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Published: March 14th 2008
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Isn't this gorgeous?
It's the ceiling, from which an electomagnetic pendulum swings, to demonstrate the turning of the Earth. As it swings, you can see that the pendulum appears to be moving past the marks on the floor...and there's a museum employee there to explain what's really happening. (The Master’s College)
This blogging thing isn’t going so well now that the temperature is above 80 every day! The trees are blooming, the grass smells good, and the sun is shining. Our days are filled, and the projects are going very well, but sit-down-time-inside just isn’t happening! The men have finished all three houses (we keep telling them they do much better at painting than we do, and we’re going to recommend them for all the painting jobs!) Today they started work on an administration building.
I worked in the Biblical Counseling office all of last week, and thoroughly enjoyed it. This week I’m typing at the library from 8:30 until 10, and then Lois and I go over to the music department and file music until 11:30. The sheet music from the fall semester hasn’t been filed, as well as the samples sent in, and LOTS of other music, and we were to file it with minimum instruction, as the music professor is on tour. I suggested we make one file, label it “Everything,” and go outdoors! Lois had a better idea….we’re about 1/3 of the way through the job, doing it her way! Marlene
The planets are in scale,
hanging in the Gunther Exhibit. The man on the left is standing in front of the display that tells about each planet. As he's standing there reading, he's probably standing on a scale that tells him what he'd weigh on that particular planet. You enter this area from the top, so you begin by standing above the hanging planets. is in the Bib. Counseling office this week, and Wanda and Carolyn are at the library all morning. I think we rotate again next week.
Last Thursday Bob and I went to the Griffith Observatory, in LA. We left right after lunch, thinking we’d get back before rush hour, but once we got inside the building, we knew that wasn’t going to happen. The building sits on a hill overlooking Los Angeles, and you can walk out on the roof on several different levels and look down on the city~~that in itself takes quite a bit of time! There’s a planetarium (but unlike the one in Gillette, WY, it doesn’t rain inside this one!) as well as hands-on displays throughout. The building was closed in 2002 for nearly two years while they completely remodeled it, so it’s better than brand new. And it’s free. Seriously. You pay a small fee to go into the planetarium, but everything else is free. There’s a lecture hall….free. Telescopes to look through…free. It’s so nice that everyone who wants can go in as often as they want….free. You can even park free. More families were arriviing as we were leaving, because the telescopes
This could be looking
from the Observatory in any direction. All you can see is buildings. And "haze". And we all know what the haze is! open for public viewing at 7pm. We spent four hours there, and therefore, we drove home during rush hour…it took 35 minutes to get to the observatory, and over an hour to get home; and we were never stalled. It’s not frustrating to us, because, face it, our schedule is pretty loose! But I certainly wouldn’t want to do it twice a day, every day.
Friday was tour day (I’m sure you already knew that!) and the tour committee did a super job. We went to the Farmer’s Market in downtown LA. It’s not a farmer’s market like I’ve ever been to, it’s a small village….inside the area are Mexican shops with food, flowers, handmade jewelry, etc. Outside that part are trendy stores…Bath and Body, The World Mart…etc. I don't have pictures of the inner market, because you couldn't step far away from anything far enough to get a good picture. The trip to get there was as much fun as being there. We took the train from Newhall (the area of Santa Clarita where we’re located) to LA, and then took a subway to a certain point, and got off and caught a city bus the rest of the
I included this one because of the smog...
if you look to the left you can see that the air is clear? A breeze has come up, and it's coming from the ocean, so it's clearing the air. If/when it blows, there is good air. way! I’m sure it was no secret that we were tourists, but man it was fun!
Our Bible Studies are being led by different seminary students. Their enthusiasm for the Bible is contagious, plus to hear about the amount of studying it takes to get them to graduation is overwhelming. The students on this campus are so polite….beyond polite, they’re friendly. It’s a whole different atmosphere, and one professor explained it by saying these people are here because they want to learn; they wouldn’t graduate from high school and come to this college to “find themselves.” The young man that led our study last night came here from Florida (3000 miles) to study under John MacArthur. They can get several undergraduate degrees, so they’re not all going into seminary work, although I think most are. However, if you are feeling good about your age vs appearance (which I can’t say I am) you should go hang around a college campus. Do they let 12 year olds go to college, or am I just out of touch?! Man I feel old! How can they look so young when I only feel 30?!
I wouldn’t surprise anyone if I said
Yet one more look at greater LA.
You can see the different levels of roofs on the Observatory; and you can walk out onto every level. I really don’t want to leave here! I say that on every project, but at least now we’re far enough into this that I know there are great things awaiting us at the next project. But the time on this one is going way too fast.
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Lisa
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I loved this entry! Great pics :)