man oh man college is intense!

hello hello! so i love college but its so intense haha. last week we started class and man its much harder then HS haha. i'll say that. its lots of studying and prioritizing your time! i'm swamped with hw and reading. ah. this weekend i went to hollywood bowl for a concert, huntington with some friends, hung out, watched movies, went to rock harbor, you know how we do haha. it was very fun and i love college a ton! i really really like my anthro and foundations of global studies class. they are wonderful :) lots of reading. my english class is pretty intense on the HW load, not so crazy about it, but my teacher is nice. its weird being at a school where teachers pray before class! tomorrow i am going to see mae with JJ and Lisa for her bday. JJ actually just left my room- shes such a kick haha. i've made lots of nice friends and i'm really connecting here and making it home. i miss my friends a lot... but i know i'm suppose to be here!!! its been hard finding time to get in the word but i'm working on it. its happening---- it can't not happen! and boy oh boy. there are couples everywhere! haha. i had a little incident with someone, but now thats past haha. this week is going to be a TON of studying but i have a 4 day weekend, so i guess thats good!!
love you guys.

biola!

well i've been super busy with tons of activities but i thought i'd update yal!
1. my dorm rocks, everyone in here is awesome and i'm soooo thankful i'm in a co-ed dorm haha. i'm on the first floor so its perfect! people stop in all the time.
2. my roomies are super chill and nice, so thats good!
3. i've met soooo many amazing people and good girl friends! so i'm stoked on that. i'm meeting people left and right i tell ya.
4. my major is AMAZINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG! there are so many cool concentrations so i need to pray about that. i'm thinking international relations right now. or maybe health care orrrr maybe tesol. or why not missions and people! haha i'm not sure. but if i do international relations i can get an internship during school with IJM... aka sweet.
5. you walk anywhere and you meet someone. people are so friendly! i love it.
6. nice respectful boys!!!! met some good ones- don't worry no dating for me haha
7. i am going to the beach at 4- SOO FUN.
8. the cafe food is so freaking good, i need to start working out.
9. i'm going to get involved with SMN- student missionary union and hopefully be a leader or something because i need hours for my community service scholarship.
10. i have a job interview for a student ambassador on wednesday at 1! so be praying for me!
11. PRAISEEE THE LORD i am here. its so crazy being at a school and a new home that praises God for everything. so great!!!

yuppp i'll update yal with pictures. thanks for prayer. i miss everyone a lot and miss laughing with people over dumb stuff. well i've done that a lot but theres just something being with people you loveee a lot!

updates updates!

last week i went to maui with meghan, emily, my sister, and my dad. IT WAS SOOOO MUCH FUN! best vacation ever. we went snokeling, pool hopping, out to dinner, met people, hung out with larry and patty, hung out with meghans cousin who lives there, went on hikes to waterfalls, surfed, swam non-stop, went boogie boarding, swim with a shark, turtle, octupus, and a pufferfish, and many others! ahh it was soooo fun!!!! i love maui. its so fun how the whole point of goign there is just to have fun! my dad was such a sport and i'm so glad he took us there! we stayed in his friends condo on the beach- so legit!

alsooo i am leaving for school tomorrow. i'm such a wreck about that. on monday if you asked me if i was ready emotionally, i would of been like yaaaaa no sweat! oh baby let me tell you that changed. on monday night the 7 of us girls had our last dance party at meghans :( i'm going to miss those. it was melanie, katie, meghan, christina, rebecca, and pati. my 7 best friends. tuesday morning i woke up at 6 and went on a hike with jason at lake chabot, that was super fun and a nice note to leave on. i said bye to jenna which was sad, ah i love her!! on tuesday night i went to dinner with the 7 and then slept over at megs!! wednesday morning i said bye to people at vbc... man so sad. lynne clark is the one who made me start crying! man saying bye to rebecca and melanie was rough. then today i said bye to pati at 6 in the moring, katie over breakfast at mimis, and spend the whole afternoon with xtina. it was so nice! oh and i saw kelly at mimis so that saved me a trip. its been nice saying bye to people one on one. super sad though. tonight i'm saying adios to meghan. shes pretty much my sister for those of you who don't realize that. i spend every single day of my life with her. every vacation, almost every thought, same with laugh haha. i just love her!!!!!! ah i dont want to say bye. please me praying for safe travel and to meet new friends! i leave at 6 am love you all!

off to hawaii!

tomorrow i am leaving for maui with meghan, my sister, my dad, and my friend emily. emily is one of my dearest childhood friends and she moved when we were freshmen to Pennsylvania. to rural valley! a town of like 300 people haha so miz. but we are still best friends and she always makes me laugh... shes one of those friends that we pick up our relationship just where it was. never weird. ah i'm so excited! we are going to stay at my dads friends condo right on the beach, go surfing, snorkeling, go hiking, go kayaking, and ah so much more! have a good week. we'll be back next sunday and then i leave for school Friday the 17th!

so overwhelming!

beach day :)

i just had to add this. haha. it made me smile.




today was a splendid day. i went to santa cruz with my best friends and with youth group. such a wonderful group of people went. we started out our day by eating near mt hermon with venessa. we had the most delicious organic sandwiches EVER and then we ate in a park. so nice. then we headed over to downtown santa cruz and shopping in urban outfitters for a while. i really enjoy the beach and its always good to have good girl time. the more and more i think about it... i'm about to miss vbc a whole lot. such a big family of jesus lovers haha. but so true, its wonderful. i am really excited that charlie is going to be doing community outreach. i feel like theres so much our church could do and there is so much people aren't aware of. the church could be transformed into a wonderful thing!
p.s. heres an after shot that someone took on my camera of when charlie decided to push tony into the waves when he was doing a hand stand haha.

and something extra special... one of my favorite verses ever.
For God, who said, “Let there be light in the darkness,” has made this light shine in our hearts so we could know the glory of God that is seen in the face of Jesus Christ. 2 corinthians 4:6 :)