry but I know that part of it will involve music.
So there is a little about me, I hope you find it usefull.