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Name: Jess
Gender: Female
Interests: summer classes, sleep (now that i might have time for it), CHINA!!!
Expertise: catching up on sleep, eating 3 real meals a day... reading up on China so I can get my diploma and actually go to China in August....
Occupation: Education/training
Industry: Research
Message: message me
AIM:  jessakajo83
MSN: jessallen83@hotmail.com
Member Since:
4/14/2003
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| So basically I suck at keeping up with anything online lately...as is evidenced by my lack of xanga updates and my lack of having a facebook/myspace account. although, soon i will be having much more free time to do online things like that since i .....
HAVE A NEW AND AMAZING JOB!!!!!!!!!!!
I got a job on Thurs. night after interviewing for an hour and a half at this Christian Counseling Center. They specialize in treating chemical dependency and eating disorders (among the many other things that they help people with). I will be doing reception/billing/checking patients in and many other things as they come up. It could not be a more perfect job and it came at the perfect time. TOTALLY a God thing. I had my last day today at the healthcare place, and I start my new job tomorrow. I am so excited to do something where I feel like I'm truly helping people and seeing people grow every day!! During the interview it was like she was reading my mind and saying the things I've always wanted in a job. That's when you know it's God. The people that work there are so incredibly sweet and wonderful (I hung out with them for over an hour the other day!) and it's in a cute town near Seattle on the waterfront. It's this adorable city with cute streets and fun coffee shops and old fashioned stores everywhere. It's perfect! Praise God! I feel like after 7 months of being home in the States, God is really bringing things together in my life. It's so exciting! Also I am planning to move out in March. Some people at my church have an apartment/separate house next to their house and they are offering amazingly low rent and it's fully furnished (which is good since I don't own any furniture anymore). God is totally working in my life. It's great. I hope He keeps working and doing more things that I couldn't even hope or imagine! I can't wait to see what the rest of the future holds.
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| I just want to say what an encouragement all of your comments and emails and prayers are to me! Thank you soooo much. I also want to say that I am in the process of emailing people back and getting back in touch with you all, so sorry if there has been a delay in my responses....
The Lord has been working in my life a lot lately. I went to traffic court on Monday this week. It was in downtown Seattle and traffic was AWFUL!! I was late by almost 30 minutes!! I couldn't find the courthouse and I was running around downtown frantically trying to find it. Finally I found it, and my Dad and I found the courtroom and sat down and waited, hoping that it wasn't too late to talk to the judge. After an hour, the judge called my name and after another 20 minutes, I got to go up. The judge (a very blunt Chinese American man) couldn't make sense of the police report. He had to read it out loud several times and still was like "WHAT??! I don't get it". Then as I gave him my one minute rendition of what happened, he interrupted me to say "DISMISSED!". That was it. The ticket is off my record as if it never happened. Months of worrying for two minutes before the judge. Moral of the story: I shouldn't have worried, it was all in God's hands anyways.
"And who of you by being worried can add a single hour to his life?" --Matthew 6:27
I have been learning a lot about worry lately (mostly because I have been worrying way too much!). My life has not turned out the way I thought it would. I read something lately about how "peace doesn't always follow obedience". It helped me so much. I thought my life would all come together and be all nice and quiet once I came back from China. I was obeying God--shouldn't everything be great?! God had other plans... I am thankful in some ways for this accident though, because I have learned so much about God that I wouldn't have learned otherwise. I am still waiting to find out if the other driver is going to sue me (he has threatened), I'm still waiting for a permanent job, I'm still waiting for health insurance, I'm still waiting for a permanent place to live and still praying that God will continue to provide for me each month to pay my bills, but I'm slowly learning to trust and wait. God hasn't forgotten me (even if it may feel like it at times) and He is still working behind the scenes even when I can't see it.
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| it's been a while....
and I'm back in the States again. Here's a quick summary of my life
lately. Return home from China, recover from jet lag and search for a
job (July). Find new job in downtown Seattle at a TESL school (August
1). Get threatened, stalked, chased and call the police at said job.
