Wed y Thurs

So on wed it was caminata, and i had adri as my partner! that was fun. than work day and i got to rake the path around the soccer field with steph! that wasnt too bad of a job! no spiders involved anyways :) and soccer got cancelled so just planned some more for the missions trip  and than relaxed until supper. After supper did my daily duty which is cleaning the office, thats not too bad of one either! pretty darn easy but oh so time consuming! And last night we had class on bibical charcters taught by a pastor of a church here in costa rica. hes pretty good teacher! and than went to bed, planned to get up at 4:30 with some girsl to watch the sunset :) and so went to bed and had to wake up at 3:30am and coughed non-stop until 4:30am...it was really bad. i felt reallyl bad for adair who priolly had to listen to me coughing and i was soo weak afterwards and since ive been sick so long it now hurts to cough or swallow. plyus doesnt help how i have a stuffy nose adn a headache. i hope tonight is better. so 4:30am came around and wathced the sunset. that was pretty nice. it was me, adair, adri, alicia and kelsey...we went up on the deck...yes its the guys area..yes its the guys area but hey nobody new and the guys didnt wake up! got some dec pics than managed to fal lback aslepp until 7 when i got up and than had breakfast and than an hr of prayer and than class again than lunhc than really had nothing, went to get haircuts with a bunhc of different girls. pretty fun and oh so cheap! 6 bucks!!!! :) and than had a missions trip meeting and than had supper than cleaned the office again adn than had family night!! we hung out, played cranium, had smoothies and popcorn! very fun and relaxing! now im about to start planning my devo which i need to have done by tomrorw morning....and than an outline for our homeowrk on the bibical characters class! should be a fun eveing! cheers :)

Public Speaking 101

So monday was peacy and just fine and dandy, got my new daily duty and thats cleaning the office! thats a decent job and worked on Thessalonians self-study and completed it offically and than on monday evening we had our class on John. I was in group 5 who had to do chapter 5 of John and we all split it into sections to speak about...well I was up...I got a wee bit dizzy before going up and than i went up to speak. Lets just say...im not a public speaker in any sense. I couldn't think, my face turned beat red and i just kinda stared at my classmates and didn't do much but fidget and look super nervous and i was sweating buckets!! its nerve whacking being up there! and it took a few minutes but than Marco(who is teaching it) came up and put his arm around me and was like ill stay up here with you so that you don't have to look at me. So i attempted to speak...stammered a bit looked down at my notes and than looked up and was going somewhat smoothly than i just started to ramble on not really sure where i was going than my mind went blank and i stopped in a middle of a sentence and i was okay im done. can i sit down now? and Marco was like nop, i have to translate first! I just kinda stood up there super akwardly until he was done and my classamts were soo nice, they clapped after i was finished and while i was getting my guts to do there was encouarging smiles and what not so there awesome to help me out like that! but i was soo relieved when i sat down. and than today we had to present our self-study projects to our family group...that wasnt as scary and i just read the bible passage i was doing super super quick and than went on to do the rest and it went really well acutally...better than i thoguht. Marco also said at the end of mondays class that were gonna get together and get rid of my fear of public speaking! so that should be eventful attempting to do that! I do wanna share my testimony sometime this sem but first I really really need to improve on my public speaking skills casue that would be in front of all the students and staff....lol cheers!

