Hey everybody!! I have a new blog that I'm using instead of myspace. if you want to see it, go to http://ecuadorian-sara.blogspot.com/ . Also, if you ever want to contact me, use facebook. I log in to myspace about once every six months...haha. Peace!
sara

Hey everybody!! I have a new blog that I'm using instead of myspace. if you want to see it, go to http://ecuadorian-sara.blogspot.com/ . Also, if you ever want to contact me, use facebook. I log in to myspace about once every six months...haha. Peace!
sara

Hey everybody!! I have a new blog that I'm using instead of myspace. if you want to see it, go to http://ecuadorian-sara.blogspot.com/ . Also, if you ever want to contact me, use facebook. I log in to myspace about once every six months...haha. Peace!
sara

1. I hate materialism.

2. I hate every tv show on now- since when should watching people have affairs/cheat/lie/cuss and basically tear other people down be called entertainment?

3. I hate cars and the fact that we have to drive everywhere to get anywhere.

4. I hate the rudeness and coldness I see every day in so many strangers faces and the fact that you have to try really hard to get to know anybody around here.

5. I hate the competition of the american dream and how some people think they're better than others b/c they have more money or are more attractive (due to the tanning beds, breast implants, died hair, and manicures they spend hundreds of dollars on each year)

6. I hate the insincerity I see in so many people who wish to look good in other people's eyes by doing community work/fund raisers more than they wish to actually help or love those whom they are doing the community work/fund raising for.

7. I hate money.

8. I hate that it costs every dime to travel on a missions trip that lasts a week.

9. I hate injustice.

10. I hate the inauthentic-ness I see in so many people who pretend to be your best friend to your face but in reality don't give a crap.

Here are the pro's and con's of Basketball according to me.

PROS
1. Eric Gordon is magical
2. Basketball shorts

that's all I got.

CONS
1. it's lame.
2. it's literally men running around a court tossing a ball back and forth.
3. Women's Basketball (need i say more?)
4. The fact that pretty much any move is one or two or three points doesn't even make the actual slam dunks exciting... it's just some other points added to the score, which usually goes from the higher score to the lower score so often that you just lose interest altogether and decide it's easier to just not watch the game and have someone tell you the score later.
5. No one in any foreign country cares about it as much as they care about Soccer.
6. since when is a 250 lb guy grabbing and hanging onto a thin wire hoop a good idea?

This is a response to Michael Baysinger's blog "Pros and Cons: the Soccer Edition" which you can get to by clicking on this link: http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=2122635&blogID=411716861

I still love you, michael.

hey everybody!!

so, today in class we checked out these two websites that really caused us to think: are machines taking over? check out these two websites (the second one is my favorite, so if you don't have time for both, check out the second one.) these clips were made by an anthropology class.

go to www.youtube.com and type in:

"The machine is us/ing us"

and

"A vision of students today"

or go to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6gmP4nk0EOE  and http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dGCJ46vyR9o

 so... I feel like I've been looking for God in all the wrong places. Or maybe I'm preventing myself from 'finding' Him by what I do... if that makes any sense. I seem to be doing fine without it- I'm alive and surviving, but I'm pretty sure that Spiritual growth is important as a Christian, and life seemed to have been better in the past with that growth. With the recognition that I did something right for once or that God used me to touch someone that day, I got motivated to do more 'right' things or to touch more people's lives. And I had a stronger desire to live the Word and to love people when I recognized that I did something for God's kingdom. It's like in school- when I would get an 'A' on a test, I would get a stronger desire to ace the next test too, than I would if I got a 'C' or lower. I would want to keep that grade up, and in this life as a Christian, when I seem to be growing spiritually, I want to keep that up too. I know growth has it's fall backs- it's not a smooth road to walk, and that's what pushes us to growth is when we recognize our fall backs. But what happens when the growth just stops? And you don't know how to get back on the 'road'?

I feel like no matter how much or what variety of Christian music I listen to, It doesn't help me in Spiritual growth at all. I don't feel fed from sermons I've listened to or books I've read, unless they're about how to change the world both environmentally or about helping people. But then I just get frustrated at my lack of ability to follow through with all these things. So I've been trying to read the Word more, and pray (alone) regularly as my last alternative, but it's so hard to gather up the motivation to read and pray consistently. And by pray, I don't mean 'before the meal' kind of pray. What I mean to actually sit down for 10+ minutes in quietness with the purpose to pray for those we love, and for those who need God, and to give thanks for all the blessings that God has given us.

It takes discipline to grow. We can't just expect God to water us and make us blossom. It takes discipline to save even just 30 min. of the day to read God's Word and then talk to Him. It takes discipline to listen to clean music that speaks of/to God instead of listening to music about materialism. All this stuff results in spiritual growth in the long run. I'm just finding it hard to make it a habit.

So... i started at ivy tech on monday. I haven't started real classes yet, just one intense class called the "student success seminar". I have to admit that despite all the homework given (six hours a day give or take), it was a pretty good class. we talked about good studying tips and stress and psychology.  Basically alot of stuff i wish I had learned a few years ago. (i probably did learn it but didn't care enough back in the day to listen).  Now that particular class is over and on Tuesday I start real classes. I'm quite a bit nervous.

I wasn't nervous until this afternoon.  After my sister nicole left, My grandma took a nap and it was so quiet in the house that I was forced to think about this upcoming week that i've been avoiding the thought of.  I realized that I don't even know which campus my english class is at, and Then i thought about all the classes i'm taking and thought about how much harder this semester will be compared to Johnson.  We won't just be reading books and writing summaries over the chapters, we will  be required to do alot more.  I then thought that maybe i was taking too many credit hours for me to handle- assuming all the classes give as much homework as the seminar class I just finished. 

