It snowed again

Awhile ago I posted and said that it had snowed a little ways up the mountain. It was cold that day. Today it was colder. Today it snowed at our place. Here's a picture of the snow coming down. It snowed (mixed with a little bit of rain) for about four hours or so. My brain could barely comprehend what was happening outside. I think at one point my nose started to bleed because my brain was working overtime to create some sort of matrix that would allow me to process the fact that it was snowing at the end of May. The snow didn't stick so I didn't get to make snow angels or snow men or snow balls or snow anything else. All in all though, it was nice to experience some snow. It added a little bit of excitement to my day.

I'm sorry I haven't been posting here lately. The internet in Switzerland is ridiculously expensive and I've managed to work up a 50 franc ($45) internet bill in the two-and-a-half weeks I've been here. In light of that, I've had to cut back some. To make up for it, I brought some pictures with me today. Here we go:

Here's me and Pat in the kitchen in the hostel in Boenigen (it's a little town right outside of Interlaken). I left L'Abri and Huemoz at about 7 on Wednesday night and got to Interlaken at about 10. Pat met me at the trainstation and we just chilled at the hostel that night and spent some time catching up. I have a bad habit of not staying in touch with people (even my best friends) if they aren't directly in front of my face and disrupting my inner monologue on a daily basis so Pat and I haven't talked really since I visited him in December. Our hostel was nice. Not much character but like everything in Switzerland, it was clean.


Interlaken wasn't a very fun town in my opinion. Everything was super expensive and I think the mountains are more striking at L'Abri than they were there. However, Pat was in Interlaken so it was a lot of fun just to hike around. This is a picture we took on the riverside. The water is coming from a glacier somewhere and is as blue as PuttPutt water. Pat looks high in this picture, but that seems to be a common theme in most of my pictures of Pat. I have a farmer's tan. Also, my hair has gotten long enough that I have to part it sort of down the middle now. Some people like it better like that. I prefer it shorter.

In other news, I finished reading Sophie's World and He Is There and He Is Not Silent over the weekend. I highly recommend Sophie's World. The subtitle is "A novel about the history of philosophy" and that's exactly what it is. It's kind of like an idiot's guide to philosophy from Plato up to modern naturalistic materialism, but the philosophy lessons are within the context of a fiction story about a girl. The plot isn't much; it's mainly used as a vehicle for the philosophy lessons until you get about half-way through the book. Even so, it's definitely the most accessible intro to philosophy book that I've seen.
I didn't like He Is There... at all really. It was very general and too simplistic. It's Francis Schaeffer's book on a Christian epistemology and it just isn't written very well. In fact, because it was written so poorly, I decided to scratch True Spirituality by Schaeffer off of my reading list as well. My new reading list is there on the right. I'm reading all three of those books and once and I'm enjoying each of them immensely. Well, I just started A Primer on Postmodernism today, but I like it so far.

In conclusion, I'd like to give a big lame-o to whatever Chris Martin bought the domain name iamchrismartin.com. Oddly enough, he's a photographer. Still, I was going to buy that domain name when I got home and now I'll have to come up with something else altogether. In another odd coincidence, www.chrismartin.com is owned by a Christian photographer/media designer. In both instances, I think I'm vastly more talented than the other Chris Martin's.

I'll see you guys in two weeks!