Wow! I feel that time just shoots by as the years blow by! It seems like sometimes, so many things are happening at once that you almost lose track of your priorities and then you have a heaping plate full of stuff to do and there never seems to be enough hours in a day!
I'm still working at the same place doing the same thing as a float and a school age person. I love floating around the rooms, getting to know all sorts of crazy, funny kids and all the random shenanigans that happen! I just have to discover some sort of way to not let it get boring (haha yes, boring) for me.
School is okay. It has been a rough trimester because my classes are difficult and require lots of thinking as any senior level class would expect, haha. I have a mixology class where we learn about all different sorts of alcohol, get to taste it, and then learn to make 40 common drinks. My midterm consisted of a multiple choice test, a blind tasting of 2 different drinks, doing an 1 1/2 oz free pour and a 3/4 free pour (instead of measuring it out, we had to get it to be exact) and also making 12 drinks in 12 minutes with the right garnish in the right glass all from memory. My other class is a whole different animal from that one. There is 17 students in my class and we have to run a restaurant with a lunchtime seating of 16-20 people. I'm assigned a partner, a menu theme, a menu date, and a service style. From there, we must find recipes from books, convert the recipes to the size we need them, cost them out, order the food, prep the food, set up the dining room to be a formal setting, get guests in to eat the food, and basically do everything A to Z of running a sit down place. It's hectic and time consuming! I'm also taking psychology and a career capstone class.
I'm now officially 1 class short of graduating this May however I'm praying that my 1 class worth of English Technical Writing from BSU in my high school days will be able to transfer over and take that missing spot!
I'm working on moving by the end of May into an apartment loaded with girls haha. I will live there for the summer until end of August. It should be a pretty amusing summer. I'm also trying to figure out where I am supposed to go and what I'm supposed to do with my life. For the time being, God hasn't told me exactly what and clearly He needs me to grow more with something and prepare me for whatever He needs me to do since He just hasn't shown me yet despite my stubborn ways of trying to know.
I feel a service calling to do something hands on with a community and possibly social service based dealing with kids. I just don't know what capacity God wants me in yet.
I had a wonderful birthday! Thanks to my friends for making it an unique one. My roommate made me breakfast and my friend Maria made me dinner that I had with her, her daughter and a friend.
Yes, Rhode Island was hit with some flooding. The biggest blow was to the Warwick Mall (a mere 2.5 miles from my apartment, I'm so blessed!). The Warwick Mall is near the sewer treatment center and they got overflowed and it shot over to the mall and caused a horrible mess and so all the inventory in the stores has to be trashed primarily and the all the stores have to be redone but there are rumors leaking around as if its really worth it to have the Warwick Mall redone when there's a vacant dead mall that didn't get hit by the flood that is a stone's throw from the Warwick Mall. Several areas got severely flooded and some people were deeply affected, some of our main roads and highways were closed for a few days due to flooding and it was an interesting experience for me.
Sunday, April 18, 2010
Friday, March 5, 2010
Here Comes March
Is it just me or is this year just flying by?!
I've been slacking at this, I guess once you get so enamored with the routine of life, you get stubborn and forget to do other things like updating blogs haha. I'm in the midst of my spring break after completing a difficult trimester of schooling. I'm headed into the last trimester of school for the year and God praying, will be the last trimester of school that I ever face! I'm trying to graduate early so I have a few tests that I have to do etc. to make up the two classes I'm missing, so I hope that goes well.
Nothing too terribly exotic has been happening in my amusing life, just working like a busy bee while doing school and going to church. Church has been amazing, I have been learning so much and I feel like my relationship with Christ is growing deeper.
I'm not entirely sure of my plans for after graduation if I make that milestone this year, I'm planning to keep God at the forefront and ask Him for His guidance with what happens next.
Work is going well, we are working on the summer camp program which should be highly entertaining hopefully. I have been assigned a group of 7-8 year olds of about 13 kids as mine for the summer. I had the fun experience of taking on a class of 6 kids aged 18 month to 30 month by myself as well for the day. I'm learning that it really doesn't matter how many kids you got, there is always going to be mayhem bumbling around, how you take it is how it is going to affect you!
Anyone else getting excited for spring? I hope the weather is nice, it hasn't been the best and I think last summer we only had like 2 weeks of shine the rest of rain.
I've been slacking at this, I guess once you get so enamored with the routine of life, you get stubborn and forget to do other things like updating blogs haha. I'm in the midst of my spring break after completing a difficult trimester of schooling. I'm headed into the last trimester of school for the year and God praying, will be the last trimester of school that I ever face! I'm trying to graduate early so I have a few tests that I have to do etc. to make up the two classes I'm missing, so I hope that goes well.
Nothing too terribly exotic has been happening in my amusing life, just working like a busy bee while doing school and going to church. Church has been amazing, I have been learning so much and I feel like my relationship with Christ is growing deeper.
I'm not entirely sure of my plans for after graduation if I make that milestone this year, I'm planning to keep God at the forefront and ask Him for His guidance with what happens next.
Work is going well, we are working on the summer camp program which should be highly entertaining hopefully. I have been assigned a group of 7-8 year olds of about 13 kids as mine for the summer. I had the fun experience of taking on a class of 6 kids aged 18 month to 30 month by myself as well for the day. I'm learning that it really doesn't matter how many kids you got, there is always going to be mayhem bumbling around, how you take it is how it is going to affect you!
Anyone else getting excited for spring? I hope the weather is nice, it hasn't been the best and I think last summer we only had like 2 weeks of shine the rest of rain.
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
Vroooom! It's February!
Wow, I'm a slacker, I haven't updated my blog since November! My bad!
Where shall I start?
In came December and the start of cold weather. On the 16th, on my way to a delightful cookie exchange, I got the phone call. My grandmother died (dad's mother). She meant so much to me and was like one of the people I took for granted to be there in my life. I thought she'd have at least another 15-20 years left on her. Just shows you that you can't take things for granted and to be sure and cherish the things you have! So, I bumped up my flight and flew home on the 20th instead of the 22nd. Of course, RI got a huge storm on the 20th, so I was a little delayed coming out to ID but I made it! My parents, brother, Camden, and Scott were all waiting for me :D
The following morning on Monday, December 21st, we had the memorial service for my grandmother. One of our dear neighbors from the deli is a funeral home and they hosted us. Of course, they are like family to us so it was nice to know that Grandma was in safe hands! A family friend spoke the gospel, then my father spoke a few words about taking the time to love the people around you a little more. Then a few others spoke and shared their memories.
On Christmas Eve, Scott took me flying and we went flying over Kuna, Homedale and various other scenic Idaho. It was a humorous adventure since first, we had to de-ice the plane ourselves (it was a small plane that could seat like 2-4 people) then while we were flying, our radio went out, thus we lost control with the tower and they in turn, didn't know where we were since we didn't show up on the radar and that meant that other planes could hit us. So we kept our eyes peeled! Afterwards, we had a Christmas Eve party at my Aunt Rose's house! It was wonderful!
Christmas morning, my parents and I pulled out my dad's laptop and got my brother on the webcam and celebrated Christmas through that method, haha, it was weird though to not have my brother there. It was definitely a very unusual Christmas from not having Grandma and not having my brother. I enjoyed my time at home with my parents and the rest of my family.
With my luck, when I flew out on Dec 30th, it snowed a few inches in Boise and thus delayed travel plans while I was en route. So here's how my travel went for this day, I got to Boise airport at 5:45am, to my amusement, Southwest did not have anyone running their ticket counter until a smidgen after 6am. Then I flew out at 7:10am. I had a touch and go in Salt Lake City, then I landed in Phoenix. I was 1.5 hours late and had missed my flight. They re-booked me to go through Nashville then onwards to Providence and I would get in at 10:20pm instead of 6:00pm. Excited to go to Nashville (I like checking out random airports haha) I tooled around Phoenix killing time. Then I discovered the Nashville flight was overbooked and they were looking for volunteers. So I volunteered myself, got myself a hefty flight voucher (over $500 bucks yeah baby!) and flew to Las Vegas and onwards to Providence where lovely Maria was awaiting to get me at 12:30am!
On Dec 31st, for New Year's Eve, I got together with my friends and we went to Maria's house, where I made crepes (my specialty apparently these days haha) and watched a movie, then watched the ball drop. It was a nice and relaxing New Year's eve.
On January 1st, I had my bags packed again (like I ever unpacked from the first trip haha) and flew out to Atlanta, GA! I was going to the Passion 2010 conference which was a few day conference all about God with special speakers ranging from Louie Giglio, Francis Chan, Beth Moore, John Piper, Andy Stanley and some other wonderful people! Hillsong United also played as well as Chris Tomlin, David Crowder and a few others. WOW, what an eye opening life changing experience. The theme was Awaken and over 20,000 people attended. One of the most memorable parts was after John Piper spoke, Louie Giglio challenged us to go to our next spot without talking, so 20,000+ maneuvered about without speaking! This trip was also priceless in the fact that in my group that I went with of 25, with all the activities and events, we went nonstop from like 5 or 6am in the morning to 1 or 2 or 3am at night and we were slap happy silly or wicked cranky all the time and this made this trip truly memorable.
For the moment, I'll leave off here, and I will continue next week with more up to date stuff! :D Gotta love suspense hehe.
Where shall I start?
In came December and the start of cold weather. On the 16th, on my way to a delightful cookie exchange, I got the phone call. My grandmother died (dad's mother). She meant so much to me and was like one of the people I took for granted to be there in my life. I thought she'd have at least another 15-20 years left on her. Just shows you that you can't take things for granted and to be sure and cherish the things you have! So, I bumped up my flight and flew home on the 20th instead of the 22nd. Of course, RI got a huge storm on the 20th, so I was a little delayed coming out to ID but I made it! My parents, brother, Camden, and Scott were all waiting for me :D
The following morning on Monday, December 21st, we had the memorial service for my grandmother. One of our dear neighbors from the deli is a funeral home and they hosted us. Of course, they are like family to us so it was nice to know that Grandma was in safe hands! A family friend spoke the gospel, then my father spoke a few words about taking the time to love the people around you a little more. Then a few others spoke and shared their memories.
On Christmas Eve, Scott took me flying and we went flying over Kuna, Homedale and various other scenic Idaho. It was a humorous adventure since first, we had to de-ice the plane ourselves (it was a small plane that could seat like 2-4 people) then while we were flying, our radio went out, thus we lost control with the tower and they in turn, didn't know where we were since we didn't show up on the radar and that meant that other planes could hit us. So we kept our eyes peeled! Afterwards, we had a Christmas Eve party at my Aunt Rose's house! It was wonderful!
Christmas morning, my parents and I pulled out my dad's laptop and got my brother on the webcam and celebrated Christmas through that method, haha, it was weird though to not have my brother there. It was definitely a very unusual Christmas from not having Grandma and not having my brother. I enjoyed my time at home with my parents and the rest of my family.
