Life is crazy but good, right?

It has almost been 2 weeks since I have last updated, after talking to some people, most like a long version of the blog and a few like the short version, so here is a long version, if you want the short version, email me.

So I left off pretty much around superbowl weekend. I have been so busy with life and just working on trying to grow up to be the woman that God wants me to be!

First, there has been a huge addition and change in my life and that is my awesome friend, Jacqui, who means a lot to me even though we've only been friends for 2 weeks, I know she is going to be a lifelong friend, she means so much to me already! We get together every night and read the Bible together and discuss what we have just read and basically have our own little Bible study. We also talk about our days and making sure that the other is doing ok and not having any problems with anything. She lives in my dorm so its awesome to have her close by, haha not to mention we keep each other in line for all the crazy things we do and all that mischeif that we get into!

Life has been pretty busy for me. I am getting ready to head into a week of finals then on Friday I will be departing off to Russia. I will make sure and squeeze in another blog posting before I head off to Russia though.

Classes this trimester have been really difficult and I have started to become a little burned out feeling with my really full course load. I made sure to drop a class for next trimester so I can take things easy and possibly seek out a job!

A recap of my classes from 2nd trimester:
Hospitality Accounting-learned all the basic fundamentals of accounting with restaurants and hotels from doing daily cash reports, to creating various income statements and balance sheets, balancing a checkbook and knowing what to expect with errors on it, and various other fun things! This class has been difficult for me with all the stuff to memorize and all the right patterns and formulas.

Hospitality Law-there are so many things involved with running a hotel or restaurant, that it is crazy! There are so many technical terms and little details that it is really hard to remember all these things! This class was also a really difficult class for me!

Career Management-this class was a simple time consuming class where I created a version of my college resume and learned about job networking and other various career based things.

Marine Biology-this class was jam packed of lectures and lots of notes to be taken! Along with various nature films, some things were very fascinating to learn about and who knew that there was so much to be found in the ocean! This class was moderate for me and just challenged me when I had to learn all the special species names and phylum names for critters!

Front Office Operations-this class was all about how to operate a front desk of a hotel! I learned how to use one of the various check in/check out reservation computer programs, I learned how to do night audit (where a person closes all the accounts for the day and balances things out) and hotel forecasting (planning on how full your hotel will be and getting the best occupancy percentage possible) along with basic understanding of various areas in the hotel. This class contained a big project of creating your own full service hotel and creating a theme for it. I did mine based on a Jungle theme with exotic tree house rooms overlooking a jungle.

Guest Service Systems-this class was all about writing papers based off the teachers lectures. The teacher was a very colorful teacher and brought various teaching methods into his lectures which made things entertaining at times and you never knew what to expect from the teacher based upon all his various moods!

So other than taking those 6 classes, I also participated in a few clubs. I am in Club Manager's Association of America which deals with clubs such as country clubs, yacht clubs, art clubs etc. and I am co-secretary for this club.

I also am in Christian Student Fellowship and we have our weekly Tuesday Night Truth (TNT) meetings which are great since it is filled with worship, fellowship with fellow brothers and sisters in Christ and an awesome message presented by Pastor Andy!

Other highlights of my weeks are going to church on Sunday mornings followed by lunch at the mall foodcourt! Also, group lunches on Tuesdays and Thursdays with Pastor Andy, Melissa, Dan, Corey and anyone else we can find that happens to be downtown at the right time!

Since I am so busy, I can hardly remember all the key things that have been happening but here are some key events from the past couple of weeks!

I was happen to be blessed with the opportunity to go to a monthly event called Mug and Muffin which is where all the ladies of my church gather together to go over a book of the Bible. For the month of January, we went over the book of 1 Peter. 1 Peter is an amazing book of the Bible and really touched me! I would highly recommend reading it and so far it is one of my favorite books of the Bible!

Another fun thing is when Melissa, Corey and I all get together and head to the store to buy dinner fixings then we head to someone's house and make dinner together then watch a movie together! It is great fun and quite entertaining!

Valentine's Day was great as this was my first Valentine's with a special someone! We went to dinner and the movies. We saw the movie Definitely Maybe which is a good chick flick presented from a guy's point of view. Corey got me flowers and chocolate. He is so good to me and it amazes me as how he always manages to know how to make me smile, he sure does know how to turn my bad days into good ones!

