beyond the green

 Interterm at Bethel this year is slightly different for me than it has been for the last couple of years.  Two years ago, I took a travel trip to Costa Rica, last year, Jerusalem.  So this year, I’m staying on campus.  Kind of anticlimactic, right?  E… more »

...except there's no snow. Yet. It's "officially" winter here at Bethel, even though technically winter isn't for another two weeks. Since we're only here for four more days, though, winter has been these two weeks since Thanksgiving. We went straight… more »

Hoo-rah and ga-la are intended to rhyme, in case you were wondering. With the schedule one week earlier this year, Gala ended up being held on the only Friday night between Thanksgiving break and Christmas break. This early schedule meant the people wh… more »

  There’s nothing quite like the community formed during your college years.  Our mod is blessed to have an awesome guy’s mod right across the deck.  (And no, I’m not just saying that because of the 3 guys from the mod who are in relationships with 3 o… more »

  “Miriam, go put on a dress!”  (To the modmate standing in the hallway of the mod singing while everyone else was rushing around getting ready)“Can someone bobypin my hair?”“Who has the eye shadow?”“This necklace or the choker?”“I’m wearing… more »