So now i have major butterflies in my stomach and wish this whole first week was over so I could know already what I'm getting myself into.  I am excited too, though.  I'm glad that I'm going  to take some classes that'll get me into nursing.  I'm looking forward to meeting new people, although i do miss my my old roomate, michelle.  we  talked on the phone yesterday and i just couldn't get over how much i missed her!

anyways, all this said, i have three starbucks gift cards that will help me get through the first couple weeks of school, and a good book to read to get my mind off life when things get too stressful.  I learned that sometimes it's good to avoid stress when it gets to be too much.

hello dear readers.

I am excited to once again be writing you from the North Pole. just kidding i'm actually at johsnon bible college. I just thought the North Pole would sound cool and be a good attention getter! Especially since it's Christmas and that's where Santa actually lives.  quick fact: did you know Santa was a real man who lived hundreds of years ago in Europe and gave toys out to poor Children?  He did this every Christmas becuase he knew the poor couldn't get as many gifts as the rich, so he became a legend and everyone wanted to have an eternal santa clause. that's a true story.  Well, they asked him if he could live in the North Pole because apparently it snows up there, and snow preserves bodies and things, so even though he grew old, he was preserved and never died. this way, he could live forever for people.  He found out the whole world, not only europe, had poor children (who turned into greedy rich children) and delivered toys and candy to them.  no, really, the first part of that is true.

I'm over pumpkin spice creamer/coffee. i drank WAY too much of it over thanksgiving and even after I was sick of it I went out and bought a whole new bottle of pumpkin spice creamer for tradition's sake, and ended up not even wanting to swallow it when I mixed it  in my coffee.  Peppermint is the new favorite.  I had some deliciers Peppermint Mocha (3 in 1 whatever that is) and it was soooo amazing!!! it was the coffee part that tasted pepperminty, with an inch of whipped cream and pieces of peppermint candy sprinkled on top.  and to top it off, chocolate syrup was zigzagged all over the top!!! how amazing is that??!?!?! Unfortunately I couldn't find peppermint creamer at walmart, so I bought Ginger Bread, which is alright.  deffinitely better than pumpkin spice right now, so i'm not going to complain. 

Michael, my now Fiance, or as they say in china "Weihuenchi"  [way-h-wench-ee] has been in good ol' tennessee for the past two weeks and will valiantly stay until I leave this school for good. I will then head on to Nursing school at Ivy Tech in Evansville and live with my Grandma. I'm excited about getting on with my life. I've always been scared and kept going back and forth on whether or not to do it, but i'm glad that i'm doing it.  I must say, it's  been really fun hanging out with Michael the past few weeks, but I won't gross you out with all the mushy details of how much we really love eachother with a love that "can't be tracked, not with a thousand dogs, and can't be boken, not with a thousand swords" (quote from The Princess Bride).  I am truly madly deeply in love with him. (savage garden).

I bought a Mannheim Steamroller cd today.  I know, you saw the title of this blog and as you were reading, thought "shoot, when the heck is she going to get  to the exciting part of this? I just can't wait to hear all about Mannheim Steamroller and how awesome he is. He has been my role model for EVER!!!" well I don't have much, but here it is.  I love his music (it is like orchestra, but not. much cooler.)  and he has like 4 or 5 albums for christmass!!! so i'm listening to it and thinking about it's amazingness.

We are on final exams this week.  I hope i get through them alive.  but if not, it's ok b/c none of these clases matter for nursing. except for english comp., so i guess i  better do good on that one.  Last night I had a dream about Ecuador.  It was soo real. I could smell the misty air of the mountains, there was a beautiful  orange/yellow ecuadorian sun setting behind the mountains, and it was just glorious.  then i woke up to my roomates voice asking if i wanted to go to brunch. I'm glad she woke me up b/c we only had like an hour until brunch was over, but i wasn't really quite ready to wake up.  I went from being so content and free from the worries here, to being in my dorm room with ultra-lame exams ahead of me.  And, like most mornings that I wake up  from a good night of ecuadorian dreams, i lied there and wished so bad that I could go back to the beautiful Andes mountains and run through the wide open meadow of Carboncillo, and explore the enchanted forests of the mountains. But unlike most mornings that i wake from those dreams, I was overjoyed that I was returning in 8 days. 

one more thing, i bought three awesome books for four dollars at mckays today. how awesome is that? 

I am currently drinking a delicours cup of  a pumpkin spice latte.  I discovered this incredible drink at starbucks in early fall and became obsessed with it.  then when I went with michael and his brothers and sister-in-law's to gatlinburg a few weeks ago, I found out I could buy the pumpkin spice creamer at walmart. So if anybody loves pumpkin spice as much as I do, go buy the creamer at walmart- one bottle of creamer that lasts for weeks= same price as one cup of starbucks coffe that lasts one hour.  (or one minute if you chug it down as fast as I do).  anyways, I have enough pumpkin spice creamer to last me one more cup of coffee for this week.  unfortunately, I have developed an addiction to one cup of coffee per day, and don't want to go out and buy a whole new bottle of creamer four days before I leave for thanksgiving break. in other words, I have one cup of pumkin spice coffee to last me the next four day.  So last night my roomate and I decided to go to starbucks for a break from homework, and that way I could buy that day's cup of pumpkin spice coffee, but starbucks was closed! so we went to the next door pilot station and got some coffee there. I was overjoyed to find that they had pumpkin spice for only a dollar for 16 oz.!!  it was also much tasier and more pumkin spicedy than the starbucks one.  and, it happens to be the same stuff I am drinking right now, so it actually lasts two days, instead of just one. so, if you have a pilot station near you, and you are addicted to pumpkin spice latte's, go to pilot to buy it, not starbucks.

The End.