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...