Basically I have been so busy what with work, getting ito a new routine, and CU things, that I havent been able to blog as much as I would have liked to. It's been fairly stressful this year so far, with the knowledge that I want to do more work than what I did last year, but seemingly having less time to do it! And sometimes not feeling motivated to do it either! So I thought that I would come into the library and actually look like i'm doing some owrk (and I'm kind of fooling myself here at the moment too!)
The Module Brave New Worlds (Utopias and Dystopias) are really interesting, but also really challenging. I mean being a Christian in my lesson is sometimes really difficult, especially in this particular module, because the books that we read within the module are without God, and derriding religion, and derriding any form of religion, making their own religions up, and also getting the ideas of Christianity but using other things to fill the spaces! We were looking at Kumar's 4 ideals that makes literature a Utopia, these are
1)Desire
2)Harmony
3)Hope
4)Design
Man, when they said that in the lesson, I looked over to my friend who is also a Christian, and said to him, looks quite familiar don't you think! I mean it seems like he's taken Christian principles, and put them in a secular way.
The good thing that has come out of all of this is that I have a private study project that I can do, and I have chosen to do a reading diary (stating my thought on the seminars, and the reading that I've done) so, although I didn't say it in the actual seminar, I will be saying how like Chrsitianity it is, in my project! Its a bit scary though because it might be thought of as not being on the right track or being marked down because its a bit outrageous, but i'm gonna give it a go!
Monday, October 24
Thursday, October 6
zizzi's
Sorry guys that I havent been blogging recently... I've just been majorly busy! (and still am!!!) God has totally answered our prayers about having more support from the Christians on campus (and the freshers) we had (last week) around 50 freshers coming into the CU which was amazing (it has doubled our size which will hopefuly be really good when we come to our mission week which is later on in the academic year) I just hope and pray that the people that we have coming along to CU in the first couple of weeks would stay and that we would really see God working through their lives and the lives of the people that are around them!
The committee have been saying about the vision that God has been giving them about Chester Uni, and it's so cool to see God working all over the place in universities and everywhere. I really think that one of the best places to being people to know Christ is at uni, I don't know why I get that feeling, but I'm constantly being drawn more into that, and I have a real heart for students and for them to know Jesus.
It's also been busy because of the job that I nearly got (well I did 12 hours work there but realised that it wasn't for me and that I couldn't keep a job up and uni work as well so I quit it!) That was a tough decision at the time because I knew that the place where I was going to work were short-staffed (majorly) and this was a great problem for them... but I physically realised that I couldn't do both uni and paid work, and that I will work in the holidays instead! I also came to the conclusion that uni is for working academically, and I will have the rest of my life to earn cash, but not another chance at uni! And also just this week I'm going to be involved in our student alpha group that will be meeting every week on thursdays (I will be helping to lead the discussions afterwards) so with that added responsibility, I just knew that I couldn't have held a job too- and with my work-load being increased dramatically (it seems!) this year, with more reading etc to be done, I need all the time I can get!
(oh yeah, the title was the name of the place where I was going to work!) - thought it was quite a cool name! :O)
The committee have been saying about the vision that God has been giving them about Chester Uni, and it's so cool to see God working all over the place in universities and everywhere. I really think that one of the best places to being people to know Christ is at uni, I don't know why I get that feeling, but I'm constantly being drawn more into that, and I have a real heart for students and for them to know Jesus.
It's also been busy because of the job that I nearly got (well I did 12 hours work there but realised that it wasn't for me and that I couldn't keep a job up and uni work as well so I quit it!) That was a tough decision at the time because I knew that the place where I was going to work were short-staffed (majorly) and this was a great problem for them... but I physically realised that I couldn't do both uni and paid work, and that I will work in the holidays instead! I also came to the conclusion that uni is for working academically, and I will have the rest of my life to earn cash, but not another chance at uni! And also just this week I'm going to be involved in our student alpha group that will be meeting every week on thursdays (I will be helping to lead the discussions afterwards) so with that added responsibility, I just knew that I couldn't have held a job too- and with my work-load being increased dramatically (it seems!) this year, with more reading etc to be done, I need all the time I can get!
(oh yeah, the title was the name of the place where I was going to work!) - thought it was quite a cool name! :O)
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