Cozy Coffee College Day :)

It's been a while since I've posted but I've been busy this week!  I'm okay with beening busy tho :)  I've had a wonderful relaxing weekend since I got all my work done on Friday so I was able to hang out with friends all day yesterday!!!  I was able to enjoy Volleyball and Soccer games Friday and Saturday nights and today I enjoyed church service and Sunday luch with friends and also meeting some new people!

Before I came to college I was extremely worried about meeting new people and now I can't evening begin to count the new friends I've made while I have been here.  As I sat in Sunday School this morning listening to my fellow Sister "Bandits" (our society) in Christ sharing how God has been working in their lives through some minor and serious struggles that they have had to go through it just makes me evaluate my life and realize that my life really isn't that bad at all!!! I complain about soooooo much but there are people everywhere who would do anything to have some of the blessing that God has given me!!
This past week tho I've been placed in some situations that have been a real struggle to me and I have found myself just struggling with understanding WHY all of this is happening to me!?!?! But then I think back and try to figure out WHAT I am suppossed to be learning from this.  I'm learning a lot of things while here at school.... and not just through my text books and teachers ;)
This afternoon I've been able to do a lot of reflecting back on my own life and see how WONDERFUL God has been to me!  He's given me parents that would do ANYTHING for me, I have a great sister, even tho we have our rough spots, we still love each other and I'm so looking forward to how much closer God is going to bring us together in these next few years of "growing" in each of our lives!  I have the most amazing brother who can make just about anyone smile and I have the dearest grandmother who has done a lot throughout my life to help me in many defferent areas of life!!!!  God has given me some AWESOME mentors (which are more like family to me :-) who are always willing to help me grow and are always so interested in hearing about what I'm learning about God!!!
God has blessed me in so many more ways that I just can't begin to list it all!!!! <3  I don't thank God enough for the blessings I have :(
I'm really looking forward to the next years that God has planned out for me and I know that whatever struggles I'm going throught is all part of His glorious plan for me!!!

Me and some friends at an Ice Cream Social Friday Night!

It was 50's themed and these were our "soda guys" :)

Soccer games with my new friend Tricia!!!!!!! I'm soooooooo glad I met this dear girl! She's been a blessing to me already and it's only been 2 weeks!

Me and Ashley at Volleyball games Saturday Night!

Homemade Ice Cream - What Freshmen Do When They Are Hungry

So this evening as me and my fellow freshman roommate and one of my bestest friends ever, Ashley were finishing up our homework and we decided that we both were REALLY hungry for some ice cream.  Well here at school it's a little tough for Freshmen to get off campus. For starters, neither one of us has a car, so we would need someone to take us. Plus, it was 9 p.m. so kinda hard to find someone at that time of night that would take us. So we got to thinking and Ashley had this brilliant idea to make our own ice cream!!!! So we got all of the ingredients, thanks to our Sr. roommate's stash of food, ingredients, spices and anything else we would ever need!!!!! we had the ice, cream, and milk so we got the salt from her :) anyways........ i've never done this before so I was super excited! :) It was alot of fun and a great way to get rid of stress!!! hahaha well it only took a total of like 10 minutes to make it and it tasted really good!!! It reminded me of a Wendy's Vanilla Frosty! :-) so this has become my new favorite snack now ;)

I had this water pitcher and it became the perfect this to put everything in to mix it up!

Me misxing up the Ice Cream.... lots of exercise in the arms ;)