With my luck, when I flew out on Dec 30th, it snowed a few inches in Boise and thus delayed travel plans while I was en route. So here's how my travel went for this day, I got to Boise airport at 5:45am, to my amusement, Southwest did not have anyone running their ticket counter until a smidgen after 6am. Then I flew out at 7:10am. I had a touch and go in Salt Lake City, then I landed in Phoenix. I was 1.5 hours late and had missed my flight. They re-booked me to go through Nashville then onwards to Providence and I would get in at 10:20pm instead of 6:00pm. Excited to go to Nashville (I like checking out random airports haha) I tooled around Phoenix killing time. Then I discovered the Nashville flight was overbooked and they were looking for volunteers. So I volunteered myself, got myself a hefty flight voucher (over $500 bucks yeah baby!) and flew to Las Vegas and onwards to Providence where lovely Maria was awaiting to get me at 12:30am!
On Dec 31st, for New Year's Eve, I got together with my friends and we went to Maria's house, where I made crepes (my specialty apparently these days haha) and watched a movie, then watched the ball drop. It was a nice and relaxing New Year's eve.
On January 1st, I had my bags packed again (like I ever unpacked from the first trip haha) and flew out to Atlanta, GA! I was going to the Passion 2010 conference which was a few day conference all about God with special speakers ranging from Louie Giglio, Francis Chan, Beth Moore, John Piper, Andy Stanley and some other wonderful people! Hillsong United also played as well as Chris Tomlin, David Crowder and a few others. WOW, what an eye opening life changing experience. The theme was Awaken and over 20,000 people attended. One of the most memorable parts was after John Piper spoke, Louie Giglio challenged us to go to our next spot without talking, so 20,000+ maneuvered about without speaking! This trip was also priceless in the fact that in my group that I went with of 25, with all the activities and events, we went nonstop from like 5 or 6am in the morning to 1 or 2 or 3am at night and we were slap happy silly or wicked cranky all the time and this made this trip truly memorable.
For the moment, I'll leave off here, and I will continue next week with more up to date stuff! :D Gotta love suspense hehe.
Monday, November 23, 2009
A Warm November
I feel like this year has blown by! This November seems extremely mild weather wise! I don't remember the last time I ran around in shorts and a tank top in November in a 4 season climate!
I also feel like the flu season has hit harder this year though, oddly enough. I don't know if it's due to the H1N1 freak out or what. Even in Idaho, it seems rougher from what I hear. Also, me working at a daycare, I see how much it happens, and yes it finally hit me this past weekend, teach me for not getting a flu shot.
The trimester just ended and hopefully I only have two left until I am done! My classes went pretty smoothly and I'm feeling confident with things, a couple of my finals were tough but I think I will make it! This upcoming trimester should be interesting with most of my classes happening late afternoon/night, I typically have too much ADD around this time to concentrate, so I will see about focusing better haha!
Work is going great, I'm still loving it! I've been working with toddlers a lot more and I'm also a floater but I am still in charge of coming up with the activity curriculum and taking care of the paperwork for school age. Working with toddlers is pure mayhem at times but I still love it! Having up to 18 of them and 3 of us adds to the fun definitely. I think one of my most memorable days at work is when I had the worst diaper blowout ever, a 4 year old with a fever of 104, another sick 4 year old who vomited all across the room in route to the bathroom while I had to make sure my 12 other 3 & 4 years did not get in the mess during clean up, and being bitten by a toddler who was frustrated with me for not letting him attack another toddler. Toddlers are definitely one of my favorite age groups which is kind of surprising to me.
My brother came out on a day's notice for a short 4 day trip and we had a blast tearing up the sites. I took him to Newport to see the beaches and Purgatory Chasm as well as Ocean Drive and we toured the Breakers Mansion, holy cow what an awesome home, I cannot believe that they only used it for a summer residence! We went to Hilltop Steakhouse and had some yummy steak and ribs. I took him to Thayer Street and had him experience bubble tea, we went to Prospect Park and did some night photography of the statehouse. He ran off to Ikea (almost an hour away) while I was working, haha he doesn't like the driving out here, he tells me that RI/MA drivers are horrific. I said yep, we live up to our name of being the worst drivers in the country. I also dragged him along to babysit a 3 month old baby with me and I almost forgot how much joy kids bring to my brother, I haven't seen him smile like that in ages (well it'd help if I saw him more too haha). Of course, he flew into Boston, and he flew out of Boston at the crack of dawn so I got to drive him to the airport at 2:30 in the morning when I had a final at 7:10am. Haha, yeah I didn't make it to class on time but had a forgiving professor who let me make it up, thankfully!
Church and Bible studies are still going great! I've been journeying through the book of Psalms and wow, what an awesome book that is! However, any book I journey through is awesome! I'm seeing more and more the importance of spending time with God on a regular, daily basis. Reading the Bible and praying daily is spiritual food and your body needs it just as much as physical food!
I also feel like the flu season has hit harder this year though, oddly enough. I don't know if it's due to the H1N1 freak out or what. Even in Idaho, it seems rougher from what I hear. Also, me working at a daycare, I see how much it happens, and yes it finally hit me this past weekend, teach me for not getting a flu shot.
The trimester just ended and hopefully I only have two left until I am done! My classes went pretty smoothly and I'm feeling confident with things, a couple of my finals were tough but I think I will make it! This upcoming trimester should be interesting with most of my classes happening late afternoon/night, I typically have too much ADD around this time to concentrate, so I will see about focusing better haha!
Work is going great, I'm still loving it! I've been working with toddlers a lot more and I'm also a floater but I am still in charge of coming up with the activity curriculum and taking care of the paperwork for school age. Working with toddlers is pure mayhem at times but I still love it! Having up to 18 of them and 3 of us adds to the fun definitely. I think one of my most memorable days at work is when I had the worst diaper blowout ever, a 4 year old with a fever of 104, another sick 4 year old who vomited all across the room in route to the bathroom while I had to make sure my 12 other 3 & 4 years did not get in the mess during clean up, and being bitten by a toddler who was frustrated with me for not letting him attack another toddler. Toddlers are definitely one of my favorite age groups which is kind of surprising to me.
My brother came out on a day's notice for a short 4 day trip and we had a blast tearing up the sites. I took him to Newport to see the beaches and Purgatory Chasm as well as Ocean Drive and we toured the Breakers Mansion, holy cow what an awesome home, I cannot believe that they only used it for a summer residence! We went to Hilltop Steakhouse and had some yummy steak and ribs. I took him to Thayer Street and had him experience bubble tea, we went to Prospect Park and did some night photography of the statehouse. He ran off to Ikea (almost an hour away) while I was working, haha he doesn't like the driving out here, he tells me that RI/MA drivers are horrific. I said yep, we live up to our name of being the worst drivers in the country. I also dragged him along to babysit a 3 month old baby with me and I almost forgot how much joy kids bring to my brother, I haven't seen him smile like that in ages (well it'd help if I saw him more too haha). Of course, he flew into Boston, and he flew out of Boston at the crack of dawn so I got to drive him to the airport at 2:30 in the morning when I had a final at 7:10am. Haha, yeah I didn't make it to class on time but had a forgiving professor who let me make it up, thankfully!
Church and Bible studies are still going great! I've been journeying through the book of Psalms and wow, what an awesome book that is! However, any book I journey through is awesome! I'm seeing more and more the importance of spending time with God on a regular, daily basis. Reading the Bible and praying daily is spiritual food and your body needs it just as much as physical food!
Monday, October 5, 2009
A Happy Medium
Wow, its October already, it feels like it was just January yesterday! I cannot believe how fast this year has flown by, it is amazing how fast time flies as you get older.
School is going great. I'm loving my classes this trimester! I got smart and let go of my work study job so I'd only have my daycare job and school which is a good schedule for me! I'm happy I'm not heaping my plate of life too high these days haha.
I'm loving work, it is one of my favorite jobs ever! Never thought I'd enjoy working with kids so much. Seems like God gave me some kind of gift with them, I just got to figure out how to use that. I typically work with school age kids in the afternoons but sometimes I bounce around classrooms and help out. I love the waddler/toddler age even though the group at my center is a rough and rowdy bunch! Holy cow, never thought I'd see three toddlers war it out with each other and throw each other down on the playground like that.
Summaries of some of my weekends since my last blog posting.............
One weekend....
I went to a BBQ in New Hampshire that was a Soulfest Reunion, it was a great time seeing old friends again! On Sunday, I went to a music festival with a chili competition mixed into it that was fun times and I also did some sightseeing in Massachusetts. I'm beginning to learn how many different things Massachusetts has that I didn't know about!
Another weekend....
I volunteered at a Skillet/Hawk Nelson concert with some other Soulfest buddies and of course it rained that night haha, because it always has to rain when we get together!
Another weekend....
I went to Springfield, Massachusetts to go to the Big E fair with a bunch of friends. It was an awesome fair that represented all 6 states of the New England Region. My favorite part of it was States Row, which had buildings representing each of the six states and each building was owned by that state so you could travel to six states in a matter of minutes! Inside each building were exhibits that were hosted by companies that we headquartered in that state or things that state was known for.
Another weekend....
My cousin and his wife came into town and I got to hang out with them! We went to dinner together one night and then on Sunday I dropped them off and picked them up at a Patriots' game and topped it off with dinner and hanging out afterwards.
Another weekend....
I went to a Newsboys concert in Massachusetts on a Friday night and helped out there (twas another rainy day hanging out with my Soulfest buddies haha). On Saturday, I went to a Voice of the Martyrs conference in Connecticut with a couple of friends which had some awesome speakers. On Sunday, I had church and a goodbye party for some dear friends that are moving an hour or so away because of a job promotion. On Monday (twas Columbus day) I hung out with Peter and went to an art festival in Scituate, RI.
I guess I like to pack it in, I seem to always be busy running around and seeing new things. I love exploring! I put something like 2000 miles or more on my car this past September. One wonderful thing about New England is the fall foliage, so many amazing bright beautiful colors makes a good bang before old man winter settles in!
School is going great. I'm loving my classes this trimester! I got smart and let go of my work study job so I'd only have my daycare job and school which is a good schedule for me! I'm happy I'm not heaping my plate of life too high these days haha.
I'm loving work, it is one of my favorite jobs ever! Never thought I'd enjoy working with kids so much. Seems like God gave me some kind of gift with them, I just got to figure out how to use that. I typically work with school age kids in the afternoons but sometimes I bounce around classrooms and help out. I love the waddler/toddler age even though the group at my center is a rough and rowdy bunch! Holy cow, never thought I'd see three toddlers war it out with each other and throw each other down on the playground like that.
Summaries of some of my weekends since my last blog posting.............
One weekend....
I went to a BBQ in New Hampshire that was a Soulfest Reunion, it was a great time seeing old friends again! On Sunday, I went to a music festival with a chili competition mixed into it that was fun times and I also did some sightseeing in Massachusetts. I'm beginning to learn how many different things Massachusetts has that I didn't know about!
Another weekend....
I volunteered at a Skillet/Hawk Nelson concert with some other Soulfest buddies and of course it rained that night haha, because it always has to rain when we get together!
Another weekend....
I went to Springfield, Massachusetts to go to the Big E fair with a bunch of friends. It was an awesome fair that represented all 6 states of the New England Region. My favorite part of it was States Row, which had buildings representing each of the six states and each building was owned by that state so you could travel to six states in a matter of minutes! Inside each building were exhibits that were hosted by companies that we headquartered in that state or things that state was known for.
Another weekend....
