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I had a good weekend this past weekend. Jessie and I went to a really good concert on Friday night at The Living Room (which I've mentioned before) and saw a guy who graduated from Ball State last year and is a friend of mine...Jon Hainstock. (You can check him out on myspace)

Saturday- Jessie's family came up and we looked for and found a place for Jessie and her roommate, Katy, to live next year. It's actually the apartment complext next to mine which is cool and their place is really cool. They've also got a very nice and strict land lord which is a very good thing.

Sunday- Jessie and I tried a new church. We went to the 10:45 service at Madison Park Church of God in Anderson. It is a really really big church (comparable in numbers and buildings to Northside Christian). The service however was not what neither of us had anticiapated. The church has a full orchestra for worship to go along with a probably 100 person choir. It was cool but I don't think I would enjoy it every week. Jessie said it best at lunch when she said it felt a lot more like a show than a worship service. It just wasn't very engaging.

Monday- It was a pretty boring day...my partner and I had no luck while trying to work on stories so we ended up just writing some short stories for the newscast.
Today- I worked on a story about the ice storm that slid through our area and the havock it wrecked on the area. It was a pretty straight forward story but I worked with Da Yan...the student from China...and I found out that she is a Christian and has been since about August. We got to talk about that and she shared that she has convinced her parents to read the Bible when she goes back to China. It was cool to talk to her about that.

I also got to do the play-by-play for the Ball State men's basketball team tonight. It was senior night for our lone senior, Peyton Stovall. The Cardinals won against Northern Illinois 67-63. It was a fun game to call and a very emotional night. For one it was Stovall's last game and he is a wonderful player and an even better person. (He's one of 10 finalists for the John Wooden Citizenship Award this season) The second reason it was a little emotional although not too much was the fact that it was the first road game for Northern Illinois since the tragedy on Feb. 14th.

The other cool thing about the game was that it was simalcasted on the internet. Basically a crew shot the game on video and used our audio on Ballstatesports.com. It was pretty cool.