Ashley Mixing

All done and sooooo YUMMY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

My Busy Tuesday..... Least Favorite Day of the Week

So today was the first Tuesday that I had to experience my Tuesday schedule.  Didn't realize 'till last night how crazy of a day it would be... and that it was.  I woke up at 6:30 a.m. got a shower and got ready for my day, had Old Testament Messages at 8 a.m. (so hard to stay awake!) then right after that I had a Fundamentals of Art Class in the SAME room like 2 rows back from my first seat.  So, that kinda makes it seem like FOREVER.  That class ended at 9:50 and I arrived at work at 10:15.  I am working at the campus daycare and today was my first day of working! I was there until 2 p.m. and I really loved working there with the babies!!!!! Kinda a nice get - away from classes :) I then left from work and had a Physics class from 2:30-4 and directly leave that class and go to Physics lab until 6 p.m.  So yeah, kinda a busy/stressful day for me! I normally only have 3 maybe four classes a day and that's it!  That was a big adjustment for me today, but by God's grace, I made it out alive ;)
I was dreading having to go to Lab today cuz I was just soooooo tired!!!! But it turned out to be a GREAT experience for me!!!! Such a God-Thing kinda ;) So, I go into class sit at a random table and a girl sat next to me.  We exchanged first names and then just quietly sat waiting for class to start.  When the teacher was taking attendence, he asked for Tricia Koeching... then a few people later, Emily Wagner.  We both looked at each other and was soooooo surprised to actually have met each other!!!! ...taking a couple steps back here.... This summer a facebook page was created for all the freshmen that would be attending BJU this year and it was a nice way to kinda meet new people who were all going thru the same freshmen worries and concerns and such.  Me and Tricia became "friends" and stuff on FB.  We have the same pajor, both live in PA and it was just sooooo cool that today we got to actually meet each other in person!!! We got to be lab partners and then went for dinner after class!!!!!!

I just love how on the rough days, God provides ways to cheer us up and keep us joyful for him!!!!!!!!!! <3

A Trip To Barge...

So this morning I woke up and went to my "wonderful" (note the sarcasm) 8a.m. math class and after class was over I had to go to Barge, the University hospital thingy.  While I'm here at school I will be working inthe campus daycare, but before I start working I had to have a TB test.  For those of you who don't know me, I absolutely HATE going to the doctors and I REALLY HATE getting shots.  I'm worse than a little kid!! Plus, I am away from home and had to do this... ALL ON MY OWN! Yes, I'm still getting used to living with out mommy and daddy ;) But believe it or not, it was not bad at all!!! I had a sweet lady dr. who talked and talked and talked! But I loved it hahaha the shot wasn't bad except for the fact that I ahve this nice little red "bubble" on my arm for the next two days. Then I will probably be able to start working!!
That will definately be a big adjustment to me here at school. I've been here a week without working and I'm thouroughly enjoying the free time I have.  It will be tough trying to disipline myself once I really get in the swing of things, but I know with God's help ANYTHING is possible!!!!!!

Isaiah 40:29 "He gives power to the faint, and to him who has no might he increases strength"

5 S E N S E S: OUTLINE OF GOALS

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The First Week!

Well, as of today, I have officially been on my own as a new college student! I'm studying Elementary Education at Bob Jones University in Greenville, SC.  This has been a wonderful experience so far and I am so excited to see what will come next. I have already made a ton of new friends and have experienced some things I never thought that I would every do!  Classes started on Wednesday and it was a huge eye opener to me at how dependent I was at home with my parents. I had to learn how to get from place to place, keep track of all my things, make sure I get where I need to be on time and still keeping myself healthy by eating right, getting enough sleep and such.  I have also dealt with some difficulties in this first week as well. Whether it was totally not understanding a word the proffessor was telling me, or confussed about the rules or just knowing where I needed to be.  I must say I have been blessed beyond words that I have my future brother - in - law here to help me out and also some of my sister's friends that are still here from when she was here at school the past four years.  I look at some of these freshmen who are here and don't know a soul, have never stepped a foot on this campus until the first day here, and I think to myself, "how can I be such a complainer, and a worryer (idk if that is even a word lol) when there are others out there worse off than me??" And then...... that sends my mind in a whole other direction on an outlook on the world.  Tonight at curch i had the priviledge of hearing three single ladies each tell thereir own personal story of either a short term, long term, or full time mission work on the whole other side of the world. It just breaks my heart to think and hear of these people in the world who have never heard of God, never seen anyone pray, don't know what a church is... and here I am complaining while I am being so blessed at all that God has given to me!
So, as i was writing this blog I did not expect to write all of that, but God just laid tha ton my heart so much tonight and I couldn't keep it all bottled up inside.
So I ask you to please pray with me that I can find a more thankful attitude in my heart thru these next years of college and for my heart to be tender towards the Lord's leading in my life. Today has been a rough day and my emotions have just been scattered to all different dementions and I'm just calling out to Him tonight!