5 posts tagged “church”
Let's see... where do I begin?
I've just been keeping busy with school work and all. I've been trying to get all my homework for the week done by Tuesday or Wednesday. However, that doesn't always work out. This week I have a tremendous amount to do, and I've been procrastinating. In fact, instead of writing my English paper, I'm updating my blog for you!! Yay!
This past weekend I went back home to the LC. I went on somewhat of a date with my friends to quizno's and the creek football game. After the game, we went to Amy's and watched a movie.
Friday, I didn't do much during the day, just hung out and relaxed. Friday night, a bunch of people came over to the Escalante's and we had a "party". haha.
Saturday morning, we went to the Upward Football game at the church. Let me tell ya, it is hilarious watching 5 year olds play football and cheer. After the game I went back to the Escalante's where we decided it was much too pretty outside to sit inside all day. Julie surprised us by taking us out to Clear Lake and renting wave runners. I had the time of my life!!! It was SOOOOO much fun!!(even when i flipped mine four times hahaha) After that we had a nice picnic at the Clear Lake Shores' park with hamburgers from the beer garden. We also played frisbee and football out there in the park. What an awesome afternoon!!
When we got home, we washed the cars since we were already wet. My car was so dirty!
That evening we watched Jersey Girl, and all through the movie I had really bad pain in my chest, left arm, and left side of my neck. After the movie, I called my mom and asked her what I should do. She said go to the hospital, so we did.
Long story short, they couldn't find anything wrong with me after 2 IVs, 1 failed attempt at an IV, an ekg, 2 chest x rays, and a cat scan.
Good news- I'm feeling much better.
Sunday, went to church and hung out then drove back to college.
This week so far, not much has happened. Just been going to class and trying to resist the urge of putting nair in my ex roommates shampoo. Shes gotten this brilliant idea that putting a mattress in front of my door and knocking and leaving is the funniest thing ever. Well I have words for her. GROW UP. seriously. It's obnoxious and it's a fire hazard(I'm right in front of the fire exit).
I suppose I should actually go write my paper now.
So I actually stayed for the whole weekend at college. First time!
Friday I started volunteering. From 9-10 I went to the campus fitness center and talked with the cancer patients who were working out in there. One of them is from seabrook and used to be a book keeper at Clear Creek(where I went to High School). Small world huh? I've had a lot of small world experiences here. kinda crazy. At 12:15 I went to the Elementary school I'm working at and started with my class. What a difference this class is from my old K kids. I'm not gonna lie... it was terrifying. I don't know how the teacher does it. and I feel really bad for her because this is her first year teaching. I actually for a moment thought about changing my major. lol but I'm not going to because I know I'm not always going to have a perfect class, but I'm tough and I can handle it. So this year should be a good learning experience for sure. I'm there to help 5 kids in particular. I've already pinpointed about 3 of them. I'm not sure who the other 2 are yet. The three that I know of remind me of the 7 dwarfs. and I will refer to them as Sleepy, Grumpy, and Bashful. Sleepy was actually asleep the whole time I was there. He has a bad home life and doesn't get much sleep. So the teacher lets him sleep sometimes. So of course he's a bit behind. Bashful never said a word to me the whole time and doesn't know how to write her name. and wouldn't draw in her journal. and then there is grumpy... He growled at me the whole time. and was in time out almost the whole time. The reason I say almost is because he got sent to the principals at the end of the time I was there. He kept kicking the wall and being very disruptive. So... needless to say that was quite an experience. Around 2 I went to the training at Rusk State Hospital. We had to watch 3 training videos, and one of the other girls fell asleep during the HIPAA one. lol I don't blame her. they were really boring. Then we walked through the recreation area. Pretty scary. a lot of the guys were following us around and asking us where we were from. I'm kinda nervous about continuing there, but I've committed to 20 volunteer hours there, so I'm going to stay for now. If I get really uncomfortable I'll stop going there.
Saturday, I turned into a Vampire and did not see sunlight. I left my room once during the day, just to take out the trash. I went and got something to eat around 8:30ish though, otherwise i wouldn't have left the building at all. lol I did see like an entire season of America's next top Model. hahaha
Sunday was better, I went to Sunday school and Church in the morning. I was invited to sing in the choir by Mr. Compton. lol. I can't sing, but I said I'd think about it. After church, I ate lunch in the cafeteria, then went back to my room until dinner.
