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Name: Kristen
Gender: Female
Interests: i like reading books and watchin stuff, cooking, making art :) [mostly drawing or painting], playing my flute...learning languages...ok can't think of any more...wait..KAYAKING! k that's it
Expertise: anything lit-related..i can photocopy RIDICULOUSLY well..i mean it, i'm amazing..
Occupation: STUDENT
Industry: Education...investing in the m
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MSN: miz_bean@hotmail.com
Member Since:
10/31/2004
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| "and we're back in 5..4..3..2..1"i have returned triumphant! the trip to South Africa was amazing to say the very least. it is the prettiest country that i have ever been too with about a million hills and just as many valleys. i'll post an amazing picture as soon as i can. here are some of the more interesting points of the trip:
- ostrich for lunch on the plane ride back.
- getting up close and personal with the wildlife at the game reserve.
- South African boys who are all about ten feet tall, tanned, and can say things like "warthog" and still sound sexy.
- got to spend time with my Oupa, who STILL calls me his baby even though i am ginormous and much more sarcastic than the average infant
- getting tanned at the beach.
- billtong!! [african jerky made from exotic animals that tastes amazing o_O]
- cheap curios.
- singing zulu guy with his five bouncing wives.
- my dad trying to sell off either me or amanda for 10 cows..and the zulu guy actually considering.
so many other things but it is tough to recall them all right now as i am oh-so-very tired.
at present i am in the DTS dormitory....the cloistered life is amusing so far, with some pretty interesting characters. the staff here are kerazay, that is for sure. i'm just relieved that i there is wireless nearby for me leech...*hands shake* things were starting to get pretty dire there for a bit..i go to sleep, the exhaustion overtakes me >_<.
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| momentous moment, our doom is at handso recently have been praying about next year's plans. whether to contiue in school or whether to do something else. anyways, finally got the answer, am going to do something else, basically a DTS [discipleship training school] here in orlando. such a relief to have that over and done with. anyways, this may be my LAST POST EVER...or at least for like two weeks until i get back from South Africa [LEAVING IN THREE DAYS!!!]. hopefully everyone has a frantabulous Christmas, it's an awesome time. i think one of the things i love most about this time of year is the "goodwill" that permeates the atmosphere and causes people to do and say things that they would never usually do. i don't even know half these people but i will still wish them a merry christmas, happy holidays, all that jazz. usually i can't stand people who pretend to care when they don't, but i think in christmas, everyone cares just a little bit. i really do want them to have a great christmas. maybe because i know what it is like to have a totally rubbish one, maybe just because christmas should always be amazing. so basically, i love goodwill, i hope the world has an amazing christmas, no matter what else sucks for them..haven't anything else to say :) | | |
| 5 days until i leave for South Africa...! ridiculously excited [if you can't hear the excitement it's the phlegm and death in my lungs...i find that phlegm and death often sound like apathy]. ridiculously tired. ridiculously ready to be far and away. unfortunately, all that stands between me and the rolling veld happens to be four exams, three tests, and a project. i am not the strong sort that can look at such as this and resignedly get down to studying for it. and so here i am, procrastinating. really, it feels as if the school term is over already. have gotten a particularly large dose of perspective this weekend and college in comparison to that just seems trivial. must force myself to care about this International Politics exam.
so instead of studying, as i should, i will first enrich the lives of the public by detailing two books. one i warn with make me sound like a fanatic, the other will make me seem enraptured. so recently i have been reading C.S. Lewis, and for those of you who have read his stuff, i'm sure you can understand my difficulty now in trying to accurately describe it. sublime? perhaps. have been tromping my way through "Mere Christianity"...it's prolly the most clear, logical, intelligent, and inspired explanation of Christianity i have ever come across. written by a former atheist, just an amazing book. i have to recommend this book to both Christians and non-Christians. basically anyone who wants a decent explanation of how your world hangs together. right, so our second book is none other than "Cry, The Beloved Country" by Alan Paton. i loved the name of this book from the first time i heard it, and it has been one of those books i can go back and read over and over again and still be struck by. if i were to ever write anything, i would rather write one book like this than 10 more successful books. it's a book that just grabs your heart and holds on to it until the very end. the poetry of Paton's writing is unbearable. i can't describe it adequately, which vexes me, so here is a quote:
Cry, the beloved country, for the unborn child that is the inheritor of our fear. Let him not love the earth too deeply. Let him not laugh too gladly when the water runs through his fingers, nor stand too silent when the setting sun makes red the veld with fire. Let him not be too moved when the birds of his land are singing, nor give too much of his heart to a mountain or a valley. For fear will rob him of all if he gives too much.
right, now that i have wasted a few moments and my doom is just that much closer, i return to studying. | | |
| so Thanksgiving was amazing, of course, it turned out very well despite my initial misgivings. it was a treat to find out that besides being related to them, and therefore bound to the obligatory visit every now and again, i actually like my cousins and family on my mom's side. all in all was exciting, with covert fishing operations, football, card games...not too shabby. and the food of course was nowhere near shabby.
in other news, since my Grandmother's death in october, i have had the opportunity to go over some of hers and my Grandfather's old albums. not just picture albums though, but stamp albums too. now i know what will be the protest now, oh come on, philatelics is so yesterday, but despite what some may say it has been a rather exciting experience. my Grandpa collected stamps from ages ago and from everywhere you can imagine. he even had stamps from places that don't exist anymore, for example, the People's Republic of Wurttemberg. Besides the stamps, my Grandpa also had some letters, of which, after i rifled through them, one caught my attention. it was addressed to my great-grandmother, who lived in antwerp, from someone i don't know. anyway, the cool thing about it was that it was sent to her via Zeppelin, the Hindenburg Zeppelin to be exact. or at least it was supposed to be sent ot her via the Hindenburg. this letter was due to cross the Atlantic on the Hindenburg on May 6th, 1937. that's the day that the Hindenbrug blew up. a small "please hold" note on the side of it shows that it didn't get across on May 6th. there was also another letter, written to my Grandmother, from my Grandpa while he was still with the Navy and stationed on the U.S.S. Chicago. the letter was sent from Tokyo, a month after the Japanese surrendered and WWII ended. so i am a big nerd, so i like history, so i read stupid things like Herodotus...still, things like this i find amazing. and i would post amazing photos of them but xanga is being disagreeable and i haven't the time to squabble with it. | | |
| I FOUND THEM!so i found something i like about this country, so here it is!
1. THANKSGIVING!!
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so there it is! cannot wait for thanksgiving, only a few more days, may just explode from anticipation. | | |
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