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Posted 2015-08-29T18:59:34Z

Jahreskontrolle

The Swiss are hard to impress. Thursday I went to REHAB Basel for my annual checkup - jahreskontrolle. I was so excited to show the staff who helped me recover for five months what progress I've made over the past year. I decided to leave my wheelchair behind for the day long appointment, and I started the morning with lots of medical tests. As I watched the PA go from the fourth to the fifth vial of blood draining from my arm, I began to second guess the decision to leave the wheelchair behind at hour one of six. I spent an hour and a half doing blood tests, lung tests, heart tests, and answering lots of medical questions. [...]

Posted 2015-08-25T09:09:21Z

Back to School

I love my job. I love it so much. I get to teach students about the Bible and how to read well. I have the privilege of doing this every school day. Last year I was able to teach two class periods a day; this year based on my improvements and the school's needs, I'll be teaching a third class period each day. I'm honored with the responsibility of teaching the Old Testament class to the incoming freshman class.[...]

Posted 2015-08-07T09:05:32Z

Travel Log

There are four things that I'm exceptionally passionate about: literature, the Bible, my students, and Jesus. I light up when I get to talk about them. Conversely, I'm visibly disheartened by the idea of swimming, the Bronte sisters, spiders, and traveling. That made the prospect of last Tuesday both wonderful and dreadful. Wonderful because I was headed back to Germany that much closer to returning to my incredible job where I get to talk about literature, the Bible and Jesus all day to my students; dreadful because it meant over twenty-four hours of travel from start to finish.[...]