We made it to the home stretch. One week of exams stands between us and graduation. Professors and staff are doing their best to make sure I'm sticking around all week. Monday, yes, dead day, the religion majors have exit interviews with all of the religion professors one on one. I told Woods he could take mine for me; he would do a better job anyway, and he would love spending more time with them. After the interview, Alyce and I will be studying Hebrew until we are giving out popsicles at the water slide on the green. That night we have ODK initiation and dinner for the religion majors. All this to say I will not be getting any studying done on the day set aside for studying.
Wednesday I have a final critique for my photography class. We are mounting pictures within a theme. I'm pretty excited about this project; it's a whole lot better than the movie poster. I've been taking pictures of trees and pants. I love photography. I think it makes me feel close to God, like capturing His creation as an artist and appreciating it down to the way light hits the bark of a tree is what He wants us to do with it. I walked around yesterday in awe of the world He gave us. I wish I were a better painter so that I could attempt to replicate the magnificence of creation, not that I ever really could. I admire my brother so much for his creative eye and his ability to take the most ordinary things and make them look beautiful and unique.
Tomorrow is Easter Sunday; I've been thinking a lot about what it means to me and what my family used to do when I was younger. Every year, my Nana, my mom's mom, would buy me an Easter dress. Looking back on them, they were some of the most hideous things you could ever imagine. One was shades of brown with giant pears and fruit-ish things on it. I'm pretty sure it had a giant white bib-like collar too. I remember them usually being itchy, which meant there was tool. One year I wore a gray Japanese inspired dress. My brother would get a pastel tie. Like clockwork every year, we would be forced to stand in front of the prettiest flowering plants in our front yard so that we could take pictures to send to the grandparents.
Our church had a tradition called the flowering of the cross. On Easter morning at the sunrise service, we would bring flowers and cover the cross in front of the church with beautiful flowers. I loved it. I miss those types of things a lot.
I am incredibly excited for the week after exams. Friday is my birthday, and I am going to a Biscuits game with Stephen. Baseball is my favorite sport and its the perfect way to close out a week of stress. Saturday, my mom and I are going to a wine tasting. My family likes to educate me on my choices in wine and beer, I love them for that. It's usually a lot of fun to see what they will think I like and to hear them explain the flavors you taste. I am most excited about my brother coming down from Rock Hill! We are all going camping for our birthdays (Cameron's is Saturday). My dad has had this one camp site picked out for a long time and I am really excited to be able to finally go up there. After we get back from camping, I am going to a Braves game with Jackie and John. I am so excited to spend time with them. We have graduation practice and brunches to attend...those I'm not thrilled about, but I am excited to be with our graduating class for the last few days we will be together. It's a really bitter-sweet time, I think. We're all ready to graduate, but we aren't ready to say goodbye to each other or to Huntingdon. I'm going to miss it a lot.
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