Thursday, May 28, 2009
A message from the south.
My heart and prayers go out to the dear family back home who have lost thier loved one, please let them know that they have a family in Christ down here in Alabama and they are praying for them.
Just call me Lifeguard Becky....hahah
Im an official certified Lifeguard!
it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be. i did get frustrated at times with myself and my inability to do some of the manuevers. but all it all, it was good. awkward at times cause it was me and two guys. and we had to be victims for eachother. and yeah.... im not a touchy person. there was touching. My bubble is popped, that is for sure.
As for an update. Ive gone canoeing. played with frogs, turtles, fish, aligators, snakes. Got to feed a mouse to a snake. hold a snake. hold an aligator. Its been rainy all week so the boat dock was partially under water and i love boating and such and water and yeah, well i was walking around the dock and i was walking around the corner (well, its circularish, so it was moreso like a octogon) and there on the part ofthe dock that the water had just went down from was a Big Brim. so much bigger then any of the brim i have caught in Lake Albert. it was great! it was just laying there! after examining it a little i helped get it back to the water, being careful of its fins cause they are sharp as needles. it was great! there is so much that i have to tell you all, i walk around or am just thinking as the day goes on and i learn more or see more and do more, and i wish i had paper with me at all times because i wish i could record it all! being able to Think clearly again is awesome.
it wasnt as bad as i thought it would be. i did get frustrated at times with myself and my inability to do some of the manuevers. but all it all, it was good. awkward at times cause it was me and two guys. and we had to be victims for eachother. and yeah.... im not a touchy person. there was touching. My bubble is popped, that is for sure.
As for an update. Ive gone canoeing. played with frogs, turtles, fish, aligators, snakes. Got to feed a mouse to a snake. hold a snake. hold an aligator. Its been rainy all week so the boat dock was partially under water and i love boating and such and water and yeah, well i was walking around the dock and i was walking around the corner (well, its circularish, so it was moreso like a octogon) and there on the part ofthe dock that the water had just went down from was a Big Brim. so much bigger then any of the brim i have caught in Lake Albert. it was great! it was just laying there! after examining it a little i helped get it back to the water, being careful of its fins cause they are sharp as needles. it was great! there is so much that i have to tell you all, i walk around or am just thinking as the day goes on and i learn more or see more and do more, and i wish i had paper with me at all times because i wish i could record it all! being able to Think clearly again is awesome.
Monday, May 25, 2009
Final Grade!!! :)
AND im pleased to report that I have finished my Second Semester of College with a GPA of 3.67, a .32 improvement of my first semester which i had completed with a 3.35!!!
AND ive completed my first year of College with a GPA of 3.51!!!!
im excited!
I didn't think i could do that! i know i couldnt have done it with out God's help! and your encouragement from back home! i love you all and am so excited!
man! i have hope for the fall!
AND ive completed my first year of College with a GPA of 3.51!!!!
im excited!
I didn't think i could do that! i know i couldnt have done it with out God's help! and your encouragement from back home! i love you all and am so excited!
man! i have hope for the fall!
Highlights of the day!
There were highlights! they deserve their own post!
The guys are pretty nice.
After dinner, we had a Homemade Icecream social, and then we went out and took some canoes out on the lake. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE canoeing and have been wanting to do this for a while, as in this entire semester i have been wanting to get out on the water with a canoe or kyak. I was very excited! still am excited that i got to do it. we raced in the canoes a couple times and just floated in. then one of the guys spotted lightning, and see as we were in METAL boats in the Lake, we used our newly trained Lifeguard minds to determine that it would probably be best to get out of the water. interesting task all on its own cause it had rained so much the the dock was almost completely under water. thus making it really interesting to try to get out of the boat...!
Great times!
The guys are pretty nice.
After dinner, we had a Homemade Icecream social, and then we went out and took some canoes out on the lake. I LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE LOVE canoeing and have been wanting to do this for a while, as in this entire semester i have been wanting to get out on the water with a canoe or kyak. I was very excited! still am excited that i got to do it. we raced in the canoes a couple times and just floated in. then one of the guys spotted lightning, and see as we were in METAL boats in the Lake, we used our newly trained Lifeguard minds to determine that it would probably be best to get out of the water. interesting task all on its own cause it had rained so much the the dock was almost completely under water. thus making it really interesting to try to get out of the boat...!
Great times!
Im at camp!
I signed up a couple months ago for lifeguard training, but i freaked myself out the more i thought about it so i backed out. then my Camp boss messaged me on facebook, 3 more people backed out of the lifeguarding, leaving them in a pickel. So, (and this was yesterday), i packed and shoved the remainder of my stuff from school in my car (got everything but my bike in) and left for Camp Victory after church last night.
When I arrived, I was welcomed by the ant pile, that was freshly surfaced by the week of rain we've had, right beside my car. My feet were completely swarmed with ants and left me with around 14 ant bites.
