That's the song i was listening to. im not super crazily angry, i promise. ;) Well, i guess with me, you couldn't really tell, so the song kind of defines my anger resolution strategies?? i don't know. but anyway. im not angry right now lol. that's the point haha.
Soooo, today is Sunday, and i have to study this whoooollllleeeee week. Because - guess what??? i have 3...yes. 3 ------ tests this week. UGH. BUT, this weekend im going home to see the labelle besties, which i'm SUPER excited about!! im going to miss one of my besties up here's birthday though. sadness. :( but that's ok. because i'll see her when i get back!!!! Oh!! and my parents are coming up to Gainesville next weekend for my birthday - so im excited about that :) and.....what else is new? not too much, one of my friends is getting a new puppy, so im gonna go visit her when she gets it yay!
I have to talk to an advisor soon about double majoring - adding classics on. i still don't know if i want to do it - but i need to talk to somebody either way.
And that's about it! im listening to music and studying for pompeii archaeology - hopefully i'll get a good grade on that test - i need it to get a B in the class. ahhhh.
Some prayer requests for me:
Ivan Ruiz is in Tampa in the hospital right now - he needs a heart transplant!!!! :( :( Just pray that he gets a good heart, and that his body doesn't reject it or anything. And pray for strength for him and his family.
My prayer and Bible study time has been getting kind of dry lately :( I haven't played the piano for worship either lately, which helps me a lot....so i think i'll play some tonight. but just pray that i get better at doing my devo and just motivating myself to live for God each and every day. I have good worship time, but my prayer has been off. i don't know.
Im getting over my feelings for kyle more, but now our friendship is dwindling and it's mostly my fault. i've kind of been avoiding him, because of everything and partly something he said on the phone the other night. it was weird. but anyway, i feel like we shouldn't just let our friendship go down the drain. that would suck. so just pray for that.
And....I HAVE THREEEEEEE TESTS THIS WEEK!!!! ahhhh!!! and one of them i have a C in the class, and another class i got a D on the first test (HOW the heck do you get a D in stats. come on now.) So, just pray that i focus and get my lazy butt in gear and actually study and work on everything...and just pray for my stress level. because i know im really laid back but...when things actually start to stress me out, i get REALLY stressed out.
Thanks guys!! I hope you all are doing great, and i love you guys very much!
Sunday, March 29, 2009
Thursday, March 12, 2009
New Orleans
Saturday
So, Saturday we left for New Orleans!!! It was AMAZING, but i'll start from the beginning. So, we left on Saturday around 8 in the morning, and listened to some amazing music on the way up...and yea. It took us a looooonng time to get there - but it was FUN. :D Then, that night, we went to Bourbon Street to witness and give out tracts. And we ate at this really good Gumbo place - i had a po boy - super good!! It was a very interesting experience - i saw things i've only seen in movies haha. But i was kinda disappointed in myself - I felt God tugging at me to go talk to this guy sitting on some steps outside a store on Bourbon street, but i didn't. And i don't know what could've happened if i would have actually listened. :(
After that, we got begneys at Cafe Du Monde (Amaazing) and then went back to the hotel and slept.
- Sunday
We got up, got all our stuff, and went to breakfast, and Kyle and James met us there (they drove up separately since kyle had to work). after that, we went to the Seminary College where we put all our stuff in the dorm rooms where we were staying through tues...and then went to the Seafaring Center. THere, we met some seafarers, and then started doing construction with James and Dave (SUPER cool guy) and Terrel. it was fuuunN!!! i got up on scaffolding and stuff. i felt tough ;) After that, we got lunch, and then dinner, and then went to the college, where we had a worship service and met other college students from Georgia and Tennessee. But...some of the guys started being jerks and talking smack about the other football teams, so that kind of alienated them from us. :( The girls and terrel talked to them for a while though. They were nice, just a lot quieter than our group lol :)
- Monday
Some of us went to paint, and some of us went to the Seafaring Center - I went to the Seafaring Center. This place was soooo cool - we got to use their kitchen and bake whatever we wanted, play games, do construction (funny story about that lol) and hang out. We met some seafarers, and they were all super nice! We sorted things, baked things....random stuff.
Then, we went and had dinner, hten went back to the center to hang out with more seafarers, and got to talk to some very interesting people. :)
Tuesday - We went back to the seafaring center/painting, and it was cooool - Anthony kept tracking dirt in lol - drove me and geny crayz because we were mopping haha. And then we went to the basketball court.
This was one of the most awesome times of the whole trip. seriously - i think did the most for God there than anywhere else (except for maybe painting). It was in an alright neighborhood (well, we thought at the time) and it was right next to the police station. We went and steve and kyle and terrel went out first to see if we could play basketball with the guys there ( all thug looking guys you know) and they said sure. So we all go over there, there's 2 little boys playing, and we play with them, and then we girls go prayer walking for a little bit, meet these two guys - David and Aber. They were intoxicated and more...but they really appreciated us coming out and just praying for them. It was cool. And then, we went back to the bball court, and just hung out with the guys. They were sooooo nice!!!! we had a blast with them - we were just telling them what we wanted to do with our lives, what tv shows we liked, what we liked to do...and then we started singing and then terrel and one of the guys started rapping. It was super cool!!
