today was a day just like any other..

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if it weren’t for donors, Westmont would cost 69,000 each year for every student. praise the Lord for donors who are paying for the cost of every student’s tuition from this day to the end of the year!  

In six months I’ll be going to Mexico and living there for four months with a host family. All of the 15 other Westmont students that are going on this crazy adventure and I are in a class once a week where we prepare for our time abroad and learn about culture.  This week we had the opportunity to meet with  the 10 kids that just got back from this same trip a few weeks ago.  Whereas our once a week class is super informative, it mostly centers around cultural  differences and prejudices/stereotypes/etc. and just realizing who we are and what culture we have so we can learn about others better.  This is awesome but during class I am burning with questions like “how on earth am i going to fit enough clothes for 4 months in one suitcase” or “how am i supposed to buy a cell phone plan on my first day in a country where there is a language barrier” or “who is going to have pillow talk with me at night when i want to cry about missing my family and friends and the united states”.  So luckily all the kids that are just returning got to answer some of those questions for me, which was super helpful but also made me so nervous because they made it seem real to me.  there’s no turning back now but if I think about my trip too hard I am so terrified. in six months i will board a plane to houston and from there to Queretaro and i’ll go through customs and get a visa without any assistance and i’ll get on a bus to meet my host family and then that’s it! i’ll be with them in a foreign country and town and house and have to get around and make friends and have fun and become essentially fluent in spanish and i won’t have wifi or an iphone or anything like that. i can’t text my best friend in awkward situations and i can’t whip out my electronic spanish dictionary. nope. i’m just going to do it. because i have to.  

i can’t wait. i wish we were leaving tomorrow. 

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Am I OK Yet? 1-25-13

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“i never want to cross any boundaries in our relationship that i might have to apologize to your future husband for.”

my thoughts exactly.

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Sometimes I pray for God to eliminate a certain thought/idea from my head unless it is in His will.  When that thought does emerge into my stream of consciousness, sometimes I struggle with discerning whether or not it’s due to my lack of self-control  or His will that is making me have thoughts I was otherwise suppressing.  

God, grant me discernment.  

Vasily Kandinsky