My cousin and his wife came into town and I got to hang out with them! We went to dinner together one night and then on Sunday I dropped them off and picked them up at a Patriots' game and topped it off with dinner and hanging out afterwards.
Another weekend....
I went to a Newsboys concert in Massachusetts on a Friday night and helped out there (twas another rainy day hanging out with my Soulfest buddies haha). On Saturday, I went to a Voice of the Martyrs conference in Connecticut with a couple of friends which had some awesome speakers. On Sunday, I had church and a goodbye party for some dear friends that are moving an hour or so away because of a job promotion. On Monday (twas Columbus day) I hung out with Peter and went to an art festival in Scituate, RI.
I guess I like to pack it in, I seem to always be busy running around and seeing new things. I love exploring! I put something like 2000 miles or more on my car this past September. One wonderful thing about New England is the fall foliage, so many amazing bright beautiful colors makes a good bang before old man winter settles in!
Monday, September 7, 2009
A New Start
The Lord has blessed me and I praise Him for all the storms we go through together, as I know the rainbow at the end of each storm will be glorious making each storm worthwhile despite the trials and tribulations it may have brought.
I just started a new job and the wait was so worth it! A friend of mine hooked me up with it and I love it! It has a great schedule, a good amount of hours, and it is something I love doing! I work at a daycare center in the school age classroom. I monitor children aged 5-12 and other age groups from time to time such as preschool and pre-K. I get to help them with homework and do activities with them. A majority of the children are inner city kids thus being very tough and coming from all walks of life. The people I work with are great as well and work can actually be fun sometimes!
School starts Tuesday September 8th! I'm trying my best to figure out all my classes and graduate a year early (this year yay!). I'm declaring a concentration in Entrepreneurship and a second one in Food & Beverage Management. A concentration is kind of like a minor or a specialized focus on an area thus making my school's degree programs more versatile. My classes that I am taking are Microeconomics, Business Plan, Dining Room Management, and Dynamics of Tourism.
I am still going to my Thursday night Bible study and we just started a focus on growing your faith in Christ. Church is going great as well, we just wrapped up an intensive and complete study on 1 Corinthians.
I also had the fine opportunity of camping in a tropical storm which can make camping very amusing from building a tarp structure over your tent using random stick poles and having to find shelter somewhere to make dinner. It poured the whole night!
I am excited for this upcoming weekend! There is going to be a volunteer reunion bbq in New Hampshire for the group of volunteers from Soulfest so I will get to see some good friends again! Praying for good weather, although no Soulfest event would be complete without rain I suppose haha.
I just started a new job and the wait was so worth it! A friend of mine hooked me up with it and I love it! It has a great schedule, a good amount of hours, and it is something I love doing! I work at a daycare center in the school age classroom. I monitor children aged 5-12 and other age groups from time to time such as preschool and pre-K. I get to help them with homework and do activities with them. A majority of the children are inner city kids thus being very tough and coming from all walks of life. The people I work with are great as well and work can actually be fun sometimes!
School starts Tuesday September 8th! I'm trying my best to figure out all my classes and graduate a year early (this year yay!). I'm declaring a concentration in Entrepreneurship and a second one in Food & Beverage Management. A concentration is kind of like a minor or a specialized focus on an area thus making my school's degree programs more versatile. My classes that I am taking are Microeconomics, Business Plan, Dining Room Management, and Dynamics of Tourism.
I am still going to my Thursday night Bible study and we just started a focus on growing your faith in Christ. Church is going great as well, we just wrapped up an intensive and complete study on 1 Corinthians.
I also had the fine opportunity of camping in a tropical storm which can make camping very amusing from building a tarp structure over your tent using random stick poles and having to find shelter somewhere to make dinner. It poured the whole night!
I am excited for this upcoming weekend! There is going to be a volunteer reunion bbq in New Hampshire for the group of volunteers from Soulfest so I will get to see some good friends again! Praying for good weather, although no Soulfest event would be complete without rain I suppose haha.
Friday, August 21, 2009
Oops Where Did July Go?
Uh-oh, August is almost gone already too! Where did the time go!?
I left off with end of June and now it is almost end of August! I've been applying to jobs like crazy all summer with random interviews and random things thrown in there! It's been crazy!
4th of July was great time hanging with friends, followed up by an amazing 45min long firework display in some hick town in Connecticut! To help with the no job scene I began pouring my time into the Rescue Mission and Parrot Sanctuary. The Parrot Sanctuary located about 40 min away from my house is a refuge for abandoned parrot types of birds and other funky animals such as porcupines, wallabies, rabbits, tortoises, frogs, geese, chickens, ducks, and others. I usually help with the food/water changing of dishes and reloading and cleaning cages.
July ended with my time at Soulfest which was wonderful! Soulfest is a 4 day festival jam packed with Christian music and booths of Christian ministries along with some Christian colleges. I went up on July 22nd to help with pre-festival for a week then the actual festival was July 29th to August 1st. It is located at a ski resort in New Hampshire, absolutely gorgeous up there! All the volunteers camped out on one of the ski slopes (volunteer hill!) and this made quite the adventure as it rained a vast majority of the time and a lot of people's tents got flooded or a mini river would form and shoot under tents! During setup, volunteers would report to breakfast at 7:30am and get their assignment(s) for the day. I usually bounced everywhere from kitchen duty, hauling stuff around, setting up artist reception areas, stapling drapes to the ceiling (oh fun times!), put up fence sections, digging trenches, running data cable, hanging up signs, and so many things! Our days usually ended with dinner at 6 and then sometimes I would help clean up the kitchen. We also had about 3-5 stages to build of various sizes that other volunteers helped build.
Overall, it was just intense and a lot of fun! During the festival, I was a runner meaning if an artist needed to be picked up or their driver or if they needed something, I'd get called to do it. It was kind of entertaining to do this!
Some of the artists/groups singing at Soulfest were Casting Crowns, Newsboys, Skillet, Third Day, Sanctus Reel, Thousand Foot Crutch, Phil Wickam and the list goes on! I also met this wonderful guy who was also volunteering up at Soulfest, his name is Peter and we have been dating for almost a month now. He is studying film and production type stuff in Massachusetts and is in his last year at college. He loves photography as well and takes gobs of pictures everywhere we go.
In August, I went camping up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It was great being in the mountains again and almost felt like being in the mountains of Idaho, even though I think Idaho's mountains are bigger. It cracked me up to see a site labeled "Boise Rock" which was this boulder the size of 2 living rooms that a man named Thomas Boise used for shelter in a horrible winter storm.
School begins again in September and so does my work study job! Happy to see though that end of my summer hasn't been as bad as the beginning of it, haha!
I left off with end of June and now it is almost end of August! I've been applying to jobs like crazy all summer with random interviews and random things thrown in there! It's been crazy!
4th of July was great time hanging with friends, followed up by an amazing 45min long firework display in some hick town in Connecticut! To help with the no job scene I began pouring my time into the Rescue Mission and Parrot Sanctuary. The Parrot Sanctuary located about 40 min away from my house is a refuge for abandoned parrot types of birds and other funky animals such as porcupines, wallabies, rabbits, tortoises, frogs, geese, chickens, ducks, and others. I usually help with the food/water changing of dishes and reloading and cleaning cages.
July ended with my time at Soulfest which was wonderful! Soulfest is a 4 day festival jam packed with Christian music and booths of Christian ministries along with some Christian colleges. I went up on July 22nd to help with pre-festival for a week then the actual festival was July 29th to August 1st. It is located at a ski resort in New Hampshire, absolutely gorgeous up there! All the volunteers camped out on one of the ski slopes (volunteer hill!) and this made quite the adventure as it rained a vast majority of the time and a lot of people's tents got flooded or a mini river would form and shoot under tents! During setup, volunteers would report to breakfast at 7:30am and get their assignment(s) for the day. I usually bounced everywhere from kitchen duty, hauling stuff around, setting up artist reception areas, stapling drapes to the ceiling (oh fun times!), put up fence sections, digging trenches, running data cable, hanging up signs, and so many things! Our days usually ended with dinner at 6 and then sometimes I would help clean up the kitchen. We also had about 3-5 stages to build of various sizes that other volunteers helped build.
Overall, it was just intense and a lot of fun! During the festival, I was a runner meaning if an artist needed to be picked up or their driver or if they needed something, I'd get called to do it. It was kind of entertaining to do this!
Some of the artists/groups singing at Soulfest were Casting Crowns, Newsboys, Skillet, Third Day, Sanctus Reel, Thousand Foot Crutch, Phil Wickam and the list goes on! I also met this wonderful guy who was also volunteering up at Soulfest, his name is Peter and we have been dating for almost a month now. He is studying film and production type stuff in Massachusetts and is in his last year at college. He loves photography as well and takes gobs of pictures everywhere we go.
In August, I went camping up in the White Mountains of New Hampshire. It was great being in the mountains again and almost felt like being in the mountains of Idaho, even though I think Idaho's mountains are bigger. It cracked me up to see a site labeled "Boise Rock" which was this boulder the size of 2 living rooms that a man named Thomas Boise used for shelter in a horrible winter storm.
School begins again in September and so does my work study job! Happy to see though that end of my summer hasn't been as bad as the beginning of it, haha!
Monday, June 29, 2009
A Month Later
Wow, a month of summer already gone! Where did it go?
I've been applying for jobs like crazy. I got accepted for one selling Nissans for a good dealership and went through training with them. I realized though that this job was not a good fit for me when I figured out that I would be working 50-80 hours a week and not necessarily make a lot of money. They also sent me home until July 1st (2 weeks time) because I went to Denver for a weekend. Needless to say I won't be returning back to that job.
I've applied to 50+ jobs and started taking different approaches to working because so many people are applying for jobs that you just have to have an edge and do things differently. I have a small pet sitting job taking care of 3 cats and cleaning their litter box. It pays the food bill and its a start. I'm also starting to work with temp agencies and posting to do various odd jobs. It has been an interesting process!
I went to Denver for 6 days and it was great! I had a fun time with my family and it was wonderful to see them. My brother had his portfolio to display where he came up with a restaurant concept and had food to sample to future employers who came to check him and his fellow classmates out. Afterwards, he graduated, I bet he is relieved to be done with school! Then the family headed up to the mountains along with Grandpa Jim and Jennifer. We stayed in a nice cabin for a few days and visited Estes Park. I also got to see a Connecticut friend of mine that is working in Estes Park for the summer.
This past weekend, my friend got married and it was a beautiful wedding. The rain was vicious though as we were in a national park and under a shelter. It being a low budget wedding (you could never tell though!), I happily stayed to help clean up. We had a good joke going when there was a lightening storm happening in the distance and us taking apart a metal event tent that was the size of a carport. After we had everything all packed up, it started raining buckets, it probably was some of the worst rain I've ever seen!
Church has been going wonderful, I know God is there for me even though this summer has been a really rough one, but I'm starting to understand that every summer I've had usually are rough haha. But on the bright side it is really making me put more trust and faith in God which is something I definitely need to do. He is amazing, unchanging and will never let you down!
I've been applying for jobs like crazy. I got accepted for one selling Nissans for a good dealership and went through training with them. I realized though that this job was not a good fit for me when I figured out that I would be working 50-80 hours a week and not necessarily make a lot of money. They also sent me home until July 1st (2 weeks time) because I went to Denver for a weekend. Needless to say I won't be returning back to that job.
