Life.Is.BUSY!

Ok, sorry I haven't written in a while I've been uber busy with school and stuff. We're starting to write the devotional, and I have some major math homework that's really hard, aaaaand I have to start researching for Bible 1 on Daniel and Revelation. Oh and did I mention this year is super weird? I'm changing! I guess it's for the better but it's strange. Ok...so I ran in PE. Me...Moriah I RAN! I kept up with Morgan Barrow! Which is quite the accomplishment will have you know! And I went for a run early this morning, and did home work (something I never do) I've been doing it faithfully every night. I even ate salads int eh cafe!!!! And turned in every unapproved thing I own, and to top it off every free moment I have I spent studying.....that's big. Oo...and on the down side we had voce lessons today with Craig....I think I did bad, of course I never think I do good. Probably cause I never do! Hehe, kinda a bummer though cause most of my friends got into mixed chorus. Oh well, no biggy. I will attempt at brushing things off, something I desperately will need to do this year. Well I really need to go study, this is the longes I've spent doing something fun in a long while.

Sweetie...do you need shoes?

OH MY WORD!!!!!!! The FUNNIEST thing just happened! Ok...So there's this girl on my hall who's new so I went and introduced myself and answered their many questions. And then she found out I was a missionary when she had learned this valuable bit of information she then proceeded to tell me that she had put some things in the ADRA bin so I should feel free to look through. I about died trying not to laugh! Same lady who when they visited last winter and saw me wearing boots that were ducktaped together stopped me in the road and said "sweetie, do you need some shoes?" OH MY GOODNESS!!!! I love them already! heir SO cute!!!! And they have the sweetest accents their from my neck o the woods in TN! WHOOOO GO SOUTHERNERS!! I can tell I'm gonna like these people...Come to think of it I should have said yes on the shoes! :P

New Year, here I come!!!

I just had the most amazing morning! And ya know what? I actually like working! No wait...I LOVE IT! I've been working janitorial and I found that I really enjoy cleaning things to perfection. :) AAAAAAAAAAAND I got to drive the cube van! :) And there's tons of people arriving! Mostly new people...I'm doing my best to be all friendly and welcoming...Cause usually I'm shy so this year will be the change! And cause Rosa told me the reason she put me in the room I'm in on main floor was because there was lots of new people on my hall and I'm friendly...I dont know where she got that cause I thought I was pretty anti-social! But since she thinks that I'll do my best to live up to expectations!
I'm just SOOOOOOOOO EXCITED!!!!!!!! All of my best buddies are coming today!!! I missed them so much...It's a little weird too though because after being a new person for a year I'm finally old! :P It will be weird at first to have new people join our "family" I mean thats what we are...we're so close. We always look out for each other and encourage one another. But I'm also excited to be able to be that person who makes the new people feel at home. :)

I'm slightly worried about our split class, our class will be split into 2 this year so I dont know who's in what class and I'm kinda scared I wont be with my friends. I dont want us to drift apart...Especially my best friend. But I guess there's no sense worrying about it since I cant change it I might as well embrace it! I think that should be my new motto. :P Anyway I have to go to work so I shall try to blog next week after the first camp out! :D

Mission Weeding-COMPLETE!

I just had my LAST DAY WEEDING!!!!!!!! EEEEEEEP!!!!!!1
Ok...I'm officially excited to celebrate I curled my hair. Ok that sounded odd and a bit vain. But you see after a whole summer of not trying to do anything with my hair I'm starting to feel quite grungy. So it's a very pleasant feeling to feel pretty again! :)

And everyone's starting to come back! I'm so happy...I feel like squealing and jumping and singing all at once...which is exactly what I did on my way back from weeding when I was very sure that I was alone in the field. Tee hee! And tomorrow....Ah what wonderful words! Tomorrow I will scream muchly! :)

OK!!!!! SO It's 2 days until everyone comes back to school! Needles to say I'm super duper excited! :) It's gonna be a great year!!!
The only trouble is auditions...I HAAAAAAATE auditions! And I have to do 2! :( And since I haven't practiced all summer my skills are...well...lacking. :P And as for my voice auditions I always get really nervous and end up singing way too quietly. And now it's time for breakfast! And since eating is one of my favorite things to do I shall bid you farewell!

GLOWING

I had the WEIRDEST dream last night! I was was walking down the street and I saw a man packing a bunch of books in boxes somehow I knew he was packing up an old library. So I stopped to help him and I was trying to figure out how to give him a GLOW track. So I asked if he liked to read and he said yes so I was about to give him a GLOW track but then I realized I didn't have any with me. So right then a guy from FVA walked by and he stopped and gave me a GLOW to give to the guy. It was really odd...

Hear My Cry (It's not finished yet)

Hear My Cry (Free Verse)

God why don’t you answer

Why don’t you hear?

His voice calling out to you

A voice filled with fear

He needs your help

He needs your caring hand

Why don’t you hear him?

Just help him to stand,

Hear my cry oh Lord,

I’ve tried it on my own,

And now I know you are there

To hear my prayer

Oh Lord hear my humble prayer,

He’s running away,

From life and from you,

The life you have chosen is fading from view,

He looks to the world for comfort and peace,

When will he see that you’re all that he needs?

By Moriah Mays

Moving again!

It's finally the weekend! We went to the lake yesterday for Ethan's baptism, it was really nice. :) And now today I can actually spend 1 whole day doing whatever I want!!!!!!! Oh what an amazing idea...So I shall spend my day unpacking my room...again. I just moved again from the Senior girls dorm over across campus again to the other girls dorm. We have 3. I've moved SOOO many times in the past year! I guess it matches the rest of my life! It would be weird if I didn't move I guess...

Anyway so school is starting again in 2 weeks. Seems like last summer is so far away...like it was years ago. This summer has gone by so fast but also so slow. Like it seems like it's been forever since it was school but also like it was yesterday.
I have a whole bunch to do in the organizing of my room so I should get to it. I am utterly determined to have it completely finished by tonight!

Thankful

Ok y'all! I am officially talented! I ripped a hole in both knees of every pair of jeans I own that fit me...the rest are too big now. Not sure what I'm gonna wear to work...a skirt I think would be a little...um...Yeah no. Anyway, I got up 5 min before work today because we started at 6. Did I ever mention I'm not a morning person? I was grumpy all morning because it was really cold, wet and I was tired. Then the song "Thankful" By Josh Groban came on and I felt bad. Lately I've been working on smiling. And no it's not just because Craig bugs me about it so much during choir. It's because everything gets a little better when you smile, even if your having a bad day.

The extra time at work gave me time to do a lot of thinking. I was thinking about what job to get next summer, and in my sleepy delusional mind this is what I came up with. I could work at a day camp that I went to when I was 10. It's in Michigan, and since I dont have a house I could live in a tent in the woods...and have a little garden and eat only cucumbers for the whole summer. Yeah...I was REALLY tired! You see all the jobs that I came up with didn't feed you, so I would either starve or eat off a garden. I thought about dumpster diving but...I think that's a little low...and gross. I mean...it's not cause I cant afford food, I just dont wanna waste money on it! :P Yes, I realize that my logic is messed up a little.

YOU have a purpose

I wish people didn't make assumptions...What would life be like if everyone saw everyone else exactly the way they were? Like...what if all the bad people were ugly and all the nice people were beautiful? Like a reflection of their characters. Well...I suppose there would be a whole lot more ugly people in the world then beautiful ones. But it would be so much easier that way....

Sometimes I have no hope for humanity. People are so darn stubborn! I mean...I'm FAR from perfect but at least I try! So many people go through life content with being average. Well I dont want to be one of those people. God created me for a purpose, I'm not a accident, nobody is. Whether their parents meant to have them or not God knew them before they ever existed and he knew who they would be. He had a purpose for every one of them! I just wish everyone would see that.
While at ASI I got a job offer in India, and one in Ireland, both missionary positions. But I also had at least 10 people trying to convince me that I HAD to go to college. One man told me "NO matter what you must go to college, you'll never make any money otherwise and you will always regret it!." Well Mr...I dont care about money! Why are people so obsessed with money???? All I want is to spread the gospel! There is SO little time left! All the signs are happening showing the soon return of Christ! And when he comes...I dont want to say "Lord I was going to do something for you in 10 or 12 years, you know...after I finished high school, college and med school, made some money and then gave a little bit to poor people."
No. I dont care what it takes I WILL go into all nations preaching the gospel. Whether I get paid or not, God will provide.

