"Goals are dreams with deadlines." ~Diana Scharf Hunt

Goals for the next 10 months
1. learn to play guitar
2. write like crazy
3. work on my tan
4. learn more about Jesus
- I had some others but I've already forgotten.
The first one is probably the one I'm most excited about. I've always wanted to learn how to play the guitar but nobody has been willing to teach me. Until now. My VanMate informed me that she loves teaching and I love learning - it's win win. So we bought our baby, Kali (Or Cali) and the learning has begun ... it's gonna take a while. :-D seriously my grin couldn't be bigger. I love playing music and my skills are limited. I taught myself to play the piano when I was like 10 and I still have yet to master the left hand and have to write the notes out, I can't just look at sheet music and know what to play. It's pitiful, I feel bad for my family that had/has to listen to my poor attempt at playing out a song. Hopefully guitar goes better. =P Most of the techs at Camfel can play an instrument and I was/am seriously jealous. I loved listening to whoever played in the lobby. Soon that will be me :)

The second goal is kinda on going since middle school. I love writing. (I think I've mentioned this before =P). And like everything else I'm not particularly good at it. Regardless I want to spend this time on the road writing. I know I'm not going to spell out a novel but just short stories or even blog post will suffice. I love crafting imagery and hopefully the more I write the better it will become.
Goal three is a little less realistic. Every summer I claim this will be the year of my tan. And every summer I fail. However, thanks to training I am slightly darker, you'll notice my hair-bow line and if you squint you can see a shorts and socks line. I was pretty excited. But I'll spend the rest of the summer in sunny California so hopefully I can get a little less pasty. However, I am tired of seeing new freckles.
Goal four is kind of a life sentence. I guess I just want to experience Him in a different way. I'm use to my small town church services and worshiping at BCM. Already God has opened my eyes to new things and I'm just really excited to go to different church services every Sunday. However I do miss my community of believers back home.
Of course my memory is seriously whack and I can't remember what else I wanted to do, but this seems like a satisfying list. If I ever remember I might add them to this list.

EDIT 9/22:
5. I'm suppose to be working on learning a British accent - I don't remember how this started but Wesley and Adam decided they were gonna learn an accent, and Wesley informed me that I too was going to learn a British accent. So far it's as crappy as ever.

Busy but not Forgotten

Hey guys. So I know I haven't posted in forever. I've been busy. :P So this is gonna be a crappy update post just to fill you in on whats been going on. First off goodbyes suck! I don't think they'll ever get better. My first goodbye didn't even seem like I was leaving. It didn't sink in that I wouldn't be seeing her until Christmas. It wasn't until some of the last goodbyes that it really sunk it that I was leaving and I really wanted to cry - but I didn't. I seriously thought I would on the plane, especially after hugging my mom and she started to tear up. I guess staying up the entire night packing helped me sleep and not think about it. And saying bye to Tiffy almost had me. So I left ridiculously early in the morning and got to LAX Sunday afternoon. I didn't having anything to eat for about 24 hours and I got a terrible migraine. Terrible. So the first day here I spent sleeping. Well after a while I did get up and lay down in the lobby where some of the girls were chillin and we had a worship session- that was fun.
Then training began. This was nothing like I thought it would be. It was rough. I had sore muscles the entire first week I think. And I was exhausted. (not LU exhausted though) ... however I had a headache the entire week so that probably contributed to my tiredness. I can't ever remember how many nights I didn't even get ready for bed, I just fell asleep and woke up the next morning. It was rough. I know ya'all are probably wondering what exactly I'm doing but without seeing it I can't really describe it. I think somebody took pictures so I'll try to steal them from they're facebook later.
The girls are staying on LABI (latin american bible institute) campus. It's where we have training and they cook for us. For a picky eater the food choices has been terrible. Theres more food that I don't eat then that I do. But when they have chicken its great ... except they usually serve it with rice. :( However the girls are moving to the condo, which is where the guys have been staying. Training is over and most of us (if we haven't left already) ship out next week.
I leave Thursday, me and my lovely VanMate, May, are gonna be touring Northern Cali. And probably cross into Oregon and Nevada. It's suppose to be pretty and tons of fun so it should be great. It's gonna suck to say goodbye to everybody. ... well it already sucks. The first few east coast vans have shipped out. It's lame. We've just spent these two weeks bonding and now we have to peace out. I love the girls and we have a good time and I don't want to say bye, and the guys are awesome and really funny, yeah this is gonna suck.
Oh I did get to go to Hollywood!!!! It wasn't that great, but I still had a blast. We walked up a bit of Hollywood Boulevard and went to this cool vintage store. We ate at a NY pizza place, which was alright then walked to this music store. Alice and me had an awesome time going through crappy cds to find the worse one. I forgot what she ended up getting but they were just awful. Then we decided to go to the beach so we piled back into the vans and then we found the cool part of Hollywood, too late of course. And our van didn't even make it to the beach because we got separated. However the next day after church we went to the Sana Monica Pier and I was able to see the Pacific. Sunday was lots of fun we walked the Pier which was alright, and I went to the Oasis Church. The actual pastor wasn't there but the guest speaker was pretty cool. The part I liked was when he talked about basking in God's love. How so much of our thoughts are centered on how we mess up and how unworthy we are that we fail to just let God love us. I know that a lot of my time is spent on the negative aspects and how God still has a lot of work to do in my life to truly be a reflection of Jesus. I don't spend a lot of time just allowing God to love me. Then Sunday night I went to the Free Chapel in OC because the pastor was suppose to be amazing - but he was on vacation. But the guest speaker was awesome. He talked about the Dream Center and told life stories about the lives changed there. He preached about God using the lowest points in our life, when our dreams are crushed and we just want to give up, it's in these low seasons that God propels us forward and because of these struggles we will be stronger. I was just reminded that God does have a perfect plan and He excepts me to submit all my dreams and desires to Him and trust in His amazingly crafted purpose for my life. It's a nice and rather scary reminder.
Ok so that's an update to my life. Hopefully when I'm on the road I'll have more internetz and be able to post more blogs.