Well, hello, blog, I haven't been to you in a while.
So I'm heading home for Christmas, with a whole pile of "firsts" out of the way now. What firsts, you say? well...
My first time in a classroom (yes, I was homeschool K-12)
My first lab class
My first time living away from home
My first new country without my family
My first dorm room
My first roommate (yeah she's pretty awesome)
My first boyfriend
My first breakup
My first time ice skating (yes I looked like an idiot and enjoyed every minute of it)
My first time playing Halo =]
My first time playing guitar hero (ok, so it helps if you know the songs before you start singing)
My first awesome prof
My first terribly annoying prof
My first voice juries... bleh
My first time eating... whatever that stuff was at the cafeteria. Pretty sure I've never seen it's equal before anywhere on earth.
...well, and many more.
I'd say this has been a rather amazing first semester at college, I've learned a lot... most of it not in the classroom. I'm very ready to go home, but I'm aware that I'll be very ready to come back and hit the ground running next semester as well. I didn't fail my first semester of classes... I don't think... but then again, I don't have my final chemistry grade yet, do I.
We'll call this semester a good first try. ... now for my first visit home for Christmas!
18.12.09
26.11.09
Things I'm Thankful For
Too many things to list them all... so we'll just go with 10 random things.
1. I'm thankful for mom and dad, whose wisdom I appreciate more every day.
2. My friends who care about me and don't care when I don't know what's going on as I adjust to life in the states.
3. My awesome boyfriend, who not only puts up with my craziness, but matches it with his own.
4.My family here in the states who make sure that I don't have any excuse to feel lonely or not-cared for.
5. Cuddly dogs, such as Harry the Shi Tsu and Ozzie the Schnauzer.
6. Pecan pie and ice cream
7. coffee!
8. 80% cocoa dark chocolate
9. Random trips to a restaurant with Bree (my neighbor) when we get tired of sedexo (the school cafeteria)
10. All the myriad of things that God has given me that make my life amazing.
the end.
1. I'm thankful for mom and dad, whose wisdom I appreciate more every day.
2. My friends who care about me and don't care when I don't know what's going on as I adjust to life in the states.
3. My awesome boyfriend, who not only puts up with my craziness, but matches it with his own.
4.My family here in the states who make sure that I don't have any excuse to feel lonely or not-cared for.
5. Cuddly dogs, such as Harry the Shi Tsu and Ozzie the Schnauzer.
6. Pecan pie and ice cream
7. coffee!
8. 80% cocoa dark chocolate
9. Random trips to a restaurant with Bree (my neighbor) when we get tired of sedexo (the school cafeteria)
10. All the myriad of things that God has given me that make my life amazing.
the end.
28.10.09
My Favorite Things
These are things that make me happy...
Quietly reading a good book in the same room as good friends.
Eating a small piece of 80% cocoa chocolate very very slowly.
Walking in warm sunshine when the sun in just about to start setting.
Listening to music turned up too loudly.
Drinking a cup of very strong coffee.
Hugging a friend very tightly.
Laughing till it hurts.
Being tickled while I scream at the top of my lungs.
Feeling my phone buzz with a text message.
Playing the piano fast and loudly until I can't hear anything else and I can feel the music vibrating the whole room.
Falling asleep slowly under a warm blanket.
Hearing my neighbor scream my name from the other side of the hall.
Waking up and realizing I don't have to get up.
Taking a really long really hot shower.
The alternating hot-cold breeze that smells like sea salt that comes off a tropical beach.
Drinking a fresh green coconut.
Innertubing down the river behind Kudjip mission station.
Stepping on a dry acorn.
Watching a friend's face light up in laughter.
Speaking in a random language with someone who understands.
Drinking hot apple cider.
Telling someone exactly why I like them.
Being told exactly why someone likes me.
Singing at the top of my lungs.
Standing at the top of an Oregon cliff and looking out at the Northwest Pacific coast.
Having a completely random conversation that makes absolutely no sense to anyone but to those of use having it, while laughing so hard I can barely breathe.
Well, that's enough for now. Maybe I'll write more of these later. The song is right... it does make me feel happy to think of my favorite things!!! =]
Quietly reading a good book in the same room as good friends.
Eating a small piece of 80% cocoa chocolate very very slowly.
Walking in warm sunshine when the sun in just about to start setting.
Listening to music turned up too loudly.
Drinking a cup of very strong coffee.
Hugging a friend very tightly.
Laughing till it hurts.
Being tickled while I scream at the top of my lungs.
Feeling my phone buzz with a text message.
Playing the piano fast and loudly until I can't hear anything else and I can feel the music vibrating the whole room.
Falling asleep slowly under a warm blanket.
Hearing my neighbor scream my name from the other side of the hall.
Waking up and realizing I don't have to get up.
Taking a really long really hot shower.
The alternating hot-cold breeze that smells like sea salt that comes off a tropical beach.