Pet peeves and oh so much more!

Don't you just HATE decisions!!!???? Ok....so maybe you dont. But I do! Actually here's a list of things hate
1.Loud things
2. Conflict
3.Bell Peppers
5. Making big decisions
6. Spiders

So you see there's not THAT many things I hate! Although I probably forgot some stuff...OH! I hate heights too. :) And elevators. Maybe I should just make lists of all kinds of things! AHA! That I shall!

hings I'm afraid of
1.Elevators
2.Heights
3.Spiders
4.The dark (ok I dont mean sleeping with a night light, but I really hate going places by myself in the dark)

Pet peeves
1. Loud things and or people
2. Singing off tune.
3. People eating with their mouths open.
4. Foul language.

Well now you know exactly how to tick me off! I wont go into all the things I like because that would just take waaaaay too long! I absolutely love life! And if I said all the wonderful things about it....well that would be one long post!

Dads, Dirt, and Diarys!

I just got back from work! In fact my hands and feet are still covered with mud...actually...all of me is! :) But that's OK! I had quite the day...I spent the entire work period this afternoon being quizzed about who I liked. *sigh* Why are girls so darn insistent that I have to like somebody?! What happened to the good ole days when boys had cooties? That was a simpler life...But moving on!
I'm really happy! We're getting ready to go to ASI next week! :D I'm soooo excited! I get to see all my friends from school and even my childhood best friend who lives down there. Plus concerts and that stuff to do. We have practice tomorrow night for our concerts at ASI.
OOOooOOO00OO! Guess what we did yesterday!!!!!!!!!! We went out for pizza!! Ok...that sounds small, but being at FVA and going out for pizza is quite a big thing! lol And then when we got back we went swimming and had a seaweed fight. :)
I cant wait for school to start, I miss people, and I miss having my own room too. I mean my roommates are totally sweet! But I guess I'm just a quiet person. I can take people for only so long, then I need time to retreat back to the silence of my room. I'm like my Mom that way I guess. I also discovered that me and my Dad have becoem a lot closer after I came to FVA. We didnt spend a whole lot of time together growign up but since I left home we've become a lot better friends! I mean...there's still misunderstandings, one happened a week or so ago actually. It cost me a good friend but...It meant a lot to know that my Dad cared that much about me to step into something he thought would hurt me. I knwo this probably is all jumbled and doesnt make sense. But this blog is pretty much my diary! I stopped writing in my paper one years ago...it's just easier this way. So you privileged few have the opportunity to take a peek into my diary!

Oh what a day! My roommates both woke up and left before I got out of bed... :) I like sleeping...Anyway so we went to work and about an hour before work ended we had to get off the cart and weed by hand...Well that was fun, NOT. But I decided to make the ebst of it and weed as fast as possible so I could finish quicker! And even though it was cold windy and rainy I was warm because I was moving so much. *grins* So we got off work early cause we finished so fast. SO now I'm at the dorm making mac n cheese! I'm really not sure how to make it...I'm just guessing because I dont have anything to measure with. :P I hope it's good!
I'm SOOOO excited! Campmeetign is this weekend! EEEEEEEEEEEEEP! And then a week after that is ASI double EEEEEEEEEEEEEP! And after ASI thats when all the peopel start flooding back in! And then Rosa comes back and I can move back to the other dorm. :)

Ok I was wrong....my mac n cheese is....icky. But I'll still eat it! It's still mac n cheese! :D I really should start a cooking show....Like a dorm cooking show, all the ways to make food in a dorm room without using a stove! All you really need is any type of food, a rock, your fingers, and possibly a microwave! Possibly a pencil for stirring...

Change

Oh goody!!!!!!!! My blog finally works again! I apologize profusely for not blogging for the past...month. My blog wasn't really working, and now it is!!! YAYYYYYY!!

So I'm going back to school on Sunday and then a lot of changes take place. I have to move dorms, to the Senior girls dorm all the way across campus by the school building. I have a roomate, which I think will be fun! I think... And then once school starts their splitting my class in half to make 2 classes which really sucks. But oh well! Some things ya cant change. I would write more but I have to go close up all my internet business before tomorrow! Well..at least all the blocked ones!

Friday Evening

Well here I am, Friday afternoon sitting in the computer lab waiting for supper because there was a mis-communication about a sophomore meeting that never happened.
But on the bright side I made a record for how fast I can get ready for vespers! I straightened my hair in a whole 5 minutes! My room didn't exactly pass room check though because I was so busy packing that I forgot, so my room is filled with boxes and bags!
This is the last weekend we have before grad! AHHHH! So exciting!!!!!!!!! And kinda scary...But exciting!!!! And what makes it more exciting is that I'm getting baptized at this grad. :)

It's almost over!

Just got back from Sophomore camp out last night! It was a blast! I was quite proud of myself for exherting effort and being the 2nd person and 1st girl to get to Stryne and I did it in a whoppin 1:20 minutes! HEEHEE!
I've had quite the weekend! And currently yearbooks are being passed around to be signed and we have 8 days of school left! It's very exciting! Especially since daddy is bringing Albanian spaghetti sauce to FL for me!
It's kinda weird that my sisters getting married in a couple weeks...I always thought it would be years and years away but now here it is creeping up already! I have a feeling I'll be shedding quite a few tears in the next month! With Grad and weddings and goodbyes and hello's.
Well I should be going now, I have a whole room to pack up! The Sophomores have a weird wacky schedule right now, we have free tie and study hall in the morning then one period of work then lunch then 2 periods of work and one period of class then orchestra then supper then 2 more classes then we go to bed...Recording is messing up our lives!!! Oh well...

Outreach

And I am off on the 2nd day of sophomore outreach! :) My partner for today is Sierra. :) *grins* I'm a little nervous cause last time I ran into quite a few drunk dudes and big scary dogs...and one lady who had Marijuana growing outside her door....yeeeeah....This should be interesting! But God really blessed last time! Hannah and I did 2 Bible studies and we got 14 contacts! :) And Julie and Sarah had a really cool expiriance! They knocked at one door and the man said he had seen 3 fountainviewers walk by knocking on doors a while before, funny thing is, we dont have any groups with 3 people in them. Beth and Morgan had walked by earlier but the man was working in his garden and they didnt want to disturb him. I thought that was a REALLY cool experience! And it's amazing to see how God works. I really hope I can have a good experience today! Last time....We knocked on the door and I hadn't lifted my hand off the door before it flew open and a man stepped out. Hannah said "Hi I'm Hannah and this is my friend Moriah and-" "Hello! I am South American!" Was his response holding out his hand to shake. We shook his hand and continued on in the health survey, but for every question he either answered "NO!" Or jabbered on in....some language about something. Then we asked him for his name, he couldn't remember it....Did I mention he was stoned? VERY stoned! He went inside and told us to come in, Hannah was scared and I probably should have been but I wasn't, so I walked in his tiny dark hole in the wall that was engulfed in smoke. ANd he gave me an envelope with his name and address on it. As I said...interesting experience!

16 weird things in the last year

Well I was just looking at a post from last may and I had a "15 weird things I've done in the last 15 years." So I think I should make a new one! 16 weird things I've done in the last year. :)

1. Put fake cockroaches in the dorm shower
2. Put grease and salt on the dorms toilet seat
3. Sprayed someones room with axe
4. Dressed Muslim in the airport to see what reaction I got
5. Climbed a coconut tree in Hawaii
6. Fell out of a coconut tree in Hawaii. ;)
7. Ate dirt in the carrot field
8. Dyed part of my hair green.
9. Drove a bobcat and hit a trailer with it.
10.Drove a riding lawn mower and hit a tree
11.Drifted around a corner on a lawn mower, then it got stuck...
12. Got my leg stuck in a tree while pruning it and had to have my boss pull me out.
13. Got stuck on the dock in the pond cause I didn't want to jump back in the freezing April water, then got "rescued" by Mr James and a guy in my class. Ended up just jumping in out of pure embarrassment.
14. Joined a country band and went around campus serenading staff homes.
15. Was running in snow on a camp out and fell in...all the way with my hands sticking out.
16. After 6 years of growing my hair out...I cut it all off.

