M-I-A

missing in action.
sorry to everyone who has been waiting to hear from me. the wireless internet router at the college has been down for about 2 days straight already, i guess they just found out today that they blew the router and need to replace it, hopefully that will be done ASAP because the time difference alone makes it hard to keep in touch with anyone. i was able to track down a borders nearby that has wireless internet access so i will take advantage of this for a little while to update everyone on the last couple days. this will basically end up as a random list of jumbled information as i am rushing to type everything that comes to mind.

it snowed off and on for about 2 days here, it was so colddd! today is sunny and pretty much all the snow is gone now. heres some pictures of the exciting weather and a short video also. i have been pretty busy so i haven't been able to get too much pictures and stuff but heres what i got :)

some other notes...
coffee at the church's coffee shop is amazing, met lots of cool people.
yorkshire tea is also great.
today was the first day of classes, definitely a complete change from engineering... should be an exciting semester!
i went grocery shopping last night, thats definitely an interesting experience. i never realized how difficult it would be to shop in a different place where there are no familiar brand names and its almost impossible to tell if what you are buying is cheap or ridiculously expensive. at the grocery store here you bag your own grocery as the clerk slides it down the counter and then when everything is complete you proceed to pay for your purchases. that is definitely a humbling experience. try counting out 70-something cents when you can't tell a 1 pound coin from a 5p coin... i think i found out how to pay for things here, carry around large bills so you never have to worry about counting out coins, i think i am going to collect alot of coins by the end of this trip :)

our flats are pretty nice, my room is definitely a little cramped, i will be rooming with 2 guys from california, justin and brandon, both of them are about 18 or 19 years old. i think we all have alot in common so it should be fun. our flat has about 12 or 13 guys in total, its a 3 story building. our kitchen is kinda a disaster, it will be interesting trying to not starve here. i cooked some eggs for breakfast and the pan we have is so old and destroyed that i think half of my eggs ended up burning to the pan before the rest was cooked enough to eat, that and the fact that i have no idea what to buy because nothing looks like it does in the US.

i haven't had much of a problem staying warm here, as long as i am bundled up in my big coat with a hoodie underneath and jeans and shoes on i think i can survive...

the classes i will be taking are intro to biblical hebrew, 1,2,3 john, 1&2 samuel, and apologetics. in addition to those classes we daily morning devotions and worship, 4 hours a week of work depending on what job we get assigned to, and weekly men's discipleship group. i think i covered everything in that list...

for my 4 hours of work a week (labeled M199), i signed up for coffee shop as my 1st choice and maintenance as my 2nd choice, so we will see where I end up getting assigned to.

theres a slight possibility that an optional trip to israel might be in the works sometime during the semester, totally excited if that works out!! i guess its about a 4hr flight from here to there and im sure it would be an awesome experience!

hmm i think that about covers everything i can think of right now. hopefully internet is back up in the flats within the next day so i can uphold slightly higher levels of communication with the rest of the world. my roommate justin got here in the middle of the internet outage and still hadnt told his parents he arrived safely until today (about 2 days after he got here) hahaha i bet they were stoked to here he is still alive :)

-seth