Thursday, May 20, 2010

post from the library

summer library staff, 2010, van wylen library.

i thought i would get bored working at the library all day, every day, but i haven't. there have been enough actual jobs for me to do that have kept me from sitting for too long. i fill the rest of my time with books and episodes of lost. i have caught up watching lost, and the series finale is on sunday night, so i have turned to my old friend, harry potter, to keep me company at this quiet desk. currently, i am halfway through book 3, Harry Potter and the Prisoner of Azkaban. my goal is to finish the series by the time i leave to head back home next friday. do-able? i think so.

my favorite perk of working in the library is the fact that many people that i know come to the library. people studying/doing homework, people passing through to go to class, and people just stopping by to say hello. having many visitors throughout the day breaks up my time here nicely. my friend sarah works downstairs, so i get to see her throughout the day, too. i am also getting to know the other students who work here better, and that has been fun.

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life has provided many fun opportunities so far this week: dinner at luke's, seeing many friends (including chris, my boyfriend), SUNSHINE!, finally ate at goog's, frisbee golf, bike riding, and warmth.
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my trip to england is fast approaching. two weeks, two days until i jump on a plane and leave. i feel so blessed to have this opportunity! i have been thinking about my trip a lot this week, and i am excited and nervous. excited because, hey, i'm going to england! i'm nervous because we will be working in the schools in liverpool, and i have heard the children are hard to understand; i don't feel prepared to work in the schools; and i am not really close with anyone else going on the trip (i kind of know a couple of girls). i will also miss my good friends here in michigan, especially chris.

we are taking a couple of weekend trips while in the UK: london; edinburgh, scotland; chesterton (?). i have always loved harry potter (i grew up with him), but since i have been on a renewed harry potter kick lately, i have been doing some outside reading on harry potter. i just checked out a book called What's a Christian to Do with Harry Potter? i have only read a few pages so far, but there are already some interesting arguments for and against the series. i will post more when i have read more. i also discovered the cafe, the elephant house, in edinburgh, scotland where j.k. rowling sat and wrote much of the first few Harry Potter books. i want to visit this cafe while i am there!

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back to work, now. that is, back to hanging out with harry potter.

1 comment:

  1. first, i hope that you are going to find places from harry potter when you are in england.

    second, i would just like to say that one summer when i had hardly anything to do i read the first six harry potters in five days. (this was before the seventh existed) whew.

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