This should totally be an all girls school...

Had the most AMAZING weekend ever! There was absolutely no guys on campus! Girls free time all weekend!!! We had a blast! We made a little band with all kinds of impromptu instruments including a jug of popcorn, a Jones bottle, and a breadbasket made of chicken wire and a spoon. I'll post a picture later, :P. Then last night Rosa suggested a "fashion Show" I deceided that it was suddenly past my bedtime until she explained the rules. She would make a bunch of wacky color combo's or prints and then number them off and we'd all get one. And we only had 15 minutes to get it all together, the object of the game was to be wacky. I drew all black so of course I HAD to play! So I put on a leather matrix style trench coat, a fedora, sunglasses, and black shirt and pants, then for effect I drew on a mustache and goatee with eye liner. Everybody said I looked like Johnny Depp and was extremely freaked out! Bur Rosa made me wash the mustache off...:( But not to fear! I have a picture! :P We had quite the weekend! And I still managed to clean my room and write 2 essays today! And now I'm off to practice my 90 minutes! I bid you farewell!

My icky yearbook picture....bleh

I miss being a mom!

Well I was just thinking today how sad it is how many people I've lost contact with since coming to Fountainview! Like my childhood best friend that I'd had since I was a baby, anyway I decided to reminisce! I WANNA BE A KID! It was so darn fun! Right now I want nothing more then to be in 8th grade again, in my kitchen making a sandwich with mustard, pickles and cheese, with my little brothers screaming in the background about Mario kart. And going for motorcycle rides with daddy, and playing in the sprinklers with my dogs, and having all my girls follow me as I do the shopping for their lunch. I miss my kids! I miss being a mommy to 50 girls!

Some pics from Hawaii and early this spring

Utter insanity

Ya know what I really want right now? Cookie dough....I'm craving that yummyness like crazy! It's raining outside, and I'm working campus....that should be um...fun in the rain. I'm not really sure why I'm blogging right now since I clearly have nothing dreadfully important to say but I'm just so darn bored! We're in Bible class but Mr hinds is in a meeting so we have a free period to work on our essay and changy is supervising us. I've spent the past hour looking at cookie dough recipes with Saraiah and looking at weird news articles about some guys robbing some presidents grave....like I said weird! And then I googled weird laws! Did you know that it is illegal to get a fish drunk?! It's also illegal to let donkeys sleep in bathtubs! And when I was thouroghly fed up with weird laws I made a yahho vs. Goggle war! I typed in Moriah is___ in both and this is what google said: Pregnant, fat, having twins, and amazing. Yahoo said: Mt Moriah Golgotha.....I think even though Google was slightly offensive it wins!

Ok I must apologize for the utter randomness of this blog post, I'm going through cookie dough withdraws!

What If I Died Today?

A thought came to my mind today, what if I had died today? Not to be morbid or anything, but what would I leave behind? What will people say about me after I'm dead? Am I a person who has made a difference in the world and in peoples lives? Or did I just live for myself and whatever was fun for me.
Here's a scenario, not saying it happened or didn't happen.
Lets say I was taking a walk right? And I go down by the sawmill right after it rained and stand on the log right on the cliff edge, the log was kinda slippery because it was wet. Lets say I slipped and caught myself just in time.
I think I have a pretty good grasp on reality as of lately. I dont want to leave behind the legacy I currently have. It's not that it's bad, but it's not really the best either. I keep thinking to myself all the things I'll do after I graduate, or after I get a better job or later in life. But what if I had died today? None of those things would have mattered because I never would have done them.

I need to live in now, I want to make a difference today, I want people to remember me as someone who loved Jesus with all my heart and did my best to share with others about him.

Well I'm wondering how much I can write in the 5 minutes before class! Today was an awesome day I worked sci lab with Mason, Megan and David Chang! :) I got totally covered in dirt! Hehe, it was pretty fun. I've been planting the garden for the past week, I guess he wants me to start it so I can finish it this Summer? I dunno...

I'm SOOOO psyched about going home! 39 more days! WHOOOOOT! And then I see my family and my best friend all at once! :) OO! And we took class pics yesterday so I'm gonna try and post them. :) I really dont like my personals but oh well, it'll be better next year hopefully! Anyway I gotta go to Socials so I'll post pics later I hope, I know I say that a lot but I still haven't found my jump drive... :S So anyway adios for now!

Growing up

Today was an interesting day to be sure, I worked science lab planting the garden. Then for the next to classes we took our class pictures at the bone yard, then for the last class Johnny taught us how to make rope and I made a fire in class by rubbing a stick! It was awesome! Then the ABC truck came and me and Saraiah bought veggie meat!

Yesterday me and Morgan were talking during study hall about growing up, it just now hit me that my childhood is over! I've left home for good, there's no going back, no more blissful days of fishing, playing tag with my brothers and picnics with my dolls. I wish I could go back, it's weird how when your a kid you look forward to growing up and "doing whatever you want" but then when you reach the age you've always wanted to be you wish you could be a kid again. I remember saying to my sister that when I turned 16 I was gonna drive to walmart all by myself and by a bottle of sprite and a container of whipped cream and eat it with a spoon. That was my definition of growing up, doing what I wanted. But now that I can buy what I want I've discovered that I hate spending money! Now that daddy's magic money tree died, I guess I just realized the value of money, and the wastefulness it would be to buy whip cream with my money. I also learn to make my clothes last longer, when I was younger I would rip every pair of jeans I had by climbing trees or jumping off barn lofts or riding my horse and falling off! I still do those things, and i still rip my pants on occasion :P but the difference is that now I have to patch them myself. SO now I'm a lot easier on my clothes! The most important thing I've learned in the past year is the value of Bible study. I always read my Bible before but I never actually studied it, I just read it so I could check devotions off my list of things to do. Where as now I find myself excited about what I'm learning, and actually anticipating the next time I can find a quiet spot to read it. It's so amazing how God has been changing me! I'm not the same person I was when I came to Fountainview, I still have a looooong ways to go, but by Gods grace I'll get there slowly, day by day.

For Mom

HAAAPPPPPPPPPPPPYY MMMMMMMMMMOOOOOTTTTTHHHHHHEEEEERRRRRRRS DDAAAAAAYYYYYYYY!!!!!!!! :)

I really wish I could be in Turkey with you guys, it sounds a lot funner then Canada. Anyway, I wanted to give you a song I wrote for you but I guess I'll wait till this Summer. So for now I'll


I almost remember being born I've heard the story so many times, I remember being little and asking to hear it again and again because I was so sure I was adopted because I looked nothing like Megan. I remember how you and Daddy tried to get me that mean ole Emu for like my 4th birthday, and then a llama. I'm not sure how you guys thought up those wacky gifts but I loved every one of them! Like when I was 12 and you guys planted that donkey in my room with a big red bow.
I also remember the discipline though, I think I got quite a few spankings in those 13 years! I'm sure I probably deserved it most of the time, and you probably didnt know this but when I was about 3 or 4 and me and Megan both got a spanking I put on about 4 pairs of pants and I remember she was crying her head off and I let out a small whimper and you thought I was such a good little kid and told Megan to look how well her sister was behaving! Hehehe...
And I remember how much you put up with when me and Todi were in 6th grade, all the noise and neopets, letting us have a graveyard for all the dead lizards and mice in the backyard, my noisy barking dog who caught that hedgehog, me and Megan making that boat to float down that gross sewer river. And then in 8th grade all the web shows you let us do, I never realized how noisy of a kid I was till just now! And I remember watching the olympics and telling you I wanted to be in them some day so I started running up and down the stairs and around the house during commercial breaks at mima's house. And you told me that I could do it if I trained hard enough. ANd rememebr when I was into ballet? You came to every "show" me and my dolls put on and dragged the rest of the family along with you. Or when I wanted to be a chef and made those chocolate noodles with raisins and cinnamon! You were the only one who would try it.
There's a really stupid bird bouncing off the window over and over again right now...anyway!