Today I skipped weight training... I'll make up the time later tonight, because I really needed to sleep this morning. and now I need to go do my homework. and luckily I just killed 2 birds with one stone, because I'm using the first part of this blog as my service learning journal entry. :D
Oh, P.S. I'm coming home next weekend.
Before I get to the title of this post, let me tell you about my weekend...
I went home to The LC and surprised everyone there!! It was super duper awesome!!
I got there on Friday around noon and went straight to the High school to see Mrs. Yancey! She was so happy to see me. :) We talked a lot about how school is going for both of us this year and how the bay harbourites are doing in college. :)
Then I stopped by the band hall, but nobody was in there that I wanted to say hi to. I grabbed some lunch and headed home and then shortly after I went to the Escalante's and just hung out there until Sofi and Gusti got home and I met them at the bus stop. :)
We went to the football game that night and it was pretty good to see everyone. I sorta miss being in the band...but not badly enough to join the one in college... it wouldn't be the same anyways.
Saturday, we hung out and had friends over and had a cook out. Yum Yum! Then, Saturday night, I went to Robert's aunt's wedding and got to see a few more friends and stayed out WAY too late. (3am)
Sunday, I got up and went to church and saw a lot more people and heard this AWESOME speaker, Don Piper, who is the author of 90 minutes in Heaven. Everyone should go read the book. now. :)
After church, I went to Mely's with Amy, Neal, and Savan. Then went home and hung out. Adri and I went to a party for like 45 minutes, which was pretty boring. and we got in trouble. but I won't get into it. :) Janna came over later and we had TACOS!! woo. :)
Monday, I drove back to college with Destiny.
....and now we get to the part about the title. My roommate put the air on 55, I got mad, so I locked the bathroom door(how she usually gets in and out of our room) and locked the front door and went to tyler to meet my parents to see a movie(Balls of Fury) and go eat.
It's not my fault she didn't have her keys. Anyways, when I got back, she was pushing the bed in front of the door so I couldn't get in. I pushed my way through anyways. She left and didn't come back, not even to sleep, until this afternoon.
Oh, and I got pulled over by a state trooper on my way back from Tyler. Oops. I just got a warning, though. "speeding in a 55".
This past weekend was pretty good, I went to see Janna in Richardson. We had a good time. It was good to see her. :)
We went to some of her Christians on campus meetings, which were ok... not exactly my cup of tea, but hey whatever. :)
Saturday afternoon/night I went to Grand Saline to my parent's house to do some laundry and eat dinner and pick up my bike and some books. That was nice, we had an excellent, but HUGE dinner.
I drove back to Jacksonville Saturday night and made record time!
This morning, I got up and went to church. It was nice! I liked the Sunday school class I went to and the service was very nice. I got to see my old church choir director, Jerry Compton, and his wife.
Tomorrow I have school again, so I'll let y'all know how that went.
I started classes this morning... but let's go backwards for a few minutes.
Yesterday was a pretty good day. I slept in and then later on took a 4 hour nap. :) We had our Convocation at 7pm, and it was very nice. There was singing and a lot of speakers, including the chaplain, the president of the college, the mayor, the student body president, a few teachers, and a letter from state representative, Chuck Hopson, was read.
After Convocation, everyone went and changed clothes and then we had a pep rally scheduled from 9-12. It ended at 9:07. haha. but, it was also good. The dancers and cheerleaders did their routine and the basketball and golf teams were introduced, because they were having banners unveiled. The mayor and the president talked briefly again and then the banners were unveiled.
I have learned that this campus is incredibly diverse. There are probably 350 kids that go here, if not less, It's in nowhereville, TX, and there are multiple international kids that go here. To name a few, there are two kids from England, one kid from Ireland, two kids from South Africa, one kid from Australia, and a kid from Lithuania on sports teams. I know there are a few more that haven't arrived yet.
Anyways, moving on to today. My first class was Physics at 8:00a.m. We were out by 8:21, all we did was go over the syllabus. There were 11 kids in that class. I went to breakfast after that since I had time. Then, my next class was Intro to the Old Testament at 9:25. We got out by 10:20 and It seems to be a pretty good class. Challenging, but not too badly. The class was HUGE! There were 15 people there! haha. I have one more class today and it is Service Learning at 1:00. After I get done with that, I'm going to Dallas for the weekend to see Janna, but I'll be back Saturday night after stopping in Grand Saline to have dinner with my family and pick up a few things.
Sunday, I plan on going to church at FUMC in Jacksonville, so that should be good!
