Until something worthwhile starts happening in English class, I’ve
taken to re-reading my Latin homework during the lecture. This is both
a good thing and a bad thing since I’m being so studious in Latin but
not so much in English. It’s disappointing though to be in a class for
a subject that I love so much, but not to have any worthwhile
discussion or even insight from the professor. All he does is read from
the notes that he puts up on the projector! What a loss… Wednesday is
the last lecture with Sundahl, though, so perhaps the next professor
will shake things up a bit. Class with Willson is as usual–good
stories, semi-good notes…..fairly good doodles. Not that I’m
complaining, but so far I just haven’t had much to account for in these
classes. The only regular homework that I have is to translate Latin
and (having read Cicero before) that is not much of a burden. I do have
a CCA paper due this Friday, however, as well as my first English
seminar paper due next Tuesday (rough draft on Friday). That should
bring a little bit of excitement into my homework hour–which till now
has been fairly non-existant. Again, not complaining. I’ve enjoyed the
whole college thing so far and I intend for it to get better, not
worse, once the academics pick up.
      Speaking of pick-up, the fraternities were running wild yesterday
afternoon with their pick-up stuff. Every 15 minutes there was
incessant shouting (often of males, sometimes a few females shrieks)
and honking of horns….I ran outside once or twice to catch some of
the action, but, being at the end of a very long hall in Olds, I
usually only caught the tail end of the parade. It heightened all the
more the anticipation for joining a sorority next semester. I realize
that pick-up for sororities is not half as exciting as it if for
fraternities (or maybe just in a different way), but I am still excited
to get involved in the whole Greek system. Odd that I should feel that
way, now, because to begin with I felt unsure about joining a sorority
simply because I felt that it would be somewhat claustrophobic to my
“social life.” Who was I kidding? Being a member of a sorority would,
if anything, increase my chance of making friends! So far I haven’t
made any spectactular jumps in popularity and at this point Karen and I
are feeling a little desperate. It just takes time, though—I
certainly realize that. I’m really enjoying getting to know the girls
in my dorm and especially in my Bible study. They are all solid
Christian girls and I am blessed to be in such a good group of people!
      Though Karen and I are still working on making friends with members of
the opposite sex……whatever happened to chivalry? (this is our daily
cry of mourning…) We’ve decided that because of the idiocy of the
women’s movement, men have become weak, blubbering fools when it comes to gentlemanship.
This is not necessarily true in other areas of life, but when it comes
to chivalry and simply treating a girl as she ought to be treated, boys
are clueless! We’ve vowed that when/if we have sons of our own, they
will certainly not be ignorant of their duties to women!

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