announcement!!

My sister got engaged!! congratulations Erin and Mike!!!!!

Football and the Lighthouse

Hey Hey Hey!!

This is my room mate

Welcome to a new post of life in Tuscaloosa Alabama, home of the crimson tide that is the university of Alabama Football team.
I know im irish and should hate american sports but being in a town that is so passionate about american football is kinda addictive so much so that i actually enjoy watching the sport!!
On saterday night past I went to a friends house. He had a blacked out room with an HD projector which created a scream of 108 inches!!! he had massive speakers recliners and a fridge for the beers absolutely perfect set up for watching an american football game. Alabama were playing Clemson and were slight underdogs as Clemson was ranked in the top 10 in the confrence. but Bama took the game to them and won convincingly 34-10.
Enough about American Football.


Iv found my new home church. Its called the "lighthouse" (ring any bells sophie). Its a church of around 100 - 150 people, they meet in a converted warehouse and as soon as i walked in the door i felt at home. people were casually dressed (last week i was the only one wearing jeans to the church i visited) and engaging in meaningfull conversations with each other. the teaching was awsome the people were so friendly and i had a sense of God's hand in bringing me to this place. I went with my mate Michael and he really liked it as well. we went to the college bible study that night as well which was great as everyone was so welcoming i even got mentioned as the honourary irish student!! fun times

Went to atlanta last week like i said last post we had a really good road trip, John Butler trio were absolutely unbelievably good, probably the best musicians iv ever seen truely mesmorising. we went to a pub after it to get soom food and a few beers, the place we went to had wait for it 100 beers on tap!!! thats right, spoilt for choice. was a fun night.


Classes this week have been grand had a few assignments already completed had to do a speech as well. so apart from all that nothing else has been happening, I really am having a great time out here and as always your prayers have been much appreciated!!

real quick update

Right just wanted to let you all know what iv been doin the last few days and what im gona be doin tonight.

Firstly iv meet some real great guys who go to Alabama state university and so iv been hanging

with them a lot. They live in this place called university village, it has 4 swimming pools, a pool table in one of the pools, a massive club house witha 50 inch tv ect, volley ball court..... its pretty awsome.

Anways Michael brought me to this place called the well. its a college sorta worship thing that happens every week, was pretty big reminded me of manafest only for college student. the band played all hillsongs stuff so i only knew a few of the songs but they were pretty tight. The speaker was good when he was talking about his subject of choice but like a lot of american speakers iv heard he thought he wasa comedian as well.

Played some football yesterday was pretty exhausting playing in the heat. but it was good to get a ball kicking about again. bought mself some football boots and a football for $50. man i love this country!!!

Anyways after class today im heading to Atlanta Georgia to see a band called "the John Butler Trio". I came accross these guys a few years back and was blown away by the guitar playing its truelly mesmorising. so when michael asked me if i wanted to come i jumped at the chance. so tonight shoul be a great night of good music and good banter. il let you know how it all goes.

College begins

Yesterday was my first day of college in Alabama, As most of you know im studying mostly business classes but iv also decided to do a module in safety and first aid, should be a breeze. My classes are all on Monday, Wednesday Fridays an hour each day per module. Class sizes are generally around 15 - 20 and so far my class mates all seem really dead on.
Iv really enjoyed my last few days here im starting to feel more and more comfortable around campus everyone has been really dead on. On Saturday there was a back to school party. The party was held outside in the car park were the DJ's had set up two speakers and their decks. Around 300-400 students turned up. it was so funny all the songs have a set dance which everybody knows. I was really the token white boy and felt totally inadequate when it came to dancing. but it was a lot of fun and im getting to know a lot of people around campus.
Just thought i would let you all know that today we had 35 degree heat and clear skies, sorry bout all the flooding, i saw some of the photos was kinda mental!!
Hope everyone back home is doing well miss you all
I will try and get some photos up soon!!

Very quick observation

White people are in general uncoordinated and self-conscious when it comes to dancing

First few days

Hey ya'll watup!!!
Only kidding I'm not speaking like that yet, please pray that i never do!!!!!
Things here are going well enough i guess. this week has been orientation so iv done a lot of queueing and the likes which had been so boring. I found it easy enough to chat to people but sometimes its hard to get past the "so your from Ireland" phase if you know what i mean but that will come especially when i start my classes on Monday.
Picked my classes today, I'm in Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 8am!!! fun times. Thing is people go to bed earlier and get up earlier here so i don't think it will be all that bad. I'm off Tuesdays and Thursdays which gives me a good bit of time to recover from the early mornings.
Campus itself is lovely, its so strange seeing the an American football stadium on campus and the likes. Also there are these benches that only members of a certain fraternity can sit at... strange!!!
So at the minute my life involves not doing an awful lot but that will soon change
Miss you all

Address:

John Nixon 4776
stillman college
p.o. box 1430
Tuscaloosa, AL 35403
United States of America

Quick update

So i have arrived into Stillman college after 26 hours without sleep. travel went really well apart from a wait of two hours in birmigham for my pick up. that was worrying but god answers prayers so it all got sorted out. Talking about answered prayers, lost my wallet this morning searched the room up and down, no where to be seen. but it eventually turned up in the back of soom dudes car.

So first impressions of college:

When we turned into the college we happened to come accross a car being chased by the cops within campus, then got told that there where seven murders in Tuscaloosa in a weekend not so long ago. fun times.
Got to my room and my roomie who's a good guy was fast asleep and my bed had no sheets no pillows no duvet. so i managed to get a few guys to take me to wall mart and get myself sorted. wal mart is so cheap. got a duvet sheets pillow and some other stuff for like £20.
Im now just back from brunch and so i've managed to see most of the freshmen on the college and iv yet to see a white face. They are all such dude's its awsome but so daunting at the same time.
Found out i might be able to play soccer at the university of alabama which warms my heart.

Il do a full update soon