#8

Apparently I'm going to post every day now! I feel so excited about the things I'm working on that I want to write progress reports somewhere all the time. I had to restrain myself from writing this at noon.

I slept in by accident today... I was a bit late to our Bible group. But luckily my dad had left me the car to drive to school and back so it didn't take me more than 40 minutes after waking up to get to school. The other girl in my group called me half an hour after the group was supposed to start like "Where are you?" and I groaned into the phone something to the effect of "...guess who just woke up?"... Apparently I sounded quite like a hungover rock grandpa. Because I had the car I barely missed half of the first study session, and stayed after with the others to hand in a report on how each of us prepared and led one of the sessions.

Leading a session like this for and with people in my class is rather different than doing the same at, say, a confirmation camp. Everyone has some kind of opinion, basic interest and even pre-existing background information on most passages that we cover. It's not very challenging for a leader to engage very conversationally prepared groups into just conversation. If we had to do the same with teenagers, a very different approach to the Bible would most likely be required, since often they tend to lack both basic interest and background information. Obviously teenagers don't tend to have the most impressive attention spans either.

I finished the coloring on Tyler Hoechlin's portrait today! Note to self: drawing stubble is a  p a i n . His face turned a bit lopsided but I liked it a lot! I'm so happy about finishing the portraits - especially Tom and Tyler, since they both turned out really well and I was also very apprehensive about drawing both of the men, since I've had trouble with them and their specific faces in the past.... Sometimes it can be very difficult for me to grasp how someone's facial features click. Obviously I've spent enough time ogling their lovely faces to memorize them as well as I evidently had.

Also on the printing front, I'm doing great: combining what I finished last night and this afternoon, I only have 2 more collages to put together and print: the k-pop one and the general "sneak-peek" one for near to the beginning of the book. I also showed around a lot of the collages I'd already printed at Talo. I assumed the lady of Saturday would be so busy planning her own party that she wouldn't come there and apparently I was correct (thank god!). I would've had to hide them otherwise.

There's a guy at Talo who seems to really want to be my friend? Or that's what I'm assuming here, seeing that as far as I know, he has a girlfriend...? I find his way of talking and being vaguely irritating, so I don't really understand what's making him constantly appear and comment on whatever I'm doing. I don't actually care one way or another (unless he's interested and still dating, in which case, he's clearly a douche and I want nothing to do with him) but I find it rather confusing. We've co-existed at Talo for years without any need for extended contact, so why now?

My internet is not agreeing with me at the present. Thank god I can use the downstairs Wi-Fi on my iPhone and plug it in as a personal hotspot for the more urgent internet needs. Tumblr would most likely run extremely slowly on this internet path, but it works for Google image search so I'm happy.

The friend I'm going to tomorrow's Pariisin Kevät concert with is über excited, and it's rubbing off on me a bit! I can feel the enthusiasm growing in my stomach, ooh. She must really value this band, because she hates the cold with a burning passion (ha) and still agreed to come wait in line with me for 2 hours in the cold. What true fans we are.

In other news - the piece of chocolate in my advent calendar was recognizable as a holly branch today! Go Minions.