Fire!

Ok everybody! I have quite the story to tell you!

Last night was a very eventful night for me. I was asleep in my bed and I randomly woke up and couldnt go back to sleep because my mind was playing tricks on me and I kept seeing shadows and hearing noises...yeah ok I was kinda scared. So I prayed for Gods protection and went to sleep. The next time I woke up I felt my lungs and eyes burning and in my sleepy mind I thought Dad started a fire in the wood stove in the next room, but soon I realized that was not wood smoke, and it was NOT in the next room! I rolled over and saw smoke billowing up right next to me. I jumped out of bed and ran to my parents room yelling to Dad that my bed was on fire. Dad rushed to my room flicked on the light to see my room filled with smoke and the bed billowing smoke. Running to my bed he grabbed the blankets off my bed just as they burst into flames, he threw them out my window but unfortuantly it landed on the wood pile so he had to run outside with the hose to put the fire out. Thinking the fire was out we left the room with the window open to let out the smoke. about 10 minutes later I told Dad it smelled funny again, he opened my door to find my bed on fire again! With a large charred hoel in my mattress. So now my mattress is out of commision and in a dumpster. And I have a sleeping bag and a couch to sleep on for the rest of Christmas break.

The amazing thing is how my bed burned, I was quite literaly curled right around the fire, yet I wasnt burned at all. My blankets that were directly on top of me were melted yet I was fine. I will never ever again underestimate the power of prayer, God protected me and woke me up just in time before my bed burst into flames. I am a very deep sleeper, I wake for nothing, yet less then a minute before it was too late God woek me up. Praise the Lord!

Stress!!!!!!!!

My goodness what a busy day! I have accomplished most of my check list but of course there's still a few things that just HAD to go wrong! Like I cant find the coat I was supposed to bring, and teh deans lost my cell phone, thankfully they have finally located IT! YAY!!! When you've only used your phone once you really dont want it getting lost before you can use it again! Everyone's been getting on my nerves today...Maybe because I'm stressed, I dunno. I feel bad, I hate not liking people.
We're leaving on Cali tour tomorrow...Oh and the stress continues! But it'll be fun...I hope. :) Time to hang out with people I dont usually get a chance to spend time with. For example, last year me and Heather were really close and I've barely seen her this year since she switched dorms. SO we're sitting together on the bus! :D
OOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOH!!!!!!! And did I mention I can get on facebook this Cali tour???!!!! YAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAY!!!!!!!!! This is SOOOO exciting! EEEEP! I'm sorry...I realize I'm a geek, but I dont care! Anyways I need to go and be productive now!

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. ;)

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?

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!

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!

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...

Quack....

It's almost international supper!!!! But unfortunately I doubt I'll be eating anything. Mia is sick.... :( My stomach is having severe issues, the pain gets so bad I haven't slept a whole night through this week, I lost 8 pounds this week... :S Kinda scary, but hey! I've never been this light since I was like 11! WHOOT! I went to the hospital but the doctor was a quack...he knew nothing. Seriously! He gave me some pills but he didn't know what was wrong with me.
On a brighter note! I'm going home soon! :) I happy! This is SUCH a busy time of year! I have a week until end of term and I have SOOOOOO many homework projects due! have no idea how I'll finish it all in time. I guess I'll just have to do my best and leave the rest up to God!
Anyway, I'd love to stay and chat but I need to go clean my room before room check. And change...since I dont think camo pajamas are allowed at vespers. Though how awesome would that be?!

Mama....I'm going to Vegas

The Seniors just left on their Senior Survival! So Seth if your reading this tell Heathers mom goodbye!
It was really funny watching them all run around screaming when the announcement came that they were leaving. I must say....now is the time to be glad I'm a Junior! The sad part is that Eddy and Sam will be gone for my vespers. And I reeeeeeeeeeeeeally wanted them there! Their my support system. :P They people who sit in the front row and grin at you. But on the bright side there's less people there so it's less scary. Chris and Mason said they'll be my cheerleaders on the front row to replace the ones I lost...But it's not the same. Oh well, life goes on!
At least the cafe will be quiet with the loud people gone! Well....with Joel gone! :P

I almost got to work front desk today! Because the seniors were gone....but the trouble is I go to school when the Seniors work. I told Alyssa I could just switch classes and go to class with 11 B but....she said no, so now Mason has the job. Boo! :(
And I have to hold down the trombone section all by myself!!!!!!!! AHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!! Eh, I'll be OK. Just felt like screaming in my mind for a second there. :D
It's almost time for break! WHOOOOOOOooooooOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOT!!!!!!!! I'm going home! Er...FL! And I'm gonna see my Mommy and my Daddy and my Mima and my Poppy and eat seaweed and ice cream and Me will be a very happy girl!

