Saturday, 26 April 2008

Thanks for the memories!

As I prepare to leave Hope in 8 days, I've come to a realization.

I'm ready. I want to leave. I want to graduate.

I've had about enough. Enough of college life. Enough of roommates. Enough of studying. Enough of living in close quarters. Enough of almost getting my head smacked by frisbees. Enough of living in a community within a community. It's time to head back out into the world and find out what life has.

Not to say that I haven't loved what Hope has had for me. I've learned so much of what it means to be a musician, what it means to be an educator, what it means to be an educator of future musicians, and who I am as a person and a Christian, one of God's people.

I'll miss Hope College. I'll miss my friends. I'll miss my professors. Leaving them will be hard. They've made a difference that will matter more to me than they'll ever know. But I sense it is time.

In the meantime, one more week of teaching, and then wrapping things up while I learn what it's like to commute to work from Coopersville to Holland every day.

Random thought: I was talking to Nik today. He and I were reminiscing about some crazy memories that we've shared together. The top three...

1. Telephone Pictionary (aka Teledraw to some people) up at his house in Brutus. That was made of pure hilarity. He's kept some of the drawings I've made. I still have yet to figure out why, considering he's an art major and I cannot draw to save my life, but there are some mysteries in this life that I think God has always left us to ponder.
2. Re-telling the pirate story at Captain Sundae to a bunch of strangers. Nik acted the story out as I read the legend from the tree while some people we didn't even know listened with great interest and amusement. They were from Hope, but we didn't know them. Good times, and this just happened recently.
3. Introducing Ross to the joys of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Ross had never seen the movie and Nik and I both had. Seeing the reaction from our friend as we laughed with glee at the jokes we knew made it even more fun.