Czech!
We leave for the Czech Republic today! AH! AH! hehe... sorry. so kewl thing of the day (all ready): Zay called me this morning :-D. I was, of course, still asleep so she talked to my mom for a little bit before she woke me up, which is kewl. Anyway, yeah... gotta be at the church at 2:oo and we want to be on the road to O'Hare by 2:3o. Our flight isn't until 5:3o, but it doesn't hurt to be ready. I still have to work on my english lesson, so off I go! Be back to update July 15th ;o). Latah.
Days to Spartan: Who cares? I'm going to Czech!
only tuesday
tuesday... only tuesday... i can make it... only 3 full work days left...
just keep swimming, just keep swimming, just keep swimming, swimming, swimming. what do we do? we swim, swim, swim...
Days to Spartan: 52
dang
so, he didn't want the puter. instead, i'm helping him find a nice brand name puter for much much more out of his pocket. but i guess whatever he wants. so yeah, gotta look for another way to pay for czech. woo. and we leave next monday at 2:30, but our flight isn't until 5:30pm. we'll arrive in Prague at about 11:45am tuesday. yay for two days of travel and then we pick up on training right away. we have a car ride into prague to the hotel krystal and there we'll have a couple days of training before our camp actually starts. but i can't wait :-D soooooooo clooooooose...... i have to pack... but first i hafta do laundry... crap.... um.... crap....
monday again?
so i'm on my lunch break. which is always nice. i got to talk to zay for an hour or so yesterday, which was awesome. it's really good to hear her voice and hear about what's going on over where she is. anyway, on another note, i may sell this computer to one of my managers since he's looking for a good puter and i'm looking for ways to get some extra money. i may or may not buy a notebook - that all depends on my financial situation after czech. i'm thinking of selling the puter for around $1250 cuz it's all fairly new parts (cpu, mobo, hdd's, RAM, etc. etc.) plus i'm giving him the monitor and keyboard and mouse with it, along with the awesome gpu (nvidia geforce 4 ti 4600 256mb) which cost me about 300 big ones when i bought it and it still runs perfectly. so if he goes for it, i will have enough for school, downpayment for a car, and enough to pay off the rest of the money for czech! woot! woot! unfortunately, that leads me to no longer having a puter. which may or may not be a good thing. eh... it'll all work out. i still have that puter i found... i could turn that into a worthwhile puter. anyway, i gotta go. latah.
Days to Spartan: 53
one more week!
yay for only a week left before i go to the Czech Republic! :-D I hafta work today though, boo. anyway, yeah... bunch of people either quit or got fired so i hafta pick up some shifts and train some new people. I'm cashiering today and tomorrow, i start training a new service attendant (food runner). sounds like much fun no? i dunno why i'm doing it cuz i hafta leave in a week, but hey... whatever. maybe it only takes a week to learn everything. well... i'm working from 4-8 tonight so that's not so bad and i hope to be able to talk to zay tonight too. that's exciting :-D we usually only talk once a week now, which is sad, but it's good to hear her voice... if only for an hour or so. i plan on sending her one of the somethings i bought for my english group. i want her to feel like she's a part of it since she's praying for me and the team. :o) but yeah... gotta run now. i bought a new dvd player for my dad since the old one went to junk... just hafta figure out how to get it by him w/o him knowing. heh. well... off it go. latah.
Days to Spartan: 54
week's end
so it's friday... don't have to get up early for one day. definitely sleeping in. it's been a very long week and i'm exhausted. just one more week until czech... am i excited, is the grass green? do bees make honey? :-P of course i am! though, i need a break before i leave - or i'll go nuts. anyway - sleepiness has taken me, i need rest so goodnight.
