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/I’m home for the weekend again! It is super nice to have a time away from school where I can see my parents and siblings. I also got to see an old friend and we had some fun playing some classic games together. The main reason I am home, however, is because I am playing guitar in my Church’s youth praise team on Sunday. I haven’t done this much so each time I still get nervous and mess up a lot. I used to mind about when I mess up in front of the whole church but I it dawned on me that all I have to do is “make a joyful sound unto the Lord”. It may not be the perfect chords all the time but I always try to make it sound Joyful.
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/Halloween is coming up very soon. I remember running around town to stranger’s houses to collect the various treats offered to us and hoping to find the person that gave out the full chocolate bar. It never occurred to me why some people didn’t go out trick-or-treating until I found out what Halloween was all about. I then understood why some kids didn’t go but to me I had no problem going myself. To me, the event doesn’t mean anything but it is what you are thinking and how you treat the event is what it makes it good or bad. So if you picture it as an evil time, you will be negatively influenced, but if you go out to have fun and get candy, then all you will have is a tummy ache by the end of the night!

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/Wednesdays are my least favourite day of the week. It is the busiest day for me with four classes starting at 8:30 and going throughout the day until 4:30. I guess it is not that bad considering I would have even more classes during high school and sports on top of that. But here at Prov, My other days have only 1 or 2 classes so Wednesdays seem like they are so bad compared to my other days. Oh well, at least Thursdays follow Wednesdays and Thursdays only have 1 class and that’s in the afternoon. You know what that means; I get to sleep in tomorrow! I can’t wait!

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/As you at Prov have probably noticed, a lot of people are sick. People have colds, fevers, sore muscles, stuffed sinuses, and other pains that are making a lot of people here tired and sad. I know that it is that time of year for these things but it seems worse for some reason this year. I am not feeling anything wrong with me yet but I am sure that I will catch something from the many ill people I am in contact with daily. Through times when I am by sick people I always feel closer to God and an immense feeling of compassion for them. I wish I felt this close all the time, but for these times, I will pray for those not feeling 100%.

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/I am finding more and more each day that I really enjoy playing guitar. I didn’t always, in fact, when I fist took guitar lessons, I wasn’t that interested. I took it for 3 years because I thought I would eventually start liking it, and I did! Sadly it was only in the last couple of months that I really started to like it and I played for the first time in public at a youth event in a small praise band. I still wasn't that good but I knew I liked playing. Now a days, I find that the guitar keeps on growing on me and I enjoy it more and more.

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/I watched a very interesting and funny movie today called, “The Ringer”. It is about a man who pretends to be mentally handicapped to enter in the Special Olympics to win money to save a friend. What I thought was interesting was how they made the main humour of the movie about the actions of mentally challenged people. The film was well done and it wasn’t made in an offensive way but I know there is a fine line between going to far when making a movie of that type. It is interesting how one bad joke could have made the movie an insult rather than a charming comedy.

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/ The 2010 Vancouver Olympic Games are coming soon to CTV. I will be an avid follower of this great event and will cheer whole heartedly for my fellow Canadians who happen to be a bit better at sports than I am. However, I will not be wearing the bright red mittens or camping out at McDonalds until an athlete comes by that I can ask for an autograph. I won’t even be anywhere near the action in fact, I will either be viewing it on television (CTV of course) or missing all the excitement and hearing the events from friends. I am so excited!

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/I am now a professional Yahoo Basketball Fantasy Draft player. That’s right; I just partook in my first ever drafting of a fantasy basketball team that I will put up against other people from my dorm. I am in a league with around 7 other guys and we all sat around in a room and each took turns picking NBA players that will win us points every game they play. I would like to say I knew what I was doing but that would be a lie. I can’t wait to see if my players are good or not.

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/It’s so hard to force myself to read! There is always an excuse or something more fun to do than reading. There is something about reading that just turns most people off even though it isn’t that bad and we chose to take the classes that require that reading. Whenever I read, I get an anxious feeling that I need to get it done and I start just skimming the page and I totally forget what was on the last page I read. I don’t know how much I am actually getting out of the reading if I don’t remember it but I will read it anyways to say I did. That makes no sense. I’ll have to think on that one.

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/Two weekends ago, I got a belated grad gift from my aunts. Kind of late but it was a good one, a gift certificate for Future Shop! That was perfect because the speakers on my computer needed replacing and Future Shop had some good deals, or so I heard. So I went there today and they had so many to choose from but only 2 that were in my price range. I ended up getting a cool set with a base and two speakers.