I've applied to 50+ jobs and started taking different approaches to working because so many people are applying for jobs that you just have to have an edge and do things differently. I have a small pet sitting job taking care of 3 cats and cleaning their litter box. It pays the food bill and its a start. I'm also starting to work with temp agencies and posting to do various odd jobs. It has been an interesting process!
I went to Denver for 6 days and it was great! I had a fun time with my family and it was wonderful to see them. My brother had his portfolio to display where he came up with a restaurant concept and had food to sample to future employers who came to check him and his fellow classmates out. Afterwards, he graduated, I bet he is relieved to be done with school! Then the family headed up to the mountains along with Grandpa Jim and Jennifer. We stayed in a nice cabin for a few days and visited Estes Park. I also got to see a Connecticut friend of mine that is working in Estes Park for the summer.
This past weekend, my friend got married and it was a beautiful wedding. The rain was vicious though as we were in a national park and under a shelter. It being a low budget wedding (you could never tell though!), I happily stayed to help clean up. We had a good joke going when there was a lightening storm happening in the distance and us taking apart a metal event tent that was the size of a carport. After we had everything all packed up, it started raining buckets, it probably was some of the worst rain I've ever seen!
Church has been going wonderful, I know God is there for me even though this summer has been a really rough one, but I'm starting to understand that every summer I've had usually are rough haha. But on the bright side it is really making me put more trust and faith in God which is something I definitely need to do. He is amazing, unchanging and will never let you down!
Monday, June 1, 2009
Where Do I Start!?!
Boy, it has been crazy around here!
I recently moved into my new apartment and am loving it! It is definitely the best place I've lived in Rhode Island thus far! Thank you so much Mom for helping us clean, pack, and move! Thanks also to the wonderful people that helped us move on moving day! Maybe I'll get some pictures up so you can see what it looks like ;)
I loved having my mom here and definitely am missing her! We went all over the place! We went to the casino where I had my internship, to Mystic (Connecticut) and a bunch of random places in Massachusetts! We made sure to also go to the beach one day and it was so peaceful with no one there to walk along the beach and talk to each other. I enjoyed the time spent with my mom so much, every moment is to be cherished since time is short!
Knowing full well how I love to cram as many things as I can into my life, as soon as I dropped off my mom at the airport, I drove off to Connecticut with Melissa to meet up with a few other people then the 5 of us hit the road! We headed to Kentucky to see the Creation Museum! Wow! What an amazing place! I highly recommend it! The website just does not give it enough justice. I went to workshops, planetarium shows, interactive shows, beautiful gardens, and an amazing 2-3 hour tour! It was about a 14ish hour drive from Connecticut with another 45 min to my apartment which isn't too terrible when you have a minivan and 5 people that all got along well! I can mark some more states off my list since we drove through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky! By the way, Pennsylvania is a never ending state that just goes on and on for hours!
My summer job plans have fallen through and I'm seeking a new job, trusting in God that He will provide at the right moment, I just got to have patience! Well, I better get back to unpacking and cleaning up my new place to make it like home! By the way I do have a new address, so if you need it, please let me know! Thanks!
I recently moved into my new apartment and am loving it! It is definitely the best place I've lived in Rhode Island thus far! Thank you so much Mom for helping us clean, pack, and move! Thanks also to the wonderful people that helped us move on moving day! Maybe I'll get some pictures up so you can see what it looks like ;)
I loved having my mom here and definitely am missing her! We went all over the place! We went to the casino where I had my internship, to Mystic (Connecticut) and a bunch of random places in Massachusetts! We made sure to also go to the beach one day and it was so peaceful with no one there to walk along the beach and talk to each other. I enjoyed the time spent with my mom so much, every moment is to be cherished since time is short!
Knowing full well how I love to cram as many things as I can into my life, as soon as I dropped off my mom at the airport, I drove off to Connecticut with Melissa to meet up with a few other people then the 5 of us hit the road! We headed to Kentucky to see the Creation Museum! Wow! What an amazing place! I highly recommend it! The website just does not give it enough justice. I went to workshops, planetarium shows, interactive shows, beautiful gardens, and an amazing 2-3 hour tour! It was about a 14ish hour drive from Connecticut with another 45 min to my apartment which isn't too terrible when you have a minivan and 5 people that all got along well! I can mark some more states off my list since we drove through New York, Pennsylvania, Ohio, Indiana and Kentucky! By the way, Pennsylvania is a never ending state that just goes on and on for hours!
My summer job plans have fallen through and I'm seeking a new job, trusting in God that He will provide at the right moment, I just got to have patience! Well, I better get back to unpacking and cleaning up my new place to make it like home! By the way I do have a new address, so if you need it, please let me know! Thanks!
Tuesday, May 5, 2009
Patience!
This year has flown by! I cannot believe that I have lived in an apartment for almost a year already! Time to pack up and start new again in a new place!
Well these past couple of weeks, there has been a song ringing in my head, the song Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redman. There is a lyric, "you give and take away, my heart will choose to say, Lord, blessed be your name!" It has been a confusing and changing time for me and some things are finally starting to make sense. But most importantly I know I need to be patient.
The Lord blessed me with an apartment only to take it away the next day, I was frusterated initially but knew much prayer had gone into it and that God had better plans for me! I think He more definitely did as the place that I'm currently working out the paperwork for is much better than I could ever imagine! This is one key example as well as a few other things that happened to me in the past couple of weeks.
Work has been going well for me, I'm enjoying it a lot and do not want it to end. I'm anxiously awaiting to hear news about my possible summer job that I may get and praying for the Lord's guidance on it. I recently did volunteered at an activity day called Read, Romp and Play. It brought 10 different children's storybooks to life using arts and crafts. It was an awesome free event and it made me miss my own family very much! It also made me take a trip down memory lane back when my mom was teaching me how to read!
I've been busy trying to wrap things up with school! I managed to get pretty sick right before the swine flu came in, so I think I got pretty lucky on that! My school actually was shut down a few days because they thought 3 students had gotten swine flu so that was somewhat humorous.
Church and Bible studies have been going great, we are almost ready to wrap up the study on Crazy Love and I highly recommend it! It has really changed me and my perspective on life and has helped me to start falling in love with God more and more! I also know how much some of my friends care about me and I know I have some Christian mentors and role models to help me grow in my spiritual journey and I praise God for that!
Well these past couple of weeks, there has been a song ringing in my head, the song Blessed Be Your Name by Matt Redman. There is a lyric, "you give and take away, my heart will choose to say, Lord, blessed be your name!" It has been a confusing and changing time for me and some things are finally starting to make sense. But most importantly I know I need to be patient.
The Lord blessed me with an apartment only to take it away the next day, I was frusterated initially but knew much prayer had gone into it and that God had better plans for me! I think He more definitely did as the place that I'm currently working out the paperwork for is much better than I could ever imagine! This is one key example as well as a few other things that happened to me in the past couple of weeks.
Work has been going well for me, I'm enjoying it a lot and do not want it to end. I'm anxiously awaiting to hear news about my possible summer job that I may get and praying for the Lord's guidance on it. I recently did volunteered at an activity day called Read, Romp and Play. It brought 10 different children's storybooks to life using arts and crafts. It was an awesome free event and it made me miss my own family very much! It also made me take a trip down memory lane back when my mom was teaching me how to read!
I've been busy trying to wrap things up with school! I managed to get pretty sick right before the swine flu came in, so I think I got pretty lucky on that! My school actually was shut down a few days because they thought 3 students had gotten swine flu so that was somewhat humorous.
Church and Bible studies have been going great, we are almost ready to wrap up the study on Crazy Love and I highly recommend it! It has really changed me and my perspective on life and has helped me to start falling in love with God more and more! I also know how much some of my friends care about me and I know I have some Christian mentors and role models to help me grow in my spiritual journey and I praise God for that!
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
20 Years and Counting
Well, it has been awhile since I last posted but I think I have a knack for making my 24 hour day consist of too many things!
So, I finally figured out an easy schedule for me! I think so anyhow haha. On Mondays/Wednesdays, I work about 3 hours at an elementary school tutoring 5th graders in general math skills. I love it and love working with the kids and see how they progress over time with their skills. On Tuesdays/Thursdays I assist a teacher in an after school program at a charter school. I usually work with the kindergartners and I love little kids! They totally crack me up and I love how some of them are absolute love bugs and do not want to stop hanging on you or wanting a hug or your attention. I was trying to figure out at what age do they usually begin to not be so lovey dovey and I think that is 2nd grade? On Fridays I work at a elementary school tutoring 4th graders in reading and 5th graders in math (it is the same school as Mondays/Wednesdays).
School is going okay for me. I have statistics which I have a good professor who helps break it down so its easier to understand. I have finance with one of the strictest professors and that class is definitely challenging me. I enjoy my marketing class because I learn funny quirks about the industry. Like did you know supposedly that rounder numbers such as 8,6,9 are more friendlier and people are more apt to purchase something that ends in those numbers because apparently numbers like 1 and 7 can be really spiky and a big no no!? Haha what a load of hooey, my professor is really funny in marketing and makes things easy to understand which is great. My other class, cost control, is going okay, my professor does not really seem to care though so it can make those class times really boring.
I just passed another CLEP test, this one was US History I and jeez do they ask a lot of random questions! I barely passed it but I was lucky! My next one is May 1st and it is psychology. I have high hopes and plans to graduate next year however I am struggling with my school to let me take a certain class even though I do not meet credit requirements just yet. I also plan on taking an online course at a community college in Connecticut this summer (for a class I know I would not be able to test out of haha) and I will be trying to test out of Spanish then I should be done with my testing out of classes, yay!
I had a great 20th birthday, thanks everyone for the cards and presents. Melissa and a good friend of ours went to Dave and Busters for my birthday. I had lots of fun and I am happy to have some good close friends! I am very excited about the new Bible my parents got me, it will be an excellent tool for me!
The apartment hunt is going strong, I have my roommate figured out this year, I just got to find a good place now to live! I think I have found a place, just waiting for the lady to call me back so I've been praying about that and if that is where God wants me to be.
What other random stuff have I been up to? Bible studies are going good and strong. I've been making more new friends there which is awesome for me. I went to an American Cancer Society Dinner which was entertaining especially since I sat at a table full of stuck up old money people who turned their nose at me (haha sorry if that's you!). A work retreat with a photo scavenger hunt of the local small town, my group and I got busted because we used my car to get to some of the really far out places but we had lots of fun doing that! Went to Newport with some friends and also to Colt State Park which is a beautiful park that follows the ocean line with a rocky beach! Great place to fly a kite, just don't get them stuck in a tree! My work advisor told me that a kite stuck in a tree is hope that is lost haha! Or how about volunteering at a church's Easter Extravaganza and helping to hide 3000-4000 eggs! Yeah!
Oh, I almost forgot to mention! I went to West Point, New York to a Third Day, Brandon Heath concert! I went alone (crazy I know), it was only a 3-4 hour drive depending on which way you take. I loved the drive though, it was so beautiful and there is a lot of beauty in that section of New York. I ended up sitting next to some wonderful ladies who attend a Calvary Chapel in New Jersey and they invited me to come see them sometime.
