We arrived home last night around 10 pm, just in time to return the car rental and pick up Sugar. I was a bit wired and a lot tired from the weekend's activities. Reconnecting with all my brothers and sisters and their families is demanding enough let alone saying goodbye to Mom and hello to son and grandchildren. It was a good weekend despite all the sadness and the sheer logistics.
Now it is time to settle back down to - not normalcy, but classes. This is the more challenging week of mind bending, deeply philosophical and somewhat radical analysis of why we do church the way we do church and whether we should continue doing it the same way. It is interesting and rather revolutionary proposals fly about, making you really evaluate your experiences.
Secondarily, this class is more challenging because there are more students in it. Keeping up with the online discussion was a mind boggling morass of confusion and fragmentation. It is apparent that conversation in the classroom will be even more difficult. I am constantly wanting to say something, but there is simply no opportunity. The poor professor gets farther and farther behind in his lecture until I see him flip past multiple pages trying to stay on track by eliminating portions of topics.
At least no one is bored or nodding off! Hopefully things will settle down in a day or so.
Now it is time to settle back down to - not normalcy, but classes. This is the more challenging week of mind bending, deeply philosophical and somewhat radical analysis of why we do church the way we do church and whether we should continue doing it the same way. It is interesting and rather revolutionary proposals fly about, making you really evaluate your experiences.
Secondarily, this class is more challenging because there are more students in it. Keeping up with the online discussion was a mind boggling morass of confusion and fragmentation. It is apparent that conversation in the classroom will be even more difficult. I am constantly wanting to say something, but there is simply no opportunity. The poor professor gets farther and farther behind in his lecture until I see him flip past multiple pages trying to stay on track by eliminating portions of topics.
At least no one is bored or nodding off! Hopefully things will settle down in a day or so.
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