My Sick Weekend

So this past weekend I had the joy of being sick...not fun at all! started on monday and curently im still sick! blag! on friday i got up right before breakfast and had breakfast did my daily duity, and after lunch i went to bed and slept until supper time. had supper and than wathcd a movie(1st lord of the rings) and took my niquill at 10:30 and passed out until the breakfast bell rang the next morning. got up and had breakfast than sat in the sala for a bit, got a headache and than signed out of lunch and went to bed and slept until supper. had supper and than just chilled for a bit than went to bed around 10...the couhging started to get really really bad and i couldnt sleep so i went out about 10:45 to get some camomile tea and austin was there and he got me a lemon/lime thing to put into my tea and that was nice and than we ended up chatting until 11:20. it was a nice chat, i enjoyed the time to get to know him better. i acutally found some intresting things out. were both pastor's kids and for 2 years we lived 1hr apart. crazy how small this world is! and than he prayed for me and than i went to bed and attempted sleep, slept until 8:30ish and than had breakfast and got ready for church. went to pica's church, it was pretty awesome, i liked it and than came back and had lunch, really didnt do much all afternoon, sat and read a john grisham book - rainmaker and than had supper and than had a lovley chat with becca :) and than had worship night and than made brownies with adair and kattia and than we and some other girls ended up eating them straight from the pan while watching toy story 2 in espanol on pica's tv. it was great! and now im getting ready for bed and hoping the cough gets better! and not as crazy as before! so it was a very low key weekend with me mostly sleeping! i can only hope im better tomorow! cheers:)

Mon - Thurs

So this week was another chill one, nothing to insane happened! Started a self study on Thessalonians. Meeting with Clari tomorow to go over it and get a better grip on the presentation that im giving to my family group. Should be fun!! ministy went well again on monday, and there wasnt as many kids as usual there but still a decent amount!! they are soo cute! love them soo much! my sickness also started on monday, and i feel like crap right now, still after 3 days. got the typical cold/flu symptoms, sore throat, cough, stuffy nose..y"all know all that fun stuff! Tue was pretty chill still and wed not a lot happened. we had a worship night - communium - that night and that was pretty awesome. i love nights like those! bought cough medicine and some antigripe drink thing to have at night so hopefully that helps! Finished my mission intergral paper yesterday whcih is pretty sweet, glad to have it done and not have to worry about it anymore!! what else...tonight is family night so that should be fun! im stoked, i love family night! so fun :) and i love having lemon and lime trees here! made some limonade so hopefully that helps as well and i love having lime water whenever you want! its soo awesome! and i found out today that so for there is gonna be 10 for sur returning students! ethan,cody,jose, jeremy,kattia, adri,me,kiley,kate,jayda for sur and maybe katie(she doesnt know yet) so that should be sweet! and its about to be a storm!! there are huge rain clouds outside big and black! should be fun...hoepfully its not too crazzy but its starting to get cold lol. cheers!

Weekend at La Montana :)

So on thurs i managed to finish my paper in 2 hrs...even the bonus section, that was kinda awesome! On friday we left at 1 ish and than took a 2 different buses about 1 hr each to get to the camp. It was already in session when we got there and so we just grabed our shirts and went to join the other staff. Supper came after and than it was more or less just a relaxing evening with a chapel session in the evening and that was very powerful and amazing even though i couldnt understand lickity split, i could feel God's prescence! and hung out with the staff, got to know them better, and there was a bunhc of ice breaker games in the gym and that was fun. i was in charge of skip roop and there super large and heavy and it was a good workout! and than went to bed around 12 and got up at 6 as deviotional for us leaders was at 6:30 so for the 2 nights i only got about 6 hrs and it was jammed pack days! On sat we had chapel and than did different games that day, i got to do high ropes...and that was an adventure in itself! sooo nerve whacking but oh so fun! and itw as great because all the students were watching as me one of the staff were attempting to climb the ropes, but apparently i looked pretty decently and not too much like a newbie! i got complimnetd by one of the main workers there so that was nice to hear! it rained all afternoon however but thanks to texican, since i borrowed her rain coat , i stayed dry! and more fun stuff in the eveing and i was in charge of the rock climbing wall and i just helped put on the climbing stuff, pretty awesome as well! and i know im not going into much detail but the details all all fogged together since I am dying currently from lack of sleep! and on sunday we had water games and that was soo fun! they had soo much stuff and ninja on a water trampoline....amazing!!! simply awesome, soo much funner than ground ninja! and the slide you would get air and shoot out and it was sweet! and than it was goodbye time. oh and i totally had some ppl come up and take pics with me, with all us grenga staff :P haha. it was great. cheers! soo ready for bed! lates!