Yes, I know I live a crazy life, oh well, gotta love it!
So, I finally figured out an easy schedule for me! I think so anyhow haha. On Mondays/Wednesdays, I work about 3 hours at an elementary school tutoring 5th graders in general math skills. I love it and love working with the kids and see how they progress over time with their skills. On Tuesdays/Thursdays I assist a teacher in an after school program at a charter school. I usually work with the kindergartners and I love little kids! They totally crack me up and I love how some of them are absolute love bugs and do not want to stop hanging on you or wanting a hug or your attention. I was trying to figure out at what age do they usually begin to not be so lovey dovey and I think that is 2nd grade? On Fridays I work at a elementary school tutoring 4th graders in reading and 5th graders in math (it is the same school as Mondays/Wednesdays).
School is going okay for me. I have statistics which I have a good professor who helps break it down so its easier to understand. I have finance with one of the strictest professors and that class is definitely challenging me. I enjoy my marketing class because I learn funny quirks about the industry. Like did you know supposedly that rounder numbers such as 8,6,9 are more friendlier and people are more apt to purchase something that ends in those numbers because apparently numbers like 1 and 7 can be really spiky and a big no no!? Haha what a load of hooey, my professor is really funny in marketing and makes things easy to understand which is great. My other class, cost control, is going okay, my professor does not really seem to care though so it can make those class times really boring.
I just passed another CLEP test, this one was US History I and jeez do they ask a lot of random questions! I barely passed it but I was lucky! My next one is May 1st and it is psychology. I have high hopes and plans to graduate next year however I am struggling with my school to let me take a certain class even though I do not meet credit requirements just yet. I also plan on taking an online course at a community college in Connecticut this summer (for a class I know I would not be able to test out of haha) and I will be trying to test out of Spanish then I should be done with my testing out of classes, yay!
I had a great 20th birthday, thanks everyone for the cards and presents. Melissa and a good friend of ours went to Dave and Busters for my birthday. I had lots of fun and I am happy to have some good close friends! I am very excited about the new Bible my parents got me, it will be an excellent tool for me!
The apartment hunt is going strong, I have my roommate figured out this year, I just got to find a good place now to live! I think I have found a place, just waiting for the lady to call me back so I've been praying about that and if that is where God wants me to be.
What other random stuff have I been up to? Bible studies are going good and strong. I've been making more new friends there which is awesome for me. I went to an American Cancer Society Dinner which was entertaining especially since I sat at a table full of stuck up old money people who turned their nose at me (haha sorry if that's you!). A work retreat with a photo scavenger hunt of the local small town, my group and I got busted because we used my car to get to some of the really far out places but we had lots of fun doing that! Went to Newport with some friends and also to Colt State Park which is a beautiful park that follows the ocean line with a rocky beach! Great place to fly a kite, just don't get them stuck in a tree! My work advisor told me that a kite stuck in a tree is hope that is lost haha! Or how about volunteering at a church's Easter Extravaganza and helping to hide 3000-4000 eggs! Yeah!
Oh, I almost forgot to mention! I went to West Point, New York to a Third Day, Brandon Heath concert! I went alone (crazy I know), it was only a 3-4 hour drive depending on which way you take. I loved the drive though, it was so beautiful and there is a lot of beauty in that section of New York. I ended up sitting next to some wonderful ladies who attend a Calvary Chapel in New Jersey and they invited me to come see them sometime.
Yes, I know I live a crazy life, oh well, gotta love it!
Wednesday, March 25, 2009
Changes
Well, today I believe this blog post will be a more personal close to heart one. After some searching and struggling with finding a proper church home, I believe God was testing me in where my faith lies. I think He is possibly setting me up for something and I am unsure of what and I am content with that, I just want to be where He wants me to be.
I had sent an email with a lot of my church confusions and frustrations to a dear friend and pastor who helped me realize some things and helped me see some things. I had understood and taken things the wrong way. A church is an important unit that is composed of many important parts to make it the unit that it is. This church is the church that helped me set up my Rhode Island roots, and yes even though it is going through some changes, I think it may be where I belong, even though I may not totally see eye to eye with it at the moment. I know that church got me through some really rough times for me and it was there for me. It is my Rhode Island foundation and it should be my ultimate Rhode Island "home" with all its loving supporting families and members.
I apologize for any thing I may have said to anyone that was offensive or confusing. Thank you to everyone at that church who patiently waited and lovingly prayed for me to figure this all out within myself. For my family and friends not near me, thank you for all your advice and patience as I went through this time.
For anyone that is not with God daily, I will pray for you to have a desire to seek Him more as I am praying for myself to have that desire. I realize after not reading my Bible daily and praying to God daily and talking to Him on a regular constant basis for about 2 weeks, I see the darkness in my life. I see how easily Satan tries to get a foothold in my life to discourage me and distract me from the ultimate goal of loving God and glorifying His name. God will be there for you, through every valley and mountain peak. I am not perfect and I still have my faults but that is okay, Jesus is there for me and He loves each and every one of us completely and entirely with body, soul, and mind. So my next goal is to work on falling completely and madly in love with the God that made this wonderful universe, because He will never leave me nor forsake me.
God definitely has been knocking on my door this past week, be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him! (Psalm 37:7)
I had sent an email with a lot of my church confusions and frustrations to a dear friend and pastor who helped me realize some things and helped me see some things. I had understood and taken things the wrong way. A church is an important unit that is composed of many important parts to make it the unit that it is. This church is the church that helped me set up my Rhode Island roots, and yes even though it is going through some changes, I think it may be where I belong, even though I may not totally see eye to eye with it at the moment. I know that church got me through some really rough times for me and it was there for me. It is my Rhode Island foundation and it should be my ultimate Rhode Island "home" with all its loving supporting families and members.
I apologize for any thing I may have said to anyone that was offensive or confusing. Thank you to everyone at that church who patiently waited and lovingly prayed for me to figure this all out within myself. For my family and friends not near me, thank you for all your advice and patience as I went through this time.
For anyone that is not with God daily, I will pray for you to have a desire to seek Him more as I am praying for myself to have that desire. I realize after not reading my Bible daily and praying to God daily and talking to Him on a regular constant basis for about 2 weeks, I see the darkness in my life. I see how easily Satan tries to get a foothold in my life to discourage me and distract me from the ultimate goal of loving God and glorifying His name. God will be there for you, through every valley and mountain peak. I am not perfect and I still have my faults but that is okay, Jesus is there for me and He loves each and every one of us completely and entirely with body, soul, and mind. So my next goal is to work on falling completely and madly in love with the God that made this wonderful universe, because He will never leave me nor forsake me.
God definitely has been knocking on my door this past week, be still before the Lord and wait patiently for Him! (Psalm 37:7)
Sunday, March 15, 2009
Spring Break & Start of Being a Junior
Spring break came and went. The snow fell and went again. Haha, yes the start of my spring break came with a foot of snow! It is more like freeze your butt off break! Once the snow mellowed out, I ventured out of the apartment.
I hung out with one of my friends a lot and one highlight was that we went to the park together and had a picnic in the snow! Never had a picnic before in the snow! After the picnic, we flew a spider man kite and got it up pretty high! There were people sledding in the park and it was funny as they all stopped to watch spider man fly around, probably thinking those morons have the wrong season for flying a kite. Oh well, it was fun!
Spring break was relaxing and it was kind of weird to not really have to do anything for a week. The next trimester of school started last Tuesday and it is my first trimester as a junior! I think if I get my stuff together, I should be able to graduate next year!
I have four classes that I am taking this trimester. They are Hospitality Strategic Marketing, Statistics, Cost Control (there is a fancy name for this class but I forgot it haha), and Hospitality Managerial Finance. Marketing is going to be interesting as we learn the ins and outs of marketing and also have to do a marketing business plan for a company we create. Cost control is about controlling the costs of restaurants primarily. I get to do a term project about analyzing a restaurant. And the finance class is about taking what we learned in accounting and applying it to our personal and business life.
I also am CLEP testing out of three classes-sociology, US History I, psychology. I took my first test last Friday for sociology and I passed it! Yay! So for about $115 bucks I saved myself the time it takes to go to a sociology class for a whole trimester as well as about $1,000 or so dollars, if not more.
I have been doing 2 Bible studies and I think I finally found a church. One Bible study is about finding time to spend with God with a really busy life. We are reading a book for it and use a teleconference format. It is unique but allows us a lot of flexibility! The book is "Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World." The other Bible study is based on a book by Francis Chan called "Crazy Love" and that is about being crazy in loved with God! Both studies are amazing and from what I have read out of the books, I would definitely recommend them.
Other than that, not too much has been going for me other than hanging out with friends and studying for classes/tests. My work study job should start up again soon in the next couple of weeks. Plus, I think I have been battling a cold that may be a sinus infection/ear infection since all that happy garbage has been floating around the atmosphere. With all these people in one place and with the weather being 60 degrees one day and snowing the next, our bodies are like ughh what is going on! I cannot believe that March is almost halfway over! Where has the time gone?!
I hung out with one of my friends a lot and one highlight was that we went to the park together and had a picnic in the snow! Never had a picnic before in the snow! After the picnic, we flew a spider man kite and got it up pretty high! There were people sledding in the park and it was funny as they all stopped to watch spider man fly around, probably thinking those morons have the wrong season for flying a kite. Oh well, it was fun!
Spring break was relaxing and it was kind of weird to not really have to do anything for a week. The next trimester of school started last Tuesday and it is my first trimester as a junior! I think if I get my stuff together, I should be able to graduate next year!
I have four classes that I am taking this trimester. They are Hospitality Strategic Marketing, Statistics, Cost Control (there is a fancy name for this class but I forgot it haha), and Hospitality Managerial Finance. Marketing is going to be interesting as we learn the ins and outs of marketing and also have to do a marketing business plan for a company we create. Cost control is about controlling the costs of restaurants primarily. I get to do a term project about analyzing a restaurant. And the finance class is about taking what we learned in accounting and applying it to our personal and business life.
I also am CLEP testing out of three classes-sociology, US History I, psychology. I took my first test last Friday for sociology and I passed it! Yay! So for about $115 bucks I saved myself the time it takes to go to a sociology class for a whole trimester as well as about $1,000 or so dollars, if not more.
I have been doing 2 Bible studies and I think I finally found a church. One Bible study is about finding time to spend with God with a really busy life. We are reading a book for it and use a teleconference format. It is unique but allows us a lot of flexibility! The book is "Having a Mary Heart in a Martha World." The other Bible study is based on a book by Francis Chan called "Crazy Love" and that is about being crazy in loved with God! Both studies are amazing and from what I have read out of the books, I would definitely recommend them.
Other than that, not too much has been going for me other than hanging out with friends and studying for classes/tests. My work study job should start up again soon in the next couple of weeks. Plus, I think I have been battling a cold that may be a sinus infection/ear infection since all that happy garbage has been floating around the atmosphere. With all these people in one place and with the weather being 60 degrees one day and snowing the next, our bodies are like ughh what is going on! I cannot believe that March is almost halfway over! Where has the time gone?!
