Christmastime is upon us...

Hello friends and family, mostly just family I guess. I have figured out that a good time to write is during my Friday morning class...Survey of Christian Beliefs. I still take the notes and hear what he is saying, but alot of time they do discussions and well, i am not a discussor, so yah! But I didn't have class last week, therefore it has been about 2 weeks since I last wrote. They have been great weeks.

Last weekend I watched alot of movies. My laptop power chord was broken and my battery was dead, so I didn't not have a computer, therefore, I couldn't do my homework. So I went down to the aframe with some cross stitch and my theory and watched movies all day. On Saturday I was asked to dog sit for my friend cuz she was going toa wedding all day! I normally wouldn't do that cuz i am not a huge dog person, but this one was especially good. I will put pictures of the dog up, she is so small and her name is Honey. We watched tv, went for a walk, went to Starbucks, and just hung out. I love her. I went to the movie "Enchanted" too and it was sooo good! It was also really good because I went with a girl from my school. I haven't really done alot of hanging out with people from the school this entire semester, so it was fun to just hang out with her. And well, we had a good time and really enjoyed the movie. oh, and last weekend was a long one cuz we had Thursday and Friday off for US Thanksgiving. I didn't go to the states at all, nuts, missed out on the US feast, but it's all good. Lots of the people here are from the US so they all went home for the weekend, and then yah I guess alot of them went shopping on "black friday" i have heard crazy stories about that! YIKES! But yah, that was my weekend.

This last week has been good to. I had homework due on Wednesday, but other than that I have been slackin off. i have some big term projects due on Friday the 7th which I have started on, but i plan to do them this weekend! I hadn't really been doing devotions or spending time with God everyday this semester, i would periodically but not all the time. So i think that's the reason my semester has been so up and down (mostly down). But I knew what I had to do but i just didn't do it, and then I had a talk with my friend Becca and she's liek I just set aside the same time everyday to spend time with God and then I know during that time that's what I have to do. So I did that and I look forward to that time everyday, it is so great! I love it. So yah, this week has been really great because of that and i am learning so much. And I had my Worship Leading Lab this week with my favorite teacher Russ. He is so great! Wow, he is sucha good teacher. But we talked about like Intercession and well prophetic worship like we always do. And like not being afraid to bring worship into the community and how it affects community. So it was cool, and like through it I got so antsy. I just wanted to get up and go do these things taht we were talking about but I didn't know how to get them started and I was sitting in class. So yah, i love that class, it just inspires me sooooo much! I just wish I could take him with me to get things started, i am not a very strong leader and I find it hard to step out of my comfort zone but i guess if God wants me to do that, then he will give me the strength... But yah...so that was this week!

This weekend is homework! Whoop whoop! One of my projects I get to plan my wedding so it's all good. But yes, I am looking forward to Christmas. I have lights up in my room, mom sent me a little Christmas tree which i set up in my room and I listen to Christmas music all the time! I can't wait to go home too! YAY! But yes, I will sign out now and pay more attention to my teacher... talk to you soon! I will post pictures in a separate thing of the babe little dog!

Another week of school...

Hello all! This week is nothing exciting. I had a really good weekend last weekend, so that was a great start to this week. I had a short week as I only got back to school on Monday night, but I got a call from my friend Amy that a tree had fallen on all three of their families trucks so she no longer had a vehicle to commute with. So she called and asked if she could stay with me this week on campus until they figure out what they can do with their cars. So this week was sleepovers!!! It has been fun..but now it is Friday and Amy is going home for the weekend. She may be back next week, but we don't know. But this has sucked because I have been sick. I started getting sick on the weekend and it has just escalated from there so it has been brutal. But today I took alot of drugs and so I think I will be ok for a couple hours anyways.

School has been alright. I had alot of assignments due this week and it is nearing the end of the semester so alot more are becoming due. This weekend I have plans to do alot of my big assignments like the final ones for each class that are due on the 7th of december or whatever. I have quite a few so I have decided i need to get a head start. So this weekend might not be that exciting for me but hopefully i get a lot done. On Saturday I think Imight do a bit of Christmas shopping and then I am going to my friend Bri's engagement party, so that will be fun! I don't know if I have told you all but I get to be a bridesmaid in her wedding. YAY so exciting! But yah, that's this weekend.

