Long time no see my good friends... =)
Nothing new to post. Nothing of too much importance running through my mind. Just hanging out and having a grand ol time. I really want to take a road trip. I offered my suggestion to my mama. She said, "Where would you go, then?" That's a good question indeed. I don't know where. Just somewhere not here.
I've been watching a lot of movies in the last week or two. I am a super freak for movies. I have watched LOTR 3 times since it's opening. And I may go for a fourth when the opportunity strikes. I have yet to understand the words of the treebeard. It sounds like jibberish to me. hehe
aiye. I had a good Christmas. yes indeedy.
Saturday, December 28, 2002
Wednesday, December 11, 2002
You guys! I had my first all-nighter for the first TIME!! WOWZAS! Hamlet acting company was meeting from 8 to 12 and from then until 5 I worked on my government project. *excited* So I am a bit off and looney. I just need my beauty sleep and then i'll be my old proper self again.
Man, so much has happened that I'm just too excited to go to sleep yet. Okay, so yesterday, during 3rd period, we were rehearsing our play. As the bell was about to ring, we had to decide when and where are next meeting should take place. Alicia said something about she needing to get ready for a mission trip, but anytime after 8 would be good. I suddenly got excited and wanted to ask her about it. So, I asked casually, "Where are you going?"
"Papua, New Guinea. It's in the Australia area. I'm going with this organization called Wycliffe"
"Really, wow"
"Yeah, it's cool. I'm so excited"
"What do you usually do?" [making light conversation]
"We usually do a drama that shares the gospel aanndd some other stuff, but mostly just sharing about Christ"
"Man, that's exciting. I actually went to China this last summer."
[Pause]
"Who did you go with?"
"Teen Mania"
[a shriek comes from her mouth] "FOORRREALLL? Me too!, I mean Wycliffe is newly added this year to Teen Mania. Man! [high five] That is soo awesome! You know, like it's really hard to find someone here who has been on a mission trip to Teen Mania. Oh, this makes me so happy."
[I nod excitedly in agreement...still surprised about her reaction]
We talked nonstop until the bell rang for the next class. Gee Golly Whiz. That was soo coool. AND after school, we had to rehearse again. After the rehearsal, she and I talked more about God and mission trips and God's calling and stuff. It was so refreshing that I couldn't contain my excitement. I told her over and over again how I had longed for somebody that can understand what I went through close to home. AND now I do!! YAY!!!
So that's that...
Today, we performed the play that we've been practicing so hard on that I've lost sleep because of it. =) But anyway, MAAAANNNN. It was sooo fun. I wish I can record the play. It was hilarious. What we were supposed to do with our acting companies was basically to pick a scene and use a theme to accentuate it. What we chose to do was a Batman theme, where the hero is obviously, Batman, with his sidekick, Robin, and the villians of Joker, Cat-woman, and Penguin. Oh and the Butler, Alfred is in it too. We just replaced the characters to make it more interesting, but still saying the same Hamlet lines and names. [You may not have gotten what i had previously typed, so if you want explanation, do ask]
The play itself was fantastic. On Monday afternoon, half of our group did not show up for the meeting, and none of our props were set, and lines weren't memorized. Things didn't seem to look to bright. But Monday night, we spent 3 hours organizing the logistics and then Tuesday night, 4 hours perfecting. And today, it was awesome. After school, EHS had a meeting. My friend Deeba came up to me and said something about me. Our teacher has been praising [not exactly, but more like complimenting] my acting performance to all her classes. I was like, "Whaaa?" I was literally clueless. When I went into the room, Mrs. Spradley was like "GRACE, I'm so proud of you. You did an amazing job! I mean I would expect Alicia to do her part, but YOU wow you did so goood. I'm so proud of you." [I'm sure i was blushing by now] So yeah. During my visit, she'd talk about something. And then she looked at me, and she would stopped talking and smile and say "Grace, you really blew me away!" The first time I did well in a group project. FIRST TIME. Yeah, seriously, i don't work well with groups. And this is literally the first time I had fun at what I was doing and being productive. Oh, man that's a good feeling.
