God & Nature week 2 - aka "workload mania"

This was our last week of God & Nature. Our prof, Bret Stephenson, came back to teach again, and I actually think I liked this week better than last. This week was full of bringing up specific controversial topics about the world and the environment and what exactly we should do to care for it. We talked about animal rights, deforestation, GMO (genetically modified organism) crops - which was really interesting, global warming, eco-feminism (don't even get me started), the problem of evil in the world, city slums, etc. All in all, we had some really good conversations. Often heated ones too, because people in our class were on both ends of the spectrum for everything.

We had to do an animals rights presentation for the class - and lead them in a discussion about some of the issues there, and that was really hard for me to remain unbiased that whole time I was doing it. Because I love meat. I always will. And I have no intention of becoming a vegetarian. But it was good to hear everyone's take on that and to learn more about it i guess.



On top of everything we had to do for the class - a ton of work - we had 4 birthday parties! Sunday was Anela's birthday (& Bry's, but we celebrated his Monday), and we had a spa night. Then for Bry's on Monday a bunch of ppl went paintballing. Then for Laura's on Tuesday, we had a runway "eurotrash" theme, which was really fun! And Friday was Bret, our prof's, birthday, but we just had cake.


On top of that we had a Thanksgiving meal on Thursday night. Which was realllllly good. A lot of people made their homemade recipes from back home. And we had soo much food. But it didn't feel like Thanksgiving, because NZ obviously doesn't have Thanksgiving here, and the weather is really warm for November - I think. So we had some even planned for every night this week. Lot of food. Lot of desserts. Good stuff. :)

Leah