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Okay, despite my first impressions that North Dakota is a worthless, boring state, I was wrong.

Pretty much, the University of North Dakota is my idea of how a real university should be, and the town of Grand Forks is my idea of how a real college town should be. It really makes JBU look like a wannabe school.

There's just something more collegiate feeling about here than there. I don't know what it is. Maybe it's a campus that has streets crisscrossing throughout it or the presence of frat houses or an actual athletic program. The point being that I think that I missed out on a lot going to JBU instead of a prestigious institution. In addition, the town of Grand Forks is really awesome. Even though it's only half the size of my home town of Arvada which itself is only a suburb of a much bigger city, it's all right. The town actually has two malls where Arvada has none. I made a point to walk about it this evening. The downtown is a pretty tight place. It was filled with bar-and-grills and small shops. Indeed, it would be the perfect setting for an art festival of some sort. Not surprising, there was an art festival down there.

Anyway, my comparisons of the town aside, I need to make some decisions coming up here. As a part of my coursework, I have to acquire another language. My choices are Arabic, Chinese, Japanese, Georgian and some sort of south-Indian language. They're all languages that I'd like to learn, but I only get to pick one. O well, I guess having too many to pick from is better than having not enough.

Actually, I can think of an instance where that's not the case: churches. I have to pick a church home for the next two months, but I don't even know what denomination to start with. I both hate and admire the Pentecostal and Catholic traditions, so I'll probably have to pick somewhere in between like Lutheran or Presbyterian. I would go on a rant of my view on Catholicism and Pentecostalism, but I don't want to right now.