Wednesday, November 30, 2011

I'm goin home

You know your forgetting Albanian when- You have a dream in Albanian and you cant understand most of what people are saying.
Isn't that pathetic??!! I'm gonna get home and when people talk to em I'll have to smile and nod and say "nuk kuptoj!" meaning "I dont understand." I'm so excited to go back to Albania! I was packing last night and first I thought to bring regular old ripped jeans, but then realized I would look like a street bum, we dont wear ripped jeans in Europe. It's a high fashion place. Not that I will ever dress in fashion, but I dont want to give the impression that Canada is a hole in the wall. So then I decided on some black flats but quickly remembered that the street I live on is so thick with garbage and mud that the flats just wouldn't do.
I'm afraid that a lot of things that were once normal will be weird. Like when people kiss your cheeks 2 or 4 times. Or boys hooting and whistling I'm quite afraid I'll have the urge to punch them. WHen before it was something girls get used to and ignore. Or merely crossing the street with all the horses and wagons and mopeds and bicycles.
The thing I must say I'm looking forward to the most, more then sleeping in my bed or eating Albanian pickles is seeing my gypsies! My little girls! What if they all forgot me? What if they dont recognize me? I miss them so much...I miss being a mommy to 30. There's something about them that makes you feel needed, and you are! And I love that feeling, walking down the street with 6 little kids holding your hands and tugging on your skirt all begging for ice cream. I LOVE IT!!!
And my little brothers! Their probably really tall and handsome and wont want to listen to the gummy bear song any more...Now that's sad!
Sometimes I look out the window at these Canadian mountains and ask God why on earth I'm here. I could be so many other places, most importantly Albania. I could do so much to help people and yet I'm in boarding school...in Canada. I mean how on earth did I end up here??? But then God reminds me that I still have growing to do, and I know he's right. I didnt hardly know him at all back then. I thought God was a genie who should grant my wishes and then leave me alone. Heaven was a fairy tale land that I would think about at night when I woke up from a nightmare to calm me down. I was told I was going to heaven but I told God to wait a while, I wanted to live my life first. Now I know how merciful he was for not coming, I wouldn't have been there.
Pray for 2 things. One that whoever I sit with on the plane will speak English! And second that they will be open to the gospel and they will be receptive because they have to sit with me for 13 hours and I think even the toughest nut can be cracked in 13 hours. ;)

Sunday, November 27, 2011

Bitter.Old.Cat.Lady

Okey dokey! So I had the weirdest dream last night! I'm sure you reallyn dont care to hear it but I'll tell it anyway! Ok...so I was living in bible times and I met this guy who led a caravan of runaways out of the city to a far off place, since it was illegal to leave the city at this certain time because there was a decree to kill all the cats and people were trying to escape with tehir kittys. So I decided to escape with my cat and go to Jerusalem where my grandma lived and my cat would be safe. because the secret police were already on the hunt for my cat.

Wow...I am already well on my way to becoming a bitter old cat lady! :P Dont ask me why IO dreamed about this...I dont even have a cat! But I think it was because I went to bed at 12:30 because thats when we got back from tour. Which was pretty fun! Me and Saraiah stayed up talking all night. :) ANd today will be a good day. I will edit my devotionals...again. And do some math homework, and mark my GC...and clean my room, and then I'll probably wrap presents. You know whats weird about me? I dont enjoy doing nothing anymore, I love that sense of accomplishment to have FINISHED! And I WILL finish my list today. And then I can read...oh for the days when I could read all day! Anyways, christmas break is coming soon! like 21days 22 hours and 35 minutes!!!! Yes...I'm a dork, gotta problem with that?

Friday, November 18, 2011

It's almost open house! It is in fact 2 days until open house. :)
I had a very peachy day. I got my 18th devotional! One more to go!!!!!!! I just have to edit the rest, it's been really fun writing them, I really enjoy it. :D It snowed again today! But it's not that cold yet, only 15 right now. I am hungry! I bought some ramen and then found out it was beef flavored...I hate beef flavoring, it's icky. I realze this is not a very interesting post...
OHH!!! The water went out today! So I really am craving a shower at the moment. And we're having a concert today too, which means that I need to clean my room, put on my unform, find my black flats that went missing, take a shower, curl my hair aaaaaaaaaand pack my trombone all before 5:00. I should get going!

Sunday, November 13, 2011

COUGAR!