My roommate situation has worked out really well, I am starting to become good friends with Allison and we already have a lot of special memories of crazy things that we have done together! My other roommate have a real basic relationship which is fine.

I'm sure there are plenty of other things, but that is all for now and I'll be sure to post another update right before I head off to Russia! I hope everyone is doing great and I hope everyone has had a great month so far! Please, I would love to hear from you and to hear what's new with you and how things are going! Take care everyone & God bless!

My Not So Crazy Week!

After having a 4 day weekend, I do have to admit that I was reluctant at starting my week! However, I do have to say that I'm sorry but this week may sound kind of dull so I'll make sure to make it short!

Tuesday's classes were normal and typical, I had a great lunch with friends, that always makes my day better. I had my college aged church as well on Tuesday night and one of my dear friends, Kendra, is moving away from Providence to go start a new job! Since Kendra was leaving, a group of us found reason to go out for a late night dinner and we did that. Which was was a lot fun!

I love Wednesdays because its the day I get to have lunch with Corey after my three classes and we always make lunch last a long time then we walk around downtown and run into friends.

Thursday was pretty much the same as every other Thursday, I had lunch with Dan and it was great talking to him and getting to know him better especially since Dan and Corey are attached at the hip usually. Then I hung out with Kendra and we looked at pictures and talked, it was great fun. She is a great friend of mine and she will be missed!

As for the weekend? Who knows what it is going to hold especially since we get Monday off since its a holiday! Hope everyone has a great weekend!

My Week!!!

I figured that I better give you all an update before I hit the weekend, otherwise this blog will get to be too long to read!

So I've been so busy I cannot even remember what day I left you guys all at! Ok, so I left off on Sunday night! Oh boy, 4 days to catch everyone up on!!!!

SO! Monday, nothing too exciting happened during the day part of it that I can really remember. I do remember that I started off with a jam packed lesson in Marine Biology and then I had 2 classes right after that! When I was all done with school, I went home and had my group project partner and friend, Betsy, come over to work on it. Then I went downtown and ate dinner with Betsy and some other friends. Then I headed over to Melissa's house and together we headed off to the supermarket to pick up some soda to take to another friend's house where we had a party for the National Championship game of college football between OSU & LSU! One friend brought 18 pounds of chicken wings!!!! There were about a dozen of us all hanging out and having a great time.

Tuesday...I had accouting where we were learning all about debits and credits! Then I met up with my friends, Nicolette and Madeline for a late breakfast. Well, we sat there so long talking, that I was able to add lunch in with some other friends: Melissa, Dan, Corey and Pastor Andy without having to leave the dining hall! Then I took this extremely hard hospitality law test (I still wondering what I got on it) and then I had my other class. After that class, I grabbed dinner with Nicolette which was so much fun! Then I headed off to college age church. We had a special guest speaker, Randy Sprinkle, who was really great! Then after church, about 6 of us all headed off to a restaurant for a late night snack and a chance to hang out! I really packed that day in!!!!

On Wednesday, after classes, I grabbed a nice lunch with Corey then we walked to go meet Nicolette who was supposed to be on the 4th floor of this building. Corey and I are in this glass elevator and we see Nicolette and Madeline in the other one right as we reach the 4th floor! I didn't hop into their elevator in enough time and watched them shoot down to the bottom. I got back into my elevator with Corey and shot down to the bottom only to watch Nicolette and Madeline shoot back up. I finally got off the elevator and by the time Nicolette and Madeline joined us, all four of us were laughing so hard. I do not think that I have ever played elevator tag before! Then, after running around downtown for a while and bumping into random friends, I headed home. By the time I got home, I had to change and go to this "Snowed in by the Fireside" vegetarian banquet for my good friend, Carrie, who had to invite 3 people to it! She did not tell me who else was going so I reluctantly went, completly not knowing what to expect at all! Lucky for me, I found my friend, Seth, heading there and together we found our other friend, Megan! It has been a long while since I ate that many vegetables at once! Seth stated that he felt his stomach sprout from all the vegetables he ate! After that, I went back to my room and worked on some things then I took a nice 2 hour nap! Then I talked to the family and went right back to bed since I was so exhausted and caught up on some much needed sleep!

