WOw looking back over this past week, I have sensed so many emotions. Last week I started a college and careers group near steinbach and I love it. I love connecting with non-SBC students at least once a week. Don't get me wrong,  I love my SBC family but I need an escape every now and again. There are SBC ties within this group (the leader and one other CandC'er is on staff at SBC but ya).

 

My classes are going really well. Even the ones I didn't like in the beginning are beginning to get interesting. It is hard to believe that I have a midterm exam next week already! For the most I am staying on top of my assignments and working hard on them (I have only done one where I just didn't care about it). For my Interpersonal Process class I had to read the book "The Shack" and OMW it is the most amazing book I have read in a long time. It is an incredibly well written novel and I recommend it to anyone but you must have the time to read it AND think about it because it will make you think!

 

My practicum is also going really well. The youth group I am working with is so different than Manitou. Almost more guys than girls, more sr. than jr highs some nights and mostly churched youth. Very different than the Manitou group. But ya. I am also leading the Praise and WOrship of it every week and I love that. It is forcing me to learn my bass very quickly and I love playing it and leading from it. It is different leading from behind a guitar instead of just from behind a mic.  

This weekend I am heading out to Winkler for the weekend to spend time with a family at the camp and hopefully spend time with my horse o ya and Konrad lol. I am so excited and just can't wait to get out there. I am homesick for the camp and even through all the frustration I had with it through out the summer, it is an incredible place! I love the camp atmosphere.

 

BUt anyways that is a quick update on my life. I will be back in Manitou over thanksgiving weekend and hoping to catch up with people than as well. I miss everyone from there but Steinbach is amazing!  I love the dorm, school and my church! It has  been great getting so involved!

 

Cassandra

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Well... I am so  frustrated with dorm right now. I pay 5000.00+ a year to live here and we still are infested with mice. How retarded. Like I don't know what else they can do but they have got to do something or else I am seriously moving out. I just can't handle it!

Cassandra

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"but those who hope in the LORD
       will renew their strength.
       They will soar on wings like eagles;
       they will run and not grow weary,
       they will walk and not be faint."

Isaiah 40:31

 
I am clinging to this verse right now. Clinging to it with a lot of my strength. I feel exhausted an drained. I am not sleeping well at night still because of the mouse incidents and ya, know what, I don't care if you think I am over-freaking out about this situation or that my fear is irrational...deal with it. I am sick of being told this is how I have to do things, I want to be different! I don't want the stereotype label of the Bible College. I want to be different, ruined for the ordinary.

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Hey Everyone, Well I know that it has been awhile since I have updated this however, here is a post. So I have been in steinbach for nearly 2 weeks and it feels like home. It felt like home even before I got here. This years group of first years seems to be more out going than we were last year and seem to be finding their "niches" a lot quicker than we did last year. The one HUGE well small downside to this year has been the issue with mice in dorm. I HATE MICE...did I mention that i FREAKIN HATE MICE! I have this incredibly irrational fear of those little gray, disease infested, beady eyed, long tailed, satanic creatures. OK SO I HATE MICE! We had one in our room the second day of school and for the following week I slept somewhere else. Well about a half an hour ago, I was being the good student I always am, doing homework, (That isn't due for 3 weeks) and I thought I saw something move. But I pretended I didn't and went back to work. Well I looked up again to see a set of beady eyes staring back at me....Needless to say I ran out, went and got traps, set them, grabbed homework and came back to the school. I HATE MICE!
 
Otherwise school has been alight so far. I am only taking 4 classes so less time in the class room than last year, but I am also doing my practicum this year instead of next, which is like Field Ed time 1000. I am really excited for that as I am starting to work with a new youth group here in Steinbach and hoping to really get involved with the church here.
 
But anyways I need to get this assignment done, and than I have youth band practice and than supper than our first youth group of the year! WOOT WOOT! I am so excited and so nervous all at once! Pray for me and the other leaders (lynden and Laurie, Mike and Jaimie Jj and Crystal and myself)
 
Peace out!
Cassandra

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Welcome Home

That is what I have felt this weekend time and time again. When I first pulled onto campus on Saturday I just couldn't stop smiling and thinking I was home. Than when I got to Lynden and Laurie's and they got home, I couldn't help thinking "I feel at home". Last night I stopped by the school and got to see a lot my closest friends, I was home. In 20 minutes Crystal and I are leaving for the school to go move in. So excited, so nervous and so pumped. I know there are going to be a lot of changes and I read a few other 2nd's blogs and we all know that and eeeks accept it. I am pumped to have a new group of first years join my SBC family. I can't wait to get to know my new roomate (all I know is that she is a horse lover!) I am nervous for that as well though. All these new people...I have a tendacy to shut down and shut up and not share or be open with new people. Pray that that would not happen. I want to be real with these people and I want them to see the genuine human side of Cassandra. Well after this post they could be sparce because I can't get Blog in dorm but we will see what happens. Please pray for me as I adapt to all these changes and pray that this year would ROCK!