Wed y Thurs

So both days were pretty chill. On wed had a caminata with abby and than for work day had to clean out the area aruond the dorms...it was sooo grosss! wayy too many spiders(big ones too) and just overally large bugs for its own good...it was great :S and than had a mission trip meeting in the afternoon and so that was good, than had our last class on mission integral. he's a pretty good teacher. a pastor of a church in the area about 2 ish hrs away. On thurs we had nothing. it was a holiday :) happy independence day costa rica!! and so most of the ppl went to a parade in the morning in Coronado and that was fun. Went back to Port and than played a soccer game, love playing soccer here! soo fun :) and than finally started my paper. surprisngly...dunno how, but I managed to get the bibical faith project, and the bonus section on James done in 2 hrs....dont' even know how that was possible but yay im done :) just gotta print it out. techincally i dont have to hand it in until monday by 5 because Im off to the montana camp this weekend. Anyways after supper there was no family night planned but there was a movie at Tom's place and games and stuff at Diego and Clari's house and so I ended up going there and played mao(think thats how it spelled) and than telephone pictionary. soo fun. i love playing that game with bible school kids! we do the most awesome stuff and they get soo distorted after! soo funny and soo awesome! defintly the best telephone pictionary game i played yet! well off the montana camp this weekend, should be intresting as its all in spanish naturally and so good practice for me! cheers!

Mon y Tue

So Monday was pretty chill and relaxed. started a new class on mission integral. the teacher is speaking all in spanish so im pretty much screwed so i end up not really catcing anything and just copying kylies english notes she has! woop! yay for english notes! had my ministry today, first time without nina since they left and it went pretty darn good for having no one who is fluent in spanish. anyways as the title states...late last night i found out that devin had died, the little boy was 14 and had hurlers syndrome and i babysat sometimes for him and his brother and so that was pretty hard. i talked to adair and becca for a bit that night and than today, it was more difficult and i was holding back tears all through tom's class on paraboles and than after was gonna be mission integral class but i went to tom and was like can i talk to you? and than i started crying so than we went off and talked and that helped a lot and than i couldnt go to class just because i was not my best and so than i helped alba in the kitchen making juice and than, i didnt wanna be along so i got becca and we ended up talking and me crying and that was nice to have that for a while and than adair joined me and its just amazing to have a family that is always there for you and will not let you go through things urself. than adair said that sometimes going for a run helps so in the afternoon i went for a run. ended up going around the track 10 times but super fast, as fast as i could go, of course i had breaks inbetween but it was super good. and than after i had a shower and baked stuff at clari's hosue for the tea party tomorow and than me and kate went for a walk and we ended up hanging out with the guys for a bit - jose, ethan, adam and austin. they are attempting to make a agility ladder for training and for whatever reason they were hanging it from the tree and cclimbing up it prolly to get the rope tight but stil it was super trippy and not stable in any way. than they started to climb tress and i wanted to join so than i attempted but failed so than i attempted to move a picnic table up there but it was tough so than austin came and helped me move it. so nice of him :) and than i climbed a tree and got a wee bit up than attempted to get down. that failed as well. i got stuck and was scared so than my "white knight" as kate calls it, came and said put ur foot on myle so i did and tried to hang on to the tree so that all my weight wouldnt be on his leg and so far so good and than i tried to move down and that failed and i kinda was hanging in a akward way and so than he wrapped his arms around me and said i got you just come down and so i did and oops i guess it was a little too fast or something cause i almost made him lose balance and we kinda wobbled on the picnic table, it was intresting....kinda embarrasing considering i couldnt get down or up for that matter and getting down was a chore but stil thank you jose for coming to my rescue or else i would of been stuck up there...and than me and kate conitinued on our walk and on another time aruond they were throwing austins knife and jumping around on trees or attempteing to climb them and what not and so than me and kate asked austin to teach us how to throw a knife so now i know :) its kinda exicinting, still havnt got it in the tree yet but one day. thank you austin! throwing knifes are fun but kinda scary especialy when it ricochates off the tree....couple close calls! not with me throwing however! now we have another mission integral class coming up and theres questions to answer so i should prolly get on that even though i missed that last class so im kinda lost anyways. o well, it should be good. cheers!