Friday, February 27, 2009
When One Door Closes Another Opens
I have no idea where to start. I have not written in a really long time and I'm sorry. Life has been crazy busy and it has been a really interesting couple of months for me lately. I've been doing a lot of soul searching within myself trying to figure out who I am. I know a lot of people may think that is a bag of junk but I really am. I am working on strengthening my relationship with Jesus Christ and growing closer to Him!
I just finished my internship. It was an amazing experience. I think I will go back there to work this summer and I'm really excited. I had a hard time leaving there and everyone I had been working with declared they were sad to see me go and hoped I would come back soon! I spent the last month of my internship being a housekeeping supervisor and I had really started to connect with a lot of people there. Although it can be rough being a supervisor sometimes with dealing with cranky guests and rude guest room attendants, there is some bright days to it as well.
After putting over 10,000 miles on my car within a 6 month period, you can surely guess that I am always on the go and always up to something! I am so happy God blessed me with a car out here.
I'm in the midst of my spring break and have made a resolution to take a chill pill for the last three months of this 2008-2009 school year (amazing I know). I will be a junior this March and I am excited for that. I am going to keep my work study job and work about 10-15 hours a week with it. However, this may sound crazy, I am also working on testing out of three general education classes because testing out is a less expensive method and will save me about $6K in the long run if I succeed. I have resolved to pinch pennies and not get another job in order to relax, focus on school, enjoy life, and grow closer to God.
I have discovered some changes within myself lately and this has brought me to change churches. It is a huge thing I know and many question me why I am doing it. I appreciate prayers and concerns for me from those of you that are reading this and may be attending my old church in RI. I guess this is just part of something I need to do to discover who I am and everything.
I guess for lack of better words, I've been growing and experiencing various forms of growing pains. I have been very fortunate to have God bless me with some very loving, Christian women out here to help support me and guide me in the direction I need to go. I also am very appreciate of all the help and support my family has given me while I've been figuring things out with myself.
As for my spring break plans, I'm studying for my first test for sociology that I am testing out of, trying out new churches, relaxing, and possibly hitting up New York for a day with a good friend of mine. I will write again soon!
I just finished my internship. It was an amazing experience. I think I will go back there to work this summer and I'm really excited. I had a hard time leaving there and everyone I had been working with declared they were sad to see me go and hoped I would come back soon! I spent the last month of my internship being a housekeeping supervisor and I had really started to connect with a lot of people there. Although it can be rough being a supervisor sometimes with dealing with cranky guests and rude guest room attendants, there is some bright days to it as well.
After putting over 10,000 miles on my car within a 6 month period, you can surely guess that I am always on the go and always up to something! I am so happy God blessed me with a car out here.
I'm in the midst of my spring break and have made a resolution to take a chill pill for the last three months of this 2008-2009 school year (amazing I know). I will be a junior this March and I am excited for that. I am going to keep my work study job and work about 10-15 hours a week with it. However, this may sound crazy, I am also working on testing out of three general education classes because testing out is a less expensive method and will save me about $6K in the long run if I succeed. I have resolved to pinch pennies and not get another job in order to relax, focus on school, enjoy life, and grow closer to God.
I have discovered some changes within myself lately and this has brought me to change churches. It is a huge thing I know and many question me why I am doing it. I appreciate prayers and concerns for me from those of you that are reading this and may be attending my old church in RI. I guess this is just part of something I need to do to discover who I am and everything.
I guess for lack of better words, I've been growing and experiencing various forms of growing pains. I have been very fortunate to have God bless me with some very loving, Christian women out here to help support me and guide me in the direction I need to go. I also am very appreciate of all the help and support my family has given me while I've been figuring things out with myself.
As for my spring break plans, I'm studying for my first test for sociology that I am testing out of, trying out new churches, relaxing, and possibly hitting up New York for a day with a good friend of mine. I will write again soon!
Monday, January 19, 2009
Time Flies Fast!
Wow! Where did the time go?
Ok, so yes it has been over a month since I've last updated my blog. That just tells you how much trouble I've been getting into haha, just kidding!
I really do not even know where to begin! I just realized that I basically left off on the first week of December. I started my internship and had 2 days of orientation. I loved orientation because it made me realize how much the company cares about their employees and how much the company cares about the tribe's history (I work on an indian reservation). After orientation, I spent about a week being a hostess for 2 different restaurants as well as shadowing some restaurant managers. I loved doing that and am thinking/praying about adding on an associates in food and beverage management. After that week, I spent about a week working in the kitchen for 2 different restaurants. I think the day that I had the most fun or that was the most interesting was when I helped make 500 strombolis which are like calzones but different shaped.
Then we had a huge snow storm hit Providence dumping about a foot and a half of snow within 2 days. I had struggles getting my car into my driveway to my parking lot since I live on a hill and my driveway is a hill as well. I parked somewhere else and spent 2 hours digging my car out to get it into my parking lot. It was an interesting day to say the least. I flew to Idaho the next day in a clear weather window somehow. I was fortunate to pick a Sunday to fly because all flights had been cancelled the prior 2 days. Melissa flew with me to Idaho and we had a great time.
We got to see family and friends and hit up some sites in Boise and get some relaxation in. Melissa and I headed up to Hagerman, Idaho and went to a hot springs site and rented a private pool for a while with the rest of my family. My aunt's family was up from California and I was happy to get to see everybody again.
I headed back to Providence on New Year's Day and came back home to snow again! The day afterwards, a group of about 9 of us headed up to New Hampshire to take advantage of a ski special. For $36 you can get lift ticket, ski rental, ski instructor tips and tubing from 3pm to 10pm. Skiing can be quite brutal and I gave it a shot but I realized I could mess up my back really bad so I had to say no after my 5th fall. I still had a lot of fun though.
I just completed the housekeeping portion of my internship. It was 2 weeks long and I really enjoyed myself. I spent the first day shadowing shift managers and the director and attending various meetings of supervisors, guest room attendants and housemen. I also shadowed a houseman for a while as well as a runner. A houseman is in charge of 2 floors usually and in charge of keeping the hallways clean with the windows, vents, vacuuming, collecting linens from guest room attendants and all sorts of fun stuff like that. A runner is responsible for delivering things to guest rooms when guests request it such as a bath robe, a refrigerator, a microwave, etc.
On the 2nd and 3rd day, I was trained on how to be a guest room attendant. So I mastered how to make a bed hotel style and was capable of cleaning my own room. It was really interesting to see what all guest room attendants do to clean a room. After I did that for 2 days, I shadowed a floor supervisor for 3 days. A floor supervisor is responsible for 2-3 floors and has to inspect every room to make sure that the guest room attendants are doing their job properly and that the room is ready for new guests to arrive. I worked with this supervisor, Holly, who was really nice and apparently is one of the best. She has the higer floors with the supersuites and hopsitality suites so I was fortunate to get to see all the different types of rooms as well as get to learn how to inspect those rooms. After I shadowed and worked with Holly for 3 days, I got to be my own floor supervisor for about 4 days. I really enjoyed it! I forgot to mention that the hotel has about 36 floors and 1200 rooms.
On the weekends between all that I hung out with friends playing games and having movie nights. One of my good friends headed back to college in South Carolina as well so it has been weird to not have them with us. I also have managed to get snowed in twice now at a friend's house which has been quite funny. I cannot believe how much snow we have gotten this winter!
My next portion of internship is front desk so it should be interesting and I cannot wait to start another portion. It has been an exciting time trying out all these different areas. I'm off to go make lunch and run some errands! I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Ok, so yes it has been over a month since I've last updated my blog. That just tells you how much trouble I've been getting into haha, just kidding!
I really do not even know where to begin! I just realized that I basically left off on the first week of December. I started my internship and had 2 days of orientation. I loved orientation because it made me realize how much the company cares about their employees and how much the company cares about the tribe's history (I work on an indian reservation). After orientation, I spent about a week being a hostess for 2 different restaurants as well as shadowing some restaurant managers. I loved doing that and am thinking/praying about adding on an associates in food and beverage management. After that week, I spent about a week working in the kitchen for 2 different restaurants. I think the day that I had the most fun or that was the most interesting was when I helped make 500 strombolis which are like calzones but different shaped.
Then we had a huge snow storm hit Providence dumping about a foot and a half of snow within 2 days. I had struggles getting my car into my driveway to my parking lot since I live on a hill and my driveway is a hill as well. I parked somewhere else and spent 2 hours digging my car out to get it into my parking lot. It was an interesting day to say the least. I flew to Idaho the next day in a clear weather window somehow. I was fortunate to pick a Sunday to fly because all flights had been cancelled the prior 2 days. Melissa flew with me to Idaho and we had a great time.
We got to see family and friends and hit up some sites in Boise and get some relaxation in. Melissa and I headed up to Hagerman, Idaho and went to a hot springs site and rented a private pool for a while with the rest of my family. My aunt's family was up from California and I was happy to get to see everybody again.
I headed back to Providence on New Year's Day and came back home to snow again! The day afterwards, a group of about 9 of us headed up to New Hampshire to take advantage of a ski special. For $36 you can get lift ticket, ski rental, ski instructor tips and tubing from 3pm to 10pm. Skiing can be quite brutal and I gave it a shot but I realized I could mess up my back really bad so I had to say no after my 5th fall. I still had a lot of fun though.
I just completed the housekeeping portion of my internship. It was 2 weeks long and I really enjoyed myself. I spent the first day shadowing shift managers and the director and attending various meetings of supervisors, guest room attendants and housemen. I also shadowed a houseman for a while as well as a runner. A houseman is in charge of 2 floors usually and in charge of keeping the hallways clean with the windows, vents, vacuuming, collecting linens from guest room attendants and all sorts of fun stuff like that. A runner is responsible for delivering things to guest rooms when guests request it such as a bath robe, a refrigerator, a microwave, etc.
On the 2nd and 3rd day, I was trained on how to be a guest room attendant. So I mastered how to make a bed hotel style and was capable of cleaning my own room. It was really interesting to see what all guest room attendants do to clean a room. After I did that for 2 days, I shadowed a floor supervisor for 3 days. A floor supervisor is responsible for 2-3 floors and has to inspect every room to make sure that the guest room attendants are doing their job properly and that the room is ready for new guests to arrive. I worked with this supervisor, Holly, who was really nice and apparently is one of the best. She has the higer floors with the supersuites and hopsitality suites so I was fortunate to get to see all the different types of rooms as well as get to learn how to inspect those rooms. After I shadowed and worked with Holly for 3 days, I got to be my own floor supervisor for about 4 days. I really enjoyed it! I forgot to mention that the hotel has about 36 floors and 1200 rooms.
On the weekends between all that I hung out with friends playing games and having movie nights. One of my good friends headed back to college in South Carolina as well so it has been weird to not have them with us. I also have managed to get snowed in twice now at a friend's house which has been quite funny. I cannot believe how much snow we have gotten this winter!
My next portion of internship is front desk so it should be interesting and I cannot wait to start another portion. It has been an exciting time trying out all these different areas. I'm off to go make lunch and run some errands! I hope everyone had a great weekend!
Friday, December 5, 2008
A New Chapter
Well we all know that when one door closes another one opens right? That definitely has been the case for me!
I left Friday (Nov 21) for Denver. This was quite the entertaining day. I flew out of Boston but to get to Boston I took 2 buses, the commuter train and the subway! Then I took my flight to Cincinnati then onwards to Denver. I think I should make a new goal of attempting to go to as many US airports as possible since I always seem to be going to a different one every time I fly!