OH! And I'm going to Vegas in February! Hehe...Doing some concerts there for 2 weeks. SOme advertizing or something I dunno, all I know is thast we're bringing our teachers with us so we can do school....in Las Vegas. This is so cool.

I LOVE WEEKENDS!!

Sundays are always my weirdest days! So, it started normally, I got up, made breakfast and my parents caLLED SO i talked to them for like an hour. But then.... Julie came into my room, and so did Hannah. So we had a party with candy and cheese puffs. Then I noticed my water bottle and remembered I had week old chia in it. So I started to open it and liquid came spewing out like old faithful. and IT SMELLED HORRIBLE!! Like sewer mixed with dirty socks and every disgusting smell you can think of. And it was in my room! SO I ran to the bathroom to dump it...so the hallway and bathroom smelled like it too. Well I live on main floor, so Rosa came to find out what the horrible smell in the lobby was....So she told me to bring it outside...so as of now it's sitting on the lawn. But my hand smelled like the grossness! SO I tried everything! I washed my hands like 5 times, then tried body wash on my hands, but they still smelled. SO I soaked them in baking soda, and then...as a last resort I tried eucalyptuses oil. But I regret to inform you that my hands still smell like rotten chia mixed with eucalyptuses. But I got the smell out of the dorm I ran through the building with air freshener, and I washed my blankets. And aired out my pillows and my teddy bear. But it's super duper windy! So my teddy bear flew off the porch headed for the cliff! SO I chased down the runaway and instead aired them out by the lobby window. OH! But I did manage to get something done today! I cleaned my room really super well so to get the smell out. ;) Thats right...my life rocks.

Food changes people...

Oh what a weird life I live!
OK...So here I am, innocently making mac n cheese. When Raina comes into my room and sits down at my desk ooing and awing over my vitamins which are sitting on it. Then Hannah smelling my cheese comes running in saying "Moriah feed me too!" You see...as Shenel put it, Hannah is like a bear, you can feed her, but she'll always come back for more. :P So anyway, in her excitement to get food she grabbed Raina's hand which happened to be swollen from a bee sting. So she screamed "AOOOOWWWWWWW!!!!!! DONT TOUCH MY HAND YOU FREAK!!!" And then ran from the room to Morgans room with Hannah howling behind her that she's sorry! So behind locked door Raina listened to Hannah pound ont eh door for 10 minutes straight yelling that she's sorry! and dont hate me! OPEN THE DOOR! Things such as this... Then she finally left and came back to the computer where I was typing this and ate some of my mac n cheese, along with Shenel. That is...she and shenel ate mac and cheese....Not Hannah ate shenel and cheese....

Well, we're about to go camping! Again....to stryne for my 4th time. I thought about bringing homework but I think it would just ruin it.
Oh guess what! When I go home for thanksgiving break I'm flying through Salt Lake City! Which will be cool, because I've never been to that airport before so I can have fun navigating around! :) I decided that I'm going to try to witness on the plane this time. I'm always to shy to talk to people so this is the time where I break out of my shell!
Oh and I have narrowed down my college options! It's between Southern, Andrews, CUC, Union, or some college in the middle of nowhere in some foreign country! :)
But before that I have to do a few things on my things to do before I die.
AHHHH! Gotta go! Bus is leaving!

CAMPING!

And we're off to go camping! Well...tomorrow morning that is, I am SOOOOOOO excited now! I was bummed people left on tour but now I am extremely excited about camping! There's just something super exciting about getting to cook your own food! Over a fire! I packed SOOO much food! All my meals are planned out in my head! EEEEEEEEEE!!!!!!!!! Happyness! I'm SO bringing mac n cheese!

So.Darn.Lonely!

I have this depressed sinking feeling. Mixed chorus just left on tour. And with hem they took pretty much all my best friends and people I hang out with. It's really sad.
And now I am NOT in the mood to do the homework that I know I need to do. I think I'm gonna like...drown my sorrows in ramen or something. I'm SO dang lonely! I want my Mommy...

HAPPY DAY!

