23 days .. the count down is on! (its been on for quite some time now actually). i cant believe im leaving for 5 months in less than a month! im ready to leave now! i cant wait. im starting to get more ready as the date is getting closer. ive started laying out some of the stuff that i ll be taking that i wont use before i go. i dont think im going to be able to fit everything i want to take in just 2 suitcases! that seams almost impossible.
Christmas break is more than half over. its felt pretty long, but it was a much needed break. but im ready to go back and only have 2 and a half weeks of school work to worry about!! so awesome. you dont even understand how excited i am. i didnt have any homework over the break (other than easy reading) which was nice too! ive been working a lot lately, so ive been keeping my self busy.
i havent booked my ticket yet, but im probably going to be going on the 22nd, although the DTS doesnt start until the 25th.
hopefully when i am gone, i ll do better updates, when i actually have things to talk about that are interesting (unlike now) , and hopefully they'll include photos too. i looked alll over facebook for a picture of the building that im going to be staying at, but somehow while me and my friends were there in march, none of us took a picture of the building, but we do have ones on the inside, but they arent quite the same.
check back soon, and comment!
love beth
Monday, December 29, 2008
Wednesday, December 10, 2008
so, its been a long time..
sorry for the hugeee delay in posting updates. truth is, im just lazy and getting get around to doing it. not a lot of interesting stuff has happened since my last post .. kinda.
so lets back track to the summer; over all it was really good. much needed break from school. i felt really busy tho with going away and camp and such.
in september, school started .. just like it has for the past 13 years. but this year was a bit different. knowing it was my last first day at school was ohhhh so lovely. and knowing that im going to be done at the end of january made it 10 times better!! i didnt end up taking all the courses that i had signed up because one course was only offered for second semester, which im definnntaly not going to be there for. i have about 20 school days left of high school, oh how i cant wait!!! im just tired of high school .. the schedule/routine and whatnot. not to mention that i dont like my courses; african heritage english 12, which is a good class; not overly bad. math 12; good good boring at times. gym leadership 12 which can be fun. i have a good class, but sometimes its boring. and then... the dreaded dance 11 class. i almost dropped it but i decided to stick it out and stay. to say the least, i hate it and have like no friends in it.
i turned 18 last month, but i didnt do anything exciting; it rained my birthday weekend :( . i just went to the city and hung out with my friends and such. the past 2 weekends i didnt go to the city because i had to work, and i felt like i really needed a break. just to have some time to do NOTHING. oh, it felt so good!!! im back at it again this weekend, leaving on friday. im going to try and go a lot before i go because there arent that many weekends left until i leave. i'll miss my friends!
enough about the past. onto the whole point of this post. since about september or so, i was trying to decide whether to move to halifax/bedford ish area in february after i was done school and just work and hang out with friends and help out at the church, or to go back to vegas and do a DTS with YWAM (more info on what that means later). I went back and forth on the whole idea, talked to pastor mike about it, and prayed A LOT, and eventually decided to go out on a limb, and take advantage of the semester off that God has given me. So, Vegas, here i come. i leave in 6 weeks, and i honestly cant wait. what is a DTS and whats YWAM? thanks for asking. (if you already know, dont read the next paragraph)
YWAM (Youth With A Mission) is an international, interdenominational movement of Christians whose goal is to help people “know God, and make Him known”. For over 43 years YWAM has been mobilizing and sending people around the world to help meet the needs of and minister to hurting people worldwide. For the first three months of my DTS (Discipleship Training School), I will be in Las Vegas learning from other missionaries and professors from all over the world, who come to help my team mates and I grow in our relationships with Christ. They will also equip us with the tools that we need to help reach the lost world. For the last two months of my DTS I will be going to another country overseas with my team to apply everything that we learned in the first three months.
so lets back track to the summer; over all it was really good. much needed break from school. i felt really busy tho with going away and camp and such.
in september, school started .. just like it has for the past 13 years. but this year was a bit different. knowing it was my last first day at school was ohhhh so lovely. and knowing that im going to be done at the end of january made it 10 times better!! i didnt end up taking all the courses that i had signed up because one course was only offered for second semester, which im definnntaly not going to be there for. i have about 20 school days left of high school, oh how i cant wait!!! im just tired of high school .. the schedule/routine and whatnot. not to mention that i dont like my courses; african heritage english 12, which is a good class; not overly bad. math 12; good good boring at times. gym leadership 12 which can be fun. i have a good class, but sometimes its boring. and then... the dreaded dance 11 class. i almost dropped it but i decided to stick it out and stay. to say the least, i hate it and have like no friends in it.
i turned 18 last month, but i didnt do anything exciting; it rained my birthday weekend :( . i just went to the city and hung out with my friends and such. the past 2 weekends i didnt go to the city because i had to work, and i felt like i really needed a break. just to have some time to do NOTHING. oh, it felt so good!!! im back at it again this weekend, leaving on friday. im going to try and go a lot before i go because there arent that many weekends left until i leave. i'll miss my friends!
enough about the past. onto the whole point of this post. since about september or so, i was trying to decide whether to move to halifax/bedford ish area in february after i was done school and just work and hang out with friends and help out at the church, or to go back to vegas and do a DTS with YWAM (more info on what that means later). I went back and forth on the whole idea, talked to pastor mike about it, and prayed A LOT, and eventually decided to go out on a limb, and take advantage of the semester off that God has given me. So, Vegas, here i come. i leave in 6 weeks, and i honestly cant wait. what is a DTS and whats YWAM? thanks for asking. (if you already know, dont read the next paragraph)
YWAM (Youth With A Mission) is an international, interdenominational movement of Christians whose goal is to help people “know God, and make Him known”. For over 43 years YWAM has been mobilizing and sending people around the world to help meet the needs of and minister to hurting people worldwide. For the first three months of my DTS (Discipleship Training School), I will be in Las Vegas learning from other missionaries and professors from all over the world, who come to help my team mates and I grow in our relationships with Christ. They will also equip us with the tools that we need to help reach the lost world. For the last two months of my DTS I will be going to another country overseas with my team to apply everything that we learned in the first three months.
i chose to go to Vegas because i was there in march doing missionary work.(if your a frequent visitor on my blog, you'll remember past posts about it). I fell in love with the city, and what God was doing there. After a verrry long application process, i have finally been accepted!! each day there seems to be something new for me to do in order to get there, whether it be finding out about flights, visa's, working to pay for it all and writing support letters (and many other obstacles). Support letters have consumed me for the past week or so. I never knew it would take me so long to prefect them, and address them all, send them out. Which im stillll working on. time flys, and before i know it, i'll be all packed and moving to vegas. i cant say it enough; i cant wait !!!! i have a couple of friends who work at the base in vegas; it should be tons of fun. ive also been able to 'meet' some of my dts mates via facebook, which is kinda cool.
so thats whats new in my life!! hopefully, i ll get around to updating this thing more often. while im in vegas i plan on either updating my blog every week or so (which i know will turn out to be every month, seeings how i'll have to borrow my friends computer). or i'll just send a email out to people saying whats up.
check back soon for more updates!! merry almost christmas :)
love beth
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