The Final Countdown

My aunt, uncle, and grandparents came over today to say good bye. It was fun to see all of them. I leave for Iceland on Friday. I keep telling myself that, but it seems like something very distant. Like "one day I am going to have my own house" or "when I get married, I want my wedding to be like this." I hope I don't have a breakdown when I get to the airport, when I realize what I am actually doing. Oh well, I'll just try to roll with it.

Tomorrow is my last day to teach junior high Sunday school. I am going to miss those little guys. I am really going to miss South Mac. I have made a lot of great friends there.

Coleridge writes " friendship is a sheltering tree." I am thankful to have so many of my friends with me in the Netherlands.

Two Things in Life Are Always Free : Grace and Jason's Deli Frozen Yogurt

My mom encouraged me to start blogging again.  Part of me is very intrigued with the idea of blogging, and the other part of me is too lazy.  I am going to try to get better at this.  I want to be cool and progressive right? 

Well I have about one month before I kiss sweet ol' America goodbye and say hello to Iceland.  I received my class schedule today for the University of Maastricht.  I am taking International Management, International Business, a European History, and a Communication and Philosophy course.  Reading my schedule made me realize that I am really do this.  I am really leaving everything that I feel comfortable with and everything that I love.  I won't be at Baylor, and I won't be able to live life with some of my closest friends.  As I am growing up, I have learned that there are few things in life that is more important than friendship.  I hope that going to Europe for 3 months is one of them.  

I hope that I learn valuable lessons while I am in the Netherlands.  I hope that I become a better  minded business student.  I really want to look back on this time in my life when I am 26 and think, "Wow I am so glad that I risked it.  I would not be the same woman if I had not experienced what I experienced in Europe."  Many of my students have voiced their concerns about heading off to college for the first time.  I am right there with them!  I completely understand the anxiety of starting a new school. Speaking of my students, they are so great.  I am so blessed to have my job.  Seriously!  God blesses me all the time.  

For example, yesturday; I got like 6 things free for no reason.  People kept on giving me things, and I didn't have to give them money.  It happened at Starbucks, Taco Bell, etc.  I'm not gonna lie, it was pretty BA.  

God is Love,

(stole that from Run)

Kath

Time Heals

Isn't it odd that we find it so hard to wait on the Lord, when waiting is exactly what we need? The best things things in life take preparation. Babies take nine months to develope. Wine only gets better with age. Flowers only come in bloom when the conditions are right. It takes sixteen plus years to be richly educated. The best things in life take time. Why would we want to cheat ourselves by hurrying things along? Why would we want to trade those intimate moments that we experience by trusting in His timing for minutes? These are some things that I have been thinking about...

My Internal Clock is Off

My body has no idea what time it is. I have been sleeping off and on all day, so going to bed tonight should be fun. I decided that I should start blogging because I am trying to push off working on my sunday school lesson. "Put it on the back burner" as Mr. Smith, my old high school Chemistry teacher, would say.