Wow, its been a really long time since i last updated this. It actually might have been my longest break from writing! Summer just got really busy and i got so behind after the back to back retreats and missions trip that i didn't even want to try to blog everything.. and eventually got lazy.
Well, as always, there's a lot on my mind but I don't quite know how to organize them into coherent words.
Hmm, I this week is the start of week 7 at UCI :] and I really enjoy it here. Life is so much more chill than it was in high school and i can finally say the words myself... Troy was harder than college. I feel like life is really starting to begin... sounds super cheesy, but really! I have time to actually do things i enjoy now like play guitar, spend some quality time with friends, do things for church like writing Yolanda letters, sleep, and start the little projects i always wanted to do but never had time/energy. Looking back tho, I'm kinda thankful that troy super over prepared us so that I can enjoy college life now. But i still wouldn't recommend anyone to go there because i feel like its a damaging place for people like me who arent academically the brightest. This sounds super bitter, partly because i probably am, but I'm a person who values encouragement and you don't really find much of it at troy. It's mostly a place filled with "you can'ts, you'll never be able to's, or that's just not enough's " BuT all that's in the past... its time to move forward :] I know in the beginning I was rather upset about going to Irvine instead of SD, but now i'm super thankful that I didn't get into SD and got to stay close enough to home so that I can go home every weekend. Big and exciting things are happening in our little TPC Joy church and I'm glad to be there and apart of it all. I guess God's just slowly teaching me to trust and obey in his soverign plan. It was so painful for me when i didn't get into SD because it ruined all the plans I had made for myself, but God is good and i'm here to serve Him. "For I know the plans i have for you declares the Lord, Plans to prosper you and not to harm you, plans to give you hope and a future" -Jeremiah 29:11 There's still much i'd like to xanga cuz all the little things i think about blogging have accumulated in the last like.. 6 months. buT i gotta go to my sociology discussion now. I'll be posting again soon, hopefully :]
It's finally over! congrats class of 2009! Though there were many many long nights and stressful things throughout the last four years, I'm actually going to miss that place. Troy was soososo hard... but that experience grew me in many different ways and i appreciate everyone of them! I've complained ALOT about it over the years, but i guess thats a part of the whole experience of it all. Four years went by like the blink of an eye and now im off to start a new chapter at UCI! very much exciting.
summer is SO PACKED!! There is so much to do to get ready for our two retreats within the next 2 weeks and our mission trip that is drawing nearer. Belinda and i have been running around trying to prepare for everything coming up and its tiring... but i love it! I love being this busy for the Lord. Although it can be stressful to have so much going on in my mind. its a good kind of stress and the kind of busy i love doing. I must say its rather hard coming up with a whole missions program out of scratch.. but im very excited. Hopefully this can be the start of a new ministry in my lifee?? I really hope to do missions with joni and friends for people with disabilities around the world when i get older but recently we got this letter from Sam and Helen about an orphanage around their home with 92 kids with disabilities living there. After our mission work at the church is done... i'm hoping to go visit the Livingstons and im hoping i get to visit the orphange... MY hopes are that something will spark and i'll be able to help out there... but i dont know if that's what God has in store.. just gotta keep praying :]
my awesome buddies <3 where's waldo/katie?
of course justin gots his funny face on. the first person i ever met at troy! ANd he xangas.. so he's ultra cool my favoritest brother... who doesnt seem to smile in pictures anymore Jameeees! JAF buddies <3 the rents jonny seems to be MIA lately ICT partner <3 we were a good match hehe favoritest sister! our boys and their cool black shirts with white stripes the next best thing after cathy :| SAM YEEEEEEEE! :] shawno (:
I'm gonna be gone for the next six weeks! 2 for retreats and a month in Taiwan. I hope you wont feel deprived of my xanga entries....... :P hehehe
it JUST hit me... i'm graduating!! it hasnt felt like the end of school year cuz teachers are swamping us with work :[
but yeah! tonight was senior night and we got preview the video yearbook 1 day early. the video yearbook did a really good job... it made troy look super fun! hahaha and it made me feel like im acutally going to miss that place... i'm graduating...
Just for Sam Yee because he's so stubborn and refuses to get a facebook >:[ hehe prom "underwater enchantment" was so funnnnnn!
the prom queen nominee this dinner beat any ol fancy restaurant me and mathew getting lost going to the beach gas station stop! :P parking structure! you can see the queen mary in the back (: i found nemo and dory!!
turtlee!
puffins! that crab was ALMOST 2 feet long.. the fabulous jennifer lee why am i so pale... lovely boys yesss we're and odd bunch LOVeee this picture with grace chung but there's the weird guy in teh back
