I'm a Cinema-Television major at Regent, and I am absolutely in love with film! I was born in Germany, and raised there and in Texas, and lived in North Carolina for awhile. I just finished my first year at Regent, and am somewhere around jr/ sr status now (I transfered to Regent from another school).
Summer has just started, and I've left Virginia Beach for the summer- which, although incredibly sad, I really have so much to look forward to when August comes around. I'm working at a rock climbing course for the summer (the Broyhill - we have a climbing wall and Alpine Tower and lots of other challenges around the course. It's pretty exciting. I love working here! I worked here last summer, too), but I'm still looking for more work, since this isn't full time. Maybe a video store or the cinema, so I can keep up with my movies? That would be awesome. But really, there's not much here. I'm in the middle of nowhere....
I'm pretty excited about my summer now that I'm here. Today is my birthday, and first thing my boss and co-workers did was celebrate! We went shopping for activities for the course (we have an Indiana Jones theme this year), and then they took me out for smoothies and ice cream, then we came back to my place and swam and played volleyball in the pool :) it was great.
I have a reading/ viewing list for the summer that keeps adding up! I'm reading as much C.S. Lewis as I can get in. Right now I'm starting with:
Mere Christianity
The Abolition of Man
The Great Divorce
The Screwtape Letters
The Problem of Pain
Miracles
yes. In that order :)
Right now I'm also reading Captivating by John and Stasi Eldredge, and I absolutely love it! And I have For Women Only, by Feldham (for all you guys, there's a counterpart for you to read! Called what else, but For Men Only!)
Then add in some Frank Peretti books:
This Present Darkness
Piercing the Darkness
Monster
The Oath
and Shakespeare (I'm actually taking a class on ol' Billy S. It's gonna be amazing. The book I had to buy for class, William Shakespeare: Complete Works is from the Royal Shakespeare Company, and oh my gosh, it's massive! It's about 2500 pages thick).
My sister has also piled up stacks of books she wants me to read. And I got more books for my birthday. And I have a gift-card for Borders Books. My room already looks like half a bookstore. ha.
Also, I'm wanting to get in some great, classic movie time. I need to watch (and re-watch) all the Hitchcock movies. That should kickstart my movies. Oh, and I'm killer excited about the new Batman movie - Dark Knight - coming out this summer!!
I have so much to do, watch, write and to read this summer, and I'm starting to wonder if I have time?? My most important priority, certainly, is to get as close to God as I can. I've felt pretty distant lately, and I can feel the hole, the void, beginning to really ache in me. It's past time to get right again. This is my biggest reason for reading C.S. Lewis this summer :) So! Time to regain spiritual strength (and not to mention regaining physical strength. Working at the rock climbing course and the gym is a definite way to get buff again!)
But it's gettin late (well, its shortly after 10, and by the time I get to bed, it will be late. ha), and I have to be up at 6 in the a.m. :/
laters!
~ Me-shel
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