And now time to rest!

It has been a busy week here on campus – or at least it has seemed so from our perspective. It has also been a week filled with cooking, with music, and with celebrating our (well, at least my) ethnic heritage.

This really all started last Friday, as we prepared salad, chicken noodle soup, and bread to serve dinner to a visiting choir that performed here on campus Friday evening. After dinner and some hurried clean-up, we enjoyed their concert of both traditional and modern music.

Seminary Days, a semi-annual event here on campus, was early this week. This is an opportunity for those who are considering attending school here to visit classes, learn about the campus, and meet faculty, staff, and students. One of the campus wide activities during this event is a dinner on the quad. So again we were cooking, to make a dessert to share.

We had a special group project due this week in our Lutheranism in North America course. Ray and I were both part of the group researching German Lutherans of the Midwest. By the time the presentation was done Tuesday – complete with a display of books and documents, typical German foods (including a homebaked Almond Kringle from our kitchen), and a lengthy Powerpoint – we were both exhausted from being Midwest Germans. Which does present a bit of a conundrum, because we are both at least partially of German descent, with ties to Lutheran churches in the Midwest!

More music came in the form of choir practice and two special pieces the choir sang during the weekly Eucharist service Thursday evening. (Thanks to a fellow student, we have a digital recording of both, so we got to hear them too!)

Then to wrap up the week, some friends on campus had an early St. Patrick’s Day celebration – including bagpipe music by one of our classmates! It was a real treat and quite an ending to the busy week. It also allowed me to celebrate the other half of my heritage by appreciating all things Irish!

Now we have a week off for Spring Break – which is really just a thinly masked opportunity to catch up some reading and other homework and hopefully some sleep!