Proof that JK Rowling was in fact 'just kidding' when she said that she did not copy St Louis Seminary to make Hogwarts

Hi everyone! 

It is the Sunday before classes, so all the students are here and moved in. My class is one of the smallest in recent years, only 70 students. With so few, it's been easy to remember names with faces. I'm at a good place with good people. My peers who will graduate with me are some excellent young men of this world, and I am proud to be among them. When I say "world," I mean The World. At our service project, pulling weeds and laying mulch for a women's homeless shelter, I met two men from Africa who have come to St Louis to earn their Masters so they can serve God and those who speak their language. Waiting in line for registration, I met Sacha, a  man from India who is doing something similar. Most speak English, but all love the Lord as Lutherans and THAT makes the world so much smaller. I am at the hub of Lutherandom. 

The meals they have provided us during orientation are for the majority brats and beers; the diet of any self-respecting Lutheran. But after a week, I require an expanded dietary horizon. The faculty and staff are devoted to the church and its future leaders. All of the professors have their own M.Div and have served in one or more Parishes; so, everyone that I will learn from has real and practical wisdom to be heard. I look forward to that. 

Thank you for the thoughts and prayers. I can't say that enough. Everyone who reads these words has helped me get here and/or will help me succeed here.

 This is my dorm room. I share a big room with a roommate, Kevin. We take turns tucking each other in before bed, do each other's laundry, and call each other wondering where the other one is.
#mybedismade

This is the front door into the Godric Gryffindor housing...I mean, my dorm... Quite the Hogwarts appearance. I usually look straight ahead and pretend I can't hear them when the creepy talking pictures comment on last week's soccer game. That's a joke, soccer isn't a game.

This is my dorm, "Founders Hall." But no one hear calls it that, probably because they're all weird and/or that the name plaque is like written in pencil three feet low. No, the locals call MY dorm "Iso." 

"Oh, like Spanish for ice?"

"No, abbreviation for 'Isolation.'" 

HA!...oh...wait...

This is where the Seminary houses the most influential nut jobs of the LCMS. My room is at the top. I live there because I'm dangerous    B} 

This is THE cafeteria, Koburg Hall (also written in pencil). This is where we eat and have our wizard battles! That's a joke, we don't eat. The gifts that I have received will help out in the food eating portion of my Seminary education because they do not feed me every meal #sadday
This is a recent change made by the seminary administration because they knew I was coming. They had a choice, offer more scholarships to incoming students or feed Michael Hofmann.


I love all of you and will continue to blog my way through Seminary.

With lots of LOVE,

Michael Hofmann