A Most Intresting Weekend

so this weekend wass quite intrseting. friday had no classes so just chilled, hanged finished homeowrk and waht not, and than on sat well just say just praise!!! thank you lord!! so taking the bus home from san jose shopping trip day thing and i was oblivious to it, well all us grengas were apart from ethan and adri(tica) and anyways all of a sudden the bus pulled over and there was a bunch of police around the bus. we weren't really sure what was going on, adri all of a sudden told us to move to the back and so we moved behind here. the police came on and took off 2 guys. and searched them. one of them had a gun for sur as they took it and they smelled of marijuana and what not but anyways the police came on and asked if anyone had anything taken, than they left and we started again. so in short they were going to rob the bus and they had guns so it could of been bad...but thank goodness for god and police they caught them before it happened...kinda scary though that we could of been robbed from ppl with guns...but ya praise be to the lord nothing happened :):) that was sat...kinda scarily insane and we deccided not to tell ppl about it until tonight, when we do sharing time and what not. anyways, than watched hitch after and that was cool. than today wnet to this church and helped out with the kids games since its kids day!! quite fun :) and than went to play b-ball and that was sweet it started to rain and the court was ssuper slippery and i slipped and fell on my back/butt etc...and than austin did that too, it was great. hurt a lot but luckily no one got injured. that was fun to play b-ball. really hanvt played it for almost 3 yrs. and now watiign for supper and after having worship night so that should be fun :) yay! but that was my weekend...oooo ya i got this string thing in my hair and its realyl cool. pics will be on fb soon and i got a ring and some presents for my family. overall a fairly decent weekened.! cheers :)

A most awesome last couple of days!

So thurs and today were pretty awesome. Thurs was pretty much free for all as there was nothing scheduled because of small group half day and so everyone just chilled, worked on papers, went out etc...and it was sweet. i worked on my paper and than me, rebecca and cody went to san jose and went to the artisan market and shopped there, got a bunch of awesome inexpensive stuff :) including the national soccer jersey of this country :) yay!! so this guy came up behind us while we were walking and pushed in the middle and sneezed really hard while talking on the phone and than turned around and started walking the other dirction!. we thought rebecca had been robbed so we stood in the middle of the street while she checked her bag adn than the guy came back and pointed out a camera on top of a roof and he said some more stuff and cody said that it may of been for one of those shows that people do random funny stuff...so if it was well we might of got on it...lol than we missed our bus and so we got on a random bus that would take us near and it ended up talking us right where we needed to go! so that was que chiva! than we had family night and we just hanged at Tom and Sarah's house, and had puppy chow! sooo good!! but sooo sweet!! and than we just played a game where we write something about ourselves on a piece of paper than one person reads them and we tired to guess who it was, and so we got to know each other better through that! and than i worked on my paper some more and than on friday, well today, we were leaving at 6 for our half day outing type thing. and so me and cody woke up at 5 and did our daily duty for friday so that we wouldnt have to do it later(were cleaning the kiosko) and than the guys went surfing at jayco and we went to this outdoor pool resort place and it was really nice to lay out in the sun, sleep, tan, swim etc...very enjoyable and i dont think i got burnt :) well much if any....as i did put on lots of sunscreen!! than got back and handed in my paper and than me and adair baked brownies!! :D soooo yummy! and now im planning on chilling for the rest of evening and maybe watching amovie?? but it will be awesome no matter what!

