SKI TRIP!

The school ski trip was AWESOME!

First, I got to school and was really upset that I wouldn't be able to sit with Elizabeth or any of my really good friends, but then I asked Sister Dawn and she said that some of the sophomores would be on my bus anyway :) so Liz and I sat there texting Janna and Eden on the other bus, which was fun. We kept sending each other pictures... but that's irrelevant. We got to Blue Mountain and tackled our little freshman groupies and then proceeded inside because God only knows what happens when you disobey Ms. Kurniadi. Elizabeth, Nicole, Allie and I went to tube in a "family tube" which basically fit 5 persons and got some serious bonding time in. We then raced Lauren, Eric, Sheila, and Olive then Crystal and Chelsea. Crystal and Chelsea were hilarious though, they tried racing us to the line and I JUMPED inside their tube so it was harder for them to pull and Allie dove to grab onto one of the strings to hold it there while Nicole and Liz ran to find a new tube and raced around them. We went back inside around 11:45ish because we were pretty freezing and Liz and I sat in the cafeteria. Funny story- a boy walked into a garbage can staring at me (according to Liz). So after eating a bunch of carbs and drinking a red bull, I wanted more so I went to get nachos and when I came back Crystal came in saying, "Janna is looking for you.. your friend Eden got hurt." So Liz and I charged out of there (sadly, leaving my nachos behind) to find Janna. She showed us to the hospital area thing and Eden just laughed at us. Apparently she didn't take the snowboarding LESSONS before actually SNOWBOARDING. Thus, she fell into a ditch and basically broke her knee and Janna was her hero. For the rest of the day, Janna Liz Eden and I all sat in the lounge, none of us wanting to leave Eden there alone. It was actually really fun. We sat there bonding for hours and our table accumulated more drinks/food by the hour. I also yelled at Eden for not listening to me about taking the lessons and Liz got a picture of it which i uploaded underneath this entry. I went out one more time to earn Jesus points and tube with Sister Dawn, Janna, and Micah. Eventually, it was getting late and boys came in and changed right in front of us - which by the way was hilarious. Kaleb then thought it'd be cool to stand RIGHT in front of me and change. Ew. Then we left and I fell asleep on the bus on Janna, and now I'm sick from the cold because apparently 2 pairs of everything ISN'T ENOUGH to duel a mountain. Yay!

Missed Journals Assignment (week of december 14)

So the whole reason I missed the journals from the week of December 14^th was due to Janna’s father being in the hospital and dying on December 13^th. So I figure I should probably write about that. That week was a horrible time for a lot of people and it affected a lot of people, Janna’s family, friends, anyone that just genuinely cared. Janna spent a lot of time wondering why God would take her father away, why now. But when you sit back and think about it now that it’s really all over, it happened the best way it should have. At the memorial service, all I could hear was how he was such a great man and he walked with God his entire life, and how he wanted to be first for everything. I remember someone saying “of course he has to be the first to be with God, he had to be the first for everything” and everyone laughed. But it’s true. He knew he was going to die when he did and he was perfectly alright with it, he was so certain about being with God he just asked for the Lord to take him. Everything happened the way it should. When Janna was in the hospital and she wanted me to be there, it was killing me that I couldn’t be. But now that I think about it it’s obvious that if God wanted me to be there I would have been there, and I was. I was there in a sense that I did anything and everything she needed me to, I was there for her to open up to when she wouldn’t even do it with her own family. I was there at the memorial service to sit next to her and be there when she was crying. I was there and that was God’s plan for me. The reasons for all of this, I don’t know. I didn’t really know the man nor did I know the family however I knew what purpose I served and this could lead all the way back to me applying to NJUCA. I’m supposed to be here, I was supposed to become Janna’s friend I was lead to care about her to be there for her to rely on someone. I was put here for a reason and I think she may be one of those reasons. Her father’s death was a horrible thing for her family, but I don’t believe death was the end for him, just the beginning. Like I said he was an amazing person and I believe right now he’s in Heaven with God watching down on us all. I don’t think death is the end, I think it’s the beginning. There are two quotes I found about death that sort of back up what I’m saying, “Death may be the greatest of all human blessings.” ~Socrates, and “To the well-organized mind, death is but the next great adventure.” ~J.K. Rowling. Yes, I know she wrote the Harry Potter books, but I know that what she said is true. Death is just another adventure.

silence video

There were this silence video and I don't exactly remember the day we watched it, though I'm assuming it was last week. Something about this video really struck me. I mean, at first all I could think was, "OH NOT THIS GUY AGAIN" because it was the guy that compared the money we spent yearly in ice cream towards feeding the rest of the world, and I really don't like that guy. Though I don't like the guy in the movie we watched today either, I prefer the ice cream dude but ANYWAY. We watched this video that said that God speaks to you but with everything going on in our world it's much harder to hear him then it used to be. I mean, it makes sense. I personally have tried sitting in silence waiting for God to speak to me and I still hear something whether it's the TV downstairs or the fan from my laptop there's always SOMETHING. Sometimes I think people expect God to come in a blinding light or his face form in a cloud like in the lion king (POINT!) but even if that may perhaps be the case sometimes, God isn't going to show up like that. If you really listen, he will speak to you. And that really hit me. The movie, for a low budget film was really good! It was smart and well thought out. It actually made me change my mind from begging God for an answer to sit and silence and listen. Regardless of if I actually hear him yet, I know he'll speak to me eventually so now I sit and I wait.