/I never thought that the type of speakers really made a difference but now that I upgraded from two super old speakers to some really nice ones, I realize that sound quality makes a huge difference. It changes the way you listen to music and watch movies because everything is so clear. It was funny because we were talking about this in media class but I didn’t believe it. Now I do :)

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/The study of communication is a very complex thing. I am majoring in communications and media here at Providence College and I am starting to realize how one thing that seemed so simple is really composed of layers and meanings that you never thought of before. I have learned so many definitions of what it means to communicate and how we as humans communicate. There are so many different things to study from audiences to the effect of the size of television you watch that I doubt we will ever find concrete definitions and meanings for everything. Rats, and I thought I would come out of College knowing everything, really I will just know that there is more to learn than what I thought.

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/Pool has become the big thing now between me and my friends. We always hope for an empty pool table before and/or after meals since the table is right beside the cafeteria. If it is empty, we play a few heated games until we think of something more productive to do or decide that the competition level is too high and quit before someone breaks a pool cue over someone’s head. I’m joking of course; we would never damage school property.

/I used to be alright at pool. Now I am not. Enough said. I won’t discuss my pool shot or anything, don’t worry.

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/Today I wrote my first college midterm exam. I realize now that I maybe should have prepared a bit more...but oh well, it is written and now I have the privilege of forgetting about it. That is until I get my mark back and see what I got. That mark has the power over one of my future days. It has the power to decide if I am happy or sad all day long. That’s how it is with all tests I get back after marking. If it is a good mark, I am happy for the whole day and if it is a bad one, I am sad.

/I am sorry for wasting thirty seconds of your life with this blog. Then again, you now know something deep about me. What that may be is for you to find out.

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/I said Thanksgiving was going to be good but I was wrong. It was fantastic! Now that the cliché line is out of the way I can tell you about my super awesome, super long weekend.

/ I had two family gatherings over the break and each one filled me up with some really great food. I must have felt full to the bursting point all weekend and certainly didn’t feel hungry. I even got to go glow mini golfing which was in a whole other fun league in itself. I got to see pretty much all my family members and even got a belated graduation gift. I have so much to be thankful for.

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/Today I camped out in the main lobby here at Providence College just outside of the book store and watched people. No, I haven’t taken up stalking or creeping, I just watched people go about their day. People standing, sitting, walking, and talking: all of them doing something that I can write about.

/One thing I observed is that some people have the ability to merge two groups into one. As an example, there was a group of about 3 guys huddled in a group and to one side were two girls talking together. Then another guy comes along that I knew could and would talk to anyone and everyone. He came up and started talking to the group of guys first, and then started to talk to the girls too. He was also standing between the two groups so soon they were one big group and chatting like they were good friends. Now I don’t know the context of the encounter, they might have already all been friends, but either way, it is pretty cool if someone can bring two opposite groups together like that.

/I see all the other groups standing around me too and recognize each one of them. One group consists of the sports players who are probably talking about the latest practice or game, there’s the 2 guys playing foosball who are getting pretty intense, the group mentioned above still chatting it up, and of course there is the table full of four Asian girls conversing about, well, I don’t really know what they are saying. Sometimes I wonder what they are talking about in their circles, but then I realize that I probably won’t ever know.

/Oh well, back to the groups. They are dispersing now to head to various destinations. Half of one group will go up the stairwell with a wave to those who exit through the front doors. Some conversations are forgotten in an instant while some are mulled over in brains until the next discussion comes along. The lobby is completely empty now, just me and silence. Or is it silent? I now hear sounds I couldn’t hear over the din of chatting students. I hear the humming of the vending machine behind me, inviting me for a snack. I also take notice of the music drifting through the bookstore door and into the open space of the lobby. I almost missed it because of the sound of the tempting snack machine. The song is one I have never heard of before but I can instantly tell it is from a Christian band.

/It then hit me. The symbolism of this situation was basically staring me in the face and screaming. I wasn’t hearing the beautiful melody wafting through my world because the world was too loud. It sounds like something straight out of a poetry book but it is so true. I even wrote about this in one of my previous blogs, that sometimes we can’t hear God because the world just has too many things going on.

/It is amazing how God can use a 500 word blog assignment for a Writing for the Media class to teach me another lesson. His presence here on Earth showing us his love in the smallest of situations is awesome.

/The sound of footsteps on the hard ground makes me look up. With a smile and a wave I dismiss the student late for class and with fifteen minutes left before my own class, head off on my own path.

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/After a long wait (4 days can be a long wait), I am finally back to writing on my blog. Nothing really exciting has happened and I won’t bore you some more with what I had to eat. I will tell you however, that next weekend is thanksgiving weekend! I am heading home on Thursday and staying there until Monday since we have Friday and Monday off of school. I will come back 10 pounds heavier, courtesy of my Mom and Grandparents, and fully refreshed for a lot more school. I just hope that I will find time and remember to study for midterms, whatever those are.

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