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".