THE Klem

Here I sit in night class. And I'm listening to one of the most confusing men I've ever met in my life.

After a full night of lecturing, I've come to believe that he's an extremely smart man, just a bit disorganized. It's as if he has 80 years of knowledge and he chooses our class period to SPEW out ALL of his thoughts.

Tonight I have been:
"Kleminized"
"Klemsified"
AND
"Klemderized"

I have learned what Klem believes, what Klem thinks, HOW Klem thinks.

To be honest, I've LOVED learning about all these Klemism. I mean, that man has been teaching--AT BETEL--longer than I have been ALIVE!

Another thing I love about Sir Klem (I've decided if the Queen actually ever met this man, he would have been knighted a long time ago) is that he'll saying something that either "blows his mind" or he finds incredibly funny and he will bounce up and down with him mouth open.

At the beginning of class tonight, Klem explained to us that he went boating this past weekend. In the process of boating, he obviously stretched his back in the wrong fashion because when he moves to quickly his left hand SHOOTS to his lower back and he makes a wheeze/laugh noise then says, "whohp there it is."

Last week I had to leave class early in order to attend an event with the freshman floor that I am ministering on this year. I found out from a source in class that I was referred to from that point on, by Klem as "dearly departed." Not only did he refer to me as "dearly departed" once, but he did so throughout the remainder of the 1.5 hours left in class.

I embrace this title, I do. I mean, who doesn't want to see how people would react at their sudden unexpected death? I would lie if I didn't. There have been days that I have wondered, who would cry? Who would laugh? Would I be more pleased with the person crying or the person rejoicing? Would I cry? Would I rejoice? This is a way to find out--take a class with Klem and leave early, you are dead to him (for that night). Love it.

Interesting fact learned from Klem: 80% of missions budget is spent trying to convert Christians to other forms/theology of Christian life.

Welcome to Wednesday nights =]

Kumquat

So I've experienced a lot this summer. Unfortunately, the one thing that stands out among everything else was helping my girlfriend this past week get ready for her dorm. See, my girlfriend is an RA this year on campus and the theme she has chosen for her building is "Fruits of the Spirit." Great idea, in my opinion. The problem is, she decided every single person in the building would have a fruit as a nametag. Let the party begin!

She spent the better of a week and a half creating this fruit and I stood by watching, most of the time. That is, until her final night at home (I've been living with her this summer in order to have an internship here in the cities). That night, I decided to lend my artistic expertise--more lack thereof. Over the course of that night, I made around 7 fruits--seems like a lot compared to the 43 total. Well, I decided to take a leap away from the average raspberry, orange, apple, grape deal and tackle a kumquat.

Yes, I made a kumquat.

It is yellow/orange with a snot looking slab of white in the middle complete with 2 seeds. I think it's a beautiful kumquat. Tori laughs at it.

Welcome to my blog. This just gets it rolling =]