Today is a good day!
I finished 2 devotionals and turned them in, I'm working cafe, and I have a voice lesson and a brass lesson this afternoon. AAAAAAAAND Mrs Hinds came in before wake up to tell em I had a phone call, so I sleepily dragged myself out of bed, wrapped my blanket around me so as to be approved and went out to answer the phone, but alas the phone's weren't turned on yet so Mrs Hinds went to do that while I talked to my Dad on the main phone line where he told me that I get to come home on thanksgiving break!!!!!!!!!! WHOOOT! P.A.R.T.Y!!!!!!! This is fun...this is a happy time. OH! And we're going campign this weekend! Although the work list says I'm going on Oregon Tour....So I need to go straighten some things out later.
Fall picnic was yesterday, it was fun. There was lots of pie :) Which made me happy. And we played an awesome game which included running and smuggling things and the bad guys also known as the nationalists could search the christians for 30 seconds if they caught you to try to find the bibles you were smuggling. I was a christian. :) So as I was running along a couple nationalists also known as Katie and David, saw me and started chasing me, so while still running I did a cool roll up onto the wall above the science lab lawn into the orchard and then did somewhat of a (fail) at a handspring onto the level above that one and I cut up my hands...But no worries! I got Chris's knife and cleaned it out all nice. :D It hurt though... Anyway then I attempted apple bobbing. When they Sophomore guys saw how bad I was they all wanted to go against me. So I tried against Broch, Brenan, Jordan, and Chris. And I failed every time. So I just kept trying until I got one. But by that time I was drippign wet, my whole head, (hair and all) and my shirt so I rung my shirt and hair out a bit but I was still FREEZING during worship since the sun went down.
I meant to do more Sunday morning but I ended up in Saraiah's room listening to her moms story's about her life as a hippy when she was my age. IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!! She is SOOOOOOO cool!!!!!!! But not to worry I still got half of my to do list done.And tonight I plan on spending my whole free time finishing the rest of it. Then in study hall I need to get ahead in Bible 11 homework. Mostly GC reading, and some group posts and such. Since I'm already ahead in devotionals I can take a break from that for a few nights to do Bible. OOO!!!! And we're doing PE testing tomorrow! I can finally see how many push ups I can do!
Plus I'm pretty psyched because Saraiah's mom (being a nurse or mid wife or whatever) Knows how much a girl of my height should weigh. and I'm 10 pounds below. SO I'm very happy! Of course that probably also means that I should be buffer cause muscle weighs more then fat. But whatever I'm still pretty psyched! Anyway...I jsut realized just how long this post is so you probably wont get to the end of it and read this so I should stop writing. Have a nice day!

Trombones.Are.AWESOME!

Okey dokes! I'm officially the schools trombone player!!!!! :) I'm so excited!!!!!!! And also ironic because the last trombone was Wesley Mayes...Different spelling but still awesome! I think it's going to be a lot of fun! Even though I'll have to not sing as much as I did last year. :( But oh well, it's still uberly exciting! Oh and in response to a question asked me an RA is like a student dean. They answer phones, make announcements and check people in at night. Anyway I'mm off to write devotionals for English class! Cheers!

TROMBONES RULE!!!!!

Alrighty y'all! You are currently reading the blog of a trombone player!!!!!! :D Well....Maybe. Hehe, I'm auditioning tonight to see if I have any natural talent. ;) If I dont then I'll take the hint that God still has things to teach me as a violinist. But I really hope that he wants me to play trombone! Oh and did I mention there's a possibility I can be a RA? :) Yes....life is good.

Alrighty! Well I have successfully finished my first devotional! Oh did I mention my class is writing one for English? Maybe I'll post it later....
Anyway I had a really good day today! I went to the Corrigans for help with math and wrote a devotional made a card for my Secret Sister and other then that I've relaxed! It's been a good day...My check list for today reads as follows
1.Clean Room
2. Visit People
And that sums up my to do list! Ohhh...and I need to call my Mom seeing as something very important and relevant to school has come up! So Mom if you reading this....call me.

Stress :(

Ok, lets see if I can write this in the 5 minutes I have before music practice!
I am SOOOOOOOOOO stressed out right now! I have mountains of homework and music to learn and my rooms a mess and I haven't had any time to clean it. I haven't seen my friends hardly at all... :( But on the upside I got to drive the cube van today in work and it was AWESOME! I got to almost run over seniors! :P jk...I wouldn't have...really...*shifty eyes* Anyway it was fun!

I am so happy it's almost Sabbath!!!!!!! I love sabbath soooooo much! Best day of the week! And Friday night is so amazing! OO! and did I mention I'm doing vespers soon? :) And a dorm worship too.
We did PE testing today....wow...We ended up running while the sprinklers were on in the field so we got all wet and muddy. And did I mention my hair got all curly since I cut it? When it's wet especially...boo. So I looked funny all day. I'm so glad the days almost over! I'm gonna clean my room tonight. :) And take a shower, thanks to all the mud from PE...yeah that was lovely. Good thing I like dirt!
Anyways I have to go to practice before I get in trouble.

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!