It's late

Break has been going very well for me. First of all this is my new kitty Naomi. She likes the computer just as much as I do. It has been a joy having her in our family. She brings a fresh wave of joy and stress in the household. The joy is when she curls up on the couch with me to watch a movie and when she leaps a few feet in the air like a lemer at the sound of nothing. The stress is when she attacks everything on the bottom end of the Christmas tree. My poor tree has nothing on the bottom of it because everything attacked has been moved up to the top where the cat can't reach. So it's looking a lil unbalanced, so I don't like to look at it much.
Towards the end of last week Elizabeth from the hills came to visit me. Another fresh wave of joy and stress. Just kidding about the stress part, but we shared lots of joy going out to a cuban restaurant where she dared to try yuka (some kind of root) and also dared to ride the roller coaster at Busch Gardens that shoots 90 degrees downward that I have yet been able to ride. She went on with me! That made my day. Another thing she dared to do with me was to play golf. I took her to the driving range and was happy to see my coach there because he gave us a good discount. She never tried golf before and said towards the end that she was very humbled by the sport. We had a good time. I would hit the ball and hear her swing 9 times and finally on the 10th time she hit the ball and it bounced 3 feet in front of her. Oh the joy. But really...she did get the hang of it and did rather well because I wasn't hearing her swing at the air anymore but saw the ball sail through the air. So lets give a hand to all the brave activities she took on without much hesitation.
While she was in town the church had their Christmas program. Two members of the church and I have been working for weeks trying to set up a marionette show for the church. I suggested we do the play "Gifts for Madge and Guy" like the bible school did last year at the dessert banquet. Here is a picture of the marionettes and the stage set up as a little town. The play itself went pretty well and plan on doing a few more performances.


Today it was about 60 degrees. I went to Busch Gardens and people were bundled up like they were going skiing. I just don't understand these Florida people anymore. Here I was wearing a short sleeved t-shirt and wanting to go on water rides. My cousins thought I was coo-coo. Later on we went to Chuch-E-Cheese to my friend Amber's daughter's b-day party. I beat her brother, boyfriend, and cousin in the basketball game they have there. Hurray for the high on the pedestal moments in life. Here is a pic of Amber and me. She has been my buddy since art class in 11th grade.


Merry Christmas everyone! I'm excited =)

THE FINALS ARE OVER AND DONE!! MY FIRST COLLEGE SEMESTER IS OVER!!

Plop

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer- Romans 12:12

I was just skimming through a bible promises for the graduate book and wanted to put some kind of quote in just for the fun of it. This one just sorta sums it up for me.
Tomorrow is the last day of class. I repeat. The last day of class! Crazyness. Friday is study day, so no classes that day. Saturday I have 3 exams and 2 exams on Monday. I'm trying to not to stress out and it's certainly working because I'm always doing something fun and keep forgetting to study.
Well Monday wasn't too fun actually. On Tuesday we had to give a group presentation on the special olympics and it's worth 30% of our grade. Our group met up once last week and they talked about everything except the actual project. Then Sunday I went to meet them and no one showed up! Kids! They are way to relaxed these days. So Monday rolls around and I'm like..ok...maybe it's time to work on our speech?? I did at least know what I was suppose to research. I went to the dorm to see if I could skout out the girls in the group and found one. She apologized for not showing up because she was watching a movie that night. Well I just smiled and politely asked if we were going to get together today since the speech is TOMORROW. She was going to find the rest of the group and then call me later. Well I go on campus around 8. Does she ever call?? What do you think? So I just hung around, walked in the pouring rain, and listened to my friend tell me how my group was going to fail and that was that. Thanks. I did find the girl in the library working on our powerpoint around 10 and she said she ran into the rest of the group earlier and got some information and said I could send the research I got her whenever. Whenever?? It's 10:30 at night and we give our speech tomorrow morning! Well I remained calm, went home and sent her my information. So the next day the group finally arrived to class and the one who was speaking about my research just shugged me off when I wanted to talk to him and make sure he knew what to say. Well ok...I'll just sit here and hope everything goes well. One member didn't even dress up and we were all suppose to be in our sunday best. In conclusion, although we totally didn't deserve it, we received a decent B grade. I'm glad that's over with and I decided that I don't like working in groups anymore.
Tuesday afternoon I was invited to play golf with some other students. It was the best game ever! I got par 2 times and I never have before. And it was nice to keep up with the other members of the group. And I had forgotten the joy of driving a golf cart =) The whole experience just made me love the game even more. I tell you, there is no greater joy then to hit the golf ball, lose sight of it for 4 seconds, then see it plop so pretty on the green.
Then today I went to the zoo for extra credit in biology. So now to study or not to study? It's awfully late now, how bout bed instead? Sounds good to me. I'm the worst student ever.