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Wow!! Getting back into life at APU has been a crazy, crazy time. I knew it was hectic and busy here, but I now have a whole new understanding of it! Being in South Africa, a place where they don't even have clocks in most rooms, made me care a lot less about time, schedules and hurrying. It's actually been somewhat stressful being back in a place that runs in such a way and functions on speed and punctuality.

Since I've been back in California I have gotten to reconnect with a lot of friends I haven't seen in a long time, which has been great. I also moved into a new apartment with new, AMAZING roommates, Brie, Cass and Jennie. I love them!!

Classes this semester are very challenging, but I am really enjoying each one. I am taking my Senior Seminar class this semester, since I am graduating this coming December (I can't believe it is so soon!). The class is about faith & social issues, trying to figure out what is means as a Christian to be hospitable-not the superficial, basic hospitality you first think of, but the self-sacrificing, accommodating kind of hospitality Jesus would have given, or expected to be treated with. It’s a very challenging class but it is really making me discover more about who I am, what kind of world we are living in, and my responsibilities as a Christian in this world.

I miss South Africa. I miss the people, the place, what we did there, what I learned there, the changes I made there, how I experienced God there. I love APU, but after experiencing all I did South Africa, it’s not easy to come back to a place filled with so many people who have never experienced anything like it. That is why it has been so amazing to have some of the friendships I made in South Africa here at APU with me, which I know other study abroad programs don’t have, so I feel very fortunate for that.

Well, as any student here will tell you, homework starts piling up around this time of the semester, and the weather gets increasingly nicer…which is a very hard situation to be in! J We do our best, and sometimes reading textbooks at the beach is the absolute best solution. Homework time!