Week 2

First week of classes...
Real life, or something close to it, started this week. Classes began and everyone is starting to get used to what the schedule will look like from week to week. There was still time for fun things like movies, a pizza party, hiking and trips to the store for the last minute notebooks and other school supplies. Photos: (From top to bottom) Ross on his first day of class, the classroom just before the first class started, Laura and the group dancing at the pizza party, a group hiking to the "big cross" in the early morning, the "big cross," Heidi walking a slack line



We will be doing ministry with children together every Wednesday at three different locations in and near La Merced and this week we learned some songs and games that can be used.


Student Perspectives

The Gloves Aren’t the Only things Coming Off!!!
The air blows a little cooler on some of the faces of this years CBCE males. A strange phenomena has manifested itself in the form of the first ever “Beard-Off”. The point of this exercise, is rooted heavily in the pure necessity for males to compete, and is to see who can grow the longest possible facial hair by the day before the Christmas concert. Due to a condition of the competition set in place by Professor Bob Auger, the competition must end the night before the concert and all participants must shave themselves back to respectability. While the idea was first conceived on the first-term retreat, the full potential of this exercise was not fulfilled until every male who had previously sported any facial hair, was clean-shaven and baby faced on Sunday morning the 3rd of September. Some competitors have taken this competition in stride; others have had a hard time dealing with the initial shock and loss. Where will this madness end? Nobody knows, but getting there might get a little hairy.

--Tim Prikkel