Hello my friends,

Well i am at my usually biyearly up date of my Xanga sight. I spent most of my summer working. i have a good paying, yet amazingly boring, job at Great lakes Spas and Resort. i spent all summer using scholding hot glue the stick wood to tubs. Very exciting. i only got burned twice!

Since my job is so boring i had a lot of time to think this summer and here are a couple of things that i have learned. for one, i am just begining to test, and experience the power of love. No, not the "oh, that boy is so hot" love, but the "this is causing me so much pain, i wish i could just let go" love. I more Godly type of love. This love is being tested as people that i do love a care about no longer agree with me on issues of great importance to me. Not everyone is going to agree with you about everything, but it is ones job to just rely on love to get them through. Hey, it works. after all if "God is love", then love must be just like God. Something that we can't really get our mind around. But i really can't get into everything in this paragraph so i will just leave it at that for now.

The summer as a whole has been... well, fine. nothing really exciting has happened. mainly i have just working, talking to friends, a little of this, a little of that. i am ready to move into my house though, see my calvin friends, and get some schoolin'. (yes, i do like to learn, i am a geek). well, tuttles for now.

                                                   It is done!

School as I know it is now over for the year! Man, it has for sure been a trip. First semester was not so hot, but the second was better. Now, it is done though. I don't ever seem to know what to say to people when i don't know if I will see them again. It was hard leaving the dorms for the last time. It is all sort of  a blurr though. It was like, exams, exams, emams, pack and run away. It was crazy.

I don't know how i did on my classes either. I think that i did better overall on my grades compared to last semester. However, I don't know how my chinese exam went. Then again, i really don't need to care if I did well or not, I am not taking it again. Religion went well, and I loved my African American Lit. class, rock climbing rocked (sorry for the pun). Fantablous.

Next, I spent the night with my chum Angelina. She just had back sugery and it was really painful, but she is doing really well. It makes me realize all the thing that I take for granted, like siting, standing, bending, and having a good crap.  She can't crap. It is because of all the drugs. To make her clam down so she could sleep i read to her. She fell asleep right away. It just feel good to know that you can help a friend when she needs it.

Work in the sweaty factory starts soon. I will keep you on the in as to how that is going- besides sweaty.

Well, i guess that once a month is better than once in a great while (In reference to how many time I acutally update this weblog) but I my own defence I do give long entires when I do. However, I have a rittle for you: Frank and Sally are in the middle of a puddle in the middle of a room dead. What happened? You can leave prposed answers on my comments thing, for those few soul that acutally read this log. I said that there was a cat the turned into a giant ball of noctous green gas and invaded the minds of the aforementioned victium and messed them up until death. ca la vie. However, if that is not up your ally here is another question, if you were a type of car, what sort of car would you be and why? I would be a brown old mini-van so that way people would not be afrid to turn up the radio and drive with the windows down, my favirot summer time activity. they would need to have the windows down because I am so hot! Haha. yeah, i laught my own jokes, it is said. well, i am on spring break, even though it we just had a snow storm! well, tuttles. hip hip cheerio!

Well, it is time that I update people on my life. In the past bit of time I been considering transfering to a different school. I really don't know how I will be able to afford going to Calvin College anymore. Not everyone here is rich, but a lot of them are getting a lot more help from their parents than I am. Oh well, my parents do what they can, and i love them for that. So anyhow, college, I looked at northern, and GVSU (for the the thrid time in my life) and decided that I am better where I am. So to make sure that I never feel the urge to change schools again I am going to have a minor in chiese. I hope to teach in China after I graduate. So I am now going to be stuck here for the long haul. I know that there must be people who are glad about that. I am not moving six hours away after all. Just so everyone is clear I am a secondary education english major with a minor in chinese. A minor will help get a job on the west coast I believe. They have more chinese people there then they do here. So in according with my minor and future living in china I will be going there next summer for an internship. Hopefully I will get paid a bunch. I really am going to need to money for rent.

Speaking of rent, in a little while I will hopefully be  signing a lease for a house next year. It is in east town, close to down town, five bedrooms, and two bathrooms, utilitys included, and a good neighborhood from what I hear. It will be expensive, but the rent is no more then for an apartment however. I think that I need to get a higher paying job for next year to pay for rent. I visited the Olymia Career Training web site to get info on being a nurses aid. Then I can work in the hospitals, that would be cool. So yeah, don't blink. My life seems to change that fast.

I am thinking that life is a strange thing. I am not really going to argue the point or anything but it just acured to me. Well interim is done, it is sort of sad really. I don't know to do with myself again. We have a couple days off but I really don't have any plans. I am one of those people that just always needs to be doing something. I am really tired and it is only 10. I don't even have any classes tommorow or anything. Nothing to get up early for. I guess that I am just alergic to being awake. Whatever, good bye