So yeah, the last 48 hour period has been action packed. I must retire and let mine eyes take rest. And I will embrace it freely. Good night, sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Man, so much has happened that I'm just too excited to go to sleep yet. Okay, so yesterday, during 3rd period, we were rehearsing our play. As the bell was about to ring, we had to decide when and where are next meeting should take place. Alicia said something about she needing to get ready for a mission trip, but anytime after 8 would be good. I suddenly got excited and wanted to ask her about it. So, I asked casually, "Where are you going?"
"Papua, New Guinea. It's in the Australia area. I'm going with this organization called Wycliffe"
"Really, wow"
"Yeah, it's cool. I'm so excited"
"What do you usually do?" [making light conversation]
"We usually do a drama that shares the gospel aanndd some other stuff, but mostly just sharing about Christ"
"Man, that's exciting. I actually went to China this last summer."
[Pause]
"Who did you go with?"
"Teen Mania"
[a shriek comes from her mouth] "FOORRREALLL? Me too!, I mean Wycliffe is newly added this year to Teen Mania. Man! [high five] That is soo awesome! You know, like it's really hard to find someone here who has been on a mission trip to Teen Mania. Oh, this makes me so happy."
[I nod excitedly in agreement...still surprised about her reaction]
We talked nonstop until the bell rang for the next class. Gee Golly Whiz. That was soo coool. AND after school, we had to rehearse again. After the rehearsal, she and I talked more about God and mission trips and God's calling and stuff. It was so refreshing that I couldn't contain my excitement. I told her over and over again how I had longed for somebody that can understand what I went through close to home. AND now I do!! YAY!!!
So that's that...
Today, we performed the play that we've been practicing so hard on that I've lost sleep because of it. =) But anyway, MAAAANNNN. It was sooo fun. I wish I can record the play. It was hilarious. What we were supposed to do with our acting companies was basically to pick a scene and use a theme to accentuate it. What we chose to do was a Batman theme, where the hero is obviously, Batman, with his sidekick, Robin, and the villians of Joker, Cat-woman, and Penguin. Oh and the Butler, Alfred is in it too. We just replaced the characters to make it more interesting, but still saying the same Hamlet lines and names. [You may not have gotten what i had previously typed, so if you want explanation, do ask]
The play itself was fantastic. On Monday afternoon, half of our group did not show up for the meeting, and none of our props were set, and lines weren't memorized. Things didn't seem to look to bright. But Monday night, we spent 3 hours organizing the logistics and then Tuesday night, 4 hours perfecting. And today, it was awesome. After school, EHS had a meeting. My friend Deeba came up to me and said something about me. Our teacher has been praising [not exactly, but more like complimenting] my acting performance to all her classes. I was like, "Whaaa?" I was literally clueless. When I went into the room, Mrs. Spradley was like "GRACE, I'm so proud of you. You did an amazing job! I mean I would expect Alicia to do her part, but YOU wow you did so goood. I'm so proud of you." [I'm sure i was blushing by now] So yeah. During my visit, she'd talk about something. And then she looked at me, and she would stopped talking and smile and say "Grace, you really blew me away!" The first time I did well in a group project. FIRST TIME. Yeah, seriously, i don't work well with groups. And this is literally the first time I had fun at what I was doing and being productive. Oh, man that's a good feeling.
So yeah, the last 48 hour period has been action packed. I must retire and let mine eyes take rest. And I will embrace it freely. Good night, sweet prince and flights of angels sing thee to thy rest.
Sunday, December 08, 2002
Mkay...gonna finish my dream before i do my homework...goes to show my set priorities, doesn't it?
Suddenly, we were in school, working on our project.
Before diving into working at getting everything together, we talked and goofed off for a great deal of time. There is this one guy at my school. He is very tall and attractive. In the dream, he talked to me as if he had known me since forever. I felt giddy and childish. I was excited that he even knew i existed. The strange thing is he just appeared into the dream. He's not even my group or to say the least, in my class! Anyway, so yeah. And then the sign ups for the time we were to present our project were posted, and everybody that had our teacher, came out of nowhere. So the reunion went on.