But you know the thing that impacted me most, is after that last thing happened with the you know who in Albania, when I told you I didn't want to live like this anymore, and I wanted to be safe. I was totally expecting you to say that I was safe in the house and that I was overreacting or something. But you said OK, and told me I could go back with Megan to America. And that day when I left, April 21 2010....I wasnt expecting to cry, it wasnt a big deal, I was leaving just like Megan had 4 years before me, but then you cried I wasnt expeting you to cry either, I guess if I would have thougth about it I would have expected it but I didn't. And when you cried I suddenly realized what was happening and that I wouldn't see you again for who knows how long. ANyway what I'm trying to say I guess is that I love you lots and I appreciate all that you've done for me even the spankings, I know I always said I would never say that but I do appreciate it. I really wish we would have had more time together growing up, you were always so busy since I turned 9, you were still there but not as much as I wanted. and then I left when I was 15 so you didn't get to deal with most of my teen years. But I'm still glad I got to spend most of my 15 years at home with you. I never was good at presents, I gave dad a toilet paper tube with noodles stuck to it that said pirate for fathers day, and I gave Megan hairspray one Christmas. But I hope that this was a good present, and that you have a great mothers day! And you still have Megan there so at least you'll have one of us!

What a LIFE!

Oh my word! What a day! What a week! What a life! :)

Lots of weird things happened today...like for example, me and Julie were cleaning the guys bathrooms and she grabbed the feather duster and hit me in the head with it, so I grabbed the plunger and we had an awesome duel! But sadly christian came along with his camera about then and....yeah. Then one of the Juniors came out to tell us that they were taking a test and could hear our screeching quite clearly. That was embarrassing....

But on the brighter side of things I just finished my English test! Which means I have NO HOMEWORK! For the first time in months! WHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

Oh by the way festival of rejoicing is this sabbath night at either 6:30 or 7:00 my time, and it's gonna be streaming live on ustream so if you wanna watch type festival of rejoicing into the search bar. :) But then again....might be a bad idea....hehe I'm singing with a group of my friends and we haven't started practicing yet and it's tomorrow so...yeah be warned! But I'm confident that if need be God will shut your ears! :) Anyway I need to get going because it's Friday and I have a ton to do! Luv ya'll! Pafshim!

My prince charming!

Today was a really fun day! :) We got all morning off since we were on tour this weekend so I got to get some homework done. OOO! And we took the campus picture today! *grins* And they rearranged the caf it looks SO good! We had a bible test today and I aced it. :) Praise God! And now I have homework due on everyday this week plus a presentation in class on Wednesday. But my theory is to get all the homework done tonight so that when everyone else is stressing I'll be able to go to bed early. And Mama and Daddy are in Turkey right now so I really hope I get to talk to them soon!

I made a new years resolution...except it's a "starting May 1st resolution!" I need to look on the positive side of things more. When I'm homesick I cant go home so I might as well make the best of it here. I guess I just realized that I need to stop worrying about things that are out of my control.

On another note, Craig brought his puppy's to choir! THEY ARE SO CUTE! I got to hold one of them! He was wrinkly and tan and adorable! Officially my prince charming! But I had to give my prince up pretty fast cause he was popular! In the first minute I had him there was a 5 person line to hold him! :P Guess that's the price ya gotta pay for having the cutest prince charming in the world! ;)

Bye Bye Hair! I'll miss you.

Oh my goodness.... I did something that I'll either regret or love for the next 3 years. I cut my hair. I dont mean like last time where I got a little trim, I mean I cut it... I didn't mean to! I was just getting a trim but then I tilted my head or something and it got cut shorter on one side so she had to even it out and it just kept getting shorter! I haven't had it this short since I was 11. I'll post a picture this afternoon. I couldn't decide whether I liked it or I was gonna cry, so I decided since there's nothing I can do about it now I might as well like it! SO I do! :) It's a lot easier to handle....I have'nt gone to school yet with it so I think I'm gonna get some....shock. :P

Funeral

I had quite the day! I worked campus for half and science lab for half. While working science lab me and Mason found a dead Robin. :( So we decided to bury it, but not without ceremony! So we carried out to the end of the science lab garden with a shovel but on the way we decided it would only be right to sing, so we went through several songs including, ding dong the witch is dead, we 3 kings, beach boys songs...yeah there was many selections. When we finally arrived at the end of the garden we dug a hole and we said some words and put "William" in his grave. We named him william in honor of Robin Williams....and since he was a Robin...yeah original I know. Then we covered him with dirt and went about picking flowers and singing hymns. But we still needed a grave stone so Mason carried one from Mr Rass's fire pit. But there was still something lacking, a cross. So Mason found two sticks but we had nothing to tie them with! So we pulled out some of my hair and used that.

But moving on from the morbidity of the funeral, we have auditions today for chairs in the orchestra....whoo....hooo. I have 9 violins in my section and I am quite sure I'll be 9th chair. :) Hehe.

He knows Best

I think I should break my leg tomorrow so I wont have to go to Socials and turn my essay in! How to do it is the question....

Anyway.... I was just thinking today about my life plans and how they've changed so often. A couple months ago this was the picture I painted in my head.
A Chevy truck, an English sheep dog, a palomino, and a little house in the middle of a field. On my own, an English teacher at a small high school in the South. That was my perfect life, but lately I've started to think about other options. You know, my life really isn't mine to do with what I want, God gave me my life so wouldn't it be selfish of me to go live a happy little life away from people and the world? Christ is coming SO very soon, I have the truth, shouldn't I share it? Or should I cover my candle?
I really cant plan my life because I know God will change my plans, and I now know that I want to do something for him. So here's what I've decided, my plans may change but for now this is it. I'm going to an Adventist college (probably Southern) for a year before going back to Albania to continue my work with the Roma people. I decided that the best field I could go into to benifit the Roma's was nursing. This was a really hard decision for me because I hate blood and guts, I hate the very mention of it. But hopefully if it's Gods will he'll help me with that aspect.

Or maybe, just maybe my two plans with collide. Maybe I'll have an English sheepdog and a house in a field in Albania! But it really doesnt matter what I think, it's what God thinks that matters. My plans always fail. Like, I didn't want to live in FL, but yet I lived there for 3 months, I didn't want to work last summer, but God changed that plan too and I got a lot closer to God that summer. I really learned a lot about God and myself that summer. So above all, I guess I'll just have to give it up to God. He knows Best.

Weird holidays

I just found out that I missed some major holidays yesterday! I Looked up weird holidays in April and found this.
Saturday, April 23
National Cherry Cheesecake Day, National Picnic Day, Movie Theatre Day, International Marconi Day, Talk Like Shakespeare Day, World Book & Copyright Day, Bulldogs are Beautiful Day

I also found out that my birthday is "national pigs in a blanket day". I share a day with the awesomest thing ever!

OOOOoo0O! And mom told me that once I get my new Iron supplement thingi that I'll get cravings for candy and ramen....so naturally I'm going to eat it all before my meds get here! :) Smart cookie....thinking ahead! On the bright side I can stop passing out during PE! WHOOOT!

I feel accomplished....I just added Ramen to my spell check dictionary. Oo...I spelled spell check wrong...FIXING!
Anyway...I need to start working on my socials project, it's due tomorrow and I haven't started yet.... Don't you hate it when you have like 3 projects to work on in 1 week? Ugh.... Oh and tomorrow we get our persuasive essays back....Not too excited about that, I would have been cause I worked really hard on that one. But I didn't get such a great mark on my last essay so I'm not gonna get my hopes up again.

I really wanna call Daddy....I just wish I could find that stupid phone card! Grrr....I cleaned my room and everything, but no. Not there. BOOOO! So Mama if your reading this and it's....yeah 6 PM SUnday CALL MEEEEEEEE!

muahaha

payback time !!!!!!!!!!!!!

I really should explain my last post....See I was working MG and the guys found a mouse and Robby wanted to take it back to the dorm and torture it, so I let the mouse go and they were ticked off. But not as ticked as me cause I was smokin mad. But anyway....yeah.

Maybe this whole Anemia el jumbo thingi has me irritable or something. Cause I shouldn't have been that mad. Well not at all of the male species at least, just a couple of them.

UGH!!! What is it with boys and killing things?!!! I am so sick of death and killing AND boys right now! If one talked to me....yeah really dont come near me.

It snowed....again.

Today it SNOWED. In April...remember what I said about this schools sense of time? Well it goes for BC too! Everything's gonna be all weird today, I'll work MG instead of campus and we probably wont have PE testing today either.

