Major

Ok i'm thinking and praying about switching majors. I'm thinking of going with Voice Major instead of Elementary Ed. I'm passionate about music more than Elementary Ed. I just feel disconnected and not caring when it comes to teaching. Tutoring is different. I kinda like that but I'm just not into it. If you guys who read my blog could give me feedback yes / no why? that would be great. Thanks

S'been a few days...

...since I last blogged. I had a few tests and stuff. didn't do well on most of them but I was proud of my B- that I got. Now I'm just trying to do better. Missy's coming to Chicago. HOORAY!!!!! So we're gonna hang out in November. I was looking at Jonathan's pictures on flickr and HOLY COW!!! They are awesome. So anyways i got class in 20 minutes. I took a tylenol pm last night. that felt good. i have to detail the book of galatians today and till tuesday. I also have to take a few quizzes in between. it;s hard but I think i'll manage. Pray that i will get well. the water here is not good for me. I think it's messing up my kidneys. my body hurts and i'm trying to work all at the same time as studying. But I need the money so i have to work. well "Iiiiiii'll be hooooome for Christmaaaaaas" and i'm having a party at my house sometime in there. white elephant fun. or we'll draw names we'll figure it out. it's still september. And speaking of Creation...if you wanna go again this year with my group, start saving your money because we need $92 a person over 12 and anyone between 6-11 it's $52 and 0-5 is free. i need this money by January so we are sure to get a good spot. anyways invite your friends. we need 20 people over 12 to get a discount and i know that there are at least 20 of you that want to go this year. the dates are: 25[wed]-29[sat] or july. i'm leaving on the 24[tues] and coming back on 30[sun] gimme a call if you have ?'s 541-380-1705

Pray

Hey everyone. I just took an exam and got a lower grade than i want to have while here at moody. Things are starting to pile up. I'm trying to get ahead and i'm starting to feel overwhelmed. I need a job but i dont think i can do it now. I really need to get on my school. so if you guys could pray for me: my job, my classes (The Church and it's Doctrines in particular), my social life, my major [El Ed] and if i should change it [Music~Voice]. And my ADD. [I know i have it even though i've not been diagnosed]. Thank you guys.

FYT retreat

ok one of the most cool retreats i've been to. I was there with about 220 other people and we went to the "country" more like uptown hood river. but there was a lake and a bonfire and AWESOME FOOD!!! and we got rooms like a hotel. we sang a lot and then we ate and had a lot of fun. we had to build something to symbolize our group and where we were headed this year. we built a holy spirit baton. we then stayed up till 2 am playing mafia and psychiatrist. and just hanging out. then we had a cool breakfast and an awesome ride back to chicago. we went to a camp in indiana. someone had spit in our bus driver's toothpaste that morning i'm sure of. he had a chip on his shoulder. anyway back to work cya

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Freakish week

so this week has been hecktic. [spell it as you will] i had a 5 page paper due on tuesday and a few reading tests and assignments throughout the week. I was really stressed for a while then i just gave it to God and all is better now. Plus today i'm going to a 2-day retreat with my First Year Transition group. anyways sorry not to write in a while, as i am sure that everyone in hood river is reading this today. :^\ w/e so yeah gotta go pack for my trip to indiana. we're going to some lake. it'll be fun. cya