Quit scary downtown job (August 24). Look for new job and interview at
20 different jobs, while applying for nearly 100 different jobs
(September). Get into very intense and scary car accident after being
literally run off the freeway and smashing into the guard rail while
going 60mph (September 24). Start going to church with my mom and
decide to join her church after making great new friends there. Spend
3 weeks going to the dr. and chiropractor trying to be able to move my
neck and back again (September-October). Regain energy and ability to
move my neck and back (end of October). Get accused of speeding and
receive a speeding ticket in the mail (end of October). Find out the
guy who hit me blamed me for the accident and accused me of driving
erratically and the police believed him--I am faulted for the accident
(November 1). Learn that the guy who hit me has hired a lawyer and
several 'witnesses' to falsely accuse me (November 1). Find out that
both my insurance and the police do not believe me because I am "young
and a woman" (November 2). Prepare myself to go to court at least once
to contest the speeding ticket and fault in the accident. Search for a
full time job near my house while applying to 5-6 temp agencies also
helping me look for a job (present).
Overall it's been really rough. I've taken a lot of criticism for the
accident, how long it's taken me to look for a job and returning to the
States after China. It doesn't matter what people think: I know I
followed God in coming home to the States, I know I wasn't speeding and
that I didn't cause the accident and I know that God is the one
preventing me from getting a job now (for whatever reason). I don't
understand why this is all happening but I have grown closer to God and
I am thankful for that. Here's a passage I am clinging to...
"You made men ride over our heads; we went through fire and through
water, YET you brought us out into a place of abundance...Blessed be
God who has not turned away my prayer nor his lovingkindness from me."
- Psalm 66:12, 20
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| wow, only a few days left in the good old USA... i can't believe i
leave on sunday night!! i'm really excited and nervous and feeling like
it's surreal all at the same time. it's quite the mix
really. i finished my last assignment for university on monday!!
YAYYYY!!!!!! there was much screaming and dancing!! i've
spent the last few days hanging out with my friends and fam and getting
all ready to go. there's still sooo much to do, but God will
allow me to get it all done.
just a little update for you...i won't be able to surf xangas while i'm
in china. however... i will be emailing my posts to my mom who
will post for me and forward your comments on to me. so
unfortunately i won't be able to post on your site... :( but i'll
still be able to post and my mom will forward me the updates on all my
subscriptions (aka your super cool xangas!).
if you want to email me you can send me stuff at
jessicafaye83@gmail.com. please let me know if you want to be on
my email update list too (and of course i'll be emailing my dearest
peeps individually also!!) :)
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| okay peeps....after my disappearing act, i'm back on xanga again.
much has happened in the last few weeks...i went to oh-ho-ho and hung
out with stace and did the whole ERAP training thing at
cedarville. it was sooo much fun. i found out that i'm
going to be teaching a few "reading/writing" classes (aka grammar) and
a couple of "listening/speaking" classes at good old Ren Da. i'm
"pret--ty much" (that's for you mel) excited about it. i started
packing up my room yesterday too which was really weird and kinda
sad... i'm going to have to take a lot of pictures of all my friends
and fam with me to china...
on monday i finally finished all the papers and reading for one of my
classes... i feel like i'm back at school again (staying up till 2am,
getting up early) all to finish a few "piece o' trash" papes (that was
for you stace!). now i only have 2 more classes left... (i'm
hoping to finish one this weekend). i think taking classes has
been more work than commuting and holding a job... it's definitely
contributed to my lack of being online and in touch with people...
in other news i'm teaching for VBS this next week...i'm kinda nervous
about it especially since the lessons aren't complete. we just
got them and they need to be pretty much rewritten!! aughh!! i
don't know how that's going to work, because i don't have time to
rewrite 5 lessons before monday...but what are you going to do?!
i guess just pray about it and leave it with God...
so i think next summer we should have a CU reunion in ohio maybe in
july. we'll have to start planning way ahead so we could all go
and tell our crazy stories and hang out and be weird, just like in the
dorms! :) i miss you all and love you!!
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