Keep it rollin'

Sorry it's been a while since my last post, it's been a busy week as usual. I had a great time at graduation with my parents and enjoyed lots of great food and really enjoyed doing the things we loved doing so much when everyone else lived here. It was a great time, and a real blessing to have them out for my Graduation! We headed up the coast after grad and spent a few days and night exploring the sights smells and tastes of Oregon. It was short but we sure did pack it in!

After our trip it was back to Eugene to hit the ground running with preparations for the summer college ministry here. I am fortunate enough to have the responsibility of running the ministry this summer with a few other great people. Our college pastor needs a break from the craziness that college life brings and lays low in the summer so I pretty much have free roam in the direction the ministry goes. We are changing things up quite a bit from the way summers have looked in the past. Meetings will come once a week at 6:00 on Wednesday evenings and we're serving a full meal family style around small tables. I'm arranging different speakers each night and they only get 15 minutes of time that occurs during the meal. Throughout the evening students will have some question time, discussions, and prayer opportunities. The program is designed to help students get a breath of air from their years and focus on highly relational relaxing challenge to move them closer to God. We are also working to bridge a gap between students and the larger church body and using lesser known people from the congregation to speak. I'm real excited to see how the summer plays out, maybe it will fail, but I'm praying that come September students are ready to head back to the challenging life of College, ready to live a life of Love for Christ.

I also have my job at Synergy Air in the afternoons this summer, and am looking forward to the work. I start in on a regular schedule on Monday morning. Unfortunately I also have to complete one more year of Spanish to get my diploma so my mornings consist of 2 hours of intensive Spanish from 8-10. Pray I pass I am not a natural :)

In order to get out to work I needed to get some wheels other than my bicycles. This Friday I found what I was looking for. I finally got my motorcycle I've dreamed about for 7 years. I picked up an '06 Yamaha FZ6 with only 1400 miles and in perfect shape. It sure is a blast, I already put 215 miles on it this weekend, and am really excited to finally get wind blown hair and bugs in my teeth... I'll get some better pictures up soon but for now this is the only one I have. Well that's all I have for now, I'm off to get ready for this crazy week and catch up on some much needed rest!

~B

WOOHOO

I'm walking for my History graduation this Saturday and am enjoying some much needed time with my parents. I'll update you when we get back from a quick trip up the Oregon and Washington coast. For now know I we had a great dinner tonight with my mentors Wally & Neda Anderson, and we are off for our trip after commencement tomorrow!

Weekend Wrap-up

Well my weekend has drawn to an end and boy am I exhausted! I really don't like naps, they throw my off for the rest of my day and I feel lazy but today when I got back from class I was out like a light for 2 hours and missed the final CCF for the year, what a bummer! I took my motorcycle endorsement class and it was actually really fun and informative. It's so great to finally have that so I can get a bike! That ate up most of my weekend and has left me quite a bit of work to do this week. One more 10 page paper, and an essay final is all I have remaining, woohoo! I think I'm actually going to turn in for the night at 10 which sounds amazing!

A short Blurp

NINKASI Brewing Company: The quickest growing microbrewery in the US last year, they are 5 blocks from my house!
Sam Bond's Garage: Won one of the best bars in the US from esquire apparently and it's still a hidden treasure locally, don't have to fight off hoardes of college kids... Always a plus!


This week has been pretty crazy for me and I'm pretty fried so I'll just give you guys a quick update. This is the week of school called "dead week" because it's supposed to be low key and slower so we have time to prepare for finals next week... ya right! I wrote 3 papers this week alone and that was quite a task. But they are all done and turned in so now I can look ahead to finals. I have a 10 page research paper due Wednesday evening and a 2 hour in class essay final on Tuesday afternoon and that's it.

Amidst all of the crazyness I still had some opportunities to be with my friends and enjoy my final days in college. One of my roommates turned 21 over last weekend and we went to our favorite local watering hole to show the little guy the ropes, we had a blast shooting pool and throwing darts. And there was nothing like the look on his face when he tried a local brewery's (Ninkasi) world class IPA. You'da thought he just got a million bucks. A great time indeed. I also had a chance to catch up with some of my closest freinds that I hadn't spent much quality time with in a long time and it was a breath of fresh air! On monday I was out till 1am, a feat I don't acheive often anymore, we had one of those moments where we looked at the clock and realized time had flown! Those are the friendships I truly cherrish, we pick up right where we left off and time just screams by.

This weekend is packed as well but I've been looking forward to it for a long time. I'm taking a class that upon complesion will earn my motorcycle endorsement. I've wanted a bike for way too long, since junior year of highschool I believe, and it's time for me to take the plunge. This is the first step and hopefully a bike will come in the next month or so, depending on finances. Well off to a show tonight at Sam Bond's Garage to see a CD release party for a local band I saw a while back. The venue is just down the road from me and it's a real taste of Eugene. Think hippies, eclectic music, big open barn feel, more bicycles than cars in the lot, and beer served in mason jars. I'll give you guys a better update when time permits.


~B