Christmas is coming with vengeance and I'm trying to get in the Christmas spirit. However, right now i am trying to focus on getting done with finals and getting all my stuff moved out of here and into the other dorm they are putting us in for next semester. I'm ready to be home, i miss my family - i really wish that school was closer. i would love nothing more than being surrounded and actually being able to visit my family.. it stinks that they are 7-8 hrs away. I guess if I was rich i could just take a 30 minute flight and be home - stupid rich people
Tut this is about CHEER!!! and JOY! The pastor from View Baptist Church called me last night to congratulate me - i was voted in to be the new part-time youth minister there! I really wish I was more expressive with my emotions and would like jump up and down. I guess I'm just too much of a southern baptist to do something so "undignified"... ha ha. So, I am supposed to start when I get back after Christmas. I am Uber-excited about this and hope that everything goes well.
I have also been pondering getting another job but do not know yet. Being on a 77 hr program, if i don't take at last 10+ hrs a semester it will be 4 or 5 years before I graduate. Last semester i took 12 hrs, 11 this semester, and 11 next... so that's like after this spring i will have - 34 hrs done - halfway!..... and honestly, after this i want to move back to houston. i miss my family way too much - and i have friends there and my home church (even if i will be ministering somewhere else). I really don't know what the future holds... i guess if i get married that could change my plans.. but living away from my family for like 8 years has been tough. I guess I'm just a softy and miss that connection that i took for granted so long. I don't know if i would live in the same house or not... I'd definitely pay rent if I did (out of respect).... but I like houston - and I think there is a better chance of finding similar single people there like me. But like I said - it just depends on the future and what God has planned for me. Abilene isn't bad - but its just so like in the middle of nowhere.
- Daniel