Nothing Exciting really has Happened

So the last couple days have gone pretty well. Ive been lazy though and been wayy to tired in the mornings to go for a run....tomorow for sur! we started proverbs and ecelasties(really cant spell that book of the  bible) and so thats pretty good. our last class on them are tonight after work day, camineta and missions trip planning...which im super stoked for! the kids soup kitchen went well on monday, we did the story of noah and so that was fun, next week were going to the do the lost son and act it out....should be intrestnig and im doing the devo! have pretty much thurs and friday free because of half day small group outings so that will be nice to catch up on everything as we also have a bibical faith project due next week. so last night i was listenting to austin tell what he thought about corn chips...it was very deep and philiosphical...it ended up talking about britian, weath,power and oppression...how he got there who knows but it was very entertaining! and he was tellign this to heather who was wrtiign a song about corn chips and started off with boys smell like corn chips....and didnt tell him what it was for so now his opionion on corn chips will be in there....which is the most intresting opinion i have heard especially because of the topic....lol. gotta love us bible school kids :P cheers!

Manuela Antonio Beach! :)

So this weekend is was off to the beach!! :) A bunch of us went to Manuela Antonio Beach and hung out Sat/Sun. It was really fun! The water was awesome and the beaches were sweet. Waves were really really fun to swim into and a couple times I was being pulled in towards the ocean by the current by than a wave would come and smash into me and it was kinda scary but kinda cool under the wave. On sat more or less we just hung out at the main beach and i went for a run on the beach! so awesome. always wanted to do that! :) and than on sun there was a group of us who went to the national park and that was cool, we were doing this hike thing but than we were short of time and so there was a group of 4 or 5 of us running down the hill trying not to fall flat on our faces...it was super muddy and slippery and than running on the beaches and paths pass everyoen trying to get to our meeting place on time. it was really fun doing that and we ended up being late luckily there was a van that stayed behind and we got a ride to our hotel area so that was nice. I however was a blond and only appliyed sunscreen once in the morning on sat!! i ended up being supppper burnt on my chest/shoulders/top of head/back and stomach....ya im in pain...its great....guess i learned my lesson. it was a 3 hr drive approx both ways and so in the wayy back we ended up singing to random songs, it was really fun :) than we got back and had our worship time which was nice and than I went to bed but had a most uncomfortable sleep...its really painful to sleep or have a shower :S o well...hopefully it gets betters soon! cheerrs ;)

End of the Week

So yesterday was kind of the end of the week for us, we finished our last bible class and now we have no classes today, in fact we really dont have anything but a rally between family groups this morning, so this is gonna be nice to have a day off. Yesterday I started my paper at like 9 30 ish and since I wasnt done by 12, I ended up staying up later and than there was 4 spiders in the place I was working and I manage to have killed 3 of them :) the other one is under a mug....lol. but im getting there slowly and that was at 1:30 ish so I was a bit crazed by than. Adair couldnt sleep either so we both ended up working on our papers, and I managed to get 2.5 maybe 3 hrs of sleep??? copied to my flash drive this morning and im soo happy to be finally done. We had family group last night and it was really fun! we hung out at Tom and Sara's house and played a questionaiire game and than would you rather...and had brownies and ice cream :) quite good!! I have a couple skype dates today - my parents and jana/bryan so im quite excited for that :) cheers!

Pretty sure I overworked my body yesterday!

So got up nice and early and went for a 14 lap run, which is 3.5 miles...kinda long and insane but felt awesome and than camineta happened i was with tanis and that was nice to get to know her better! and than work day which i had to clean the floors in the kitchen area and sala. it wasnt too bad i was with some cool ppl! and than after there was a soccer game happening and so of course i joiined that but with sports i get competitive/agggressive and ya i played hardcore and injured myself, pulled a muscle in the back of my calf and i have lots of bruises on my legs hahaha. and i kinda injured other ppl too but hey its all in the game of soccer :) and last night it was pretty chill, went for a mcD's run at like 10 ish with a bunch of ppl, that was fun! had a mcflurry and fries! yum yum :) and today is the last class of deutoronomy and so gotta start my paper but i really dont know how to start it, having a coffee chat date with isa at 2 which will be nice :) and ya that is my life currently. cheers! o and my body is in insane pain lol but hopefully it gets better by the end of this weekend!