Posts Tagged ‘life’

Thankful

{ November 24, 2008 @ 7:15 pm } · { random blogging }
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music,
text messages, phone calls,
emails,
worship, dance,
retreat, people, laughter,
games, movies, cereal,
packages, vita soy, rice cooker…
a nice place to live
sunny sky, warm weather, palm trees
a cohort that knows how to take care of each other
old friends, new friends, friends back home….
good friends here to keep company
to dine with, to do homework with, to procrastinate with…
awesome community of brothers and sisters in the Lord
nice families who would invite me to dine on thanksgiving night
God’s Word, His Mercy and Grace, His Healing,
and His provision…

“…My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness….” 2 Corinthians 12:9 (NKJV)

In Denial

{ May 23, 2008 @ 10:51 am } · { personal }
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this sunday would be the last day to order graduation stuff…. cap and gown, tickets and all that jazz. i still haven’t made a move on it. it is not entirely because i’m busy…OR procrastinating. i can make an order now, as i am typing this entry.  but i am not… at least not yet. 

now i can actually feel the graduation days are coming closer, a part of me does not want it to happen. i am in denial.  in a few weeks, a chunk of my life will be taken away. everything familiar will be stripped away within the next few months…. i have to practically start from scratch. i am grateful for this opportunity where i get to go out and be on my own for a little bit. but it has been an emotional battle that i want to constantly push aside. how am i going to survive when i am far away from my support system?

i feel like i am being taken back to the first day i stepped into the UW campus for my freshman orientation. standing at the edge of johnson loop with my stuff and holding my sleeping bag. all of a sudden i felt soooo small.  buildings were 10 times taller than me.  i felt like i was being sent to a little town, not a school. i was dumbfounded.

now i am at the same place again…

I Know It’s A Little Bit Early, But…

{ May 10, 2008 @ 4:16 pm } · { Uncategorized }
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this coming weekend i will be giving a campus tour to my middle school girls in the after-school program.  i don’t know where i am going to take them yet.  they for sure wanted to see my dorm.  i think that’s what they are most excited about.  during the few hours we are going to be touring the campus, we would be walking around the u-district annual fair.  it was planned on that day, so then they would be able to have something else other than the campus to look at.

i’m rather excited about this.  i believe that everyone should have the right to choose to live a decent life, and these days often entails going to college.  even tho there seems to be a lot of asians on campus compares to other minority groups, i am hoping this trip will give my girls some exposure to college.  just so that they would know about it and be encouraged to go in their future, despite their home circumstances.  this is not about statistics.  i was fortunate enough to be in a family who supports my education, and i just want my girls to be informed about college as well.   so later in their lives they can have a choice to go.