Spring Break

I'm getting excited

So, this is where I will be going... It's absolutely beautiful. It's also little. A total of 35 square miles for 10 months. I think I may get a little cabin fever once culture shock sets in but I don't think I'll want to leave during Christmas or spring break. I'm sure there's a lot to see. I hope to go scuba diving there at least once. Yap is famous for it's manta rays. I'm getting all these ideas about teaching too. On the first day I want to get a picture of each student along with their name, something they like and their favorite color. With this I want to make each of them a book mark with their name and thing and color on it. I'll also look at the pictures while making them so I can learn their names. I also want to do some labs in class. I found some great ones online that will take minimal planning. I'm a little worried about supplies though. I hope I'll be able to make a good curriculum and not test them too hard or too easy. I loved high-school science classes and I hope I can instill that love in them as well as my teacher did. I really hope they like me but also want them to respect my authority; I'm nervous about finding a balance. It's coming really fast, I only have four months to plan! When my first letter came back, Amanda in Campus Ministries told me how much it was and I was speechless. My first letter was just $500 dollars short of the total requirement for going! If that isn't a sign from God that he wants me to go there I don't know what is. I need to thank these people somehow but I don't even know where to begin since I hardly know them. I wonder if God impressed them in some way to give so much because of the financial crisis we are going through. I have no idea but thank God every time I remember it. I pray that he'll help me be a good teacher. I want to give something while I'm there. I wish to go with a serving spir

New love

Ever since I can remember, exercise was never something I really looked forward to except for the 2 year period when I did gymnastics. Even 10 months ago, running was laborious and I had to talk myself into thinking it was a good idea. Recently though, like in the last semester I've slowly began to have this love for running. It's really interesting. I think it's perhaps that I was in better shape when I began so it wasn't so hard to improve. Once I started improving it was really cool! I went from being able to run 3 minutes, then 6 then 11 then 15 then 20 over the past month and a half when I could fit it into my schedule and today I ran my first 5K! I'm really excited about it because it was 30 minutes of running with no stops. I actually want to go running every day and look forward to it even though I'm still tired from the day before. I think the fact that it's warming up outside really helps. Inside running is harder because it's easy to get bored with it.

Even though things have been really hectic this semester with classes and such, I feel as though my life is really coming together. I thank God for this and I can almost feel his hand arranging my priorities even in this previous one with exercise. I feel like it was almost an effortless transition into a great habit. Going vegan was the same way. It's been about 3 months now and I really don't ever want to go back.

Anyways, I found this website where you can map out where you want to run and it calculates the distance for you. Someone had already mapped out a 5K around here and I used it and it was amazing!



I'm hoping to do this longer run more often and would even like to work up to doing something really hard someday like a half marathon. Running a marathon seems a little over ambitious as it would mean nonstop running for over 4 hours at a pace of 6 mph for a total of 26 miles. We'll see what happens. I really hope this new love does not die anytime soon.

Gimme your stuff! - Failure...

So, I got a great box ready for someone in Australia and we where both really excited to send our stuff and were contacting each other back and forth and such until the day we agreed to send our boxes. I waited four weeks without hearing from her and then when I contacted her she said that she had got my box ages ago but her didn't come. I waited another week because she said she would contact her post office but when I contacted her again I recieved no reply.

I guess I went into this knowing this might happen... I hope she liked the stuff I suppose... for over 50 dollars invested it was...hmm.. I included a Steps to Christ and I'm afraid it may have scared her off. Who knows. Hopefully it will help someone somewhere...