Springtime for Hitler and Germany?

Maybe not for Hitler, but for Germany! (I am not being disrespectful in mentioning Hitler, only citing the musical “The Producers,” which is a killer flick you should all watch if you dig musicals!) Regardless, I have recently been offered the opportunity of a lifetime. Dr. Roger Peugh is a teacher of mine, and has experience as a missionary doing church planting in Germany. He served on the field of Germany for nearly twenty years, and has since left a fully functioning church. He goes back occasionally to teach and encourage, physically maintaining the beautiful relationships he has formed overseas. Dr. Peugh has honored me with the privelage and opportunity to accompany him on his trip, for which I am very grateful. I will be leaving on 28 Feb 2007, and returning 12 Mar 2007. Knowing Evelyn and my plans for the future, he has invited me in hopes that I could benefit from the experience of exposure to a foreign culture. I will spend my eleven days in Germany learning as much of the language as I can, and cataloguing culture- trying to understand how people living and immersed in the German culture think. I would very much like to take as many pictures as possible, even video if possible, to share the experience with My friends and family. I will keep you posted on this exciting subject, as I get more information. I would appreciate your prayers for the trip, and all of my preparations for it.

So, not that anything could really top that exciting news, I finished a killer paper that had been looming over my head for weeks- last night. It was due today, but I was really happy with the way it turned out, proud enough of my work to post it…Click here to read it, however, be warned as the content is somewhat explicit. The paper was about the shallowness of the empty sexuality and free-love thing the beats had going in the forties and fifties. I analyzed the character of Salvatore Paradise in Jack Kerouac’s classic On the Road. A pretty killer book, if obscene. I choked up at the end of it both times that I read it over the last month, but you just would have to read it to know why.