Some very interesting things have been happening lately, but I wont go into all that. Anyway....This weekend is family night! I wonder we're I'm going...I already went to the Cleveland's and the Rasmussen's. They were both awesome! At the Cleveland's we played dutch bliss all night long. :P and then went in the hot tub, it was January so we got in and then ran around in the snow and then jumped back in it was SO much fun! And I just realized I am late to practice so BYEEEE!!

Family pictures that I " fixed"

Good Morning!

I was so excited this morning! Last night I decided to do my devotions that night because I had forgotten t do them that morning. So I started praying and the devil kept trying to distract me, at one point I felt something creepy crawly on my head so I reached up and brushed my head braought my hand down, opened my eyes and there was a spider on my arm. Normally I would have screamed, probably punched my arm in a vain attempt to get it off and then run out of the room to get someone to kill it. BUt this time God gave me the strength and I just brushed it off, stomped on it and continued my prayer. That was totally a God thing! I know it seems like something little, but for me that was HUGE! I am completely freaked out by spiders normally.

Another really nice thing was that I was able to get up at 5:30 to do my devotions again! I asked God to wake me up and he did! Before my alarm even went off he did! I even had extra time do work on my essay and straighten my hair! I NEVER have time in the morning. This has gotta be like one of my best mornings ever! I'm gonna go make my bed now (which I normally never have time to do) :)

My new favorite song

We pray for blessings
We pray for peace
Comfort for family, protection while we sleep
We pray for healing, for prosperity
We pray for Your mighty hand to ease our suffering
All the while, You hear each spoken need
Yet love us way too much to give us lesser things

‘Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

We pray for wisdom
Your voice to hear
And we cry in anger when we cannot feel You near
We doubt Your goodness, we doubt Your love
As if every promise from Your Word is not enough
All the while, You hear each desperate plea
And long that we'd have faith to believe

‘Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
What if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
And what if trials of this life are Your mercies in disguise

When friends betray us
When darkness seems to win
We know the pain reminds this heart
That this is not, this is not our home,
It's not our home

‘Cause what if Your blessings come through raindrops
What if Your healing comes through tears
And what if a thousand sleepless nights
Are what it takes to know You’re near
What if my greatest disappointments
Or the aching of this life
Is the revealing of a greater thirst this world can’t satisfy
And what if trials of this life
The rain, the storms, the hardest nights
Are Your mercies in disguise

OH.......MY.........GOODNESS.....!!!!

I came down to lunch today to find what??!!! They were serving the cookies I made for international supper in October. IT'S APRIL! There are some SERIOUS problems with this schools sense of time!

Randomness

Well I'm having a pretty cool day! Much better then yesterday...I was sick, but today I worked campus with the seniors again! :) We got to rake the whole orchard, it was pretty fun! OOOO! And I found out that I might not have to work MG the summer and I'll get to work campus instead! :)

It's exactly 67 days, 22 hours, 32 minutes and 40 seconds until I go home! Or one of my homes! Er...FLORIDA! And that's when the party starts. *grins* Me and Megan are gonna go bungee jumping or something for my belated birthday party. See, she asked me what Iw anted to do for my birthday, I said bungee jumping, lazer tag, sky diving, bowling, etc But since I'm too young to go Sky diving and she's doing lazer tag for her batchelorette party I think bungee jumping sounds like the best option! Hopefully dad will be ok with that... Because in Hawaii I asked dad if I could jump off a waterfall, this is how our conversation went "Dad can I jump off a waterfall? No. Can I go skydiving? No. Para-sailing? No. Bungee jumping? No. What can I do?! You can get shaved ice. But dad a bunch of my friends went bungee jumping! If all your friends jumped off a bridge would you jump too? If I was attached to a bungee cord yeah!

Birthday part 1

I"M 16!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! I feel so dang accomplished.

Both because I didn't die in the last 16 yeas and because I just went on a pretty intense run and now I taste blood....I dont think that's supposed to happen but oh well!

I had a pretty cool birthday! Sam, Heather, and Kara came and sang to me at 3 AM. Then at breakfast I tried to get out of people singing to me by going and sitting outside, but what did they do? They all came outside and sang. It was really sweet but at the same time I felt defeated. :P

I dont feel like writing the rest of this blog right now so...BYE!

Today while sitting at the computer Morgan randomly said "Who burnt the ark?" and we both burst into song "who burnt the ark? Noah Noah! who burnt the ark? Father Noah burnt the ark!"

Game night in the dorm

MY.Dog.Has.Fleas. Actually he doesn't, I just had that stuck in my head.

Anyway! We played the toughest game last night! Rosa had these four squares of tape on the floor in the lobby and they were pretty far apart so our goal was to get our whole team from one square to the next without touching the middle! Oh my....Since I was the lightest I had to do all the scary stuff which was pretty fun! I just did what I was told! Which included jumping off a cheer leading pyramid, being catapulted, doing a split in mid air while people held me feet to make a bridge, doing "the bridge" with another person, getting on someones shoulders and THEN leaning back as far as you could (which was scary), cartwheeling over it, doing a round off over it, jumping over, doing a back bend and then throwing yourself from that over it. I'm quite surprised I didnt break any more bones last night!

Right now I'm the only one awake on Sunday morning! Probably because it's 7. I should go to breakfast today! I never go on Sundays cause I'm always asleep! New experiences!

Goodness what a day!

Last night I could not sleep at all! I was laying there for like an hour cause of jet lag so I decided top go see if Julie was awake cause I was bored! She was. :) We spent the rest of that night listening to music, eating nutella, and making shadows! But sadly when I woke up this morning I was so tired that one eye was completely bloodshot so all day people thought I had been crying. hehe. I slept through socials class too....I didnt mean to! SHe started reading us a story so I put my head down on my pillow (yes I bring a pillow to class) and next thing I heard was take out your textbooks, I kinda rememebr doign that but as soon as I did I remember thinking "I'm awake...I'm awake" then she said class was done.

Jay taught our PE class today! BEST.PE.EVER. We played soccer. :)

GUESS WHAT!!! I'm almost old. :( :) I'm not sure if I'm happy or sad, cause when I was little 15 was gonna be the perfect age! So now I'm gonna be 16 in a few days....first birthday away from home, it makes me miss home more. Every birthday I can ever remember my sister filled my room with balloons everywhere! All over he floor EVERYWHERE! And every year my parents put a present under my pillow, usually paper dolls. ;) and every year I can remember I was sitting on my grandparents swing and I would say "when I was _ I was SO stupid! now I'm smart" then I realized if I kept saying that I'd be stupid my whole life! I guess it's not so much that my birthdays important. It just reminds me of home, cause frankly it's just another day. I just wish I could spend 1 more birthday with my family, I never thought that last year would be my last. I guess that's taught me a lesson, I should live every day as if it's my last, you never know what might happen, you really learn to appreciate things more.

All the same I think I'm gonna try and skip meals and NOT get sung to! I REALLY hate being the center of attention.

Airports

I'm back at school! :) Socials class was AMAZING! She read us a story and I slept. ;) After being up for 30 hours, I was sleepy.

The airport was kinda fun, because I got this idea for my report. I dressed as a Muslim while going through security to see if I would get any special attention and discrimination. I did. First they pulled me out of line and had me wait for a while, then they asked me where my bags were and not to touch them bu to just point them out, I did and they brought them to a table to be checked. I was then given a pat down but was that all? nope! They also swiped my hands with a chemical, I asked why and the lady quite rudely told me "to see if you've been handling any explosives you might be hiding under that scarf of yours". I came very close to laughing at her, then she asked for my boarding pass to check my name and then put my name on some kind of list. Not sure what that was...Moses was sure it was a "no fly" list and told me to check my next ticket for a 666.

I now have a whole lot of interesting info for my report! This is gonna be good...

Goodbye peoples!

Goodbye my little blog! I am leaving you!

But just for three weeks! :) But I'm gonna be helping ceri with the blog for the filming project, everything awesome that happens during Hawaii tour will be blogged about. www.helpindailyliving.blogger.com

There's gonna be a bunch of people who write posts on that one so read it!

CANDY LAND!!!

WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I just realized that I start all my posts with some dramatic word or "sound". Heehee, yup that's me, the very hyper drama queen!

GUESS WHAT??!!! Wow I did it again....anyway, I'm a happy little sophomore right now! I get candy...lots of candy....GIANT LOLLIPOPS! *grins* Megan is having candy garlands and bouquets of candy and a candy bar...It's like my happy place where I go in Socials class! Yes....my happy place is candy land. This is SO AWESOME! I get to see my family, go on Facebook, and go to my happy place all at the same time! And to top it off apparently according to my sister they put candy corn in lollipops sometimes. I DIDN'T EVEN KNOW THAT EXISTED!!!!!!!! I'm gonna be more hyper at this wedding then ever before...And Megan thought I've been hyper for the last 16 years....hehe just wait and see sissy!

Pics of Mud Football

Hello people! I just got done with a Bible test! :) And now have the rest of the class period to do whatever, hence blog spot.

So I'm pretty excited! Filming is in 4 days! Then no school for 3 weeks!!!!!!!!! This is just so dang exciting!
And the most exciting news? I have pics of mud football!

Hello world! I am preppy!

Oh my word! What a week!

Me and Saraiah had a bright idea, what would happened if we switched clothes? Not that cool right? Well....you see, she is a MAJOR prep! She wears name brands, pink, cardigans, and flats. I wear gypsy skirts, jeans, plaid, and converse. And then there's the matter of hair, she ALWAYS does her hair, I rarely do. So we switched EVERYTHING for a week. It was majorly epic! Everyone got us mixed up since we both have kinda the same color and length of hair. So people were really freaked out, the whole cafe stopped and stared and whispered. It was kinda awkward....I think I'm getting the worst end of it, she made me wear a pink cardigan, curled my hair into huge ringlets, and made me carry lip gloss and bobby pins in my pocket! It was horrible...

OOOO! And I got my filming violin today...what a piece of junk! OK so I could deal with the ugliness, but you cant tune the stinken thing! I broke a string just trying to tune it barely at all. It was sad...

Mr Kris got mad at me again today in MG...I never cease to make that man angry. Apparently I was going to slow or something, he scares me on SO many levels!

Home...

YAY! YAY! YAY! We're going to Hawaii in a week! WHOOooOOOT! This is SO exciting! What kinda stuff do you bring to Hawaii? Do you think I'll need a pillow? Probly not...who needs pillows?

Oh guess what I got yesterday....free labor, but not just 1 hour, nope not 2 either....So now your thinking wow 3 hours! What did she do? But no....I got 11.5 hours! Ya see.... It all kinda builds up. So I'll be having a grand time this Sunday. heehee.

I have an Argumentative essay to work on, we have to find a controversial subject and write 5-10 pages on it. I'm doing mine on the Ark of the covenant. Where is it? Was it found? Did Osama Bin Laden really try to bomb the mountain it's hidden in. Is it under the dome of the rock? I'll be covering these myths and more in my article. It's the most interesting essay I've ever written! Because it's something that I care about, something that actually makes a difference to me personally.

I've decided where I belong. Where home is. My brother told me once, "America is my motherland, but Albania is my homeland." And it's true, my heart is in "my" country. I say Albania is my country because even if I no longer live there, that's where my heart is. I dont hang an American flag on my wall, I hang an Albanian flag. When I get homesick I miss Albania. North America is so different. In Albania we have a culture, everyone is courteous, you visit with people constantly, I love everything about our culture. The bargaining in the market, the loving people, the loud Albanian music blaring from the speakers in the outdoor market, the gypsy weddings with the bright colors and the coins dangling from everything in sight. The smells of home, spices mixed with horses, dirt, and rotten fish. It sounds odd that I would miss that smell, but it's home. I miss the crowd of little gypsy kids following me around the market, clinging to my skirt, calling me to look at the toys being sold. These are MY people, they love me and I love them, home isn't a house, it isn't where you go on break or even where your entire family is. Home is where your heart is, and my heart is with my people, my culture, my language, my country. Te dua shqiperia.

Where do I live?

Oh my! What a week! So many exciting things happened!

1. I cut my hair, gonna taking some getting used to this short!

2. Saraiah got in a car accident with Mr luchak, Cyrus, Danielle, Melissa, and Nolan. They were coming back from Double bass lessons. So they stayed in Hope for like 2 days! Just got back this morning, pretty exciting stuff.

3. Dad called and told me I might get to go "home" (FL) for a week this summer! Right after grad!

I'm still really confused as to where home is, because everyone has their different ideas of what "home" is. I asked someone where my home was and they said "where do your parents live?" Albania but I dont live there anymore. "so where do you go home on breaks?" I stay at school and work. Or go to my grandparents. So WHERE DO I LIVE?!!!

AHHH!!!! Late to ENglish! ADIOS!

I had the best weekend ever!!!!!!!! I know I say that a lot...but this time it's even more awesome! I went winter camping! We hiked for 3 hours in snow shoes and then skii'd the wholeway down the mountain on our snow shoes, we had a gazillion wipe outs and it was epic! Eddy got a ton of videos of it, including one where I pretty much flipped down the hill and landed in a sprawled out position...I gotta say I'm one of the most graceful people ever! :P

I have a talent for getting myself into scrapes, some people seem to be completely reckless and carefree and never break a bone. Then there's me, rather cautious but still manages to break bones like crazy, my problem is that I'm careful in different things, like I'm afraid to fall on my butt ion an ice patch but yet I do stupid things and break bones doing it. For example, I broke my nose when I was 6. How did I do it? I was riding in the shopping cart and thought it would be fun to jump out. Then when I was 8 I broke my leg, skiing down a bunny hill. Then when I was 14 I broke my hand at summer camp, that sounds promising eh? Well I was sword fighting, sounds cool....till I tell you it was with really long feathers. My opponent jabbed with her sword and hit my hand in a weird position and broke my hand. Then broke my finger because I didn't want to get out of my sleeping bag. Sam wanted me out....

But luckily I haven't died yet! Surprising I know... Expecially seeing that I have to drive with christian in campus. I'm sorry but teenage guys mixed with driving scare me....deeply. Especially with the added snow and ice!

But hey, God didn't bring me through all the stuff I've been through just to let me die. He has a purpose for everything. I wouldnt change one thing thats happened in my life. Both the good and the bad make me who I am today.

Gods Will

Yesterday I was thinking about what I wanted to do with my life. I started thinking about what I wanted to be when I was little the list changed through the years, it went something like this

4-Firefighter
5-Ninja
6-Farmer
7-Live in the 1800's
8-Archaeologist
9-Archaeologist
10-Archaeologist
11- Archaeologist
12- Archaeologist and Teacher
13- Archaeologist and writer
14-Archaeologist, Musician and writer
15- Archaeologist, writer, musician, and world traveler.
1 month until 16- I have no idea. But I'm OK with that, it'll be easier to give up my dreams to do Gods will. Before we started class today we sang the hymn "I'll go where you want me to go" those words have never rang more true for me. I've considered many options including staying at Fountainview for a year to be a dean, or being a student missionary somewhere, going straight to college, or go back to Albania and spend a year with my parents. But overall...I wouldn't want to be anywhere God doesn't want me. Before I do anything I have to stop and think "what is my purpose for doing this? Am I just trying to get away from life? Is what I'm doing going to help my walk with God? Will this witness to others for Christ?" If the answer to any of these questions is no then I cannot in good conscience continue in that act.

You may think that it seems like a harsh and boring life, that it's a huge sacrifice. But if you think about it in the light of everything else, in the light of eternal salvation...it's completely worth it. You will never be happy until your doing Gods will in your life. You'll always have that empty feeling, I know this from experience. So even when life seems tough, if your doing the will of God...you'll feel his presence in your life, and there's still hope.

Larry the scary hairy canary....curse this long hair of mine!

Goody! I got my splint off my finger after 2 loooooooooooong weeks of not playing violin, Guitar, or writing essays. And now I have 3 projects due next week! Once again....Goody.

I love writing, but essays.....well their not completely horrible but at the same time I just like writing without thinking about openers, or grammar, or punctuation. I like just writing what I'm thinking and feeling and not worrying about what people might think of it. This blog is pretty much just an online diary. Thats why I love it! But back to topic...essays. Miss Raney gave us an assignment to write a 5 paragraph essay on whatever we wanted. SO mine just happens to be on the F-15 Eagle. Wow....you cant tell my daddy was in the air force can ya?

