I realized that for many of you, this is the only way you still know I am alive.. this and facebook, I guess.

Therefore, I am writing to announce that I am indeed alive and well. I have almost survived 1 whole semester of the Bethel nursing program, none of the girls on my floor have moved out because they hate their RA, and I haven’t lost my keys or my ID. Sweet victory!

Despite it’s difficulty at times, this semester has been excellent. My floor is stinkin sweet, my best friend has been in town the whole time, I am finally learning how to do real nurse things, I have made many new friends, and my relationship with the Lord has been very consistent and fufilling.

The hardest part of this semester has been dealing with the loss of friendships. Not to my surprise, friendships with some people have fizzled quite a bit this semester. I totally understand how this happened. My life is 150% different than it was last semester because I have an obligation to Getsch and an intense obligation to my major. “Out of sight, out of mind” is perhaps the best way to describe what has happened on my end of and on their end too, I presume. I don’t regret the decisions I have made this semester, I just wish I could be at two places at once. Therefore, I suggest that modern science should abandon its quest to develop teletransportation and figure out a way for humans to exist in the flesh (or atleast in a realistic looking hologram) in two places at once. I’d certainly be the first willing test subject.

Meanwhile, Germans have hacked into our electronic door system in Getsch and rendered the freshmen unable to enter using their IDs. In response to this tragedy, I suggested to my RD that we temporarily change the name of “German Chocolate Cake” to “Freedom Chocolate Cake” and refuse to eat their schnitzel until they make amends. We’ve got an enemy to fight and you’re either with us or you’re against us. If we cannot regain our door locking system back from the Germans, we will erect a very large fence around Getsch to secure our borders. I don’t know how many Germans are among us, but each of them will be interrogated and considered guilty until proven innocent.

This is a rough sketch of the type of people we are profiling:

Note: They may or may not have a beer in hand on campus due to the covenant prohibition of alcohol.