A Good School

I feel as though I am stuck at a cross roads in the middle of life right now. Any hasty decision will determine the rest of my life. It seems so strange that when I am so young trying to earn an undergraduate degree and at the same time consider graduate studies that even if I am accepted into a program I will only be 25 by the time I finish. Then when your that young why even stop there, why not just go on? So why not get a PhD? Even then by the time I finish that I’ll still be under thirty.
So now that I know I have all this option to go on in further education I have to play my cards right. Where to I get my MA? What do I choose for a program? What MA at what school will allow me to on to get into a PhD program? Even if I get a Masters degree from a particular school will it be acceptable to get into a school of my choosing to get a PhD? The whole degree situation is really the most confusing thing I’ve ever had to work out. My forty page paper on eschatology is simpler then this. If I go somewhere that’s too expensive I won’t be able to afford it past my first year. If I go somewhere that is cheap in Canada my American wife won’t be able to work right away. If I go somewhere cheaper in the states how do I know if the school is reputable enough? I don’t want to go to a denominational seminary because the education for something like theological or biblical studies probably won’t be broad enough. Most seminaries have inbred faculty who went to the seminary then decided never to leave.
I just want a good school. I just don’t know what it looks like when I’ve found one I can afford.
Christopher J.

Talking with Oma

 
Well, today I got to talk to Oma. (That's dutch for Grandma). It's nice to talk to my Oma every so often, espicially since I don't get to see her very often. She's going to have to sell her place soon and move into a home where she can be better taken care of. Someone isn't home all the time and sometimes she forgets critical things like insulin so it'll be good if/when she does move into a home. Oma was saying that her drain was plugged and that according to some guy's estimate it would be something like 1,700 dollars to get it cleared. It sounds like someone's trying to rip off my Oma just because she's older. Well, I don't live anywhere near her, and I kind of wish I did, but as is the case with all my relatives, they're far away. I never really grew up knowing my relatives with the exception of a few families. It was always neat to go to my grandma's for Christmas, or to visit Oma during one of my parents holidays. The one thing that was cool about growing up was that when my parents took a day off work to go to Vancouver and visit relatives was that they would take us with them because we were to young to be left alone. I wish I was too young to be left alone. It's kind of funny how people regress when they get older. When your first born you are in completely dependant on others, and eventually when you get older you return to that state. I guess it's kind of God's natural form for humiliation. Certianly no one can really go to God proud, if they did, they'd surely be surprised when they met someone greater then they, but if they were someone who is completely dependant on God and others, then I guess your stuck with your faith and a few friends and family, so in the end when you do go to God, it's probably better to be older in a much more dependant state of faith, then being young and independant like me. Then again, by the time your eighty, you may just make it look easy.
~Christopher J.

 
Well, we finally made it back from western Kansas. We had to make a stop in Arizona for one night because we missed our connection in Phoenix International. We were welcomed by one of those true Canadian Blizzards yesterday. Today it is a whopping minus 23 degrees Celsius. It was freezing this morning. To think that we were just in phoenix is incredible. I nearly had to take a bus up to Calgary from Phoenix. I should mention that Phoenix is only two hours away from Mexico. Passports became mandatory for people traveling from the USA to Canada out of Phoenix intl. on the seventh and we ended up flying out of Phoenix on the 6th. The airline put up 100 dollars towards a cheap hotel. I do not recommend flying with American West because they should have paid for the whole thing. The people at Phoenix intl. were less then helpful when it comes to distressed passengers, with the exception of the people at the information both. But overall it was a fun trip by far and completely worth all the stress of making it back in time. The computer was just fixed under an hour ago, so now I am blogging again. Recently, for whatever reason, the computer would not get passed the bios screen. well, now that it's working again I need to finish writing for my TH 390 class, which should have been done last semester. Fortunately, since I have a very graceful prof, who has decided not to fail me, I have an extension until the end of this month. Well, I have decided to apply to Nazarene Theological Seminary. Fortunately between the loan and what we'll make this summer and with the help of the school with a scholarship and student aid to help with our broken pick-up we'll be able to afford to make the move and go to the school. We only now just have to worry about me getting accepted to the Seminary. I'm pretty excited. Natalie has a job for this summer here at the library on Campus, I just need to find a job for this summer too. I have all my syllaby now so I guess I better get started on this summer before we can really plan on anything.
~Christopher J.