Days to Spartan: 56
spartan news
got that call from spartan today. my registration date is officially 9 August, which is a Monday. essentially, i have 3 weeks from when i get back from czech to when i leave permanently... well, for at least a year anyway. i think it's finally catching up with me - if you know what i mean. it could just be that i'm tired and need sleep, but that's really only a part of it. i'm gonna miss the people i got to know this past semester. funny to think, but i'll definitely miss the people i worked with over at the restaurant. seems i've known and worked with them for years, but nope... definitely only 5 months. some have come and gone, but they were still friends and co-workers.
then there are the people i just met over this semester. they're cool and all... although, i never really got a chance to get to know them so it won't be all that bad i suppose. i'll miss those i knew before though - all the friends i made while i was at taylor. i'm sure many of them don't think of me though - i'm just that kind of a character. sad to say, but often, i think it's true. zay would probably be telling me that such a case just isn't true.... bah... anyway, i'm tired and now i'm just rambling. to bed i go.
Days to Spartan: 58
eh, it's monday
not much to say today... i'm tired tho, so i'm gonna go to bed.
Days to Spartan: 60
czech trip
so the meeting for the trip to the Czech Republic was last night. i can honestly say that i'm really really really really excited to go :-) i payed my deposit for the trip so now i'm looking for sponsorship or people who will help me pay for the remainder of the cost. i still have about $500 to pay for the trip. so i'm trusting that God will provide for the remaining cost cuz i definitely can't. we got the list of students going to the camp too and the names of the Czech team. it was really neat to see names that i recognized from my past years there. unfortunately, i didn't see pokey's name, so i'm hoping to see him during our training. that's not an easy venture for him, but i hope... i haven't seen or heard from him since my last time there (and i missed him the last time!). anyway, yeah... it's really kewl and i have the responsibility of teaching english, how wild is that? we leave on 28 June which is only a couple weeks away! am i prepared? honestly... no. i still have a lot of prayer to do and a lot of reading if i want to be ready - spiritually, mentally, and physically. my prayer for now is that it will be a memorable trip for everyone and that people will be impacted. also, big one - that everyone will come to believe in Jesus, the one Savior. :-D that would rock! and i believe that God will do it too. anyway, i have things to do now... so off i go.. back later
Days to Spartan: 62
rain, my thinking cap
so it's raining. it's been raining pretty much all day. i don't mind the rain... actually, i love when it rains, even if it's cold and nasty. it never fails to put me either in a reflective mood or just calms me down and makes me slow down. it was kinda both of those today. i've been so busy with work and such that i was just heading for a breakdown. i'm glad it rained. it let me reflect and see where i am emotionally, physically, and mentally.
it's been crazy this week with all this work... some days i just want to stop working and take the whole day off and just sleep and/or relax... better yet, talk to zay. she's busier than i am though. and, if i'm not careful, she may come back after the summer stronger than me :-P -- how crazy would that be? anyway, i saw an interracial couple today at the restaurant job and it made me think of zay and i was like "well dang." i moved on, but it just seems to get harder everyday. blah. it doesn't really help that i have 64 days left until i leave for spartan... and i may not be able to come visit ever. stupid... it gets frustrating, it really does -- but it has to be this way... no matter how much i hate it or fight against it, everything's set in motion. what happens next isn't my call. it never has been. God's doing something in both our lives and is changing/teaching us to better us as individuals -- to make us more like jars of clay. still hard, but i know she's praying for me and i pray for her - so that really helps.
anyway, i think i'm boring all of you with my rant now... i just needed to let some frustration out.
Days to Spartan: 64
eh?
so i'm not really sure why i'm still up... i think a part of it is because it's way too hot to be getting any sleep and second, i'm just not really sleepy although i realize that if i don't sleep... i'll regret it tomorrow morning.
in other news, i was taught a good lesson in service. let other people serve you too and be grateful. it happened when i had ordered my dinner at the restaurant job and got a soup. usually, we pour our own soup since it's right there and it's our job anyway. but, one of my co-workers got there first and asked, "can i serve you?" naturally, i was kinda confused at first and my first reaction was "no," but something inside me said, let them... it's good for you. and there you have it. it served as a two-fold lesson. 1 - serving one another isn't service until you both serve and 2 - don't be too prideful to let someone else serve you or help you out. just good reminders for me since i seem to have a pride and humility issue. :)
on a sweeter note, i may have a chance to get a new car. maybe. who knows? Lord willing, it'll be a new 5spd civic, but i'll wait and see. i still have to figure out how i'm going to pay for the czech trip. as of right now, i definitely don't have enough to pay for it myself... and i'm not sure where to get any sponsorship for the trip... blah, well... i have to trust God on this one. not that i didn't before but much moreso now, just cuz... i can't pay any of it.