I was able to get my duffle bag in my cabin, and got settled pretty quick. I was then faced with an empty cabin and nothing to do. as i was reading, i got a big knock on my door. My lifeguard instructor/teacher guy was at the door along with one of the other guys that were doing the lifeguard training with me, they just wanted to give me my lifeguard manual.
so Now its the end of my first day of lifeguard training. can i just take a minute and say that i never in a million years would picture myself as a lifeguard. im not that great a swimmer and today has proved that. this is a bubble-popping experience. (i have difficulty jolting myself out and onto the side of the pool. and i can hardly kick well which is a kinda important thing to be able to do when SAVING someone, and theres this thing where i have to walk into the deep end with the floaty thing and im supposed to just sorta bounce in thewater, but my head is supposed to pretty much stay out of the water...yeah not good at that, i just kinda sink.) It gets better though. Im one of three people in the class, and im the only girl! yeah. Its not too too bad though. we had to swim 300yrds. which was 21 laps for the pool we were in. We had to "rescue" a victim a bunch of different ways, enter the pool in a couple different ways, sit in a class basically all day, and we got to put together a manican (which was pretty fun actually). hehe and its rained all day at various times, so we would run out, do our pool stuff, then run back in before the rain came.
Its good though. i might sound like a Debbie Downer, but its a good bubble popping experience. this is just what has gone on through my mind. its difficult and a little discouraging when the guys jump in and do everything perfect and make it look so easy, then i jump in and i struggle with everything.
So in case you were wondering. I am in Hacoda, Alabama. Which is 5 miles from Samson, Alabama. My phone doesn't get any service at all and I dont foresee being able to get on my computer much so its back to the good ole Snail Mail. Ill probably write home a bunch. and ill blog at least a quick blurb here and there when i can. Once i get through the lifeguard training, my mind will be more at ease.
for now, good night. Love you all.
When I arrived, I was welcomed by the ant pile, that was freshly surfaced by the week of rain we've had, right beside my car. My feet were completely swarmed with ants and left me with around 14 ant bites.
I was able to get my duffle bag in my cabin, and got settled pretty quick. I was then faced with an empty cabin and nothing to do. as i was reading, i got a big knock on my door. My lifeguard instructor/teacher guy was at the door along with one of the other guys that were doing the lifeguard training with me, they just wanted to give me my lifeguard manual.
so Now its the end of my first day of lifeguard training. can i just take a minute and say that i never in a million years would picture myself as a lifeguard. im not that great a swimmer and today has proved that. this is a bubble-popping experience. (i have difficulty jolting myself out and onto the side of the pool. and i can hardly kick well which is a kinda important thing to be able to do when SAVING someone, and theres this thing where i have to walk into the deep end with the floaty thing and im supposed to just sorta bounce in thewater, but my head is supposed to pretty much stay out of the water...yeah not good at that, i just kinda sink.) It gets better though. Im one of three people in the class, and im the only girl! yeah. Its not too too bad though. we had to swim 300yrds. which was 21 laps for the pool we were in. We had to "rescue" a victim a bunch of different ways, enter the pool in a couple different ways, sit in a class basically all day, and we got to put together a manican (which was pretty fun actually). hehe and its rained all day at various times, so we would run out, do our pool stuff, then run back in before the rain came.
Its good though. i might sound like a Debbie Downer, but its a good bubble popping experience. this is just what has gone on through my mind. its difficult and a little discouraging when the guys jump in and do everything perfect and make it look so easy, then i jump in and i struggle with everything.
So in case you were wondering. I am in Hacoda, Alabama. Which is 5 miles from Samson, Alabama. My phone doesn't get any service at all and I dont foresee being able to get on my computer much so its back to the good ole Snail Mail. Ill probably write home a bunch. and ill blog at least a quick blurb here and there when i can. Once i get through the lifeguard training, my mind will be more at ease.
for now, good night. Love you all.
Wednesday, May 20, 2009
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A Place in God's Family
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave
the right to become children of God." John 1:12
that is the theme for Camp Victory this summer.(the camp im working for)
i just realized that i have to come up with a devo for each night with my cabin, and i need to bounce ideas, i would like to to try to incorporate the theme in with them. but i dont know how to really go about doing that. im up for whatever ideas or suggestions. I will be focusing prayer towards this until i go, so if you would like to pray along with me, i would like to be ready for my first group of campers, because each camper only has one week, they dont have time for me to mess up and so im praying that God will show me what He wants me to say to my campers.
thanks all,
love you much!
"But as many as received Him, to them He gave
the right to become children of God." John 1:12
that is the theme for Camp Victory this summer.(the camp im working for)
i just realized that i have to come up with a devo for each night with my cabin, and i need to bounce ideas, i would like to to try to incorporate the theme in with them. but i dont know how to really go about doing that. im up for whatever ideas or suggestions. I will be focusing prayer towards this until i go, so if you would like to pray along with me, i would like to be ready for my first group of campers, because each camper only has one week, they dont have time for me to mess up and so im praying that God will show me what He wants me to say to my campers.
thanks all,
love you much!
bitter-sweet
reading everyone's blogs is a bitter sweet process. i love you all and love hearing the updates of your life(the sweet part). but i miss stafford alot, and so thus is why it is bitter.
i know im where God wants me to be, but im human, and i miss home.
i know im where God wants me to be, but im human, and i miss home.
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