a lack of personal history...

I love how it ranges in the 50's all afternoon and then snows 5 inces at midnight... the weather just needs to make up its mind. goodness.

I have come to realize, through studying the Polish culture in my class, that American's have little pride for our history. Its kind of sad, really. Yes, we all know about the satue of liberty. but without having watched national treasuer recently, I would not have remembered that there were two, or that it was built in france, or anythink else about it. But we heard of story of when one teacher was in Poland [back in the day] she was walking around with someone [who was a math major] and he knew all the history to all the statues and historical markers everywhere they went. the Poles learn all of Polish history at their mothers knees. Americans just dont have it. and its saddd.


I signed up to help with a program at the church I have recently begun to attend. the church is Freedom Fellowship Church. I like it alot.
twice a year, they run a program called More Than Conquerors. It is a program they have set up for single mom's. they provide them with free child care, a "life lesson" and a "god lesson" each week. They also provide each of the ladies small papmering treats and at the end of each class, they give them a sack of groceries. I am needing 15 hours of community service for my Intro to Social Work class, and I thought that this would be a perfect chance. I get to work with the nursery. Patty [the lady incharge of setting everything up] told me that they were going to pay me... now this creates a problem. Community service doesnt = cash. haha. So after i work my 15 hours [which will take 6 weeks] I will then be able to get paid. [for 6 weeks!]

funnn stuff!

I am also trying out a new church on Sunday. Its called Generation Next. A few friends of mine from the Nav go there, and they all really like it.

Renewal conference is comming up! [Renewal is the Navigators Conference- much like a midwinter- for the southwest conference. We will be staying at the Raddison in Dallas-ish. We will have large group times and workshops on Saturday. ROADTRIP! The Nav has 2 fifteen passenger vans. We have named the blue one the hoopdee, and the gold one (even though the guys dont aprove) the golden goddess. its going to be lots of fun, and I am really excited.]

Hope all is well with everyone else.
Hope y'all are keeping warm!

a rough start...

My second semester is on its way!

Lets see how its going:



[Mon/Wed] 11:30-12:45
*Intro to Social Work

Professor: A+
Class: B
Goal: Find out more about the field of Social Work, and see which fields I would like to look into.





[Mon/Wed]
*Lifetime Wellness



Professor: A
Class: C
Goal: Learn to have a healthier lifestyle [i.e. health diets, working out and whatnot]



[Mon]
*Individual Studies [Poland Class]

Professor: A+
Class: A+
Goal: POLAND! and making a rockawesome presentation for April!



[Tues/Thurs]
*Interpersonal communication



Professor: A+
Class: B
Goal: Learn more about communications on the interpersonal level!



[Online]
*Human Behavior

Professor: A
Class: B
Goal: Learn more about myself so that I can then beable to learn more about others.



[Online]
*Local and State Gov't

Professor: A
Class: B
Goal: Learn more about how the local and state gov't work, and how to be more involved in these processes.

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And on a sadder note...

Ingrid...
One of the girls that I worked with twice a week in PALS my Senior year of high school was taken to the hospital some time ago. I don't know the extent of the medical conditions... but it ended in her surviving strictly on lifesupport. Sunday morning, she was taken off of her life support, and is now dancing with The Father....
There are no doubts in my mind that she is up in heaven... chasing Jesus... Tapping him on the shoulder... and not letting people sing to her... she has probally played a few games and completed a million puzzles of the sunset. maybe she'll piece together the sunrise for Saturday morning [which is when her funeral is to be held] and the stars for that night...
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