Something to Say

It was calendar-worthy.

Oh yea. Craft weekend. A much needed, girly weekend. It started out with a quick run to Hobby Lobby to pick up all the necessities…

Next was Chinese food!!

The General Tso’s chicken was from the frozen aisle in Wal-Mart and I promise you it was a good as anything I’ve ever gotten at a Chinese place. You should check it out sometime. 

Craft time came next!!

There was watercolor painting, paper burning and modge-podgeing, greeting card making, and popsicle-stick basket making. It was fun and only one little hot-glue gun mishap on my part. Not too shabby.

Then we watched Fireproof. Acting=No good. Story=fantastic. I’d encourage everyone to see it!

The next day we went and had a girly afternoon: trying on dresses, seeing Confessions of a Shopaholic, eating at Cheddars, and looking at bridal magazines at BooksAMillion. 

Nothing too much has happened today because nasty classes start again tomorrow. Bummer. Back to reality.

I’ve seen this done a lot and I always think it’s so fun to play, even though it’s mostly people I don’t know all that well and mostly just play by myself without commenting… It’s whatev.

So I went on itunes and put my settings on shuffle. These are the first lines of the first 20 songs to come up. Your job is to guess the songs and artists. DON’T GOOGLE THEM. That’s lame and absolutely zero fun. So don’t be a loser. If you know them, guess. And don’t be hesitant. We don’t have to be besties for you to guess.

1. Baby, I know you’re hurting. Right now you fee like you could never love again. Now all I ask is for the chance to prove that I love you.

2. Here’s a  night, and it shines. And it calls us on and on.

3. Here I am. One more day of not loving him the way he asks.

4. I waited til I saw the sun. Don’t know why I didn’t come.

5. Strummin’ my pain with his fingers. Singin’ my life with his words.

6. In a deep breath it all starts to change.

7. Wake up! Do you hear the sound of music from above?

8. Searching the world, the lost will be found.

9.Don’t fall asleep yet. We haven’t found a cure for what you have and I need you here for one more night.

10. We all know the girls that I am talking about.

11. Tell me where our time went and if it was time well spent.

12. Now I’m woken up from my peaceful slumber by a truthful voice so penatrating.

13. Let now the weak say I have strength by the spirit of power that raised Christ from the dead.

14. Little town, it’s a quiet village. Everyday like the one before.

15. Good God, if your song leaves our lips, if your work leaves our hands, then we will be wanderers and vagabonds.

16. She’s got a baby inside.

17. A scrub is a guy that thinks he’s fly and is also known as a “bus-ta”

18. On a monday, I am waiting. By Tuesday, I am fading. And by Wednesday, I can’t sleep.

19. We should get jerseys, ’cause we make a good team.

20. Hey pretty baby with your high heels on, you give me fever like I’ve never, ever known.

Yea, so a few are a bit more than just the first line, but I didn’t like the way they ended so I added the next little bit. It’s my game, I make up the rules. Have fun!

I’ve never been more ready for a break than I am right now.

My head is so congested I think I’m going to fall over when I stand up.

I really just want to sllleeeeeeeeppp. Too bad I’ve got 4 exams and a group speech to get ready for in the next 5 days.

Wish me luck.

I have to turn in a persuasive speech on Friday and my friend, Meredith, and I are giving the pros and cons of dogs and cats. I wanna know what everyone else thinks. There’s a poll and I’d REALLY appreciate a comment with your reason for liking one over the other. THANKS

It’s been way too long since I’ve written in this thing. I’ve just had so much to do and no inspiration to blog. I still don’t have much, but I figure I may as well just push through it and try and write something.

I watched the debate last night. It was… interesting. I got tired of the candidates ignoring the flashing red light that was there to stop their rambling. I felt like both of them repeated everything I’ve already heard and no one really made a clear impression. I’m still for McCain, but I’m starting to doubt the chance of him winning. It’s easy to get carried away and think it’ll be the end of the world if Obama wins. I admit, it makes me a little uneasy to think of a country run by him, but I have confidence in the fact that no matter what happens, God will accomplish His will. And HE will receive glory through all of this.

I broke down and called Old Navy to work over fall break. I haven’t been working since this summer, and it’s been a great break. I’m starting to feel it now though, so a few hours and a couple extra bucks won’t hurt.

Speaking of fall break, I’m going to have a 5 1/2 day fall break. How awesome is that?