After awhile, something of great importance had to be shared because a student told everybody to get into a circle, which was impossible because the teacher has over 150 students and we were scrunched up in a room the size of one room apartment. A great amount of tension formed just from the student talking. A great deal of anxiety fell upon me while in the dream. As the student was introducing the news, I felt great sadness within my soul, but I hadn't even heard the news. And I never actually did. The dream kinda cut off right then and there.
I was then in a subway. I had a lanky guy sitting to the right of me. He was my friend but I didn't recognize him. I suppose maybe he was younger than me and just accompanying me. To the left of me sat a man with a very dark complexion (sp?) and dirty clothes. He was rather built and in his mid forties. He looked very dangerous and seemed rather distraught and weary of his surroundings. While my friend and I were talking, the man kept interrupting us. He was annoying us. And as the conversation with my friend had gotten more serious on spiritual matters, the man burst into rage and yelled at the both of us for believing in God or Jesus even. And so my friend sat to the left of me and tried to calm down the man and talked to him about the divinity of Christ and the power of God. But the man was just laughing in our faces making no notion of being polite or kind in any way. I was outraged. I didn't understand why he couldn't just listen to someone talk.
And so, I blurted out how he should just shut up and listen. And then I told him, I was sorry. I didn't mean to tell him to shut up and I said, "Look, God is real. I am living proof of it. Please understand..." The man came at me with his fist and i tried to cover my friend. But he didn't hit neither of us. Instead he disappeared. He was gone. As if he had some power of being invisible. Suddenly, a man sitting two benches down, had stood up, but then I realized he wasn't. He was being held up. Then a shot went off and blood began to form at the victim's stomach. He was dead.
I felt fear run through the blood from my feet to my head. I was so petrified at what the invisible man could do next. He could do the exact same to me. Perhaps he did that to show me my fate. The fear of not knowing what could possibly hurt me due to his invisibility scared me so much that i could not bear it.
Suddenly, we were in school, working on our project.
Before diving into working at getting everything together, we talked and goofed off for a great deal of time. There is this one guy at my school. He is very tall and attractive. In the dream, he talked to me as if he had known me since forever. I felt giddy and childish. I was excited that he even knew i existed. The strange thing is he just appeared into the dream. He's not even my group or to say the least, in my class! Anyway, so yeah. And then the sign ups for the time we were to present our project were posted, and everybody that had our teacher, came out of nowhere. So the reunion went on.
After awhile, something of great importance had to be shared because a student told everybody to get into a circle, which was impossible because the teacher has over 150 students and we were scrunched up in a room the size of one room apartment. A great amount of tension formed just from the student talking. A great deal of anxiety fell upon me while in the dream. As the student was introducing the news, I felt great sadness within my soul, but I hadn't even heard the news. And I never actually did. The dream kinda cut off right then and there.
I was then in a subway. I had a lanky guy sitting to the right of me. He was my friend but I didn't recognize him. I suppose maybe he was younger than me and just accompanying me. To the left of me sat a man with a very dark complexion (sp?) and dirty clothes. He was rather built and in his mid forties. He looked very dangerous and seemed rather distraught and weary of his surroundings. While my friend and I were talking, the man kept interrupting us. He was annoying us. And as the conversation with my friend had gotten more serious on spiritual matters, the man burst into rage and yelled at the both of us for believing in God or Jesus even. And so my friend sat to the left of me and tried to calm down the man and talked to him about the divinity of Christ and the power of God. But the man was just laughing in our faces making no notion of being polite or kind in any way. I was outraged. I didn't understand why he couldn't just listen to someone talk.
And so, I blurted out how he should just shut up and listen. And then I told him, I was sorry. I didn't mean to tell him to shut up and I said, "Look, God is real. I am living proof of it. Please understand..." The man came at me with his fist and i tried to cover my friend. But he didn't hit neither of us. Instead he disappeared. He was gone. As if he had some power of being invisible. Suddenly, a man sitting two benches down, had stood up, but then I realized he wasn't. He was being held up. Then a shot went off and blood began to form at the victim's stomach. He was dead.
