Thanksgiving break

It went by way too fast. By the time I was getting on the plane to head back home, I still felt like I had just gotten off the plane. It was good to see my family and chill with my sisters.

I got offered a dress for $4,200. "A princes dress" as the store owner put it in Aspen. Yeah, I was not feeling so good about it when I heard that, even before I heard that I was unsure if it was something I would wear, then I knew it was not.I was looking for a dress to wear to the Januaries graduation here in a few weeks, and then for mine this summer. I did find two later, but not in that store, nor Aspen for that matter.

Anyway, sorry, I fell like that has nothing to do with the rest of this.

I also go to see my aunts and uncles on my mum''s side and my grandparents. It was cool to see all of them as well.

It is very odd going back to see family after you have moved out. In a way it does not seem supperly different, but I feel differnt. It does nto feel the same, and I am sure it never will.

Yeah, I have to get back to work, so I think that is all I will leave you with today.

I'm leaving on a jet plane...

I am leaving for Colorado tomorrow morning!! Jennifer is going to pick me up and will have some very wonderful lunch for me from Pika bagel. Mmm...

Character Development

My chances of getting on a computer for more than fifteen minutes are slim, and I have really been neglecting my blog. Sorry...

Anyway, I decided to talk about one of the weekly classes I have, every Wednesday morning, Character Development. This is the only class Ron Luce teaches (because he is insanely busy). Yes, he does sometimes speak in Chapel or in Monday evening worship, but that is the only one he consistently does.

It has been interesting how the class has progressed. It started off talking about what character is, progressed to living clean and renewing your mind in Gods word, to where we are at now; these past few weeks of class we have been going over God’s calling on your life, hearing from God, and hearing from God about what your purpose in life is. Not that Ron is saying there is some formula to hearing what God’s plan for your life is, but he is mainly just getting you to seek God on it and helping you to think through how different parts of it could fit together. It has been really good.

We have a fair amount of homework (of sorts) for it over Thanksgiving break. It is really just a list of questions to go over, think through, and pray about. From the looks of it, it is going to be fun and really thought provoking. I am really rather excited to do it.

Craziness!! I will be leaving in a little over forty-eight hours to head home for Thanksgiving. It really does not seem like that much time has passed by since I have been here, not enough to be headed home for thanksgiving at least. Seeing my family will be awesome. Yet, with Thanksgiving being so close, a sad thought hits me. That means it is now less than a month until the Januarys leave... :(

I know several Januarys are staying, but not all of the people in my family core are. Rebecca, my roommate, will be staying for a second year; David, from my brother core, is staying; and I am not sure about the two girls in my sister core that are graduating. Kayla and Dan I know are leaving. Don’t get me wrong, their leaving is not some horrible thing, they know where God is calling them to next, and they are going. It is just that I will miss them. Our family core, and my core, will no longer be the same without them.

Rebecca will no longer be my roommate, but I will still be able to see her and get together with her. Which will be cool, but it will take more effort on both our parts to hang out than it does now.

Also, Dan will be back this summer for a misson trip. So I will see him this next summer.

Yeah, I totally change the subject there in the middle of that post. Oh, well...

Hard week

It has been a rather hard week, I think my last post may have had a hint of that. I went to the PA on campus for my leg, and now surgery on my back has been spoken of. This has been bothering me a lot. When I think about it, my back has bothered me for a while (since the car accident), but I thought it was because of my leg. Now I am doing exercises for my back and I cannot do a lot of things because of it (things that I have been doing, just not comfortably).

I also feel like I really lost my focus. Forgeting what is really important, seeking after God and keeping Him my focus.

Anyway...

Thoughts

Life moves so fast. The weeks have been flying by faster than I can fully take them in, but it has been really good. I still at times don't feel like my being at Teen Mania is real in a way. You would think the reality would have fully set in by now, yet I still feel like it is just some dream that I am getting a short chance at living in.

I feel at times like I am really a part of something bigger than myself, but I often get to into just doing what I am told to or what it is my responsibility to and forget what I am really doing. Different things wake me back up to this not being some place I came to learn nice little sayings and how to open cans with big can openers that take all the strength in your arms to use ;). I don't want to waste this year and I want to learn how to make it not just for me. At times it has been, but I don't want it to be.

On thing I have had to really work at is working in the kitchen. There are some days I just don't want to be in the kitchen seeing all the faces people make as they go through the line or scrubbing food off plates or whatever. Yet, I think by the end of the year it will continue to get better (not that all days in the kitchen are really hard, but just some days).

Any way, I have to meet with my CA, like now, so I have to end this post now.

A lovely night in a dorm

I have decided living in a dorm can be crazy sometimes. Last night, I was certain that there are people who think of it as a sleep over party or something.

Okay, so I work breakfast. This means I have to be in the kitchen by five am (insane, yeah, just a bit at times). I normally get up at four (so I can at least spend a little time with God before going to the kitchen to work).

Last night I went to bed at ten, thinking the six hours of sleep I was going to get would be so nice in comparison to the three and a half I had barely gotten the night before. Yeah, that shows that I know nothing about my future. At elevan pm someone began to bang on our window. My first thought was that Sumer and Pat, whom I work with, were doing it and I was late for work (Because they had teasingly said they would do that if I was late). So when I looked at the clock I kept asking my room mate Kathy if it was really elevan. Once she had reasured me it was, I just went back to sleep and let them work out the rest.

Well, when my alarm went off, I thought the clock said five to five, so I quickly got out of bed and threw my clothes on over my pajamas before looking up and seeing that it was really five to four.

At least I was very awake for the time I got to read my Bible in this morning :D.