I had a dream

So I never dream. But I did last night. I dreamed that I was in a live video game that had to do with riding on the tracks of a mine. But these were about is high up in the air as the top of the sears tower. So it was me and Josh (T) and Missy. We kept losing out cart and it would fall onto the other side of the tracks so we'd go carefully over and get it and put it back so we could start over. We needed to build up speed to go over r a jump. Now these tracks have nothing underneath them except the valley of Hood River about 200 feet immersed in ocean. Then we finally started going and I woke up for a sec then went back to my dream. I dreamed I was in an apartment...A NICE apartment. But it was also a dorm. It was the middle of the night and there was a guy in his bathrobe throwing pebbles at the sliding glass door to get someone's attention. Then my dream had a backtrack. I was sitting in the student dining room here at moody and thus guy from my dorm [never seen him before] was being stupid and egging me on about I don't remember what. So someone was sitting next to me. I think it was my wife. I don't remember what she looked like. No she was my fiancee. So anyways I stood up and popped him one on the face. Then it took me back to the room. And the guy in the bathrobe came up the stairs and said that one of my classmates was scared of his job [security guard] and was having a hard time with it, then it took me to a school and there was a woman there who was out of sorts because the teacher was putting bibles in the backpacks of the elementary students and said that it was too much for them to carry and took up too much space. Then they asked if she'd like to have a bible and she said yes then they said $1.50 and she had the look on her face like "how dare you charge me" and then she bought it and they asked if she'd like another and that it would be $10.75 and then it took me back to the dorm thing and there was a lady there saying that there was a girl that was upset too and that she needed help. She was a black lady with whiting hair. Then the kid came into the room and we became friends again and started to play in a band and I woke up.

So. I don't dream. But when I do, they are doozies. Sometimes it's something that's gonna happen or did happen in real life. Sometimes it's not. Whatever Amazed that I could remember details. Anyway

OT Paper

So i have this Old Testament paper that's due on Tuesday that has to be 5 pages on the penteteuch. not that hard but it's taking forever. so that's what's happening with me. i'll try to type later.

Friday

Yesterday i had no classes and today all the classes are an hour apart and i only have 3 so yeah fridays are awesome!!! i've got a lot of homework and i have to figure out how to get my mom to be able to communicate with with video through AIM and iChat. talking to an apple guy so s'all good. i used up my minutes so i have to only txt today. i get my minutes back tomorrow. haa anyway going to my last class now

No class

Ok today i have no classes and lunch was burgers. how awesome of a day. now i have to study i have a 5 page paper due next week cya

oh btw. if anyone reads my stuff would you mind commenting or something just a word like HA or LOL just to let me know that i'm not just typing to the web. Anyways

Jewel

So last night someone burnt popcorn and decided to look into the smouldering smelly charred black bag to see if it really was burnt. therefore setting off the fire alarm and we had to have people come up to turn it off. yeah fun times. so then i came back to my room and then we [evan and i] got a call from our sister floor asking if we could escort them to Jewel. [it was 9 at night and yeah bad things happen after the sun goes down] so i said "they want to buy braceletts at nine at night?" but jewel turned out to be a grocery store much like safeway. and we made it back without incident. then i stayed up for a while trying to get video in iChat to work at home with AIM video on my mom's pc but it never worked so i'm gonna call apple in a few minutes. i'm having my mom buy an iMac and i'm gonna teach her how to use it when i go home for x-mas. BTW another party at my house in December we'll figure out the details later. so yeah because my mom's computer keeps crashing on her. so that's what's gonna happen.

Starbucks

So i got to work and no one knew i was coming. so they had me sit down and watch this movie on how to runn the till. then they gave me a hat and apron. they asked me "what do you know how to do?" i said "drinks" they said "ok that's what you're doing today, GO" so i got thrown in the kiosk and it took about 30 minutes to remember everything. [i've been gone for 3 weeks] so then the ruch came and it was crazy but really fun. then 4:45 came up and the shift manager or whatever she was [remember they had no clue i was working today so they just threw me in w/o any explanation about ANYTHING] and asked me "when was your last break?" i said "i havent' had one yet . she flipped out and said "geez man go take yourself a fifteen minute break i'm so sorry" [now when i worked at HR safeway i did 4-6 hour shifts by myself doing EVERYTHING w/o breaks] so i told her that and she said "ARE YOU SERIOUS?!" she kept saying "I dont know how you did it" it was funny. the only bad part was i was working with9 other people. 2 girls 3 guys and a couple of "guys that only God loves" WELCOME TO CHICAGO STARBUCKS!!!. So had to bite my lip to not laugh at them and their high pitched lithpy voithes...sorry. and then i was done and went home and talked on the computer and then went to bed and here i am getting ready to go to breakfast and then to classes all day.