I felt fear run through the blood from my feet to my head. I was so petrified at what the invisible man could do next. He could do the exact same to me. Perhaps he did that to show me my fate. The fear of not knowing what could possibly hurt me due to his invisibility scared me so much that i could not bear it.
Saturday, December 07, 2002
I woke up today with a massive headache. blah.
Last night, Michael and I were watching television on his bed. And like I was so lazy that i decided to just sleep in his bed with him. His bed is massive so it fits both of us... hehe. Anyway, I had such a weird dream. Very bizarre, as all my dreams are. bizarre and frightening...
[background information: Right now, I'm working with a total of 5 other people on a school project. I think they're in the dream. How do I know that? Well, we were working on the project in the dream. And, in China, we took the subway EVERYWHERE we went. And a lot of us would minister to them on the train.]
Four of us were agents of the US government. We entered a building with great amount of chairs were there. The chairs were soaked. They were soaked with urine. [shudders vehemently]. We suspected the people who occupied the building peed on chairs as some kind of culture? AND get this, the entire time, I was thinking, "How do they go number 2?"...
We ran down the hall of the drafty building towards a room. The room had a table with a massive pile of what seemed like sugar. However, it wasn't. It was diamonds. Diamonds the size of sugar. [LOL] Anyway, we frantically put the diamonds in bags that magically appeared into our hands and we ran out of the building as if the true criminals were running after us. Right when we reached our car, the building exploded.
Suddenly we were in school, working on our project.
[Part II will come shortly]
Last night, Michael and I were watching television on his bed. And like I was so lazy that i decided to just sleep in his bed with him. His bed is massive so it fits both of us... hehe. Anyway, I had such a weird dream. Very bizarre, as all my dreams are. bizarre and frightening...
[background information: Right now, I'm working with a total of 5 other people on a school project. I think they're in the dream. How do I know that? Well, we were working on the project in the dream. And, in China, we took the subway EVERYWHERE we went. And a lot of us would minister to them on the train.]
Four of us were agents of the US government. We entered a building with great amount of chairs were there. The chairs were soaked. They were soaked with urine. [shudders vehemently]. We suspected the people who occupied the building peed on chairs as some kind of culture? AND get this, the entire time, I was thinking, "How do they go number 2?"...
We ran down the hall of the drafty building towards a room. The room had a table with a massive pile of what seemed like sugar. However, it wasn't. It was diamonds. Diamonds the size of sugar. [LOL] Anyway, we frantically put the diamonds in bags that magically appeared into our hands and we ran out of the building as if the true criminals were running after us. Right when we reached our car, the building exploded.
Suddenly we were in school, working on our project.
[Part II will come shortly]
Thursday, December 05, 2002
Only you...can shake the mountains
Only you...can calm the oceans
Only you...can hold the heavens in the palm of your hand
Tell me who...can look inside me
Tell me who...can purify me
Tell me who...still loves me deeply
More than i understand...only you
With a word you spoke the heavens into place
you scattered the stars and gave the earth its frame
what is man that you should touch him with your grace and
who am I Oh Lord that you should know my name
Only you...can calm the oceans
Only you...can hold the heavens in the palm of your hand
Tell me who...can look inside me
Tell me who...can purify me
Tell me who...still loves me deeply
More than i understand...only you
With a word you spoke the heavens into place
you scattered the stars and gave the earth its frame
what is man that you should touch him with your grace and
who am I Oh Lord that you should know my name
Wednesday, December 04, 2002
One of our neighbor's cat walked unto the sidewalk, picked up the newspaper, and slowly walked back to the house. The cat brought the paper in. That was so strange and so cute at the same time.
I guess I should update on what's going on in my head cause that's what I usually do.
hmm...In most cases, I'd be in a dilemna or am seriously depressed or just utter absent-mindedness, but none of that for me. Just going with flow. Can't say that's a good thing nor bad. But I LOVE COLD WEATHER. YAY! Praise God!
I guess I should update on what's going on in my head cause that's what I usually do.
hmm...In most cases, I'd be in a dilemna or am seriously depressed or just utter absent-mindedness, but none of that for me. Just going with flow. Can't say that's a good thing nor bad. But I LOVE COLD WEATHER. YAY! Praise God!
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