proverbs

OK, so right now I'm meant to be writing an assignment on proverbs right now, but I've been staring at my screen for the past 2 hours or so, getting nowhere fast. And so I decided that I may as well cut my losses and just blog, then at least I'm being semi-productive right?!

This morning I did something crazy. I set my alarm for 5.45am, got up, put on my running shoes and ran. It was dark. It was pretty chilly. But it was awesome. I feel like I have pent up energy here, with no real way to get it out of my system, and so this morning I got rid of some of that energy. It felt so good to just run in the dark, seeing the stillness of the world.

I'm enjoying being back at school now, knowing that I'm here until Christmas (...and on a side note, some people here have starting playing Christmas music already. I'm sorry, but its not December yet, therefore Christmas music is not allowed yet. Just wait a little bit longer please!). The past weekend we had our travel weekend and I ended up going to Salzburg in Austria. It was nice to be away from school. Not in the sense that I was ready for a change of environment, because to be honest, I didn’t want to leave this environment because its become familiar to me now. But it was nice to have independence again, to go to bed when we wanted, have meals at times that we wanted. Choose what we wanted for meals. I didn’t realise how much I've missed that.

Anyway, Salzburg was great. The city is beautifully old. And I can cross off watching the sound of music in Salzburg off my bucket list!! We wandered around the city, did some sightseeing of castles and cathedrals, saw some sound of music places, shopped, went to an Irish pup! It was nice to be in a small group again. Just spend time with a core group for a few days and get to know them more.

This week in lectures we have Rob Whittaker from Capenwray Hall. And I know I say this every time, but I mean it even more this time, because Rob has a NORTHEN ENGLISH accent. And he keeps making references to places in England like Lancaster, and the Lake District, and I'm like 'I know these places!!'. And he uses very northern phrases and word. Mann, its great to listen to him. But not just because of his accent. He is a great lecturer, and I'm getting loads from him. Maybe I'll blog about it another time.

For now though I'll leave it there and get back to the book of proverbs.