Days to Spartan: 65
friday!
yay for friday :-D work is over for this weekend! yay!
paul's graduating tomorrow, how crazy is that? makes me feel old even though he's only 2 yrs younger than me. it's true what they say though... time really does fly. i remember back in the day (now i really feel old) when we would run around and do stupid things like jump of overhangs onto trees... or jump of swings and see how far you could go... *sigh* oh to be 5 again.
on another note, i got a letter from zay today! yay! :-D it's good to hear from her, even if it is a letter. i plan on writing back tomorrow, whenever i can get a hold of stamps. paul's grad party is tomorrow so i dunno when i can go out and get them. the postmark date was june 1st so it took 3 days to get here. long time, but it got here... woo. it was definitely encouraging to read the letter, but it made me miss her. so it was a good/sad moment. then i had to speed off to work. there's not much else to say really... i'm tired... and i wanna sleep. woo sleep.
Days to Spartan: 70
findings at wheaton college
so major plus while working at wheaton college is that wheaton students tend to leave things in their rooms for all to find and/or see. for example, yesterday i found a pentium II computer just sitting in the middle of a hallway in an apartment. no one was there, i checked the entire unit and all the rooms were empty. it was gutted of course. the only thing in it was the motherboard. there were open slots for the cd-rom and floppy. so with this finding of mine, i think i'm gonna make myself a linux box :-) oh the joys of working at wheaton.
it's not always a happy place to work though. one of the guys i'm helping to train is just a jerk and i really don't like working with him. he doesn't have any respect for anybody really. he doesn't listen to me and he doesn't seem to believe me whenever i try to tell him how to fix/make something. so i leave him alone most of the day until he bugs me about something. i'm not sure why he asks any questions because he ends up not believing me and asks my supervisor... who in turns asks me why i don't answer the question and i get in trouble. grr... and he talks back to me... no respect i tell ya...
Days to Spartan: 71
sad
my life has been reduced to blogging, work, sleep, food, and video games... how sad...
Days to Spartan: 72
just rambling
i think the memorial day weekend threw me off schedule cuz i keep thinking that it's wednesday but it's really only tuesday. gah! well, on the bright side, i got a call from zay on monday (i just forgot to mention that). she's currently living in kyle, tx at a family's house with two roommates she doesn't know. exciting isn't it? anyway she called me monday morning around 9. and of course, i was still sleeping cuz i take advantage of my days off to sleep and relax as much as i can. my mom came in and woke me up, then handed me the phone. i wonder how i sounded. i definitely didn't feel awake just then. we talked for maybe an hour and then she had to leave to shower and go to a meeting. i got up and was kinda lethargic for about another hour then i got up and did something... don't remember what though.
anyway, today was the same as always. work. for a twist, i got free lunch from my job at the restaurant cuz i got a towel bar from wheaton and installed it for them cuz the one they had broke. so the maintenance crew got free lunch today :-) which was excellent. i had the stuffed shells, my boss had the mushroom ravioli, one guy had the classic meat lasagna, and another had a smoked chicken club piadini with no pesto mayo and no tomatos. sad that i still remember that huh? anyway, it looks like the only time i will really get to talk to zay is on sunday nights... and even then, not for very long cuz she has to stay on schedule. then there's the fact that i'm going to czech this year and we won't talk for 3 weeks really. i might be able to call from there though, which would be awesome.
well, this rambling is just getting long, so i better end it. oh... and there's a full moon tonight!! :-D
