From the world famous RBC

hello family,
well, here i am in my second week at rosedale. i'm having an excellent time, though the classes make me study, and stuff like that. imagine. i'm in general epistles (barr) and philosophy (kouns). i'm loving philo, but it's a lot of work and all that thinking hurts my head! kouns is such an awesome teacher and incredibly brilliant. i'm getting a lot out of the class, but it might be lethal to my grades. i goofed off too much this weekend when i had three papers due and two books to read, and found that that staring me in the face the rest of the week is detrimental to my stress level. i guess i learned something. and, congrats to me, i made chorale. first soprano. so that's exciting and is cool, but takes a lot of time. yesterday we had a day of prayer, and fasted and prayed all afternoon; it was really really awesome! so yeah, i'm making friends and trying not to feel too out of place. here my first name is digennaro and my last name is simeon's sister. so i feel like eveyone expects me to live up to...to something. i'm not sure what, and sometimes it's irritating; you guys didn't have to be so awesome! but i'm finding out i'm related to half the population of rbc. as chris yoder (queena's brother) said "if someone had killed one bender back there, half of rosedale wouldn't exist." so these are a few random notes for what's going on in my life! gotta go read for philosophy... i love you all! ~the tirzah