Greetings from Lithuania!

It's nine o'clock on Sunday night, and I am preparing for the new
week.  Friday, I wrote down a list of everything I needed to get
done for the coming week.  It's 20 items now, six of which I've
done over the weekend.  Busy, busy, busy.

Monday morning should be interesting.  I'm handing back the
second Excel spreadsheet problem.  I had been "worried" that
I was going to be giving all A's this semester.  I don't need
to worry about that now.  I had about a third of the class 
turn in files that scrupulously recreates the look of the 
assignment.  They just didn't use any formulas.  They typed
in all the numbers.  Lots of Cs and Ds this week.  They get off easy.

I knew I had a cheating problem with a couple of girls in
the 11:00 class.  I checked the creation dates on their files
and found they were identical, plus they made the same mistakes.
It got worse.  It suddenly struck me that the file had to have
been created in the lab, but during the 9:00 class.  Horrible
realization.  I checked the 9:00 students and found two more
using the exact same file.  Only the names were changed to
protect the guilty.  A sweep of all the student's files found
10 out of 33 to be duplicates (the quartet and three duos).
Looks like a lecture on integrity, academic and otherwise,
is in order.  So much for the easy A.

The end result is lots and lots of double zeroes.  And I
stayed up until 3:30am Saturday night grading the things, so
I won't be feeling extra charitable tomorrow morning. 

The Susses have been helping me out by inviting me to dinner
on Tuesday night.  This week they also invited the Miningers and
Leigh.  Poor Leigh has now had the indignity of being invited twice
to dinner by a married couple, who also invited another married 
couple and me.  We're trying to determine whether everyone else
is telling us something.  It won't work, we've had that discussion.

Tuesday night, Leigh was telling about a student of hers who had
written a paper extolling the virtues of another student "who was
so nice, that he had written a paper for another student for 
Leigh's class."  It would appear that some English definitions
have not quite sunk in.

The Susses served chicken curry with mushrooms on wild rice, green
beans, and red cabbage.  I think that's the first time that
I've eaten mushrooms and liked it.

Spring has definitely come to Klaipeda.  I saw my first storks
while on the road at Easter.  The last couple of days have been
wonderful.  Saturday, I walked most of the length of Manto and
thoroughly enjoyed not being cold.  I stopped at San Marco's for
an ice cream sundae.  I can see how people would want to come
for the Summer. :-)

Anywho, two weeks of class to go, plus Finals, plus graduation!
I've been asked to sing a solo for the Baccalauerate.  It will probably
"What Wondrous Love Is This".  My first suggestion was "Born Free",
the second was Alice Cooper's "School's Out for the Summer", both
were nixed. :-)  The college faculty, staff, and students are also
going to sing a couple of songs at Commencement, one of which is
the Festival Doxology that I learned at Lakeview just a few short
months ago.  What fun!

My biggest prayer concerns right now are about keeping awake and
healthy for the next three weeks.  Please pray also that I will
continue to stay fair in my attitude to my students.  Thanks.
Do you think it possible to pray for events that have already 
taken place, but you do not yet know the outcome?  I've wondered 
about that.  It seems odd to ask for prayers about events that
will have already taken place by the time you read this.  But
God is master of all time, so I suppose He can work it out.

Take care, and keep the Faith!

Yours in Christ,
David