jam packed and now exhausted...

this weekend was great.... i went to the play on saturday night, and to the jars of clay concert sunday night followed by the best coffee time we have had so far. jay went to the pumpkin carving contest saturday night after the play and brought a pumpkin back. then sunday afternoon he and ginny made four pumpkins pies all the way from scratch. it may have taken them all afternoon, but i thank them so much for doing so.... they were amazing!

the play, "into the woods" was great. i laughed so hard at a lot of different things, it was well worth the $5. the jars concert was amazing as well. i didn't know the first two people, sarah groves and chris rice, but they did a great job. jars played a lot of news songs that i didn't know, but i was surpised to hear that they played a lot of songs from their flood album. i hadn't listened to them in such a long time, and it is amazing how the songs can just pop into your head again.... it was great to sing along.

this week holds so many great events.... karina is coming, and it is karen's birthday.... i can't wait!

i have space....

in the past week or weekend everything has been pretty uneventful for me until today. i went to sioux city for a full day today. it was amazing. i got to spend the whole day with the kids that i have only seen twice a week for three hours so far this year. they were excited to find out that i was going to be there the whole day, and i think that made me happy. i also got to present a lesson to them on immagration. i made them think about what it would be like if they were immagrants, and i made them write a story from that point of view and also a picture. they stories are great and the pictures also. i am going to bind them together somehow to make a book..... hopefully i can keep it.....

why did it seem so alone?

i went out for a walk tonight, the reason i am not so sure of... but it was well worth it. the air was crisp, the night was clear and there was only a couple of stars out, the brightest ones. as i looked up into the sky, i saw a shooting star. it was like one of those that you see in the movies, clear, bright, and radiant. it made me feel good inside and yet very small....

becoming a sea creature....

i had my first hper swimming class today. we really didn't do anything, as is the popular trend with hper classes, but i am getting really excited for actually getting to swim once a week. it could be because i know a couple of the people in the class that i know will make it fun. i will write more about it next week when i actually get to swim.

next tuesday, i have to teach an actualy lesson to the fifth grade class that i doing my practicum in. excited yet nervous..... hmm... what should i do?

my favorite person...

... this is rob and i on the ferris wheel at navy pier in chicago. most of the pictures that we took while in together were self portraits, which i like a lot better. the wheel was the biggest one that i ever saw. it had like 30 some cars on it, and it never stopped. you have to walk along the cars and hope in while it was moving... i thought i was going to get swept underneath to my death. going up was the scariest part because you are looking over the water and you feel like you are not surrounded by anthing really. by the time we got to the top, everything was ok. and the ride done was fine. i am not usually scared of heights, so i don't know why i was this time, but it was a good time...

maybe i will put more pictures on later....

stress no more...

... i feel like there have been this huge weight on my shoulders that has now been lifted off. for the first part of this semester, my life consisted of classes, sioux city, homework, and work... not a whole lot of room left for anything else. those were the days of stressful days and sleepless nights. not anymore. now some of my classes are over and i will have less responsiblities. i will be able to work more, spend more time with my friends, and spend more time in my bed. i am so excited...

this weekend was one of the best ones ever, beside the one that i spent in chicago, because i didn't have to worry about homework and projects coming up, i could just did what ever i needed to do and slept a lot.

this week i hope to:
- get my life organized
- send out some postcards
- sleep

visual aid....

here are some pictures of random things we have done
this year.

i don't have any pictures from chicago yet because i
am getting them in the mail from rob either today
or tomorrow.


ginelle and i at
savers
trying on
some fun stuff.

this is karen and i

getting ready for

winter......

we are pretty hot.....

no really.

everything worth while...

yesterday, i got back from chicago. it was pretty much the best time of my life. rob and i did so many different things.

wednesday, after i got there, we went out for some chicago style pizza at this really cool place. it was really good.

thursday we went to the MCA, museum of contemporary art, where young works. we saw some interesting art by dan flavin. it was all done with colored flourescent lights. interesting. we also went to china town for lunch and ate our whole lunch with chop sticks.... i liked it. we then went to the art institute. that was really cool also. after that we went to the abbey pub to listen to mates of state...it was awesome.

friday, we went around to different places... shopping i guess is what you would call it. then we went to blue man group, which was really really cool and free. then we went out to eat and that was amazing. we went to this little cafe. it was amazing. then we went to 'too much light makes the baby go blind.' so funny and so worth waiting out in the cold for.

saturday, we went around to the different parks and to navy pier. that was pretty cool too.... i mean cold! but pretty sweet.

i am listening to mates of state right now.... you should too!

now... homework that is haunthing me...... shoot....

i don't wanna go to sleep tonight....

today was refreshing. ginny and i feel asleep last night watching a movie, but then we woke up too late in order to go to church. therefore, we slept longer and then went to dinner.

i came back from my house and then started to make cookies. they are good.

i then went to gift... and was refreshed.

we had coffee time after gift. it is great to be able to just sit and chat with some great friends.

we are planning to have a canadian thanksgiving fest monday the 10th in honor of our great friends from the north. i can't wait.


we have a theme song for our room... and we sing it really loud when we hear it.. i love my roommates.

three more days until chicago....

crazy day...

.... i woke up at 1030 and ate some dutch pancakes, which were so lovingly made by my roommate. we then proceeded to jay w and chris w's rooms for the first of the year attacks. we got them of coarse but wanted to get the one person who brought rabbit rabbit into our lives. we piled into the wagon and drove to carmel to the worship retreat. we squatted in a closet for fifteen minutes and talked about random things. then jonathan came out of their meeting and we ran and got him. it was a sweet victory.

on the way home these events took place:

• jay and mark jumped into some random pool full of brown water
• they then climbed up a pile of silage and rolled down while they were all wet
• we stopped at the little chapel and married the two, i was the best man
• mark and jay needed to be cleaned so we power-washed them in the carwash

now that my adventures are complete, i must continue on with my homework.... sad to see it come to an end.

bee in a cup...

this week has been very exhausting. i feel like i need to climb into the hole that i call my bed and not come out for two weeks.

i caught a bee today at work. i put it in a cup so that i could take it to school for the kids to look at. hopefully they find it enjoyable.

as for me... i have a long day infront of me...
must have sleep..... before one on a friday night?
loser... maybe.