This week seems to be the busiest week of the academic year so far. This week also appears to be the busiest in terms of meetings and commitments I have made. I feel that all of the pressure is on me right now. As a member of the sophomore class with junior status, I can tell you it is not an easy task. With four history classes and a film class with three of those classes as a writing extensive course, I am seeing the consequences in not being able to pull eighteen hour study days or better yet, an all-nighter. Next week will be a challenge for me because guess what? It is the week before spring break and all of the work in everyone of my classes is piled unto me. I am talking mid-terms, papers, research, the whole nine yards. I think next week will be a determining moment in my academic career because this will either make or break me for the remainder of this semester.
To settle down from the assignment and the work load for this week, I did a couple of things. Obviously, I had to take a break. I figured what better way to waste time than to stand on my balcony and take pictures of the beautiful weather outside. I wanted to see how much of the Hill I could capture. I was impressed with the results; see for yourselves. I really needed a break and some fresh air; I was finishing up two books for two different history classes, one which I wrote a critical analysis on. This was on Tuesday, by the way, where I had four classes, two meetings, and a paper all due on Wednesday. I was stressed so I needed to do something, anything other than bury my head in books for the rest of the day.
Wednesday after my night class, I decided to check out the Matt Wertz concert. A couple of my friends have his songs on their Ipod and I thought his songs were catchy and had a feel good touch to it. Once again, I needed after sitting in a night class for close to three hours. The concert opened up with Ohio Wesleyan's own, Robyn Case. I was happy to hear her perform. I heard very good things about her and I finally got to experience that sound for myself. I thought she was a good choice to open up for Matt Wertz. There are a short break to energize ourselves. Then the energy level skyrocketed when Matt Wertz
appeared on stage. Matt Wertz was personable, enthusiastic about his performance, and incredibly interactive with the crowd. All of the songs were good and some songs even made me shout or move rhythmically. I was very hapy with the performance. I thought the concert was a good way to leave all of my sorrows behind, at least for the night.Yesterday, I went to Soups for Shelter at St. Mary's near Selby Field, which was hosted by the Delaware chapter of Habitat for Humanity. The proceeds benefit the local chapter and since I am a member of the student organization of Habitat on campus as well as the Mission Team for
Greensboro, North Carolina, I figure that I will go to help out a little bit. I had two additional meetings between the working times, one for the Arts and Sciences group to get a feedback on the REAL Ohio Wesleyan, and the other meeting for Interfraternity Council. I talked to a couple of people, helped out whenever I could in the little time I had, and tried the soup. Good soup, I might say. I thought that Soups for Shelter was a good event for the city of Delaware to throw to the OWU community as well as the general community. I only wish I had more time there to help out and to explain the purpose of why I joined Habitat for Humanity to others.In a nutshell, this is what was happened to me in the past couple of days. I have been relaxing for the last eight or so hours so I am happy and hopefully ready to go by 11:00am for class. I will be posting pictures somewhere tomorrow so check them out. Well, it is early in the morning and I am procrastinating about not wanting to go to sleep- this means I will be forcing myself to sleep in about ten minutes. I gotta go now.
P.S.- The Campus Programming Board announced that GYM CLASS HEROES will be coming to OWU for Springfest on April 18, 2008. Doors open at 7 pm and the concert begins at 8 pm in the Gordon Field House.
Busy as ever,
Hasani Wheat
Class of '10
4 comments:
Hasani,
You mentioned that "the proceeds benefit the local chapter." But the concert announcement site says that it benefits the Mocha Club:
http://connect2.owu.edu/issues/20080220/ourTown/case.html
"...with all proceeds to benefit the Mocha Club, a faith-based organization that supports humanitarian efforts in Africa..."
and then you go to the Mocha Club website and you read "The money you donate goes directly to African Leadership projects in the "giving focus" your club is affiliated with (such as HIV/AIDS or Orphans). We are a fully indigenous organization. Our faithful national directors in 27 countries of Africa lead all our work, and we thank God for the development of these disciples who can disciple others."
What the hell is going on? Are you that naive or is Lisa Ho that insulting to our intelligence. It is the same stuff for a third time. Lisa, please move to another college where you can advertise your Christian stuff using tuition money and people won't mind. This is just pure lack of integrity and honesty. Explain this to me: how can you spread lies as a Christian? How?!?!?! Hypocrisy at its best! Hasani, keep up the good work!
I am looking forward to the next evangelical post! I can't wait...
STOP jumping to conclusions and quit harassing a man who I consider to be an upstanding student who I have never heard utter a harmful, denigrating word to another human being, and gives more time than almost anyone else I know back to the community.
If you took the time to actually READ his post, instead of skimming through the first two lines and then jumping right to the end so that you can continue to mudsling, you would know that Hasani was referring to the Delaware County Chapter of HABITAT FOR HUMANITY.
While I may have agreed with you at the beginning on your views of Campus Crusade, with every comment I see you post attacking Hasani I become more and more alarmed at the anger and extreme hatred that seems to be brewing in you. Well done.
I apologize but I didn't see a substantive criticism in the last post. I raised a point about who the event was benefiting. Examine the information and please think a little more carefully about it. I only looked at the information about the Mocha Club, looked at the website's F&Q section and posted my response. Take a look at their website and then respond. Don't be angry with me. This is a very serious issue and I am very concerned about it: is this event getting WSCA money (student money) to train ministers? It is advertised to benefit the poor children in Africa but if you go to the Mocha Club that's not what it says. I don't know if you are a student but I can tell you many students are uneasy about the nature of the event and that Lisa Ho once again failed to provide complete information about the nature of the event. Hasani has little to do with it and shouldn't bear the brunt of any criticism here. He is absolutely unintentially serving as an outlet to Lisa Ho's hidden agenda and others in the Chaplain's Office. Lisa Ha, as she was the one who advertised the event, has to step in and explain why she didn't provide complete information about who the event was benefitting. That's fair game.
I think the bloggers should either stay away from controversial topics or healthy debates should be encouraged and expected when they reflect on controversial topics. After all, most people will agree suppressing disagreements is hardly the way to go. So far, I see well-argued opinions backed up with evidence from one (possibly more?) anons. If people continue the arguments by avoiding personal attacks and sticking to issues and evidence, I don't think there is any problem.
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