Fifteen & Sixteen

15:

After Youthquake (the middle school service I'm helping out with) all the college students went to chick-fil-a and then over to Brad's house to play video games and ended up playing poker. All the guys kept making sexist jokes and then more about me being a cheerleader...and then I OWNED all of them in poker. It was absolutely hilarious. I'm also really OCD about having the lines on the poker chips all lined up and once everyone figured this out they wouldn't stop flinging poker chips into my piles or just knocking my piles over so that I would have to realign all my chips again. As annoying as this was, it was hilarious and it's good to know that we're good enough friends that we can pick on each other. I'm really starting to feel at home here. I'm really glad that I'm starting to make more friends who are Christians, even though none of these kids actually go to Elon. It's just nice to hang out and play poker and not having someone spill a beer all over you. I really enjoyed my night and I hope there's many more like this to come.

(All my chips =] )

16:

Today I was reading a book for my Ethical Practice class that is all about the psychological differences between the ways that women and men think and act. It was talking about the development of children so it was interviewing two eleven year old kids -- Amy and Jake. They were asked "When responsibility to oneself and responsibility to others conflict, how should one choose?" Amy responded by saying that you should weigh the options and Jake said, "You go about 1/4 to the others and 3/4 to yourself." When asked "Why?" Jake responded by saying, 

"Because the most important thing in your decision should be yourself, don't let yourself be guided totally by other people, but you have to take them into consideration. So, if what you want to do is blow yourself up with an atom bomb, you should maybe blow yourself up with a hand grenade because you are thinking about your neighbors who would die also." 

hahahah