It was Sabbath night after sundown (which happened to be at 4:30) This also happened to be last night.
So there were several activities to do, there was a health video at the school building and there was capture the flag. I chose capture the flag! But unfortunately not many others did, there was a total of 8 of us but we still went out to play. The boundaries were huge. From the saw mill to the dorm. Me and Heather were assigned the duty of guarding the flag at the saw mill building. It was kinda scary....it was dark and we couldn't see anything. But gradually our eyes ajusted. :) BUt soon after we got there we heard this noise, we stopped to listen and heard this "meow!" We both nearly jumped out of our skin as a cute little black cat came trotting out of the building! We were very glad it was just a cat and quickly settled into ditches on either side of the road to await the enemy. We were there for quite sometime when we heard someone coming. Unfortunately the cat was being very loud and running from me to heather meowing and purring. BUt alas it wasnt the enemy at all! The rest of our teammates (CHelsea and Tristha) had gotten lost in the dark. SO we switched places and me and heather set out on the journey to find the flag which was at the tree house.
We came to the first freshly plowed field and knowing that the enemy could be anywhere we crawled across the field on our hands and knees until finally reaching the tall grassy hill where we could hide then we stopped in our tracks. There was the enemy! Walking along the top of the hill, we waited until she was out of sight, walking towards the sawmill and then we booked it up that hill, crouching and running, trying to be quiet. Then a few feet from the top heather pulled me to a stop. "There's a guard 10 feet from you" I looked around in a panic and saw a figure crouching in the shadows, "well" I said "lets tag her before she tags us" I sprang into action and ran at her, she jumped up and ran at me but my hand whipped out and (I didn't mean to get her in her face) tagged her face....very hard. I felt really bad! But after all...this is wartime.
We soon figured out it was dawn. and now she was on out team! SO we all set out across the field but slowly realized the guards would be able to see us since the school building lights were shining directly on the field. SO we set to rolling...I got really dizzy but we rolled across quite a large portion of the field until we got so dizzy we had to stop and find our senses. Then we crawled, just before we reached the fields edge we heard Ellen yell that time was up and we had to go back to the dorm. It was disappointing but we still had fun! So we set off in two groups, we walked in the middle of teh feild while the people comign from saw mill walked farther away on the edge of the far field. We were just approaching the hill to the dorm and were planning to walk straight up, when we heard a noise and stopped. A growl, no...like...I cant describe it but it was the sound a cougar makes. And a rustle in the tall grass. Someone bolted but I grabbed her before she went too far. me and heather barked out directions "Keep calm! Don't run! Everybody make a lot of noise but DON'T SCREAM!" SO we all started singing "we have this hope" while walking quickly away, glancing behind us to make sure we wwere'nt being followed. We reached the otehr group whon were talkign and laughing and I yelled the first thing that came to my mind "theres a l-lion behind us!" They laughed and said "yeah we know here's the lion" and threw the little black cat at us. "NO! there's a mountain lion right behind us!!!" I nearly screamed. We all stayed in a little group until we reached the orchard, then we rn. I have never run so fast in my life, I didnt know I could humanly run like that. All I remember was trees whipping by as I flew to the school building. They weren't finished watching the movie but I burst in the auditorium (did I mention I was wearing camo pajamas, a camo head scarf and war paint?) I burst in and saw John L turn around I quickly stammered out "c-c-c-cougar! I-i-i-in the field!" John jumped up and came out to the lobby and a whole stream of boys came with him, I think the movie emptied because everyone was out in the hall! I explained what happened and he had me call Mr James and I told the story again. MR James said he'd drive out there to see what he could see. He radioed John sometime later to tell us that it was a prank some girls had pulled on us. I was smoking mad!
Long story short it wasn't the girls. They were in a completely different place, far away from us, making different noises. This thing was 10 feet away.
We talked it all out long into the night before we discovered this fact. I am amazed at how God protected us the whole night! I was crawling through the very same grass. I could have came upon that cougar all by myself, or it coudl have pursued us. But God was there protecting us all the way throguh. And nwo we know that he was protectign us all the other times we've played night games, or goen runnign before light. He protects us every day and we dont even know it. Praise God for showing us what he has been doing!

Friday, November 11, 2011

Oh my poor neglected blog...I haven't written is SO long!
It's the weekend again!!!!!!!1 WHOOOOT!! Saraiah is coming over later to get ready for vespers with me so I must leave soon. But I will update you my best!
Devotionals are coming along I have 8 turned in, 4 more that need editing and that's it...
OOOH! But I was very proud of myself because I got up at 5:30! WHOOT! Go Mia! Anyhow..Wow is my life that boring? I talk about homework and how early I got up? I miss those exciting days....I honestly am missing being home schooled. I could get so much more done if I didn't have to work. And I could take all the courses I want to take. :) I am getting majorly excited about college! I am really leaning towards CUC but Southern is also an option, Andrews....mayeb I dont want to but some guy gave me a thingi to make my application free. And he said I could share it so if anyone wants it come talk to mee! But honestly...I dont want to go to Andrews. Oh well...God will work it out! I dont need to worry about it.

Did I mention I'm going home soon???!!!!!!! First time in 2 years!!! EEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEP!!!!!!!! It will be kinda weird though, haveing not been there for so long and then being thrust back into the culture. With all the disgusting guys who whistle and cat call every time you leave your door. Thats gonna suck...