OOOOO! I almost forgot to tell you! Saraiah, Julie, and I are burying a time capsule! We're putting in pretty much every secret we have, and burying it in a treasure chest we found in the bone yard. We're planning on burying it and then digging it up senior year. Lets just hope no one gets to it before we do! Cause after all...we're gonna have a little page about each of us, and a few secrets we haven't told each other. And we tell each other EVERYTHING so this will be some deep stuff. And to top it off we're doing a photo-shoot with the 3 of us and putting the pictures in the time capsule. It will be epic. In PE we figured out that we were the 3 stooges, unfortunately I happen to be Larry. So they came up with the smart idea to call me not only Larry but Larry the scary hairy canary. Oh yeah...try shouting that across the cafe! They have...

Singles awareness!

HAPPY SINGLES AWARENESS DAY! Gotta be the best holiday in February....of course there is only one in February . Had an awesoem english class, Ms Raney had us pass these little cards around and we all put something we liked about the person on it, we get to look at them next class period. Plus theres some extra cards because me and Julie spent half our Sunday making cards for our WHOLE class! But they dont know who their from! Which makes it SO much more fun! :) We just were trying to think of ways to unite our class, because we have a lot of cliques and loners, so we're hoping this will help maybe a little bit to at least help show that we're making an effort, and then maybe other people will. And Mason I know your reading this blog DO NOT TELL THE REST OF THE CLASS!!!

On behalf of this most girly of days I let Saraiah girlify me, I will admit with some displeasure that I am wearing of all colors...pink. This is something that probably will never happen again in the next 365 days.

MUD FOOTBALL!

BEST.SUNDAY.EVER. It started with Saraiah dragging me out of bed, but then we spent the whole morning making valentines cards! Then 12 of us played mud football in the carrot field, it was pretty epic! Then to end the game we all ran and slid in the mud. :) I shall post pictures later.

And now I'm trying in vain to write a bible essay, I dont get this....I have no inspiration today at all! Pray for me people! This is worth 25% of my grade and due tomorrow, HELP!

Oh my word! Having a broken finger is harder then it sounds! Cant do anything, Saraiah had to help me brush my hair, Heather made my bed, and we're all working together to write out my homework. But on the bright side I'm learning how to be left handed, I'm typing this whole post with my left hand! :)

Week of prayer is here again, had the first meeting this morning, after Saraiah woke me up at 5 something this morning cause she was going to her double bass lesson. Then Anne came in to make sure I got out of bed, she thought of doing it by force but then looked at the evidence from the last time someone did that (broken finger) and thought better of that idea!

Tour was AMAZING! We went to camp hope to eat lunch and hang out in the lodge, that place has SO many memories! The whole 2 hours we had after lunch me Sam, Anne, and Laura and I stood around the piano and sang. It was alot of fun!

Broken!

A day in the life of ever graceful me.....I broke my finger on tour! Heehee! The funny thing is HOW I broke it, see....we're on tour right? SO we're sleeping on the floor of this church, well me and Sam decided to sleep in this little hallway nook only big enough for two people, well I am VERY grumpy when woken up. :D So Sam decided "hey lets wake Moriah up!" So she proceeded to try and shake me out of my sleeping bag, feathers went EVERYWHERE! And it turned into a wrestling match, and her knee connected with my hand and the floor. So....broken finger! :) I'm happy cause I dont have to go to orchestra for 2 weeks! Not that I dislike playing, cause I love playing, see Moses and Eddy are weaning me off my violin mute, so Moses has my mute, I dont play without my mute. So this gives me lots of time to prepare myself, plus it's extra study time! :)

Speaking of studying I need to go do that cause I have a test today.

WHOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!! Going on tour! YAY! Wow.....not sure why I'm excited, you'd think I'd be all toured out! But no....and when I come back I'm getting a room mate, and her name rhymes with mine. That will be fun to put on the door "Saraiah and Moriah".

ENGLISH!

Well I had fun in English class today! I turned in my essay and found out that for the next semester the grade 10's are doing special features in church, so we get to write speeches in class! It sounds kinda fun except for the fact that I have to talk...in front of people...a lot of people. But we're doing practice speeches in class, we have to interview someone and then make a speech on that person. Me and Saraiah are partners, so far all she has on me is that I was born in FL, have 1 older sister and 2 little brothers...and my parents names. Heehee, I'm gonna make her interview REALLY weird, all the randomest stuff I can think of! SO if anybody has any weird questions that would be ok for the whole class to hear let me know!

We're doing our first spring concert this weekend, I'm sad cause I thought I was finally done with that uniform of blackness for a while! But oh well....the music is fun!

Apples to Apples!

WHOOOOOT! I just got done playing apples to apples in the dorm. :) Here's the results


Julie-
Helpful
heavy
lazy
caring
mysterious
sticky
truthful
mean
lively
honest
plain
strange
wide
cuddly
ugly
poor

And then Saraiah, tough, courageous, bright, friendly, young, useless, special (which she got by using the name Moses) sad, rich, neat, false, natural, wonderful, slender, surprising, hot, expensive excellent and proud.

Then there was me....heehee
terrible, calm, bad, smelly, noisy, dull, ordinary, lovable, furry, annoying, worthless :( and weird (which I won with Moses's name!) All things considered I think mine are pretty accurate! eh? Maybe not the furry one, course I do have long hair...

Today was a pretty good day, except for the fact that I just found out that two of the Juniors who have been here since they were freshman just got kicked out. So that's pretty depressing. It really opens your eyes to the fact that it coulda been me. But moving on from depressingness.

We started English and socials today, I LOVE ENGLISH! But socials....ok I love history and I love Canada, but Canadian history is...well.....boring. Especially when your teacher is Canadian and likes to point out that Canada is better then America in every way shape and form. I'm not particularly patriotic, I sometimes diss America. But thats only ok when Americans do it! When someone else does it, as a teacher in class.....that's just not ok

I'm late for my violin lesson.

Greece

Ah, scary day!

Dad told me that if things get worse in Albania, or dont get better I should say....Then they'll have to leave the country and go to Greece for a while at least. The embassy is already shut down cause of all the riots, it's getting like 1997. Props if anybody knows what happened then.

Grr....I dont want my parents to leave Albania, we have too much going on there to just up and leave, but I mean it's not like they have a choice, AFM said they had to get out depending on what happens on Wednesday with the riot taking place.
Greece is icky....ok not icky. But Athens is! So I sure hope they dont go to Athens. Actually lets just pray they dont have to leave at all!

Healthy.....not

Well, this hasn't been the healthiest week ever round here! Allow me to recap,

First Biz almost went over the bank in the pick up truck, but thankfully she jumped out before it went over the edge.

then 36 students get sick, me being one of them....it was pretty scary I lost like 10 pounds, had a really high fever, and was coughing up blood. I was pretty freaked out.

Auntie went to the hospital last night with a stroke, they just announced it in the dorm. So please pray for her.

And...I talked to daddy yesterday and he said that they were having riots in Albania, so far 3 people were shot to death, 15 cars were turned over and they were throwing little bombs at the policemen.

So yeah.....not the best week health wise!

Provincials, colleges, life.

Wow, we had quite the science class today! We got our material for the provincials so we were looking over it, we went from discussing evolution, to how Chihuahuas were made for meat in mexico, to how dogs reflect their owners personality's! Katie said her dog was smart, Saraiahs was loyal and obedient. We laughed at that last part...And mine? Well mine is rather dumb....hyper, loves mud, and is obsessed with cheese. Heehee....it's like we're twins eh?

Anyway, I've been pretty busy lately getting ready for the provincials. I am SOOOO stressed about it! I'm completely not ready! AHH! I've been studying constantly, in math class, during meal times, in between classes. I have time to blog during worksheet time in bible class though!

Been looking at colleges too, right now I'm leaning towards CUC, Andrews or southern. I know...I WAS gonna look at all those weird schools overseas my sister was trying to get me to go to. But...I think I'd rather go to school over here for multiple reasons. I'm also trying to decide what I want to major in, I used to want to be an Archaeologist I've wanted to do that since I was 7, but now I'm not so sure if that's Gods plan for me...It's also not how I pictured it when I was little, not like Indiana Jones.

