Happy nights!

Oh what a wonderful evening! I had a delightful supper with old friends who i had not seen in a year! we reconected, it was beautiful. (plus the food was amazing). Follow that up by an art opening where i got to see two of my dear friends talk about thier art. it was good to hear what they had to say. sometimes you can be friends with someone but see their growth and not notice alot of how they have grown until it is pointed out to you. Then i headed to a highschool play, which was well done, kudos to the actors and actresses, i thought to myself, "when i become a teacher... i will have to go see many many plays at schools..."
Then i spent some wonderful time over large mochas with my roomates in OC. then we watched dirty dancing, havana nights. i thought about australia. I miss dancing. Now i sleep perchance to dream. Tommorow, very exciting events will comendere my entire day and then is sunday when i get to sign at Cella Bosma's church! i am pumped! what an amazing ministry! Delight!

AUSTRALIA!!!

Well.. i have been much more active in trying to get a teaching job in Australia and today i have gotten several e-mails that lead me to beleive that getting a job down under is possible, but could be difficult. Also chances of me getting to teach in sydney are quite a bit slimer because it is on the coast and in a city, so most schools can fill the teaching positons that they need with australians. But i could go teach in the bush with is very beautiful too. So i have been thinking about this some more and i am excited about the possiblities, but how do i know if that is really what i should be doing. i keep getting pulled back to teaching in an inner city school. i wonder if i could handle that? Well i guess God knows and maybe i will wait with that dession until after i do my student teaching. But in the mean time i think it is exciting to have some good leads that could some how get me back down to Australia. So because i am excited about austalia and i have pictures of it, i decided to post some.
Here is the city of sydney, where i want to be.
Here is the Bush, where i could end up.

My favourite time of the day...

My favourite time of the day is right after dinner in southview. Firstly, i am usally hungry by this point and after dinner i am satisfied and ready to begin a good night. But more importantly i love how i can walk down the hall and listen to the loud chatter and laughter from all my nieghbors and if i go to visit my nieghbors they are probally home and finishing dinner, doing dishes, or cleaning up from a noodle fight. and then in my own apartment my roomates are loudly singing as we clean up from supper and this is usally followed up by large amounts of laughter and extitement at finishing up of the day and letting loose thier stresses from teaching (and my stresses from whatever). how important it is to eat dinner together and to have that time of community. After dinner mints, that is what it is like, after dinner when everyone seems to have blessed moments with thier "families" as my roomates like to call our apartment. I love it!

spring cleaning!

YAY!!!!! SPRING IS HERE!!!! it smells like rain and last night i had to jump over a pile of earthworms! i love the way spring rain smells. I love rain for a time being, last night as i lay in bed listing to the rain pound on the roof and windows of my room i felt peaceful! Rain has that effect, let me correct that, spring rain has that effect, not all rain. Tommorow SUnny and 50 degreees! Get excited! i am way pumped about it being warm! you know that smell of rain that smells like spring, hmmmm. I love it. So in an effort to celebtrate spring i decided to do some spring cleaning and cleaned my room, i even vacumed it. i wish i was motived to do spring homework. I am afriad of the speed in which these next 5 weeks are going to go, but i have to not think on that. So spring is here! REJOICE!

Little Bro and Sis

SO today i went to my mum's house to help my little sister get ready for her Jr. Prom. We discussed all sorts of things, good things, things that sisters who hardly know each other talk about and things that sister who have known each other thier whole lives talk about. (so mostly boys) :) An appropriate topic i figured considering she was going with a boy to prom. Anywho, i made her hair look cool and we covered her in glitter and then we went out to the truck that my brother is borrowing from his farmer mentor for the night and took some pictures!:)

Here is my gorgeous sister and my studly brother!

Deep Breaths

I loved spring break. It was so nice to be taken care of by Ann(e)'s family! what a blessing to spend time with a family not your own, who treats you like their own daughter. It was an adventure of epic porportions. To see some highlights you can look at ann's blog, but i enjoyed immensly drinking coffee everyday. hhmmmm, yum. and i loved our wine tasting followed by syrup tasting, followed by tim horons where we proceded to win a coffee and a donut in roll up the rim.
It is snowing, the first day of spring and we almost have a blizzard! Agravating. Hard to belvie that i graduate from college in a few short weeks. Just a few more of my favourite activites before my current world comes crashing around me.
Other things, i love my new car, it drives like a dream and gets awsome gas milage. my brother got his first girlfriend (this is an approroate place for an awww). I am really sick of being sick. This is my second cold/achy flu thing this semester. oh well, better then the stomach flue. i am ready for spring weather.

