Weekly post

March 13, 2006
Dear friends,
I am still processing everything that went on in New York, so it might be a little while before I post anything on that.
However ... on Friday I went for my CPE interview. CPE is Clinical Pastoral Education and is almost always done at a hospital, combining class time in the hospital with practical chaplaincy work under supervision. I had hoped to do it during the summer, where it is full time for 10 weeks, rather than fit it in to a school year with everything else going on.
I had my interview on Friday afternoon (March 3) and was told that letters would be mailed out by the end of March letting us know. The next day, I received a letter, dated March 3, accepting me into the program. So that was interesting. I have some idea of what to expect, but will let you know more as it unfolds.
Meanwhile, because spring break was taken up with the New York mission trip, I had not a minute to do any homework or studying. It's the paradox of the school. Professors pile on midterms and homework and papers before spring break, saying that we will have that time to work on them. However, as they know, about 1/3 of the students go on mission trips during spring break! So now that I'm back, I'm dreading the infamous Ethics midterm and trying to make time to write several papers. Still, a lot of us are in the same boat.
When confronted with a lot of stuff that has to get done, I tend to make a list and try to proceed methodically, so that's what I hope to do between classes today... proceed methodically and do what I can.
Tomorrow: Bill Moyers speaks in chapel. Woohoo!!
Grace and peace,
Beth