move along, move along, like i know you do
top ten things about the past 4 days:
10. the rush of getting things accomplished
9. kicking butt on my ELI presentation
8. attending my first officer meeting as president of Psi Chi
7. really short work shifts at the clinic
6. sharing the joys of Metric with Nathan
5. growing closer to Amanda Dunn
4. Sophia!
3. after two full days of worrying, writing a near-flawless Honors paper
2. receiving the best compliment i've ever gotten in my life
1. the intangible, yet unmistakable presence of God
When Penny and Nadine first met, Penny wasn't a Christian. They had both spent their freshman years at Reed but never knew each other. Individually they decided to study at the same school in France during their sophomore year.
Penny wanted nothing to do with religion. Her perception of Christians was that they were narrow-minded people, politically conservative, and hypocritical. Penny disliked Christians because it seemed on every humanitarian issue, she found herself directly opposing the opinions held by many evangelicals. She also felt that if Christianity were a person, that is all Christians lumped into one human being, that human being probably wouldn't like her.
After arriving in France, Penny was scheduled to spend a few weeks in Paris on vacation before heading north to Sarah Lawrence College in Rennes. When she arrived, she contacted some of the girls she would be studying with. One of these girls happened to be Nadine. You have to know that Penny and Nadine are very different, opposites in fact. It is amazing that they hit it off at all. Not only did they have completely different religious ideas, but they also came from starkly contrasting backgrounds. Nadine, for instance, descended from Scottish royalty, still having a copious amount of pomp in her bloodline. Penny was born in a green army tent on a hippie commune in the Pacific Northwest.
10. the rush of getting things accomplished
9. kicking butt on my ELI presentation
8. attending my first officer meeting as president of Psi Chi
7. really short work shifts at the clinic
6. sharing the joys of Metric with Nathan
5. growing closer to Amanda Dunn
4. Sophia!
3. after two full days of worrying, writing a near-flawless Honors paper
2. receiving the best compliment i've ever gotten in my life
1. the intangible, yet unmistakable presence of God
When Penny and Nadine first met, Penny wasn't a Christian. They had both spent their freshman years at Reed but never knew each other. Individually they decided to study at the same school in France during their sophomore year.
Penny wanted nothing to do with religion. Her perception of Christians was that they were narrow-minded people, politically conservative, and hypocritical. Penny disliked Christians because it seemed on every humanitarian issue, she found herself directly opposing the opinions held by many evangelicals. She also felt that if Christianity were a person, that is all Christians lumped into one human being, that human being probably wouldn't like her.
After arriving in France, Penny was scheduled to spend a few weeks in Paris on vacation before heading north to Sarah Lawrence College in Rennes. When she arrived, she contacted some of the girls she would be studying with. One of these girls happened to be Nadine. You have to know that Penny and Nadine are very different, opposites in fact. It is amazing that they hit it off at all. Not only did they have completely different religious ideas, but they also came from starkly contrasting backgrounds. Nadine, for instance, descended from Scottish royalty, still having a copious amount of pomp in her bloodline. Penny was born in a green army tent on a hippie commune in the Pacific Northwest.