Good afternoon. Libby's taking the RICA today. She should tell you more about that, because I'm sure it's an interesting experience.

Personally, I've been doing homework for my Medieval Philosophy class and for Torrey. I'm now reading Nietzche. Last week I read Marx. Darwin came right before that. I love this program! It lets me read the most interesting books.

So far this semester, it's been a fairly straight on assault on the Christian faith, but it holds up pretty dang well against the slings and arrows.

Another interesting class that I'm taking is by the famous Dr. Aaron Kleist (well, he's famous at Biola). We're doing an introduction to Shakespeare upper division English class, and it's about the histories covering the War of the Roses. Right now we're reading Richard II (Libby and I are working through this together, as it's a way to spend time together: she's not in the class, but she's being really nice and making my homework so much more interesting). Richard II is paced well, and having a background of the history makes it a really entertaining read.

But the most interesting thing about the class, as far as making it distinctive, is that its framed in the set up of a game. Instead of a term paper or final, we're all required to cast ourselves willy-nilly into a contest of wits and knowledge devised to create greater immersion into the text. The game sets the two sections of Introduction to Shakespeare (10:30 vs. 1:30) against each other. We're the Lancasters, they're the Yorks. White Rose vs. Red! Anyway, we've all been assigned characters from the time period, and we have to learn a bunch about them. We'll all be asked a series of questions to prove that we have learned it. Anyway, the point of the game is to find out who the other characters are through a series of yes or no questions that are aired over the university bulletain board service. So, for example, right now the Lancasters asked a bunch of questions to determine who was royalty and who was an earl. By doing so we'll have know a lot. It's pretty fun, a lot of strategy.

The outcome of the game isn't really so much a matter of grade as pride. The winner will be served a Shakespearean dinner by the losing section.