Sorry to admit to this

So she drives me nuts. I can't stand her and her teeny-bopper ways. When I heard the song on the radio I hate to admit.. but I was "moved" (something Jim one of my instructors would say). I was so in love with the song immediately! I had the chorus memorized by the end of the song and was singing it all day. I didn't know who wrote this awesome song.. until I asked one of the waitresses at Applebees when I was there for a friends birthday dinner. Get ready.. the song I have recently been obsessed with is....... THE CLIMB by Miley Cyrus!!!!aka HANNAH MONTANNA!!! BARF in my mouth a little! I thought about changing my mind and disliking the song, but I will lay down my pride and share with you the inspiring words of the Achey Breaky Heart King's daughter and let you decide for yourself if its good or not. The music video does the song NO justice.. so if you do decide to listen.. ignore the horrible cheesy video. I mean she is owned by Disney after all.

p.s. 36 more days til graduation! ALL of you are invited! Ceremony May 1st!!! woohooooo!

Clean your plate

I forgot to blog about this the other night after it happened, but again, I was caught up in school stuff and didn't have the time most likely. I went to bible study at Papa Ron's on Tuesday night. Every Tues night they have an awesome dinner, then worship then bible study. I was sitting at the table next to two of my friends I hadn't seen or talked to in a while. The one on my right had a whole plate full of food, and commented after having eaten literally 2 bites of bread and 1 of the main course that she was full. Joking around like I typically do, I said "Guuuurl! You better clean yo' plate, there are starvin' children in Africa!" The ironic thing was, the two girls I was sitting between were from Africa. The one I made the comment about was from Zimbabwe the poorest and one of the most sad countries in Africa. The table went completely quiet, then an uproar in laughter at how ridiculous I am for saying something so rude!! I hadn't realized just how offensive I was at first, until the one from Zimbabwe said to me, "Those starving children are my familes." I couldn't seem to apologize enough to keep from feeling such tramendous shame and guilt! My friend from Zimbabwe knew my heart and that my intentions were not to be rude or to hurt her or to offend the people of Zimbabwe. We have spoken many times about how I want to do medcial missions to Zimbabwe and one day work at an orphanage there and adopt all of the starving kids! My other friend from Africa is from Nigeria, she couldn't contain her laughter. I had gotten myself into a deep hole REAL fast!

Spring Break Blues

Today officially starts my spring break. I skipped class this morning to sleep. It was much needed because I slept until 1:30!!! It is nice to not have to think about papers or final exams, but it would be great to get out of Gainesville for a little bit. Nearly everyone I know is going somewhere awesome like on a cruise in the caribean, to the bahamas, to jamaica, to NYC, Washington DC, the Fl keys.. you get the point. Where will I be? Probably working 6 out of the 8 days we are on spring break. I drove a friend down to Orlando last night to take her to the airport. My sister rode along so I wouldn't get lost coming back. We went shopping after we dropped my friend off and were so jealous of the outlet malls they have there! The best part of the night was when we drove around down town orlando completly lost for an hour with my friend Tammy on speaker phone trying to describe to us how to get to the hospital (that she is doing practicum at). She has only been there for a week and knows nothing about the street systems there. There are LOTS of hospitals in Orlando by the way. When we finally found Tammy's dorm, we took her to dinner at Outback. We were expecting at least a 30 min wait like we would have here, but we were able to sit down right away. I forgot to ask the waiter (Brad) to not put lemons in my tea and water. I was explaining to Tammy how dirty lemons are and how i didn't like them (in my drink-which i thought was implied when I was fishing the lemons out of my drink). Her response was, "I'm a woman, why do you think all women are dirty?" I love Tammy and the things she says! Anyway, if anyone has anything fun or interesting to do, or see in Gainesville hit me up! I'll be working 7 to 3's all week for the most part.

Evangelism Linebacker

Sometimes I can be completely oblivious to things. I went to BIG group tonight (which is mostly all of the small groups at First Assembly meeting together corporately) and watched this video before someone came up and gave a lesson on evangelism. Please watch the video it's pretty funny! I was laughing up a storm and couldn't wait to get home to share it with my friends. I shared it with one friend who wasn't that phased because he'd seen it a million times before. He said "Young Life actually did a spoof". I said "Man, I bet that was great!" He gave me the link to watch the spoof and as I was watching it, it seemed familiar like I had seen it before. It wasn't until the near end when I realized WHY it was so familiar! I WAS IN IT!!!!! I thought the video was pretty funny when I saw it at work week 2 yrs ago... but I hadn't seen the original video so I didn't know just how funny it really was! Oh man, how embarrassing!