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I really don't know what to write. Nothing much has been happening. I have become a slave to Geometry and left over school work. I can't wait till it is all over.

After rereading this last paragraph, I have realized that Mrs. Clay (my English teacher) would have a fit over the lack of sentence starters.

Reading books make me happy. They are like a nice escape for me. I have just finished one that had me in love with a major/minor character. He seemed so amazing, until I actually found out that he was lying to everyone. Unfortunately, the book's ending didn't make me happy either. It was amazingly disappointing and sad. How the characters ended up made me upset. The author should have made a better ending. I'm not sure what that ending would have looked like, but it should have been different. Also, the author had to many plots. After one was done, the other would start and they were very weak in linkage. The last half of the book, was sad to say the least. (The book is The Thief Lord by Cornelia Funke)

I cannot wait for Tour with Shining Light. I feel like it will be great and something awesome will happen, despite all three nightmares I have had about it.

John Chapter 8:1-11

              But Jesus went to the Mount of Olives. At Dawn he appeared again in the temple courts, where all the people gathered around him, and sat down to teach them. The teachers of the law and the Pharisees brought in  a woman caught in adultery. They made her stand before the group and said to Jesus, "Teacher, this woman was caught in adultery. In the Law of Moses commanded us to stone such women. Now what do you say?" They were using this question as a trap, in order to have a basis for accusing him. 

              But Jesus bent down and started to write on the ground with his finger. When they kept questioning him, he straightened and said to them, "If any one of you is without sin, let him be the first to throw a stone at her." Again he stooped down and wrote on the ground. 

             At this, those who heard began to go away one at a time, the oldder ones first, until only Jesus was left, with the woman still standing there. Jesus straightened up and asked her, "Woman, where are they? Has no one condemned you?"

             "No one, sir," she said.

             "Then neither do I condemn you," Jesus declared. "Go now and leave your life of sin."

"Join in next time for another ADVENTURES IN ODYSSEY!!!" - Chris, the announcer for Adventures in Odyssey

In the past week, I have re found my love for listening to the radio drama: Adventures in Odyssey. I had a great urge one day to listen to some of the classics such as: Malichai's Message, The Underground Railroad, The Search for Whit, Passages, and many others. Listening to them reminded me of how much I loved them.

I'm not sure when I really started to become a fan of them. But, I do remember enjoying them every Sunday afternoon. In between church services, I would take a pit stop at the church's library and check out one volume of Adventures in Odyssey. After coming home and eating lunch, I would immediately turn on an Adventure that I had gotten that day. Eventually, I would listen to all of them that day. By the time I was almost done with them, it was getting dark out and I became hungry. I would eat and then return to the stories unless called away by a game, movie or something else.

In the hours that I spent listening to them, I would color. Color the same type of pictures, which were never good. Coloring turned into puzzles. Puzzles turned into more puzzles and some knitting. And growing older, I found less time to do such things, so ended my addiction to Adventures in Odyssey. Occasionally, I would listen to some, but never in the same way as before.

I hadn't realized my lack of enthusiasm until I started listening to them again. They brought back a flood of memories of those lazy days when all I had to worry about was the giant in my room at night with a snake around his neck (but that is a different story for a different time). They also brought back the memories of long road trips. I would fight to listen to them, and sometimes someone would agree with me. But when Dana and Hannah got older, they wanted to listen to music. I, feeling like that called what happened in the car on that respect, detested the music until sometime later. Also, they reminded me of the church library. I still go there regularly, but back in those days, several of my friends and I would meet there and see who would get the newest Odyssey first. We were so loud.

Adventures in Odyssey has been a big part of my life. I grew up with it. There were so many characters who I remember and still love. There were characters like Rodney Rathbone, the scary bully who I didn't realize to be funny until I was older, Connie Kendell, the uptight teenager who was fun and never got a boy friend and never really grew up, and Eugine Meltsner, the genius who spoke in science language and always fought with Connie (or the other way around). And of course, there was Mr. Whittiker, or Whit. He was the lovable grandfather type who was there for the kids when they had a problem. He was also the one who brought the moral of the story out.

Without knowing it, I have learned a lot from Adventures in Odyssey. I have also grown closer to my little siblings because of it too. Try to listen to it again, for those who have listened to Adventures in Odyssey. You may find more than you realize in the little kids radio drama.