Today is the first day of "Reading Days," which basically means that I have two days off from classes. It's already over half way through the semester, which seems impossible, but that's what the calendar says. I have a bunch of projects that I hope to finish during the next couple of days -- the primary one is writing my CPE essay.
What is CPE? It's Clinical Pastoral Education. It's a requirement of becoming a pastor in the ELCA. My hope is to spend this upcoming summer working and learning in a hospital or (typically) heathcare setting about how to do pastoral care/chaplaincy. It's supposed to be pretty intense and formative in becoming a pastor. Kind of like group therapy. And the application process also requires lots of stuff -- writing an autobiographical essay, job history, and other stuff. So I've been putting it off. But no more!
The other classes here at Luther have been going pretty well. I wasn't sure how easy the transition from full-time working person/very part-time student to full-time student/very part-time worker would go, but I've been surprised that I feel like I have a bit of free time. I'm taking five credits this semester. (Luther is also slightly unusual in how they measure classes -- a typical class is one credit rather than three credits found in most graduate programs.) I have Greek everyday, which is good because I have to keep up with the homework and vocabulary. So far it's been good, but I suspect it will be getting harder as we continue to add more cases, tenses, moods, and other things I can't remember. I just finished up my Ecumenical Hymnody class in which I learned more about the various hymnody found in the hymnal and the history of hymnody in general. And then my last three classes are Early and Medieval Church History, Worship, and Foundations of Pastoral Care. Lots of reading in the church history class -- including a big term paper which I am also hoping to get started on.
I'm looking forward to the break so that I breath a little after the intensity of midterms and an entire weekend workshop. Hooray for reading days!
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