My brother picked me up from the airport and we grabbed some Chick Fil A dinner on our way home. Chick Fil A is a fast food type restaurant specializing in chicken! I got to spend the week with my brother which was fun because I haven't had a lot of time with him lately at all!
On Tuesday (Nov 25) I took the time to go see a friend from JWU Providence in Denver and we went to Boulder and had dinner together. It was fun times! On Wednesday (Nov 26) I was excited to have my parents arrive! It was great seeing them!
On good old Turkey Day, my family got our family picture for our annual Christmas card and we took a walk along a nature preserve together. Afterwards, we had dinner which was yummy! Prime rib, asparagus and wild rice and some good homemade chocolate cream pie! Afterwards, my family hung out and played games and caught up with each other.
Friday (Nov 27) I sadly had to leave the family in Denver on a bright and early flight. I got to fly to Atlanta this time around and was amazed to see that the garbage cans were electric as they compacted the trash every time someone threw something away (random tidbit of trivia? haha). Melissa picked me up from the airport which was great because I didn't have to play the public transportation game however it was funny because I got lost on the way home from the airport and made a 45 minute drive last an hour and a half! Oh well, good times hanging with my roomie! Once I got home, found some grub for the tummy, I was on my way again! I just don't know when to stop do I? I headed to a friend's Bible study in Connecticut which was a good time!
Saturday (Nov 28) I hung out with a good friend who was back home for the holiday break. She goes to college in Virginia and I had met her at a Bible study some point along the way (got to keep the good friends you collect close you know). After hanging out for awhile, we went and met up with some other friends and we all played some games.
On Sunday (Nov 30) I discovered that one of my friends that originally was away for the first trimester of school was back in Providence and I went and picked her up and we went to church together. After church, I took her shopping for some much needed cleaning supplies and groceries since when she moved into her apartment she was faced with the discovery that her apartment needed a lot of work! After that, I decided to show my crazy Idaho side by vacuuming my car out in the pouring rain (haha yes it was grand!). Then I picked up my friend from the airport and afterwards I went to a Bible study with some other friends. I love packing a bazillon things into my day!
On Monday (Dec 1) I had my JWU orientation for my internship. However, I first had to go get a culinary chef uniform from the JWU bookstore, I look quite amusing in one and will have to post pics up later haha.
On Tuesday (Dec 2) I started my week of community service. Through my internship, I am required to do a week of community service. For the first day, a group of us went to a middle school and put on a food demo for middle schoolers showing them how to make chili, salsa, quesadillas and fruit parfaits. Then on Wednesday (Dec 3) I went to a factory/medical diagnostics place and put on another food demo to the employees there on their lunch breaks.
On Thursday (Dec 4) I went to a local soup kitchen and helped make dinner for about 300 people then I helped serve it. Overall, my week of community service was awesome and I enjoyed the group of people that I spent it with. We had a lot of fun!
On Friday (Dec 5) I had my first day of internship orientation on site. Another fellow intern and myself car pooled together and met at the hotel. We went on a tour of the housekeeping and front office areas then we dined with some higher ups of the company at a gourmet restaurant (so happy I kind of know my manners haha). The restaurant had a yummy gourmet buffet and an even better dessert buffet. Afterwards, we did uniform fittings and I felt like it was career day since I had to get 4 different uniforms for 4 different areas that I will be working in.
Now I'm headed off to the movies with some friends and I'm ready to kick off my weekend!
I left Friday (Nov 21) for Denver. This was quite the entertaining day. I flew out of Boston but to get to Boston I took 2 buses, the commuter train and the subway! Then I took my flight to Cincinnati then onwards to Denver. I think I should make a new goal of attempting to go to as many US airports as possible since I always seem to be going to a different one every time I fly!
My brother picked me up from the airport and we grabbed some Chick Fil A dinner on our way home. Chick Fil A is a fast food type restaurant specializing in chicken! I got to spend the week with my brother which was fun because I haven't had a lot of time with him lately at all!
On Tuesday (Nov 25) I took the time to go see a friend from JWU Providence in Denver and we went to Boulder and had dinner together. It was fun times! On Wednesday (Nov 26) I was excited to have my parents arrive! It was great seeing them!
On good old Turkey Day, my family got our family picture for our annual Christmas card and we took a walk along a nature preserve together. Afterwards, we had dinner which was yummy! Prime rib, asparagus and wild rice and some good homemade chocolate cream pie! Afterwards, my family hung out and played games and caught up with each other.
Friday (Nov 27) I sadly had to leave the family in Denver on a bright and early flight. I got to fly to Atlanta this time around and was amazed to see that the garbage cans were electric as they compacted the trash every time someone threw something away (random tidbit of trivia? haha). Melissa picked me up from the airport which was great because I didn't have to play the public transportation game however it was funny because I got lost on the way home from the airport and made a 45 minute drive last an hour and a half! Oh well, good times hanging with my roomie! Once I got home, found some grub for the tummy, I was on my way again! I just don't know when to stop do I? I headed to a friend's Bible study in Connecticut which was a good time!
Saturday (Nov 28) I hung out with a good friend who was back home for the holiday break. She goes to college in Virginia and I had met her at a Bible study some point along the way (got to keep the good friends you collect close you know). After hanging out for awhile, we went and met up with some other friends and we all played some games.
On Sunday (Nov 30) I discovered that one of my friends that originally was away for the first trimester of school was back in Providence and I went and picked her up and we went to church together. After church, I took her shopping for some much needed cleaning supplies and groceries since when she moved into her apartment she was faced with the discovery that her apartment needed a lot of work! After that, I decided to show my crazy Idaho side by vacuuming my car out in the pouring rain (haha yes it was grand!). Then I picked up my friend from the airport and afterwards I went to a Bible study with some other friends. I love packing a bazillon things into my day!
On Monday (Dec 1) I had my JWU orientation for my internship. However, I first had to go get a culinary chef uniform from the JWU bookstore, I look quite amusing in one and will have to post pics up later haha.
On Tuesday (Dec 2) I started my week of community service. Through my internship, I am required to do a week of community service. For the first day, a group of us went to a middle school and put on a food demo for middle schoolers showing them how to make chili, salsa, quesadillas and fruit parfaits. Then on Wednesday (Dec 3) I went to a factory/medical diagnostics place and put on another food demo to the employees there on their lunch breaks.
On Thursday (Dec 4) I went to a local soup kitchen and helped make dinner for about 300 people then I helped serve it. Overall, my week of community service was awesome and I enjoyed the group of people that I spent it with. We had a lot of fun!
On Friday (Dec 5) I had my first day of internship orientation on site. Another fellow intern and myself car pooled together and met at the hotel. We went on a tour of the housekeeping and front office areas then we dined with some higher ups of the company at a gourmet restaurant (so happy I kind of know my manners haha). The restaurant had a yummy gourmet buffet and an even better dessert buffet. Afterwards, we did uniform fittings and I felt like it was career day since I had to get 4 different uniforms for 4 different areas that I will be working in.
Now I'm headed off to the movies with some friends and I'm ready to kick off my weekend!
Wednesday, November 19, 2008
The End of the Trimester!
Wow, my life is crazy and random! So much has happened in the past week! Plus I found out today that I'm headed to Denver for a week to chill with my bro and have Thanksgiving with my parents. It is funny that plane tickets are so cheap with such little notice, you got to keep those sardine cans full!
After finishing working on the 10th, I've been quite shocked to find that life can be quite boring without work to do all the time! Although, these past two weeks have kind of been a blur!
Tuesday (the 11th), I found the kid in me again by seeing High School Musical 3 with a friend. It was a light, fun movie with good choreography and my friend and I joked about the movie all the way through. It was also a great way to finish a 3 month spell of work! I also was busy wrapping windows, haha yes, a New England thing to do with them old houses! I have some leaky windows (rather they are all leaky! grr) but I didn't let that stop me from attacking it with this plastic wrap stuff that you tape and blow dry in! It took a while for all of us roomies to figure out how to get the blinds adjusted so that we could still utilize the blinds during the winter and not be gremlins that cannot handle light haha.
On Friday (the 14th), I hung out with a friend and we made cookies together. Once we got them baked, we had a few more friends come over and we had a girls' night together watching a movie and eating pizza and just hanging out. It is great to have positive, Christian influencing women in my life!
On Saturday (the 15th), I went to a breakfast with my college aged group that was hosted at a friend's house. Yummy food and 30 people crammed into a college kid's apartment makes any morning bound to be amusing. Afterwards, Melissa and I as well as a couple other friends headed to Target to do Operation Christmas Child shopping. Operation Christmas Child is where you fill up a shoebox with stuff for kids in foreign countries matching up to a certain age category. These kids often do not know what it is like to experience Christmas and along with these boxes that they receive, they also receive a part of the gospel in their language, so it is a great way to show the tangible love of God.
Afterwards, I headed out to my old job to pick up my paycheck and drop off my uniform. However, I got sidetracked into going to a thrift store as well as heading to the Christian book store. I got a new CD (The Best of Passion So Far) which is sweet as well as a book by Beth Moore! Then Melissa and I met up with a friend of ours and we went to this nice restaurant on Thayer Street that reminded a lot of my parents' place in a few ways.
Then on Sunday, I went to church and did some laundry and took a nice nap. I'm still trying to catch up on all that sleep I've been missing out on! I also grabbed dinner with some friends later that night.
Monday and Tuesday were study days for finals and today was my last day of school for the trimester! I had all four finals today but I made it! This ends another chapter of my life here at JWU with 20.5 more credits done! YAY!
After finishing working on the 10th, I've been quite shocked to find that life can be quite boring without work to do all the time! Although, these past two weeks have kind of been a blur!
Tuesday (the 11th), I found the kid in me again by seeing High School Musical 3 with a friend. It was a light, fun movie with good choreography and my friend and I joked about the movie all the way through. It was also a great way to finish a 3 month spell of work! I also was busy wrapping windows, haha yes, a New England thing to do with them old houses! I have some leaky windows (rather they are all leaky! grr) but I didn't let that stop me from attacking it with this plastic wrap stuff that you tape and blow dry in! It took a while for all of us roomies to figure out how to get the blinds adjusted so that we could still utilize the blinds during the winter and not be gremlins that cannot handle light haha.
On Friday (the 14th), I hung out with a friend and we made cookies together. Once we got them baked, we had a few more friends come over and we had a girls' night together watching a movie and eating pizza and just hanging out. It is great to have positive, Christian influencing women in my life!
On Saturday (the 15th), I went to a breakfast with my college aged group that was hosted at a friend's house. Yummy food and 30 people crammed into a college kid's apartment makes any morning bound to be amusing. Afterwards, Melissa and I as well as a couple other friends headed to Target to do Operation Christmas Child shopping. Operation Christmas Child is where you fill up a shoebox with stuff for kids in foreign countries matching up to a certain age category. These kids often do not know what it is like to experience Christmas and along with these boxes that they receive, they also receive a part of the gospel in their language, so it is a great way to show the tangible love of God.
