how long?

New CD's = AWSOME!
I have a theology test tomorrow. I am not done studying yet, but I don't know how I'm supposed to remember how Anselm and especially Thomas Aquinas tried to prove God's existence, on top of many other ideas and such. I can never remember who said what.. oh well. Don't sweat it, Carmela. (I keep telling myself that.)
Today was nice for a little while. It was sunny. But then the sun hid its face and now the outdoors are cool. no, cold.
I got everything handed in that needs to be for my NSPICE application, except three small photos of myself. I have until 10 Oktober.
Amanda called today and caught me just as I was about to walk out the door and go to class. I skipped class. :) It was good to hear her voice again and talk about nothing. I miss her. Soon after, I got a call from my brother telling me that our good friend Leydi from Xoy had a baby girl! I don't know the name or how long ago this girl was born, but I was very excited when I heard this! And to think I will get to see this girl in December when I go to Merida! HOORAY! Today was a good day.
But I also started thinking of all the people I miss and wish I could see again soon. or ever.

all I really want to say

I am catching a cold.
I went line dancing yesterday.
This week is busy. I work this afternoon and night at the bean. Tomorrow I work at Hope Haven. Saturday and twice on Sunday I work at Hope Haven too. Long week.
I have a theology test on friday.
Sharing text books is cheap, but it is also inconveniant.
I have met (oops) lots of new cool people this semester.
Amanda, I haven't talked to you since you left! :( except through writing, but thats not the same.
Ten days til my birthday.
Tomorrow is Yolanda's birthday.
Time to go.
bye.

peasants = me gusta

I am learning to dance cumbia, which is VERY fun! I have had two "lessons" and I don't seem to be doing so bad, but I have a feeling I will only really be able to dance with Cal because I know his moves. Anyone else I think will throw me off.
School is going okay. I have a lot of busy work and a couple classes I dislike very much. And one class I more than hate - I loathe it! But I also have a couple classes I like. Theology for instance, I find to be very interesting because I have never studied theology before and never really thought about it much. I think since our church in Mexico was just started when we got there (my dad started it) the sermons and sunday school and all were very basic and didn't get into the deeper theology that we are getting into in class. So I never have talked about it before and never really thought about a lot of it. The professor for that class - Jason Lief - is pretty interesting too, which I think helps a great deal.
Me thinks this weekend is going to be pretty busy. Tomorrow I have class from 8 to 9 and from 11 to 3. But then I have the afternoon off (to write a theology paper). Saturday night I am working at the Humble Bean (which is going great by the way) from 8pm to midnight. And Sunday I work at Hope Haven from 3pm to 7am on Monday. busy.
Today I babysat Ruben Henderson. He went to sleep right away though, but I watched the rest of his video which was of some lady and a guy singing kids songs, but in Nederlands. :) Dutch class is getting harder and harder, but also more and more interesting. I don't know what I'm really going to do with all this dutch when I am done with NSPICE though. Will I keep it up and keep taking classes? or will I just ditch it? who knows.
I bought the Peasants' cd, but it won't let me rip it onto my computer so I have to just listen to it when I'm in my room because I cannot take my disc drive with me... :( oh well. It is good though. I enjoyed the CD very much!
So there you are, Amanda. That is whats been up with me lately. sort of. Hoy recibi el postal que me mandaste. Danke! Me estaba sintiendo un poco frustrada con lo busy que estoy, pero me dio gusto escuchar de ti! Te extraño mucho!
good night. goedenavond. (look at me being all smart and multilingual.)

p.s. 21 days till my birthday. :)

share a bit of moon with me

I went to sioux falls yesterday and bought new violin strings. I hope they are nice because they were a little costoso.
I also bought Beethoven's Opus 27 Nr. 2 - Moonlight Sonata - for piano. Appears it will be a challange for me, but I love it so much! It's a beautiful piece.
I also bought some nice shorts. They are supposed to be capri but I found them in the petit section so they fit like my kinda shorts. I like them.
I slept in my hammock again last night! Outside. Then it rained, but I didn't get wet because I was under a porch. I missed my hammock. For the first few weeks after we left Mexico and I started sleeping on a bed I got headaches and neckaches and backaches because I wasn't used to it. Hammocks, if you know how to sleep in them, can sort of form to your body and support your head, even without a pillow and are extremely comfortable. I can even sleep on my stomach in them without having to turn my head sideways to breathe. I just wake up in the morning with lines on my nose... :)
I have to go study Nederlands now and write a theology response for monday because tomorrow I work from 3pm to 7:30am on monday. yuck, but so it will be every other Sunday for me.

