More Greek

I think the world has stopped spinning. At least that's what I perceive at the moment being stuck in mountains of Greek that I am trying to sort through. Not much else seems to exist at the moment. Having said that I am making progress. Have translated practice sentences and parsed words all for practice. Hell I was even parsing words like πεπιστευκαμεν which is derived from the word πιστευω and is in the prefect tense, 1st person, is plural, in the active voice and indicative mood. And I understand it. These are all good signs for Friday morning. None-the-less it remains Greek and as a result I'm not confident and stressing out because I would really like to finish the year on a good note, especially in Greek because it has been a year of a lot of hard work and so far I've managed HD's. To bomb out in the final exam of the year would be very disappointing. I'm about to move onto the subjunctive mood. Urgh.

The end is near

Well I'm coming to the end of my time at College. I have one exam to go after having done three already. OT, NT, and Evangelism Principles. Just Greek to go.

At the end of this week I also move all of my stuff out of my little shoebox here and I move back home because I simply don't have the money to continue live here. Sigh. It shall be a shame. The guys here are all top blokes and have been so much fun to hang out with and live with all year. I shall miss the rounds of Urban Terror - I was just getting good... Most of the guys including myself from Top Floor will be moving off anyway - so even if I stayed it wouldn't be the same. In any case moving home will be good, and necessary for various reasons like work and church involvement.

In other things 2009 is shaping up to be a good year. I thoroughly look forward to the more intense theological subjects and implementing all the things that I have learnt this year including exegeting John and 1 Corinthians from the original Greek. I think it is fantastic that God continues to transform me into the man he wants me to be. And that includes the raging nerd that continues to come alive. Fortunately I have Meg to keep me from becoming too much of a pretentious git. I also look forward to everything else that happens next year as things really begin to develop and grow from thing that have happened this year. Things were new this year and last year, but as I have really put roots down by the grace of God things now are growing and developing.

I also look forward to the family holiday in January which will now be attended by 4 McClouds, 2 Bennetts and 1 Smith. Quite the change from last year which had 5 McClouds, and 1 Bennett. Yay Holidays! I'm almost there!

First one for a while

It's good to look back on the blog posts of old which concerned the Soul Edge trip. Good times and good memories there.

At the moment two exams have been completed. OT & NT. I passed them. I know that much. So that's a positive. When I started I was aiming very high. I wanted to do an honors year, and get a distinction average and be really smart. My aspirations are no longer that high. Although the HD average I have for Greek at the moment is nothing to sulk about. I just wish I was better at English.... *sigh*

Well I have an exam Friday morning that I am not yet prepared for so I have got to get back to the study and stop procrastinating.