Okay, so I'd never actually heard of the word 'kismet' before, but the online thesaurus says it means fate. But it's always good to learn new things, so you and I have just learned its meaning. And my fate for this semester is to be studying linguistics, ethics, and - you got it - cross-cultural classes (aka missions block class). That might also be a slight reason for the seemingly random introduction to this blog post. No, I haven't totally lost my marbles by becoming a second-semester senior about to graduate from college. I'm getting this from my teacher, actually. Our first day of class he welcomed us humans, and before today's daily quiz he addressed us as bipedal earthborn creatures. But what can you say. We are a small class of good friends that are excited about everything cross-cultural.
And let me tell you already, this is going to be one good semester. I love my classes. And the last two days in Practices of Cross-Cultural Ministry, our teacher has brought cross-cultural snacks for us to enjoy in between lectures (what else do you do with a small class and a 2 hour daily class). Yesterday we got Brilliant brand cakes from somewhere in Asia. And today we got Jelly sticks from China. They didn't taste too bad, but I had a hard time getting past the texture. My teacher introduced them to us as "flavored snot tubes" because that's the closest thing he could think of that described the texture. Think grape jelly put a bit more thick. Yeah. And my teacher is an interesting personality if you haven't guessed already.
Aside from the weird foods, I've actually been learning a lot of practical information that will be very helpful for me as I prepare to live in another culture for most if not the rest of my life.
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