A much needed update!
Well, I suppose its time that I gave an account of what I have been up to for the last couple of weeks. Even though there has been an apparent lack of me in cyberspace, I been quite substantially present in the world of actual reality. Not that I have done anything significant, or magnigicent, but substantial in the sense that I have been terribly caught up in the mundane of working two jobs, trying to cram book work for my flight training, as well as getting actual flying in. I don't mean to insinuate that this has been miserable. On the contrary, it has been rather exhilirating, albeit a little bit tiring.
The most exciting thing to happen was of course my first solo of which I have already written a narrative. Since that I have been trying like mad to get the rest of my training completed. I even took a week off from one of my jobs in the hopes that I would be able to get so serious flying in. Mother nature decided, however that I needed to spend more time studying and helping my parents around our property. As it stands right now I need to finish studying so that I can take my written test and get that out of the way, and then I need to finish getting the rest of my hours in. The only difficult part about doing that will be the coordination of work and weather, which will take some serious planning on the former, and some serious prayer on both matters.
I have also been trying to figure out how to go about the rest of my flight training, which is a matter that is quite vexing right now. My goal is to try and get my training done in a timely manner, but follow the will of God in the way I go about it. I actually have a school that I would love to go to, but it would require some serious financing. I'm praying a novena right now at the end of which I'm going to try and apply for the financing. If I get approved, then I will probably be going down there in September. If I don't, then its a pretty good guess that I'm not supposed to be going down there, or at least not at this time.
We also celebrated one our dear friends sweet sixteen with a suprise party at his house. We all had an awesome time, and played such games as "Duck, duck, tackle", and capture the flag. The best part, however came when we sang Happy Birthday. The lights were out, and the candle atop the cake illuminated the face of the celebratee with a slight glow. As the the final reverberations of many masculine voices singing the all familiar birthday song died away there was a momentary pause, and then with a slight whoosh the room went dark. Six of us guys then proceeded to grab the instigator of the darkness, hoist him over our heads and run outside! With extreme gusto we preceeded to toss him up and down while singing "For he's a jolly good fellow!" for all we were worth!
Summer is shortly creeping up on me, and with it all the activities that I have planned to fill up my free time. And this summer, I can say safely say, is one that I am extremely looking forward to. For starters, there are a whole bunch of prolife activities, such as the Angelorum and Birthright auctions, and a prolife banquet. Also the 100 mi. fundraising bike ride that I will be doing with seven other guys is coming up in the middle of June. But the highlight of my summer this year(As if I don't already have enough cool things going on) will be going to WYD in Germany in August! I'm so excited about it because I will get to see Benedict XVI, and the more I think about it, the more impatient I get for it to come.
Anyway, I must sign this off and get back to work! Hopefully I will be a little bit more consistent with my posting.