Starting yesterday at 1:15 we had this 24 hours of prayer at our school, so it ends today at 1:15. But last night my Lifegroup went to it and it was really cool. We just went to the different centres they had like communion, casting you cares, praying for the nation, thanksfulness, and prayer for the school and it was super good. We just took turns praying and leading the group and the did whatever we were suppoed to like write a prayer or cast a stone into a bowl that symbolized our cares, fear, or worries. So yah i went well and it was so peaceful, i haven't felt at peace like that for a long time, so it was so great! Oh and yesterday too we had this speaker in our Worship Leading Lab class and he is really prophetic, and so he spoke to each of us about what God was telling him. It was so cool cuz he was so dead on with everyone! Crazy! And with me he told me God was telling him the same things that God has been telling me, so that was encouraging that there was confirmation for me. It also got me really excited because the things he said are some of the things that I feel really passionate about! YAY! But yes, it was great, i loved it!

But other than this nothing else is really new. I really want to travel right now, but what else is new! I have been looking at my Europe pictures so tha tmakes me want to travel too. Boo. But i guess i can wait. But anyways, i should wrap this up and take some notes in class.

Leia

It's been a long time coming!

Hello! I have not written a while to everyone's dismay I'm sure. I've been really busy with school work and stuff like that. It seems around this time of year everything is due. Last week I had midterms and this week was pretty slack but next week everything is due again, so it sucks! My midterms went alright, I've passed all the ones that I've gotten back so far, but those aren' the ones I was worried about. This week I have been happier than I have been most of the semester, so it has been great. This week I had a dancing intensive on Tuesday. It was fun we each had to have one dance move and then we showed the class, and then we went to a corner and tried doing it with like 3 other body parts and made liek a little routine. We showed the clas and then we got in groups and combined everyone's and it was cool. And then we got to dance with the flags and it was so much fun! I love dancing with flags. And in church this last sunday there were dancer with flags and stuff and it was soooo cool! I love it. There are so many things that people do here that I absolutely love...about church and stuff liek that. So oher thanthe living in dorms thing I am loving it here. I am learning so much, so much stuff that I want to apply. Everytime I sit in my Worship Leading class I always want to just flyhome and apply it to our church at home! Never fails.

I am acquaintances with alot of people here. I find that that's what people do. They make acquaintances, they don't really make friends. Everyone is so consumed in themselves and everything that is going on in their lives that when you want to tell them something about you. Its tough. There are a couple people who are sincere and I love it! But I have found lately that relationships I thought were so good are all just superficial. I hate it! But it's alright, i have already vented for liek the last two days and I need to get over it. But good news!!!1 GINGERBREAD LATTES ARE HERE FOR THE SEASON!!!!! So I have already bought my first one...a Venti!!! Yep, so i am exicted about this and have been saving my money up for this paritcular season in my life. It will be a good time. I am going out for coffee with my friend Becca tomorrow cuz GB's are here!!! yay.

But yah. I am including some pictures of me and my friend Amy. The other day we went to the park and went walking downthe pathsand took some pictures. People (Asian tourists to be exact) feed the black squirrels in that park and so they are friendly and if you are standing there they will come and stand really close to you cuz they think you're going to feed them. Well we sawone in a tree and well, i like squirrels, so i went to go take a picture and Amy was freaking out. I got the pic safely. We stopped on th bridge and took pics of the ducks and us. And then we were standing on the bridge and she turned and there was a squirrel coming towards us and well, she freaked right out. She couldn't move from where she was standing cuz she was so sure that the squirrel was coming to eat out our lungs. And so she started creaping past me and once she got past she bolted down the path, meanwhile i was trying to take pictures of this thing. It's claws were so long and scary and no matter how much i tried to scare him he wouldn' tmove. And then he finally did and so i called Amy back, but she was so scared and i just about peed i was laughing so hard. Then we were takin pictres by this stump in he woodsy area and a squirrel started creepin, so she freaked out and ran away. And i videoed it and she almost pooped her pants cuz where she wa runing to was another squirrel coming towards her, she couldn't escape them! hahaha. And so anyways, then we left cuz she was so scared, but it was a good time. So there are some pictures of us. Oh and then last night i went to her house like I do every Wednesday night an we did our nails and did face masks and it was so girly but fun! She is my friend! The best one I have here!

But anyways that's long enouh for one time, I will write more when I have more happening! Peace to all! it'salmost Christmas! YAY!