We've been living in Newtown for nearly three weeks now and it's starting to feel like home ( Read more... )

It's less than a week until I start my new job and a new surprise has reared its head ( Read more... )

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This semester's subject at Moore is Christian Communication and Mission. It's been pretty neat so far, a bit of cultural studies, a bit of Anthropology 101 (Community, anyone?), a bit of missiology. Our assessment is to spend time with a community from another culture and get to know their worldview. If I can be completely honest I feel like the ( Read more... )

My "Understanding Buddhism and Islam" class finished last week with a surprisingly enjoyable exam. To celebrate and reflect, here are some appropriate and beautiful songs from The Dandy Warhols' old album Thirteen Tales from Urban Bohemia (links will take you through to YouTube):

In honour of Islam: Mohammed
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It's a cold rainy Sunday morning, the first Sunday of winter. Debussy is playing on the stereo, there is a massaman curry in the slow cooker, I have a cup of hot tea and I am finally getting on top of my notes from class this semester. This morning is much better than I thought it would be!


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Tonight I went back to class after two weeks of absence and two weeks of break. Somewhere in there I had missed the wrapping up of our Islam component and tonight we moved on to Buddhism ( Read more... )

My Moore College course this semester is Understanding Buddhism and Islam but we are just focusing on Islam for the first half of the course. It's been a great course so far. Our lecturer has been wonderful and he has collected great textbooks and resources for us. The last few weeks of class have been especially amazing. We had a field trip to the ( Read more... )

It's been a long time since I have posted about being student, but enough of the year has passed now for me to give a substantial reflection of being a part time Moore College student.

I couldn't help it - I had to turn it into a chart:


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I know I will be kicking myself in the shins for saying this later on but I am finding that college is pretty fun. The content is pretty stimulating and I am actually looking forward to learning. I even find myself looking forward to doing the readings (apart from on days like today when I spent the entire day at work reading and writing for a ( Read more... )