It's like...everyone I used to idolize as a kid, it seems like their not as great as I thought. Or not real, like Indiana Jones. The only one I can really look to is Jesus. And thats the way it should be anyway, people will always fail you, sometiems you even fail yourself, but God is ALWAYS there! I think it's so amazing that we have a God who loves us so much and will never stop loving us no matter what we do!

Sing the I hate science song! doo-da! Doo-da!

AHHHHHHH!!!!!

I know...what a way to start a post eh? Well I happen to think it's incredibly suiting. SO there.

I'm just slightly stressed about upcoming provincials. For you poor unenlightened Americans that means big test....VERY big test! But wait! There's more! I have to bring my grade up to a...well I wont say what. In 2 weeks! OR my parents get a call....yeah...lets not have that! SO my day has consisted of studying, constantly. While singing, doing worksheets on the girl in front of me, getting help from pretty much everyone on my row in choir, I tried to do it while playing my violin but that didn't work out so well. I did it while eating, while standing on my head (I heard you think better when all the blood goes to your head) But I think that theory is wrong because all I got from it was being dizzy and a possibly flattened head, hello Frankenstein!

And then I cracked the guitar out and tried to make myself a study song, that failed, I ended up singing about something else. So then I think to myself, "hey I should put on some classical music to help my brain....um..turn on." SO I put some classical overtures on. But all that did was make me start playing violin with my pencil! GRRR! I'm so easily distracted! I'm gonna go try and concentrate soem more, pray fr me! Lord knows I need it, seriously...he knows. I been having quite a few discussions about it!

Oh my....there are some days when I REALLY wish that I didn't play an instrument. Days like today....days when Dr B is here to train us, days when all the people who only sing get to go the dorms.

I'm hungry.....just thought I'd share that. Remind me next time before I go into a 5 hour training session to eat breakfast. I did have candy though...See, I was sitting next to John and Saraiah came over and sat with us, So our conversation went liek this

John-you guys are both like...sugar deficient right?

Me- No John....we're IRON deficient

John- Oh....so I guess you dont want this lollipop?

Saraiah- Well....now that you mention it maybe we are a little sugar deficient.

Later...

Anne- where's you get the sucker?

Me-John

Anne-No fair!

John- Oh you want a sucker? Oh look! here comes Mena!


Yeah...we have fun at practice, speaking of which I should probably go back to it, since I'm in the computer lab during it...But hey! Craig probably wont miss me!

My favorite Quotes

Today i thought I'd share some of my favorite quotes. :)

It is more fun to talk with someone who doesn't use long, difficult words but rather short, easy words like "What about lunch?"-Winnie the pooh

People who don't think probably don't have brains; rather, they have grey fluff that's blown into their heads by mistake.-Winnie the Pooh

"Always forgive your enemies - Nothing annoys them so much."

"When everything's coming your way, you're in the wrong lane"

"Those of you who think you know everything are annoying those of us who do."

"I don't suffer from insanity, I enjoy every minute of it."

"Ever stop to think, and forget to start again?"

"I intend to live forever - so far, so good."

If a stranger offers you a piece of candy, take two.

Get plenty of sleep. Be kind to your mind. You'll miss it when it's gone.

We could all take a lesson from crayons: Some are sharp, some are beautiful, some have weird names, all are different colors; but they all have to learn to live in the same box.

Everything has its beauty but not everyone sees it.

Be who you are and say what you feel because those you mind don't matter and those who matter don't mind.

Anyone who thinks sunshine is pure happiness, has never danced in the rain.



When we are flat on our backs, there is no way to look but up.

"Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to."

"But words are things, and a small drop of ink, falling like dew, upon a thought, produces that which makes thousands perhaps millions, think." ~ Lord Byron ~

"To the world your just one person but to one person you could mean the world."

“I used to believe in forever, but forever is too good to be true.”-Winnie the Pooh

"music is what feelings sound like"

"Your going to come across people who say all the right things at the right times, But in the end it's always their actions you should judge them by. It's actions, not words that matter."- Nicholas Sparks

"Be the change you wish to see in others"

WORK!

This afternoon was SOOOOO much fun! I went to work.

Ok, so that sounds boring, but it wasn't! Why? Because I spent my afternoon painting and then sledding down the lemons icy road all the way to the highway! And then into the highway....but dont worry I got off it! :)

I also found out alot of new places and positions to practice in! On the floor flat on your back by a locker....in the janitorial closet...On top of the lockers....yeah there's lots!

Ok wow...I just re-read what I just wrote. Oh my word.... I apologize to all you peoples! I'm just slightly tired...hehe, do forgive me! I should go now cause I have to walk up to the dorm by myself in the dark and snow...icky.

Youth rush!

We had recruiters from the California and the upper Columbia youth rush come to Fountainview today! The gave us a big talk in bible class! It looks like it would be a really good experience! I REALLY want to go this summer but I'm still deciding between california and Washington. Because the California group would have more of my friends from fountainview but Washington would be easier to get to and from school! But I guess we'll see.

OOooOO! And I just found out last nigth during study hall that I was supposed to have read to chapters in science and done two practice tests during the weekend...oh and studied my paper on weight lifting since I have a test on that tomorrow. AHHH!
And mom has been sick pretty much the whole time she's been here, so she's been in my room the whole time. She cant even stand up, and she has to get on a bus to Vancouver tomorrow and then another bus to Seattle and then get on a plane to Rome and then Albania. Oh dear...Houston, we have a problem...Oh that reminds me! We were in worship last night watching a sermon by Dwight Nelson, as soon as she hears the name Morgan turns to me and asks "Wasnt he the first guy on the moon?" I cracked up. In the middle of a sermon. Wasn't good. But it was dang funny! She was dead serious too!

Sorry about the randomness of all my blogs, it may not make alot of sense, but I assure you it makes sense in my head! See, whenever somebody says something it triggers something that pushes a button that brings up a story that reminds me of something else! So really everything makes sense! :)

And by the way, I regret to inform you that those you said skateboarding on the pond was a bad idea....were right.

Snow, blood, and borrow the stripple!

Had an awesome time sledding today! Half the school went sledding a little ways off campus. It was a blast! Me and Sam sat on her snow board and slid down the hill! :) Then I got in the sled behind Mr James and Eddy in the snow machine...that didn't turn out too well! Heehee...I kinda couldn't see cause of the snow flying into my face so....My face connected with a branch, it kinda hurt. But on the bright side there was some blood! But not enough of it to make it really cool. lol

So I got to go back early and eat Ramen in the dorm. :) It was very cozy. And I'm happy to say my face stopped bleeding! And it's still the same shape it was before! That could be a good thing or a bad thing. Hehe

OOO! And we had games night last night! It was SO much fun! We played molecule tag and steal the bacon or as Johnny likes to call it "borrow the stripple" which of course is much more Adventist. :P

Normal!

Guess what happened today!!!!!!!!!???

Well, alot happened today. It snowed, we had biscuits and gravy, and we got our SCIENCE TESTS BACK! Heehee, sorry, I'm just really enjoying the normalness of school life! Like the fact that I failed my test....yeah...I probably shouldnt have guessed on half and left the other half blank...heehee!

OOO! And we started on the new spring music. :) But I got out of orchestra and practice because Moses was fixing my violin so it was in a few pieces... :) And I brought my guitar back from break! It's nice playing my own guitar instead of someone else's and having to be uber careful.

Last night we had a candy party in my room! It was awesome because it was like completely random! I was just sitting in my room, and Saraiah walked in to get her pants back that I had borrowed, so she stayed, then Sam came to pick up her Christmas present, and she stayed, then Morgan came in to ask if Anne was in her room, so she stayed, then heather came in to....well I'm not sure. But she stayed too! So we got out the candy and Sam got popcorn and we had a party. hehe.

Oh and yesterday we had PE, or it was torture, we did the circut...EEEEWWWW! What didnt help was that I had forgotten it was PE that day...and I wore a skirt. That didn't turn out well, so I borrowed soem jeans, well apparently I lost some weight or something cause they were too big. So I spent PE holding up my pants while running the stairs. :P

Ok well I'm done with my randomness.