Classes!!!

Wednesday I turned my alarm off and slept in, which was a fail. Then We grabbed breakfast and headed to the Audi-max for another orientation meeting. It was the longest and most boring, by far. The president of the program is a good guy, but he says “Fair enough? Fabulous.” approximately every other sentence. It was uber-distracting. Then we were given our travel mugs, text books, and laundry baskets. Woo laundry baskets!!! Woo mugs for tea!!! Then there was an optional tour of Gaming, but it was raining and gross and I was exhausted, so I opted for a three hour long nap. I got up just in time to head down to the town church (different than the church in the Kartause complex, the Maria Thron). I stayed in the church for a long time, just praying and letting God talk to my heart. It was lovely. I said a rosary too, so I got to love on Mama Mary. (:
Then it was back to campus for dinner and a meeting with all the music ministers. It was fun. We learned how to sing the Sanctus (aka Holy Holy, the Mass part right before we start kneeling for the Consecration of the Eucharist) in German, and it was so awesome. The music ministry team (so basically the people on campus who can/love to sing) got to sing together. We busted out harmonies and it was fabulous. I’ll get a picture soon of my team, so you can see who I’ll be talking about.
Thursday (yesterday! I’m getting caught up!)
We started classes! I woke up early and headed to Maria Thron to pray. I’m working on starting my day the right way (:
I missed breakfast because I lost track of time, and headed directly to class.
We’re doing things on a block schedule, which means that instead of classes being assigned to days they are assigned to schedule blocks. Yesterday was a B block, and for the most part  Mon./Wed. will be A block Tue./Thur.
A Block:
8:40am – 10:10am – Christian Spirituality with Dr. Asci (pronounced Ashy)

B Block:
8:40am – 10:10am Christian Marriage with Dr. Asci
10:20am – 11:50am – Sacraments with Dr. Newton

1:45pm – 3:15pm – Theology of the Church with Dr. Cassidy
Dr. Asci is an amazing man of God. He sounds a little German. Or Spanish. Or something. Honestly, no one can figure it out, but he’s American. He is passionately in love with God and our Church and he lets it shine in his classes. Discussing the sanctity of marriage is kind of one of my passions, so I’m looking forward to learning more about it from someone as knowledgeable as he is. Then this morning (Friday, not Thursday), we had Christian Spirituality. Basically, it’s a class on how to pursue holiness. How to pursue God’s heart and allow Him to work in your life. How to let Him love you and how to love Him in return. Yeah. I know. Epic.

Dr. Newton is British and he has an accent. Therefore he is innately awesome. However, deeper than that, we opened with a discussion of Thomistic philosophy and theology (as in from St. Thomas Aquinas), so I’m thinking it’s going to be a pretty kickin class.

I still haven’t had Dr. Cassidy because up until yesterday I wasn’t technically in his class. I had Spanish in that time slot, but when I realized it was going to be like every other Spanish class of my life, I decided to drop it. Everyone I know came back from Cassidy’s class with their brain cells fried by the particular level of awesome that they found there. Apparently he’s the greatest thing ever. Oh, and he has a Scottish accent. I can’t wait.
Greg (the leader of our worship group) and I got together to practice songs. It went well and I’m excited to see where God takes it. Then it was dinner and chill time until 9pm when we had a meeting for everyone interested in FOP team (Festival of Praise). I went, and we did p&w, and then prayed and discussed who we thought should hold the three leadership positions within the team. Then it was bed time.