Finally! We are on Thursday! I generally eat breakfast before going to classes but since I knew I was getting out of my first class early, I thought I would wait. So with my spare time, I went off to see if I could find Nicolette. Also, Nicolette and I share an accounting book so even though we do not have any classes together we have to make a huge point to connect with each other 1-3 times a day, 4 days a week! That is a great way to save money and keep in touch with friends! I find Nicolette and she tell me she does not have any more classes for the day! So after my first class, I go and grab breakfast with her. Then I headed home in hopes of taking a nap (I know I had so much sleep the night before but I still wanted my nap!). That doesn't work but I head back downtown to catch lunch with Melissa and Dan which went great! Then I had my two classes after that. Then I caught dinner with my friend, Betsy, and originally it was supposed to be just the two of us but it turned out to be pretty much the whole group of friends from McNulty along with my old roommate who showed up halfway through dinner. There was only one seat left, next to me and she sat down and things still have not really changed to say the least but that is fine especially we have both gone our own separate ways at this point. So now, here I am sitting in my dorm room, I think I am going to go hang out with Nicolette and Madeline, but who knows what the weekend is going to hold!

What an Amazing Weekend!!!!!

Wow! This weekend was the best one yet in Rhode Island!

This weekend was wonderful! Plus I did not have school on Monday so that made it all the better! Friday, I got picked up by a girl from church named Melissa along with a few other girls and we all headed to Melissa's apartment. We made dinner (Yeah! It was like 11 bucks for dinner fixings for 7 people and leftovers!) and watched a couple of movies and hung out. It was a lot of fun. Half of us sleptover at Melissa's apartment, including me.

I did not get home until mid afternoon on Saturday and the whole thing was a blast. Then on Saturday night around 7pm about 10 of us got together from church and went to Waterfire (waterfire.org for more info). This Saturday was a special one for breast cancer awareness so there were a lot of other events going on and the capital building was changed to pink lights so it was pink instead of the usual light which was cool. It was hard to keep us all together with all those people but we managed and we had a lot of fun just hanging out.

On Sunday, I went to church (Grace Harbor Community Church) and the message was good. Afterwards, around 10 of us got together and carpooled to Woonsocket, Rhode Island to go to this Autumnfest which was basically like a little town fair. After that, we went to Melissa's apartment and watched a couple of movies.

I love my new church friends. They are so nice to be around and its comforting to be around some girls that have the love of God just pouring out of them and they are so supportive of me.

Then on Monday, I did not have school. I ate breakfast with my friend Nicolette from Boston who is fun to be with. Then I walked to the train station to greet Courtney, my friend from New Jersey. After I got home with Courtney, I worked on a couple of things and then went and met Betsy, my friend from New Jersey. Once Betsy got settled in, we, meaning Courtney, Betsy, and me all hung out in Courtney's room. We had "snack time" then "nap time" Nap time was hilarious, all three of us crammed into a twin bed and took a nap. While we were napping, Courtney's roommate and some friends came walking in and stared at us. We all popped out of the covers one by one and by the time I popped out, they were like oh my gosh there's another one!

Yes, my weekend was great and I cannot wait for the next one since my parents are coming!

My Weekend, Church, & Friends

This weekend by far has probably been the most dramatic, interesting weekend of my life. I am not going to go into detail too much on it but there were some extreme moments going on.

I found a great new friend named Betsy, she means a lot to me and I've only known her for a week. She is going to bring a lot of excitement to my life with her great sense of humor. We've practically hung out everyday except for the one day I was gone at the Patriots game. She is from New Jersey and is studying Hotel Management as well. We help each other out in all sorts and ways and she lives on the 3rd floor which isn't too far away.

I also made some church friends. On Friday night, I went out with my church group, Tuesday Night Truth aka TNT, and we went out to dinner and just socialized together and got to know each other. Through that, I got to know some TNT people better and one of them showed me where church was on the way home from dinner.

Since my usual Sunday workings at the Patriots game was cancelled due to lack of drivers, I went to church. It was wonderful although very small and you could definetely feel a sense of unity in this church family. After church, a huge part of the church went to lunch at the mall. I got to eat lunch with the Pastor and his family and got to know them better. I think I can finally say that they will always be there for me and will be a great support system for me!

I hope everyone had a wonderful weekend!