Afterwards, I headed out to my old job to pick up my paycheck and drop off my uniform. However, I got sidetracked into going to a thrift store as well as heading to the Christian book store. I got a new CD (The Best of Passion So Far) which is sweet as well as a book by Beth Moore! Then Melissa and I met up with a friend of ours and we went to this nice restaurant on Thayer Street that reminded a lot of my parents' place in a few ways.
Then on Sunday, I went to church and did some laundry and took a nice nap. I'm still trying to catch up on all that sleep I've been missing out on! I also grabbed dinner with some friends later that night.
Monday and Tuesday were study days for finals and today was my last day of school for the trimester! I had all four finals today but I made it! This ends another chapter of my life here at JWU with 20.5 more credits done! YAY!
Tuesday, November 11, 2008
The First Half of November!
Wow, when it rains it pours! So much stuff has been happening in my life lately, it has been crazy!
Well I left off at the end of October, I went to Hull, Massachusetts for the weekend with a bunch of other college students from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Canada, and various other states. We went up on Friday, October 31st and stayed in a hotel right on the beach. It was a little cold but definitely beautiful. We had a great weekend of fellowship and had a great guest speaker that gave 4 messages. During our free time, a bunch of us went to Boston to explore. I ended up going to the aquarium which was sweet to see some of God's handiwork! I also saw an IMAX Dolphins and Whales movie which was amazing.
After my nice weekend, I had a busy week as usual ahead of me. Tuesday, I was lucky and blessed to enjoy a lunch with a good friend that I hadn't been able to catch up with in a while. Friday, I worked at the elementary school and I got to teach some 5th graders about leadership which was exciting. After work, my roomie, Melissa and I headed to our friends' house to play games and have pizza together.
Saturday, I relaxed mainly and slept most of the day away preparing for a busy weekend ahead of me. I was invited to a girl's night (girls from church mind you haha) and the girl that hosted it suggested we all have prayer partners so we could get to know each other better. I was excited for this opportunity to get to know someone better and I think it'll be a great way to put more prayer into your life!
Sunday, I went to church and we are studying about Mark which is an exciting book once you crack into it! Then, Melissa and I decided to go grocery shopping at places we hadn't been. For instance, a Trader Joes opened up near me and I was excited to check it out because I've always loved going there while being in California or Washington. After shopping, we hung out with friends and had a good evening. I was quite fortunate to stumble upon some decent boogie boards as well in a pile of trash on my way home from the evening, I found it to be a great find and wow, it has been awhile since I've trash picked haha.
So I worked Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at the hotel and these shifts are my last at this job. It has been a very interesting experience for me and definitely have learned a lot from corporate hotels. Although, knowing me and my ways, I had to go out with a bang of course! On Sunday night, I was doing laundry (this will be my excuse from now on to not do laundry haha) and something happened and smoke filled the laundry room. Much to my dismay, the fire alarm went off at 3:30am in the morning and I had quite the full house already so I had a bunch of guests on my hands. It definitely made my night interesting especially since the fire department came and I got to talk to all the firefighters and had to explain the situation to them. Apparently, the assistant general manager was proud of me in how I handled the situation because most front desk agents get too scared to do anything. So at least I didn't end things on a total bad note!
I have to say that due to some recent events over the past weekend, I've learned how important true friends are and how they will always be there for you through hell and back. I suppose there's a story that goes along with this but it must wait til next time!
Well I left off at the end of October, I went to Hull, Massachusetts for the weekend with a bunch of other college students from Connecticut, Massachusetts, Rhode Island, Vermont, New Hampshire, Canada, and various other states. We went up on Friday, October 31st and stayed in a hotel right on the beach. It was a little cold but definitely beautiful. We had a great weekend of fellowship and had a great guest speaker that gave 4 messages. During our free time, a bunch of us went to Boston to explore. I ended up going to the aquarium which was sweet to see some of God's handiwork! I also saw an IMAX Dolphins and Whales movie which was amazing.
After my nice weekend, I had a busy week as usual ahead of me. Tuesday, I was lucky and blessed to enjoy a lunch with a good friend that I hadn't been able to catch up with in a while. Friday, I worked at the elementary school and I got to teach some 5th graders about leadership which was exciting. After work, my roomie, Melissa and I headed to our friends' house to play games and have pizza together.
Saturday, I relaxed mainly and slept most of the day away preparing for a busy weekend ahead of me. I was invited to a girl's night (girls from church mind you haha) and the girl that hosted it suggested we all have prayer partners so we could get to know each other better. I was excited for this opportunity to get to know someone better and I think it'll be a great way to put more prayer into your life!
Sunday, I went to church and we are studying about Mark which is an exciting book once you crack into it! Then, Melissa and I decided to go grocery shopping at places we hadn't been. For instance, a Trader Joes opened up near me and I was excited to check it out because I've always loved going there while being in California or Washington. After shopping, we hung out with friends and had a good evening. I was quite fortunate to stumble upon some decent boogie boards as well in a pile of trash on my way home from the evening, I found it to be a great find and wow, it has been awhile since I've trash picked haha.
So I worked Saturday, Sunday, and Monday at the hotel and these shifts are my last at this job. It has been a very interesting experience for me and definitely have learned a lot from corporate hotels. Although, knowing me and my ways, I had to go out with a bang of course! On Sunday night, I was doing laundry (this will be my excuse from now on to not do laundry haha) and something happened and smoke filled the laundry room. Much to my dismay, the fire alarm went off at 3:30am in the morning and I had quite the full house already so I had a bunch of guests on my hands. It definitely made my night interesting especially since the fire department came and I got to talk to all the firefighters and had to explain the situation to them. Apparently, the assistant general manager was proud of me in how I handled the situation because most front desk agents get too scared to do anything. So at least I didn't end things on a total bad note!
I have to say that due to some recent events over the past weekend, I've learned how important true friends are and how they will always be there for you through hell and back. I suppose there's a story that goes along with this but it must wait til next time!
Tuesday, October 28, 2008
The End of October
Ok I think that October flew by the fastest this year for me. Even though I've been busy practically every weekend doing something nonstop, this month has been great.
This past weekend has been fun. On Friday, I worked at the elementary school and the students were doing a walk a thon fundraiser and I participated in that. I went to a Harvest Festival at a small church in Connecticut just over the border from Rhode Island that was just a great time for fellowship, food and fun.
On Saturday, I grabbed some friends and headed to Newport Naval Base to do some shopping which is about an hour away. One of my friends is the child of someone in the military, that's how we got in which was nice. We went shopping around there, grabbed some lunch together and just had a fun afternoon shopping.
On Sunday, I went to church and then did laundry and cleaned things up a bit around the apartment with the roomies. I did find time to crash after having worked the night before and schedule to work the next two nights. After my nap, I headed to a Bible study with some friends and then we all went out to dinner together afterwards and had a great time hanging out.
Monday was an okay day, work, naps and classes primarily but I did get to hang out at a friend's house. My weekdays can be pretty dull and are usually filled with homework, work, school, and sleeping. This next Tuesday shall be exciting since my TNT (Tuesday Night Truth) Bible study will be going to one of the school's dorms to clean up dorm rooms and pass out candy.
This weekend shall be fun as I will be going to be headed to somewhere in Massachusetts along with a group of college students for a weekend retreat to meet up with a bunch of other college students to learn about God and to have a fun filled weekend! Other than that, I hope to have a great rest of the week!
This past weekend has been fun. On Friday, I worked at the elementary school and the students were doing a walk a thon fundraiser and I participated in that. I went to a Harvest Festival at a small church in Connecticut just over the border from Rhode Island that was just a great time for fellowship, food and fun.
On Saturday, I grabbed some friends and headed to Newport Naval Base to do some shopping which is about an hour away. One of my friends is the child of someone in the military, that's how we got in which was nice. We went shopping around there, grabbed some lunch together and just had a fun afternoon shopping.
On Sunday, I went to church and then did laundry and cleaned things up a bit around the apartment with the roomies. I did find time to crash after having worked the night before and schedule to work the next two nights. After my nap, I headed to a Bible study with some friends and then we all went out to dinner together afterwards and had a great time hanging out.
Monday was an okay day, work, naps and classes primarily but I did get to hang out at a friend's house. My weekdays can be pretty dull and are usually filled with homework, work, school, and sleeping. This next Tuesday shall be exciting since my TNT (Tuesday Night Truth) Bible study will be going to one of the school's dorms to clean up dorm rooms and pass out candy.
This weekend shall be fun as I will be going to be headed to somewhere in Massachusetts along with a group of college students for a weekend retreat to meet up with a bunch of other college students to learn about God and to have a fun filled weekend! Other than that, I hope to have a great rest of the week!
Thursday, October 23, 2008
Oh Autumn, Please Stay Awhile Longer!
Wow, New England has such pretty trees in the autumn! So many vibrant beautiful colors, I think autumn is the best season by far for New England! On all my crazy journeys, I've been truly blessed to see the wonderful handiwork of God.
Last Friday, I went to a Beth Moore women's conference somewhere in the depths of Connecticut about 2 hours away from Providence. The drive was amazing, the message was splendid and definitely something that a lot of us needed to hear and the fellowship afterwards was great as well. About 11 women total went from my church.
I also got my internship for next trimester set up and it should be happening at Mohegan Sun Hotel Casino Resort which is a 1200 room resort about an hour or so outside of Providence. I think it should be a great learning experience and I can't wait! That will be starting on December first, however I get to head out there next week to fill out paperwork!
On Sunday, I went to the Making Strides Breast Cancer Walk at 8:30am (yes I worked the night before, I was quite the entertainment for the group of walkers I was in because I had no sleep and was being crazy). We walked about 5-6 miles total then headed off to church. After church, I went home crashed for a while then met up with some friends and went to a corn maze scavenger hunt. There were about 8 of us and we paired up and ran off into the corn to see who could find all the pieces of the scavenger hunt first! My team won.....I won't rub it in anymore (haha). After the corn maze, we all headed off to a Bible study then dinner afterwards. I wrapped up my fun day with work.
Other than that, nothing too terribly exciting has happened, I think I have some weekend plans coming up ahead but you guys will just have to wait and see what happens first!
Last Friday, I went to a Beth Moore women's conference somewhere in the depths of Connecticut about 2 hours away from Providence. The drive was amazing, the message was splendid and definitely something that a lot of us needed to hear and the fellowship afterwards was great as well. About 11 women total went from my church.
I also got my internship for next trimester set up and it should be happening at Mohegan Sun Hotel Casino Resort which is a 1200 room resort about an hour or so outside of Providence. I think it should be a great learning experience and I can't wait! That will be starting on December first, however I get to head out there next week to fill out paperwork!
On Sunday, I went to the Making Strides Breast Cancer Walk at 8:30am (yes I worked the night before, I was quite the entertainment for the group of walkers I was in because I had no sleep and was being crazy). We walked about 5-6 miles total then headed off to church. After church, I went home crashed for a while then met up with some friends and went to a corn maze scavenger hunt. There were about 8 of us and we paired up and ran off into the corn to see who could find all the pieces of the scavenger hunt first! My team won.....I won't rub it in anymore (haha). After the corn maze, we all headed off to a Bible study then dinner afterwards. I wrapped up my fun day with work.
Other than that, nothing too terribly exciting has happened, I think I have some weekend plans coming up ahead but you guys will just have to wait and see what happens first!
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