Welcome Distance Learners!

     This week our campus has nearly doubled in size.  Nashotah offers a distance learning program where students come to Nashotah for one week and then do the remainder of the coursework online for the next twelve weeks.  There are two different classes meeting this week.  One of them is a study of the Old Testament and all I know about the other class is that it is a small class.  I've met students at breakfast and while working on work crew.  Cindy is from San Jose, the mother of four, and is completing her final class in the two year long program.  "Beware of the Wisconsin winters," she told me.  "And don't take your gloves off to answer your cell.  It's not worth it."  I'll keep that in mind.
     I just finished up work crew in the Refectory.  Today was spent emptying trash, breaking down boxes, sweeping and mopping floors.  Just the regular kind of work one does in a Refectory.  In about a half hour I need to bike over to the chapel before evening prayer at 4:30...and then the remainder of the day belongs to me.  Moses and I are getting together for Greek study and then I need to catch up on some reading for Church History in the morning.  It's just a new normal Monday and I'm feeling right at home here...