tomorrow comes

First day of classes today. And I made a goof. Like a freshmen... I have theology 101 (cuz I haven't taken it yet) at 2pm and choral at 1pm. But today we didn't have choral and like an idiot I went straight to theology.. and the same professor teaches the same class in the same room at 1pm. So I sat down and after a few minutes, but before he started talking, I realized I was in the wrong section. So, like the dumbass I am, I just blurted it out and told the prof I might as well just sit there for the hour and after today I'll go at the regular time. And that's just what I did, but I feel kind of stupid about it, though it wasn't a big deal.
I have two gen eds and a basic HPER major course, so three of my five classes consist mostly of underclassmen. It's weird how that makes me feel more confident; how I can just speak my mind and not be afraid of sounding stupid. Not that I won't sound stupid, but I'm not as afraid of it.
I'm getting a bit more comfortable with the Humble Bean too. I went there today and I'm going again today and we're finally, hopefully, getting our schedules figured out so I will know when I'm working and stuff.

I think this will be a good year. :)

This is a long drive for someone with no music

Sometimes I forget how nice a longish drive alone can be. I went to Omaha Friday night to pick up some Dordt freshmen and driving alone with my foot out the window, singing along to my music was refreshing. I should do it more often. but wait. I don't have a car.

Some highlights of the past couple days:
I slept in my hammock outside last night and it was wonderful!
Two of my roommates are here.
I just got back from hanging out with some friends at docs.

never thought twice

One more week of work and then school starts. There will still be work (I hope), but less of it and more of study.
I talked to one of my younger sisters today for at least an hour getting all the inside info on her new hook-up with a guy she's been hooking up with FOR THE PAST FOUR YEARS! Anyway, she's talking about going to Alberta to visit my dad's side of the family next summer and MAYBE staying all summer to work. I was thinking, "sweet, I was thinking of doing that myself and it would be awsome to room with Yoli and spend a summer with her and, God willing, her new boyfriend." I hope that works out, but it depends on her current job and if there are as many jobs available then in Calgary as there seem to be now, and on whether or not we could make as much money there in Canadian dollars as we could here in American. (Who knows, by then the Canadian dollar might be worth as much or more as the US dollar...) It was good to talk to her though. I miss her.
My brother's birthday is in 5 days, which means I need to get cracking on the CD mixes I'm making for him. And I need to figure something out I can send to my littlest sister who's birthday is also in 5 days.
I don't have to work until 4:30 today.
I need to memorize more scripture.
I'm reading The Silver Chair now.
I gotta go.
Peace.
and Love.
TO ALL.

I'll be gone like I said

As someone once said, times were good, but its time to move on now and look forward to this next year.

I am now officially a humble bean employee! I had my first day of training on friday? I think? Not yesterday friday, but the one before? It's fun. I believe it will be my favorite job yet. And its not as hard as I thought it might be.

Due to some schedule mishaps at work (Hope Haven), I ended up not having to work the overnight shift as I expected. Nice.

I went grocery shopping today. Bikes with baskets are amazing for grocery shopping!!

Today I made a delicious lupper and realised I had no one to share it with. And then I also realised I was going to go to family table in less than an hour with my clients. So at family table I ended up just getting a side dish and desert, but I paid more than half the clients did for their meals...

After supper we went to a blues concert in Rock Valley. It was good background music for my reading of the Silver Chair. Was that rude? Then we got cold and sat in the van to watch the fire works.

I found a banana bread recipe and I now have bread pans. I am just short a few ingrediants, so as soon as I get them I'll be a bread making machine! I used to bake banana bread a lot in Mexico to use up the rotten banana's in our house. Our baking soda came in litte two-table-spoon packages. I put chocolate chips in the bread. And I used more milk and less flour so it would be more moist and less cake-like.... who cares.

I haven't seen anyone who wasn't either a client or a coworker all day.

I'm going to bed.


P.S. I wrote this a couple days ago, but because I'm an idiot, I saved it as a draft instead of posting it... silly me.

Amanda is gone.