I haven't written anything on here since school started so I'll start all the way from the beginning when I came up to BJ for IST (In Service Training). All public safety workers have to come back to school early for training, 1 week for freshmen, and 2 weeks for returning students. So, as a returning student I came up to school in the middle of August to beginning my training. Even though I worked over 120 hours in that 2 week period before school, I wasn't nearly as busy as I am when school is in session. I checked out a few books from the Library to read in my spare time. All of the books that I read were beneficial in at least some respect (non-fiction books). My favorite though, was The Five Love Languages which was recommenced to me by a friend during the summer.
Although I was greatly enjoying absence of school work, I was still excited for school to start up. Classes started well, albeit extremely fast. I can remember that every semester it seems that after only one week of classes, and I get down in the routine, it feels as though I've been at school for ages already. Now, half way through, I'm still doing well in classes, could be doing better in English, but that should change soon. :) Photography, Logic, and Greek are all going extremely well.
I am in Photography Fundamentals, (Pho 100) which is my easiest class by far. I am miles ahead of anyone else in that class. Since, as an entry level class, most of the students have had little to no experience with DSRLs, whereas I have had my own since May 2008 and have been researching photography since February earlier that year. Our teacher, Mr. Block, has called me the "assistant teacher" on several occasions, and I have had a couple different people from my class stop me on the sidewalk and ask me a question about an assignment. :P It's fun. It is very fun, and even though the book work is stuff that I've known for a long time, I am still learning in the class, through the various assignments that we have. When I get off campus, I plan on uploading my pictures that I have been taking for the assignments.
I have been staying very busy so far this year, but God has been gracious, and has allowed me to keep things under control.
Work has been interesting. I have been working a lot at the welcome center so far this semester. I have 20 hours a week scheduled normally, but for the past 3 weeks I have subbed into an extra 4 hour shift, so it's been keeping me busy. Last week I got 30 minutes short of 25 hours, half of that time was between 11 at night and 7 in the morning. But I'm enjoying it. I love my job! I am so glad that I chose Public Safety over say the dinning common, or custodial, or any other on-campus job. The job itself isn't necessarily "fun," because of the pressure and the stress. There is quite a looming responsibility when working as a Public Safety Dispatcher. But I enjoy the job so greatly because I know that I am learning so much from this job. Not only am I learning problem solving techniques, and other valuable life skills, I am also being trained as a 911 dispatcher. If I were to work for the police department, or EMS as a 911 dispatcher, I would already have an excellent head start on training over someone else who had never worked as a dispatcher of any kind.
Well I guess girls is the next topic at hand since I've touched on everything else that I can think of. No girlfriend yet. *parents breathe a sigh of relief* And none on the near horizon either. I suppose that could change quickly, but several things would have to happen before that. One being a phone call with my parents getting their advice.
But anyway, even though I am very busy with school and work, I have been able to find time to have a social life. On Oct. 3rd, I went on my first dating outing which was not my own society's outing. Charity Taft was the girl who asked me to accompany her on the Ambassador's dating outing. The main attraction was horse back riding, but since everyone couldn't go at once, they had games organized to keep everyone who wasn't riding busy. The games were quite enjoyable. I had heard about the legendary "hand-holding games" that people play on dating outings. I must say though, it did feel weird when we joined hands to participate in the first hand holding event. Having never held a girl's hand before (aside from my sister's) it was a new and enjoyable experience to me. Charity's hand was a great deal softer than I was expecting, but I'm sure that was due to my inexperience in this area. Although holding Charity's hand felt weird at first, after a while I got over that, and I realized that hand holding is quite enjoyable, and something which I wish to pursue sometime. Like, when I'm married. ;) The rest of the day was enjoyable as well, especially the horse back riding. We were able to ride the horses on a train in the woods for about 20 minutes. I hadn't ridden a horse since I was probably 7 years old or so, and even then I can barely remember it, so this was basically the first time that I've really ridden a horse, so it was a lot of fun.
I'm going on another dating outing here soon. (Oct. 17th) Jessica set me up with one of the girls in her society, so that should be fun. :) Other than that I've had several other dating opportunities, such as artist series, a performance hall play, and a couple vespers. But I shan't bore you with details, so I'l simply say that they all went quite well, and leave it at that.
Well then, let me try this E-mail update thing, hopefully with success. :)
Tim Petersen
Vespers dating opportunity... hahahaha ;-)
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