First Week

Dear Readers!

I have been messaged a few times about my first week of school and I figured that here would be a good place to let everyone know how school has been!

My classes are expanding the way that I think about the world and how I can be more involved in it! I have two writing classes, an american foundations class, a religion class, and a visual media class. Nothing too huge for the first semester here, I just want to ease into it for the first bit.

I enjoy my homework, the cold is bearable, and the people are amazing. There really isn't anything that I don't like here, aside from the fact that here and there I am a little bored. That will be gone soon though, since the actual work will start soon!

I am well, our apartment is well-balanced, the food is good, and the campus is all close enough to walk around. I have no real complaints. Not that I have any right to complain. I am studying at an amazing university and I am figuring out my life. I am working hard and furthering myself so that I can make a difference in the world.

In short I am joyful in my attendance and I am pleased with school. I miss all of you that are far away, but I know that our paths will cross again!

With much love!
-Doug

School!

It may seem as though I have ventured into a lost and cold tundra in the middle of nowhere to those that know where I am, but I couldn't be too much happier than I am here at BYU-Idaho right now. I am aware that it is still the first day of class and that I will find hard times ahead, but right now I am just filled with the new beginnings of thought and academic understanding. 

I know as well as any that life is not perfect. We'll never have every single thing that we want in the way that we want it, and that is the way that it should be. Right now I know that I am living in a nice place that has heat and a kitchen, among other modern amenities. I know that my teachers are amazing people that care about me as a person and that they have a desire to see me grow as an individual and become more than I am. I know that I am young still and have much to learn, and I know that it snowed today! I am so happy that it did! I know that I had some people looking at me like I am crazy, but I love the snow! It is so beautiful and I just know that this is where I need to be! 

I suppose that I am just blogging a little here to let you know that I am safe, I am happy, and that I love where I am! 

Do you love where you're at right now? Did you in the past? It's a new year, and I hope that you are enjoying it as much as I am! 

As always, 

Doug

Rexbug

Well, I love it here! It is really late and it took me about ten minutes to sign into the right google account to post this.... and now I need to get to bed!

THE END.

(oh, and I-Night was awesome)

REALLY THE END

2013

Dear Readers,

Welcome to 2013! I know that everyone will be posting something (as I have already done myself) and I just wanted to add a few more lines!

New Year's Resolutions are an interesting thing these days. I think of them and I think of (as most of us probably would) all of those failed goals from last year. I think of all the times I said "this year is going to be different". Well, what made all those years the same? Or were they? I think that we can all take our New Year's Resolutions a little more seriously and I know that I for one am going to stick to them! I am not saying that I'll be perfect, because I know that wouldn't be realistic, but I know that a stick to it attitude isn't unrealistic! I know that we are better than we think! I know that there isn't anything that we can't do!

The bottom line here is that I want to really take my Resolutions to a new level this year. A resolution is  by definition a resolve or determination to do something, and although I can joke about them and laugh as well, I want to make sure that I follow through with them!

Any ways, happy 2013! I hope that your new year is filled with all the things that you are looking for, and maybe even some good ones that you weren't thinking would be there!

As Always!
-Doug Knuth