Tweet So I had an awesome weekend! I went hiking on Saturday with some of my new friends here! and Sunday spent all day site-seeing around the island. This included a trip to the Grotto. A cave of sorts that fills with water and you can swim in it. So of course, I had to jump in. and once I jumped in once, I needed a new challenge. I saw these kids scaling the rock wall on the side to jump in. Being scared of water, my first thought was not to follow them, but the more I watched, the more I wanted to jump. So a really nice local…
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Wednesday here..Tuesday there
Tweet It’s still weird to think about the time difference. I talk to my parents on different days. I am in the future. Kinda freaks me out if I really think about it. So I don’t. 🙂 Thankfully I do get to talk to them almost everyday. Skype is quite possibly one of the best inventions ever! So I am almost ready for school to start. In fact, probably too ready. Probably too stressed out about it. But it’s a big deal. I have never taught before and I am kinda nervous. Plus, I still feel like I am trying to figure out living in a new place. Although I…
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Week 1
Tweet I will just jump right in since so far today I have been very unproductive. I will continue the trend. I did get a couple bulletin boards finished and read through some ESL testing stuff. I have most of my first week planned out anyways so I am doing ok. It has been an exciting week as the first week living anywhere new is. Exploring and getting to know my new surroundings has left me with several initial thoughts on life here. One, everything at the grocery store is more expensive. Living on an island means grocery shopping carries a little bit higher price tag. However, if that is…
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I’m back
Tweet Hafa Adai! (or hello) Ok I have decided to start blogging again. Mainly because I actually have something to blog about. I recently accepted a job as the Jr. high computers and ESL teacher for Saipan Community School. (Which is in Saipan, which is near Guam) If that still doesn’t help, then just google Saipan. So I packed up way too much stuff and moved half way around the world to live and teach on an island for a year. I have been here exactly a week now and am finally sleeping through the night and slowly getting used to life here. It’s been a crazy week-trying desperately to…
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What does your birth month say about you?
Tweet so I don’t ever do these things, but I was bored at work and this one came out surprisingly close to my personality. December:Loyal and generous. Sexy. Patriotic. Active in games and interactions. Impatient and hasty. Ambitious. Influential in organizations. Fun to be with. Loves to socialize. Loves praises. Loves attention. Loves to be loved. Honest and trustworthy. Not pretending. Short tempered. Changing personality. Not egoistic. Take high pride in oneself. Hates restrictions. Loves to joke. Good sense of humor. Logical.
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NPR News update
Tweet If nothing else, maybe Economics will get me a date:) EconomyUndergraduate Economics Sees Popularity SurgeListen Now [4 min 34 sec] add to playlistAll Things Considered, March 1, 2009 · At Ohio’s Oberlin College, registration in undergrad economics classes is up 25 percent this year, and the chair of the department says he’s never seen anything like it. Host Robert Smith finds a similar surge in the classrooms of American University and across the country. So is undergraduate economics getting sexier? In a word: yes.
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Warfare
Tweet For our struggle is not against flesh and blood, but against the rulers, against the powers, against the world forces of this darkness, against the spiritual forces of wickedness in the heavenly places. Ephesians 6:12 This verse has been very clearly played out in my life lately. I am learning so much about prayer. Warfare prayer. About fighting. About rebuking. It’s hard. But God is good and I am growing. Perhaps painfully so, but nonetheless, being stretched and molded. I am learning to put on my armor. I am learning to give my burdens to God. and I am learning the lies and tactics Satan uses to keep us…
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Frustrated at the "Christian" Community
Tweet Yes-that’s a bold statement to make I realize. But I sat through an econ class this morning and listened to my professor and several classmates discuss the reality that there are no scientific facts to prove creationism and there are no scientific facts to disprove evolution. In other words, scientists are right in promoting evolution as fact and the truth and Christians are wrong for attempting to promote creationism and disprove evolution. It bothered me. Quite frankly, it angered me. But the anger wasn’t directed towards my professor. She is a highly educated individual who I respect greatly. I normally enjoy her classes. I would like to grill her…
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Hungerlove
Tweet A beautiful love song written from God to us by one of my new favorite bands.. Connersvine. It seems Your fixed foreverIn a world so close to herethough I see you running from meThe more you run the more your nearCause I was there in the beginningAnd I will be there in the endWith a heart that’s beating for youAnd a love that wants to mend Can you feel my love arisingfalling down from up aboveCan you see my heart’s horizonCan you feel my hunger loveWhen the world has left you lonelyand you’ve finally had enoughyou’ll know my feet are runningrunning for my hunger love Let me show you…
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From a dear friend..
Tweet A dear friend sent this to me today and it was exactly what I needed.. God has a way of working just how and when you need Him. Be encouraged today. I want to encourage and challenge you to do something today, as well as the rest of this week. Isaiah 43 says that we are REDEEMED–beautiful in Him and that we are HIS. He has called YOU by NAME. 2 Cor 5 says that we have been made into a NEW CREATION and that we are the Lord’s righteousness. And Romans 8 says there is NO MORE condemnation. Oh, the beauty of liberation. i want you to allow…
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