PERU

So I am in PERU!!!!

Today our plans are to go to a community center and we will be giving out shoes for kids.

I will try to update as time goes by - just wanted to say hi!

Hannah Elise!

Finals Week

You know - I even had a professor say, "I don't believe in making finals miserable for the students" ("Awwww." thought I) right before announcing the final would be an ESSAY final with 1 - 8 essays on it. Joy to the world, my New Testament professor missed Revelation 21:8. LoL.

I am so ready to be done!

sooo the semester is coming to a close but I don't feel I will be able to settle down for another oh, 5 weeks!

how you ask? 1 wk. left of finals. 2 wks. in Peru. 2 wks. left to write a paper about Peru.

yes, I'm whining.

I can always use prayer - if only for an attitude adjustment.

I do think "finals week" dislikes me. Bad things always happen to me this week.

Last semester my best friend turned their back on me right before finals. nice.

And today I found out my dog may not live much longer. My baby. My precious little baby.

..Misty..

I wanted a puppy ever since I was 3! It was my every Christmas and birthday wish. When I was 6 my grandmother bought a cute, purebread, little, white furballish poodle for my birthday! I remember every detail about that day.

I wore a navy and white cotton dress because it was a special occasion and I wanted to feel pretty.

Everyone (extended family included...they even called me)wanted me to name her Cinnamon, because she had that coloring. I stoutly refused and stuck to Misty! Btw, her coloring faded and she ended up being....misty white. Hmmff.

Two days after I got her she pulled a scuunii out of my hair. I still have pics. She was my baby. I had nicknames for her. She slept with me. She followed me around. She was my baby.

When she could hear she knew what I was saying when I talked to her...Don't argue with me, she did! She used to like to wander away and I never got so worried as when I ran around the neighborhood searching for my little lost puppy. My baby. She always came home.

When I left for college her spirits went down. Sometimes I blame myself for leaving - perhaps it stressed her out. I wish I could have her here with me. My little baby here with me. She always perked up when I came home and followed me around. Now she is blind. My baby can't see. She misses me and there is nothing I can do to make this better.

Misty and I, we understand each other. She is special. My baby is special.

So now I am crying. I could use some prayers, somehow I have to handle all of this. Its my puppy and for this I have Jesus.

I hope your day is especially specifically delightful. Smile when you can, there may be a time when you just can't...

Hoping in the Lord,

Hannah Elise!!!!

New Things

So I said I was going to post more...

haha. I promise I'm not a habitual liar.

Things have been really amazing lately.

I recently (Tuesday) signed an apt. lease!              !!!!!out of these dorms!!!!!!!

I am grateful for the dorms, really. They shield me from the wind. However, I do get all the other weather changes. Oh wait, sometimes the rain stays outside. They are well insulated, unless it is cold and then the heat stops. The community showers are awesome minus the dirty floor and cold water. I love my dorm room, sometimes I need to stretch tho - so I open the door. As Taylor says, it is like living in a microwave!!! .lol. I really don't mind the food, my stomach does tho. It enjoys regularly giving it back to me. Isn't that precious? .lol.   

i feel like i'm in purgatory. lol.

so anyways. that is the newest excitement in my life. i'll try to post more. wait, i said something about lying earlier. yeah.

i'll try to think about posting more. :) promise, promise. :)

you all have a good one. good luck on finals, papers, grades and anything else that no one will look at once you leave here. ever. :) lol!

smiles!          ~Hannah Elise~

So...the most embarrassing thing happened to me last night.

I was waiting for Lane to come pick me up so we could go to the library and study. Mmhmm.

I get lost in "cell-phone land" - you know, texting, re-setting ring tones, playing games...the stuff you do when you're on the back row and don't want to pay attention in class.

thats exactly what i was doing - not paying attention.

"Ah! Here comes Lane...." - (aka here comes a green suv)

So while I'm still in cell-phone-land I open the door and start to climb in...

oh darn.

beige leather interior.  .  .  .  . Lane's is black.

yeah, I so totally almost climbed in a guys car that I didn't even know.

haha, well I made a new friend.

This is why it is imperative to have a sense of humor. I have no been so red in a long time. Did I mention this other guy is really popular? Haha! Ah...Memories.

With pink painted toenails,

Hannah Elise!

P.S. i have a pure loathing for computer homework...

so everything about this xanga site has been insanely boring minus the color scheme which is in fact remarkably obnoxious.

i need to take some time for my site - it used to be such fun.

so spring break is a week a way and there are no words to describe my excitement. amazed. enthralled. extatic. jubilient. yeah, they don't come close. I can't do anything special due to my non-rev-"stand-by" status for any flights. however the prospect of no school delights my soul.

altho i will miss lane.

anyways - what has God been teaching you lately?

i'm learning some amazing lessons. mostly about love. i recently watched "saved", and it changed my life. i tell you what, watching that movie and realizing how close it is to reality made me sick to my stomach.

how often do we try to ram Jesus down peoples throats?

 how often do we treat church as a little "club"?

how often do we reject those (even in small ways) that are not like us?

how often are we unlike Jesus?

John 8:7 - "Let him who is without sin among you be the first to throw a stone at her."

Romans 2:4 - "Or do you presume on the riches of his kindness and forebarence and patience, not knowing that God's kindess is meant to lead you to repentance?"

John 15:12 - "This is my commandment, that you love one another as I have loved you."

"John 13:35 - "By this all people will know that you are my disciples, if you have love for one another"

Hm, yeah, so this has pretty much been rocking my world. sometimes i have to stop and ask myself, have i been the one with a stone in my hand? the prospect makes me literally gag.

oh Lord, may it never be.

so that is where i am at. much love to you.

coffeebeans and carrotcakes,

hannah elise!