And then - Kyle and Dave were talking to this guy the whole time. HE ACCEPTED CHRIST!!!! :D PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pray for him though. i can't really mention his name either. He's in an EXTREMELY hard situation right now...probably one of the worst i've ever heard of in my life. He could be killed at any time. And pray for all the guys there - they're his boys, and they're all in hard situations that i couldn't even imagine being in. They don't know Christ though. If i would have known all these things i heard later, i would have been extremely scared to go to that basketball court. but God was with us the whole way, and it turned out soooo amazing. Just pray though. Pray like you've never prayed before for this guy. Seriously. Thanks.
Wednesday - we left New Orleans, and came home. And now i have to unpack lol. So that was the gist of the trip - there's a lot more stories of things that happened, but you'll just have to ask me. :)
So, Saturday we left for New Orleans!!! It was AMAZING, but i'll start from the beginning. So, we left on Saturday around 8 in the morning, and listened to some amazing music on the way up...and yea. It took us a looooonng time to get there - but it was FUN. :D Then, that night, we went to Bourbon Street to witness and give out tracts. And we ate at this really good Gumbo place - i had a po boy - super good!! It was a very interesting experience - i saw things i've only seen in movies haha. But i was kinda disappointed in myself - I felt God tugging at me to go talk to this guy sitting on some steps outside a store on Bourbon street, but i didn't. And i don't know what could've happened if i would have actually listened. :(
After that, we got begneys at Cafe Du Monde (Amaazing) and then went back to the hotel and slept.
- Sunday
We got up, got all our stuff, and went to breakfast, and Kyle and James met us there (they drove up separately since kyle had to work). after that, we went to the Seminary College where we put all our stuff in the dorm rooms where we were staying through tues...and then went to the Seafaring Center. THere, we met some seafarers, and then started doing construction with James and Dave (SUPER cool guy) and Terrel. it was fuuunN!!! i got up on scaffolding and stuff. i felt tough ;) After that, we got lunch, and then dinner, and then went to the college, where we had a worship service and met other college students from Georgia and Tennessee. But...some of the guys started being jerks and talking smack about the other football teams, so that kind of alienated them from us. :( The girls and terrel talked to them for a while though. They were nice, just a lot quieter than our group lol :)
- Monday
Some of us went to paint, and some of us went to the Seafaring Center - I went to the Seafaring Center. This place was soooo cool - we got to use their kitchen and bake whatever we wanted, play games, do construction (funny story about that lol) and hang out. We met some seafarers, and they were all super nice! We sorted things, baked things....random stuff.
Then, we went and had dinner, hten went back to the center to hang out with more seafarers, and got to talk to some very interesting people. :)
Tuesday - We went back to the seafaring center/painting, and it was cooool - Anthony kept tracking dirt in lol - drove me and geny crayz because we were mopping haha. And then we went to the basketball court.
This was one of the most awesome times of the whole trip. seriously - i think did the most for God there than anywhere else (except for maybe painting). It was in an alright neighborhood (well, we thought at the time) and it was right next to the police station. We went and steve and kyle and terrel went out first to see if we could play basketball with the guys there ( all thug looking guys you know) and they said sure. So we all go over there, there's 2 little boys playing, and we play with them, and then we girls go prayer walking for a little bit, meet these two guys - David and Aber. They were intoxicated and more...but they really appreciated us coming out and just praying for them. It was cool. And then, we went back to the bball court, and just hung out with the guys. They were sooooo nice!!!! we had a blast with them - we were just telling them what we wanted to do with our lives, what tv shows we liked, what we liked to do...and then we started singing and then terrel and one of the guys started rapping. It was super cool!!
And then - Kyle and Dave were talking to this guy the whole time. HE ACCEPTED CHRIST!!!! :D PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE pray for him though. i can't really mention his name either. He's in an EXTREMELY hard situation right now...probably one of the worst i've ever heard of in my life. He could be killed at any time. And pray for all the guys there - they're his boys, and they're all in hard situations that i couldn't even imagine being in. They don't know Christ though. If i would have known all these things i heard later, i would have been extremely scared to go to that basketball court. but God was with us the whole way, and it turned out soooo amazing. Just pray though. Pray like you've never prayed before for this guy. Seriously. Thanks.
Wednesday - we left New Orleans, and came home. And now i have to unpack lol. So that was the gist of the trip - there's a lot more stories of things that happened, but you'll just have to ask me. :)
Monday, March 2, 2009
Great Weekend, Crap, New rlOeans, and beyond!!!