It’s raining today for the first time in about a month, and I don’t exactly hate it. In fact, I’m kind of enjoying it. I’ve gotten an excuse to wear my rainboots two days in a row. And everyone knows what rainboots are good for… JUMPING IN PUDDLES! Last night we went on a prayer walk in the rain, over to the main quad. Meredith and I both enjoyed our walk over there and jumped in every puddle we walked past. Then we got to pray for our campus and for the faculty here. It was an awesome time. It was five other girls and myself and they are all just so sweet. God has blessed me by surrounding me by some awesome Christian girls. We got to pray for each other and for things going on in our lives and for the crusade. It was just a sweet time of fellowship.

There’s a little update on my life. Sorry it’s brief. I’m leaving to get advised for the FIRST time since I’ve been at this school. I’m a little confused about how it all works and how I got looked over, but whatever. It’s all getting worked out!

I’m exausted. I don’t sleep right. I’m probably not eating great. I’m just worn out.

But…. I love it here. I really do. I don’t sleep because I’m up talking and hanging out with new people. It’s exciting and I’m really enjoying it.

Classes obviously put a damper on the whole “college” thing but I guess they’re kind of important. They’re all going fairly well. I really enjoy most of them besides biology and mass media. Thank goodness they’re only one semester long!

So, I’m playing flag football for the BCM intermural team. Yep. Me. Playing football. It’s ok to laugh. I do.

Another reason to laugh about football… our team hasn’t finished one full game. They’ve both been ended early due to the mercy rule. That comes in when the other team scores 42 points. We’re pretty pathetic but it’s a lot of fun regardless.

It’s been a long, long time since I’ve written anything in here and this will be all you get for a while because I have a speech to write now.

Until next time!

I went two months straight this summer not being able to sleep past 10 am. Ever. That may not sound like a big deal to you, but I enjoy my summer mornings… A LOT. I basically live in a cave at home so if I’m not scheduled to work before noon, I sleep until noon. That’s just the way I am in the summer. My body hasn’t appreciated all the waking up early it’s been forced to do this summer and it’s decided to shut down now that I’m in Germany and can afford to sleep in every once in a while. I’ll admit, I’ve slept until at least noon 4 out of the past 7 days and throughly enjoyed it. I couldn’t today though. Ya wanna know why? I had to go to school.

Yep, I graduated over a year ago, but since I’ll only have the chance to see German high school once in my life, I figured it’d be a really, really cool experience. While I am very glad I’ve seen Steffi’s school and met a lot of her friends, I was mostly wrong.

While we were walking in, I couldn’t help but be extremely thankful high school is over for me. It was a great 4 years of my life, but I can’t imagine having to do it a whole nother year. Steffi is going into 13th grade. Gross.

To make this way shorter than it probably would be, I’ll share the highlights…

- Steffi’s Chemistry teacher talked to me a little bit to waste time on the first day because he was interested in America and he had an extremely thick German accent. He asked where I was from, and since not many people in America know where Hendersonville, TN is, I assumed NO ONE in Germany does, so I said Nashville. He said “Oh. Many famous people there” and this is what I heard next, “Do you know if Derrick Lee is from Nashville?”. I proceeded to wrack my brain for anyone who is semi-famous named Derrick Lee. I failed. I said “I don’t know” and I got a really funny look. He then said “Do you come DI-RECT-LY from Nashville?” as in, do you really live in Nashville or in a suburb? He just doesn’t have a big enough vocabulary to ask in a way I understood. I felt pretty darn dumb. It sounded like I had no idea where I lived. Whatev.

- Picture the most boring assembly you ever went to in high school. I know those who went to Beech had to sit through a fair share. Okay, now multiply your boredom by… oh… INFINITY and you’ll get what I went through in the first day of school assembly here in Germany. Just imagine the speaker getting up and you not understanding one single word coming out of their mouth. For 45 minutes. That was a good chunk of my day in German school.

-Ironically enough, there was not one word of English spoken in English class today. It was my one ray of hope of understanding a word said by a teacher and it was shot down. No biggie.

-When I finally figure out how to put pictures on here, I’ll show you what I accomplished in Math and History today… let’s just say it involves graph paper and green and yellow highlighters.

So yea… needless to say, Steffi will be venturing to school all alone tomorrow. I went to my one and only day of German school ever. No need for a second…

I’ll be back in the good ol’ U.S. of A. in 48 hours German time… which in American time is 55. Not too bad. I love Steffi, and I love Germany, but 3 days at home out of this whole summer is taking its toll on me. I need my own bed. So soon. I can almost taste it… if I could taste a bed. Whatever. You know what I mean.