Drinking a fresh green coconut.
Innertubing down the river behind Kudjip mission station.
Stepping on a dry acorn.
Watching a friend's face light up in laughter.
Speaking in a random language with someone who understands.
Drinking hot apple cider.
Telling someone exactly why I like them.
Being told exactly why someone likes me.
Singing at the top of my lungs.
Standing at the top of an Oregon cliff and looking out at the Northwest Pacific coast.
Having a completely random conversation that makes absolutely no sense to anyone but to those of use having it, while laughing so hard I can barely breathe.
Well, that's enough for now. Maybe I'll write more of these later. The song is right... it does make me feel happy to think of my favorite things!!! =]
9.9.09
wowww, this blog has been dead for a while
Ok. wow. where to start?
it's been a few months since I posted, it seems. So I shall just make a vain attempt to catch everyone back up on my life with a bunch of random facts about my current state of being.
-I have moved to america. I am now living in Bethany, Oklahoma
-I have started college at Southern Nazarene University
-I am now the proud owner of one little macbook
-I still have my same job (web coding)
-I am loving my life at the moment.
That's really about all for this blog post. Certainly not all that's going on in my life, but whatever. All we can fit in for now. And maybe I'll be better in the future about posting on here. But no promises, most assuredly we are making no promises.
it's been a few months since I posted, it seems. So I shall just make a vain attempt to catch everyone back up on my life with a bunch of random facts about my current state of being.
-I have moved to america. I am now living in Bethany, Oklahoma
-I have started college at Southern Nazarene University
-I am now the proud owner of one little macbook
-I still have my same job (web coding)
-I am loving my life at the moment.
That's really about all for this blog post. Certainly not all that's going on in my life, but whatever. All we can fit in for now. And maybe I'll be better in the future about posting on here. But no promises, most assuredly we are making no promises.
17.7.09
Update on the Whirlwind Masquarading as My Life
wow, has it really been a month since I last posted on here?! good grief. I hang my head in shame. Well.... not really, I have absolutely heaps of legitimate excuses, but I won't bore you with them.
We have now traveled across the states... and I'm serious, we have traveled ACROSS the states. We landed in Seattle, WA, and drove to Orlando, FL via Los Angeles, CA and Bonita Park, NM. In Orlando, we attened the General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene (which we are missionaries with). What an amazing Assembly! There is just something about tens of thousands of on-fire christians from around the world worshipping together. I also got to see a bunch of the other missionary kids who are normally evenly spread across the face of earth, so that was cool. MKs are pretty awesome people, I'll have you know.
After General Assembly and spending time with the Grandparents and their church, we drove up to Michigan for their NMI Convention... which is the missions meetings of our church, for you non-Nazarenes reading this. Then down to South West Ohio for that NMI convention. Some pretty amazing folks in all of those places, let me tell you. Hard to be cynical about the church after spending time with those kinds of people.
The things I am very muchly looking forward to now are Missionary Kid retreat at the end of this month (dances little happy dance of excitement); Family Camp after that back at my "home"... haha, yeah, I did live in one place in america, at least for seven years, believe it or not; and the start of school. I'm enrolled in pre-med classes for the first semester and can't wait to get started!
plus, at school, I will finally get a computer! Oh the joy! happiness! but until then, my loyal blog readers who are still checking this blog after a few forevers of inactivity... there will very likely be even more of that same level of activity.
And on that uplifting note... it's time to hit the road again.
We have now traveled across the states... and I'm serious, we have traveled ACROSS the states. We landed in Seattle, WA, and drove to Orlando, FL via Los Angeles, CA and Bonita Park, NM. In Orlando, we attened the General Assembly of the Church of the Nazarene (which we are missionaries with). What an amazing Assembly! There is just something about tens of thousands of on-fire christians from around the world worshipping together. I also got to see a bunch of the other missionary kids who are normally evenly spread across the face of earth, so that was cool. MKs are pretty awesome people, I'll have you know.
After General Assembly and spending time with the Grandparents and their church, we drove up to Michigan for their NMI Convention... which is the missions meetings of our church, for you non-Nazarenes reading this. Then down to South West Ohio for that NMI convention. Some pretty amazing folks in all of those places, let me tell you. Hard to be cynical about the church after spending time with those kinds of people.
The things I am very muchly looking forward to now are Missionary Kid retreat at the end of this month (dances little happy dance of excitement); Family Camp after that back at my "home"... haha, yeah, I did live in one place in america, at least for seven years, believe it or not; and the start of school. I'm enrolled in pre-med classes for the first semester and can't wait to get started!
plus, at school, I will finally get a computer! Oh the joy! happiness! but until then, my loyal blog readers who are still checking this blog after a few forevers of inactivity... there will very likely be even more of that same level of activity.
And on that uplifting note... it's time to hit the road again.
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