Things i have learned

Things i have learned today...
you can quite sucessfully drink cream of brocoli soup while drving
you can side swipe deers
deers travel in pairs
buying new cars is an emotional ordeal
i am a participant in capitalism

Things i have done today
Ate breakfest in my RA's room (had really good strong coffee)
went to class
ate lunch
had tea with a friend :)
went to sioux falls
bought a 2003 honda civic Ex-- basicly its a pretty maroon car
came home (cried inside)
went to praise and worship
had coffee again

un-days

Today was a crazy day, in fact it was almost an un day. i was tired for most of the day despite the 'black as night coffee' that i had this morning. and i forgot to eat, this is a problem, unlike mike i can't survive on eating air and cheeseburgers. But oh well.

i still can't spell, but lets celebrate the small things in life. i can't opperate the technology to make a video camera turn into a DVD, but i can opperate a audio cassate recorder and still managed to get my homework done, sort of. I still have more to do, but i have taken a liking to staying up late and doing homework instead of going to bed early and getting up early. plus procrastination is fun. I like to be inturputed by people.

i just watched a movie about american's obsesion with stuff.
tommorow i go to buy a new car.
talk about irony.

wow.

ah, gift tonight, soo good. it felt worshipful and fun and at moments i am sure i was not the one moving my hands. maybe that is a little wierd, but i love that feeling. It makes me feel free. I love it when i feel like i can hang on to God's hand and there rest my weary soul for a few briefs moments until the music moves on and suddenly i am caught up in new words and movements bringing praise to my King. I love being able to be in the moment. What a blessing. i think i might feel a void with no gift next week, what i am going to do with all that time? But i guess i will be in ontario so i probally won't notice.:)
I am learning to play the piano, i have one lesson left, tommorow, that will be fun. i am learning to play Jesus Loves me, which is quite good, maybe for my futrue classroom. maybe i will get a tape deck. Anwaz, i love learning piano, it helps that i have an awsome teacher!:)
Lillian is acting up again tonight and last night. Ya know, it could be so many things, but i still havn't gone to the dr. Maybe tommrow, what good does it do to wait. i think it woudl be in my best interest to go in ASAP. Now try to conivce me of that, yeah right.
In other news Jane Eyre is done. In my humble opionion the best play Dordt has done scince i have been here. and we have spring break in four days! oh my gosh! Then when we get back we have one month and two weeks about until we graduate. Oh my gosh, that thought just hit me like a ton of bricks. wow, that means the end to so many good things. But it has to also mean the beginging to so many good things. Wow. What have i been doing the last coupel of years? wow.

A Delectable Day

What a delectable day! Do you ever think about tasting the days? Well I really don’t either, but delectable seemed like the only word that could describe today.

I had a plan. Don’t do homework all day, what you really need is a break, a Sabbath from the week already. With a crazy couple of days and a busy weekend, a Sabbath was what I needed. So I thought. I will make sure all of my homework is done for Thursday and so I can fully rest on wed. So I started after class. I come home enjoyed lunch with my roommates and had planned to hang out with them. But alas they had meetings all afternoon, so I though Sioux city? But it turns out that other people have stuff to do today plus that cost money I don’t have. So then I decided to watch a little TV, but soon got bored, so low and behold I took out the bible and my journal and spent a good portion of the afternoon journaling, what a good feeling. Its good to spend time me and God.

It was a beautiful day outside today. The kind of day where you want to go out and smell the air. I heard a flock of geese flying overhead this morning making me think spring is well on its way.

So with a flock of geese overhead I prepared myself to sit and sketch in my make-shift window seat, where I am practically sitting outside of my fourth floor window and I can enjoy the sun and the breeze without the wind blowing papers everywhere. This is where the funny irony comes in.

Yesterday was a horribly stressful day in the print making room: no inspiration, no paper, and no idea what I am doing. So I began to sketch and before I knew it I had inspiration for the perfect plate. So I finished my printmaking that I had not planned on doing at all today and I feel rested. The funny thing about art is that when I am busy I can’t think about it, so to take a breather really helped me to plan my art and get what I really needed to done. What a delectable day. Perhaps I will read a book for fun and go to P&W. I love spring and delectable days.