WOW! Like TWO months later!!!!!

Wow! So much has happened! I am sorry for not writing sooner! Life has been crazy busy!!!!!! Guess what!? I'm coming to Idaho June 2nd!

Yes, I fully know I left off on April 2nd! Things have finally started slowing down and I've managed to get the world to stop spinning for a minute! Here are pieces of my life!

April 4th-6th:
Went to Freedom, New Hampshire for a spring retreat with about 14 other people in my group. There were various churches there and about 100 people or so in attendence. It was very relaxing and at the same time a great way to come and take rest in God.

April 13th:
My birthday-my birthday was great! My parents found a local bakery that delivered a cake to me. Then Melissa took me out to lunch. Later, after hanging out with Melissa, we and several other friends headed to an Italian restaurant. I brought my cake with me and when I got to the restaurant they took the cake from me and put it in the refrigerator. After we were done eating, the people at the restaurant brought out my cake and sung me happy birthday, however my parents put one of my nicknames on the cake, one nickname that my RI friends did not know, so when the whole restaurant broke out in song for me through that nickname, we all burst out laughing. It was great!

Later on the next week, I found a car, a 1999 Honda Accord and bought it. Now I'm trying to figure out the whole registration scene for it. I think I have it down and should be registering it in the next week or so hopefully.

I also got the whole apartment scene figured out! God works in mysterious ways! I had found this 2 bedroom apartment on the 2nd floor in a good area. I put down a deposit on it and things went through and I was supposed to move in May 1st. I was working through an agent and at the last minute, the apartment was pulled out from under me. My agent was upset with the landlord for this and the landlord offered us his way nicer 1st floor and my agent managed to get the rent knocked down a tad. So I have a nice 2 bedroom apartment with 2 other fun loving roommates so things should be good! I get to hopefully move in May 27th! So excited! That's 2 days away! I've been staying at a friend's apartment as I moved out of the dorms on May 16th. Which closes the dorm chapter of my life!

School was a very difficult trimester for me with this past one. My classes all were very challenging for me. I had one class that had 40% of the grade be a project that we all each spent about 20-60 hours on and another 20% of that class' grade was the final. The project was first researching a city from a random state that we drew out of a hat (the professor threw Idaho out, I couldn't believe it!). I got Colorado and chose Denver as my destination city. Then we again drew out of a hat and got a corporation, association or non profit group to plan and organize a 3 night/4 day convention for in the city that we research. I got Boeing, which was great for me because I love airplanes. Another class that was difficult for me was macroeconomics just because I had a hard time grasping and memorizing concepts. I also was challenged in my advanced English class with having a teacher who disliked God and presented me with a lot of challenges/conflicts upon my own personal views.

My friends here are amazing! I have most definitely a wonderful family out here of all sorts of random people that manage to find me! I do not know what I would do without my friends here, they mean a lot to me and we all teach each other things everyday. It's amazing to see everyone's different managing styles and lifestyles. Because truly, we all having an amazing and unique story to share, of how we were brought up and how that in turn makes each of us very different!

I was also presented with the challenge of having chronic back pain. I have had consistent back pain everyday since mid-April and off and on from at least March. I did go to the hospital one night that it was so bad and they took x-rays and said nothing was wrong. They gave me a prescription to pain killers. With my luck, I was allergic to that and my whole body broke out in a rash (2 of my friends put me on a no scratch rule lol and me and another made the scratch club.....haha). I hunted around and found a back specialist who was 2 weeks out. I made the appointment and waited anxiously for it. As nothing was helping my pain at this point, not even vicaden (my friends love me on that because it makes me really talkative and takes me for a ride down memory lane). I had the appointment and the doctor was like well I do not really see anything wrong with the x-rays so you can do physical therapy or whatever treatment method and here's a prescription.....I was kind of frusterated and this was almost my breaking point with the pain....luckily the prescription helped with the pain and it has gone down a tad but I'm fearful that my body is getting used to it now.

Let's see, random fun times:
~Playing hand and foot (an awesome, crazy card game) or various other games with Carrie who is an awesome friend to have around. She is very understanding especially with me and all my crazy moods!

~Going on random adventures with Alissa (one of my future roomies) to who knows where! Which is always a blast! Alissa cracks me up, you never know what comment or random thing she's going to say or do next!

~Hanging out with Melissa...which is always fun! Melissa helps me out so much with so many things and she is like a sister to me! I can't wait to tear up the upcoming months with having her for a roomie.

~Haha! Running around downtown Providence from midnight on and ending up at a 24 hour IHOP only to get home at 3:30am/4am!

~Walking down the WRONG street on the WRONG side of town and almost getting picked up because some guy thought I was a hooker(yeppers, I learned my lesson) because I missed the bus by accident. Yeah, I was doing a church thing at the rescue mission and I missed the bus and decided to walk to the mission, whoops, not a smart idea!

~I know there are so many more.........haha I guess you'll have to wait and hear them from me!

Another cool/important things before I end....I am going to be a Missions Leader for the college aged church group that I am involved with. My job will be to present a general awareness of missions and mission needs including prayer for places around the world as well as helping to coordinate spring break mission trips.

Well, that about sums it up! I'll be seeing a lot of you come June 2nd! We can really tear things up then!