Work

So i start working today @ starbucks. It'll be fun. I just have to learn how to do the machine. basically. pray that it 's not busy but anyways. i'm going to breakfast now

Chinatown

so chinatown....yeah scary place. it was kinda stuck in the 70's and there was people everywhere who looked like they were just waiting to rip out their samurai swords and hack us to pieces. we then went down a few streets and found the larget McDonalds i have ever seen it was 2 stories high. we also saw the amazon cafe or something like that. also there was a real cool burger place set in the 1930's. so now i got my mail to work through computer/email expertise between a fellow mac user and I. Well i'd better go to bed because i have an 8:00 class tomorrow. i also have to start my first day at work tomorrow. WHEE!!

Hush puppies

my first encounter with hush puppies was tonight. I say encounter because i don't know what to think of them. Apparently someone in my group of friends from Hood River knows how to make them well but i dont remember who. I bit into them after someone had told me what they were "deep fried balls of bread". i was surprised at how moist they were with the butter [or whatever the liquid was]. i think they need gravy. 'course i'm from tennesee and everything needs gravy or salt and pepper. but they were good nonetheless. i'm going into china town tonight with a group of friends. so i'll write later

Cool Music

Found some cool music on iTunes: "21:03" if you like R&B/gospel; and "Lecrae" if you like rap. Both christians and sounds pretty cool.

Hood River Persons

Hey guys I just made a group on myspace called Hood River Persons. If you're from or in Hood River, OR join it. It's just for fun. maybe new things are happening in Hood River. I'm in Chicago, but i still like to know what's going on in my hometown. Anyways, I guess i'll blog later


Copy/Paste: http://groups.myspace.com/hoodriverites

Sunday

today i did nothing at all. i got up at 10 and took a shower and then played on my compy and then went to lunch and then came back here and played on the compy then went to a sub shop for dinner and now here i am again. I talked to missy for a few minutes but she was on her way to go somewhere where there's no service so [sniff] i miss her a lot. evey once in a while i dont feel that i'm here. i have a lot of out of body experiences. mainly when i'm thinking about all you guys in HR. today i think was the first day that i wanted to go back to HR and see my friends. I live off of communicating with you guys. I'm online ALL THE TIME. i dont use google talk because firefox is being stupid so i dont use it. my screen names are : AIM: andrewinhr; MSN: primitivegremlin@gorge.net; YAHOO: andrewinhr. send me an email or something. commenting on my pics is always fun to look at. i'm trying to write a blog for you guys to read. so yeah i'll be seein ya. I have a webcam so i can video conference with people who have AIM 5.5 if ya want. I also have iChat. anyways i'm gonna go to bed. just remember that i'm 2 hours ahead of you. i'm in bed by 12 my time, 10 your time.

Lunch

hmm lunch was kinda good today. we had a baked potato and veggie lasagna and garlic bread. I'm going out to dinner tonight. i dont know where yet. i have one class that is "academic" :college writing. all my other classes are: spiritual life and community, Old Testament Survey, The Church and it's doctrines, studying and teaching the bible, and introduction to ministry. it's amazing how much i DON'T know about the bible. well anyways. i'm bored which means i need to call missy or get on homework...missy it is then!.

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Sleep in...

So i slept in this morning. it's sunday. i'm gonna have my own church service in my room by myself. i got music and the bible. anyways. i think we're gonna go out to eat tonight. Last night i started learning guitar. i think i'm picking it up fast. it's easier to pick it up when you're playing with someone than if you have to do it alone. so i'm gonna go take a shower and have worship time. cya

1st college posting

ok some people think that i should blog like crazy. now i have some time todo this but if i dont i'm sorry. there's probably only 3 people that will read this blog anyways so yeah. um, college is cool and some of my friends are awesome. yes i said some. the city is beautiful. check out my pics at www.flickr.com/photos/andyinhr . i miss hood river so bad. well that's all i can think of right now so i'll try to get back to this later