Great Weekend
So this weekend was pretty sweet - Britt and Jaclyn came up :D I hadn't seen Britt since Christmas, so it was super sweeeeet.We went to Gator Nights, got henna tattoos, and saw a bunch of friends like Daron, Micha, Vanessa, Laura, and Kat. We hung out at Kyle's house, watched 10 Things I Hate About You and ate cookies and milk, then had Bible study. On Saturday (AMAZING day) we went to Lake Wauburg, had Publix subs, and canoed some (Jaclyn and Ashlee were hilarious) and then laid out in the suunnnn (with a poor poor dead duck accompanying us). Then we left, and went to Tijuana Flatts for dinner :) After that, me and Britt went to the mall for pedicures to finish off a great relaxing day. And then on Sunday, we went to church, saw a whole bunch of really cool people, and then went to Cracker Barrel with Terrel, Vanessa, and Kathy. And after Jaclyn and Britt left, I went to church, then went to Sonny's (FUN) and then hung out at Chris's house (not so fun - that's the crap part haha).
Crap
Well i guess it's not really crap - it's actually a good thing because i'm making progress....but at Chris's house, we hung out, played some apples to apples and some telephone pictionary...but i was in one of my quiet moods (you know what im talkin about.) so kyle calls me later and asks me why i was sad and says just to say what i need to say and all that stuff. So i basically tell him that i can't open up to him right now because of all that crap...and that i need space. And he let me have it - and so yeah. i don't know what God wants in this situation because i've prayed and prayed for feelings to go away...and i think they're gone....and then they come back. bleh. But just pray that with this week of not calling him or texting him or hanging out much with him will make some progress with this. because i really really want it all to just go away.
New Orleans
ahhhhhh New Orleans is coming up in a WEEEK!!!!!! so super excited. We're working on our skit allllllll week. But I'm Death in the skit - and i have this super awesome black cloak thing - it's AMAZING!!! And we're going to do construction and do a youth night, work at a seafarer's center, witness on Bourbon street, and work on cruise ships. I'm very excited. :) Just pray for the people there that we're going to work with, and just pray that God would prepare their hearts for the work we're going to do. And pray that God would prepare me too. Because...I'm a scaredy cat. And we're going to Bourbon Street. yeah. Yayyyyy though - can't wait!!
Beyond!!!
Emily's coming next weeekend!!!! YAY!!! very excited to see you my dear - haven't seen you since - Christmas?? :( :( :( So....I will see you then!!! And after that, it's almost SUMMER!!! well, for six weeks. and then i go back to school lol.
But anyways, that's my update for the (month i guess??) yay!! Overall i've had a good time, and God's with me through the little bad spots as well as the good ones. :)
Love you guys!
So this weekend was pretty sweet - Britt and Jaclyn came up :D I hadn't seen Britt since Christmas, so it was super sweeeeet.We went to Gator Nights, got henna tattoos, and saw a bunch of friends like Daron, Micha, Vanessa, Laura, and Kat. We hung out at Kyle's house, watched 10 Things I Hate About You and ate cookies and milk, then had Bible study. On Saturday (AMAZING day) we went to Lake Wauburg, had Publix subs, and canoed some (Jaclyn and Ashlee were hilarious) and then laid out in the suunnnn (with a poor poor dead duck accompanying us). Then we left, and went to Tijuana Flatts for dinner :) After that, me and Britt went to the mall for pedicures to finish off a great relaxing day. And then on Sunday, we went to church, saw a whole bunch of really cool people, and then went to Cracker Barrel with Terrel, Vanessa, and Kathy. And after Jaclyn and Britt left, I went to church, then went to Sonny's (FUN) and then hung out at Chris's house (not so fun - that's the crap part haha).
Crap
Well i guess it's not really crap - it's actually a good thing because i'm making progress....but at Chris's house, we hung out, played some apples to apples and some telephone pictionary...but i was in one of my quiet moods (you know what im talkin about.) so kyle calls me later and asks me why i was sad and says just to say what i need to say and all that stuff. So i basically tell him that i can't open up to him right now because of all that crap...and that i need space. And he let me have it - and so yeah. i don't know what God wants in this situation because i've prayed and prayed for feelings to go away...and i think they're gone....and then they come back. bleh. But just pray that with this week of not calling him or texting him or hanging out much with him will make some progress with this. because i really really want it all to just go away.
New Orleans
ahhhhhh New Orleans is coming up in a WEEEK!!!!!! so super excited. We're working on our skit allllllll week. But I'm Death in the skit - and i have this super awesome black cloak thing - it's AMAZING!!! And we're going to do construction and do a youth night, work at a seafarer's center, witness on Bourbon street, and work on cruise ships. I'm very excited. :) Just pray for the people there that we're going to work with, and just pray that God would prepare their hearts for the work we're going to do. And pray that God would prepare me too. Because...I'm a scaredy cat. And we're going to Bourbon Street. yeah. Yayyyyy though - can't wait!!
Beyond!!!
Emily's coming next weeekend!!!! YAY!!! very excited to see you my dear - haven't seen you since - Christmas?? :( :( :( So....I will see you then!!! And after that, it's almost SUMMER!!! well, for six weeks. and then i go back to school lol.
But anyways, that's my update for the (month i guess??) yay!! Overall i've had a good time, and God's with me through the little bad spots as well as the good ones. :)
Love you guys!
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