Welcome to this blog.
I'm assuming that most of you are here because you know me, and you might be wondering what is going on in my life. Then again you might just be looking up random blog names like I did when I thought about starting a blog.
For those of you interested in the latest news on my life: I'm starting a blog! :) You may be wondering, why? That is a good question to ask, seeing as I don't yet know if I will have the time to keep up with a blog. I am hoping to be a student here in El Paso for the next year and a half, and my intention in having a blog is to have a place to share some of my experiences here, a place where you can check once in a while to see if I'm still alive, a place that causes me to think about what is going on and to seek to find the positive experiences of life. This may turn into a sort of journal, as many of you friends back home wonder what my day to day life is like, but my hope is that in writing I will be intentional in remembering God's faithfulness to me throughout the weeks of schooling.
Now, for a bit of an update:
These past couple of days have been busy. After an amazingly arduous yet fantastically fun road trip to Texas with my brave brother (you have to be brave to spend four days on the road, heading south, without using air conditioning), we arrived in El Paso in time to have a quick look around before picking up my parents on Monday evening. Having dropped my brother off at the airport on Wednesday morning, the next couple of days were a blur of shopping for this, looking for that, meeting these fellow students, and having supper with those people. So much has gotten done in the past couple of days, and I have met and been welcomed by so many people, and it is only Friday today.
Class starts tomorrow. Yes, on Saturday. Yes on a long weekend. And tomorrow sometime I will get the schedule of what my life will be for the next 20 days of orientation.
Though sometimes overwhelming, these past days I have been reminded to "Trust in the Lord with all [my] heard and lean not on [my] own understanding. In all [my] ways acknowledge Him and He will direct [my] paths." ~Prov 3:5-6
Ps. I hope to post a bit about the road trip in the future, as there are some pretty stellar pictures and stories.
