So i thought this time I would begin this blog with a few funny stories from work. (well i think their funny.) :)
Most of you probably know that when I meet people that know a language that I think i know i try and talk with them in that language. Well at the little store that i work at we have a lot of amish and hispanic customers that come in.
Like usual one day a customer came up to the register to pay for his items. He was an older man (as in older than me.), he looked to be in his 40's and he had a big long texan mustasche, the kind that hangs down past his chin, and a very long mullet. It was a pretty impressive mullet.... Anyway, he came up and didnt speak a word of english so i was thinking eh, i understand a lot of spanish i can answer in spanish. (bad idea.) Of course he was surprised that this gringa can speak any spanish at all and he gets all excited that i can understand him. He begins to ask me how i learned spanish and where from and whatnot. Then i thought he had asked me, "do you like speaking spanish?" I responded yes, then i thought that he had repeated the statement but in reality he had asked, " do you like me?" and so me thinking he had repeated it i said, "si mucho mucho." GAHHH, wrong answer. He proceeds to smile and try to ask for my number. GAHH! I just responded in english with, "whats that, oh Im coming terry." and i beat it for the back because i had no idea what to do. blehhhhh! I was not wanting to try and fix that mistake at all. lol. So, ive learned that unless i know the language fluently, i am not going to try and speak it fully. lol.
Another story that was kind of funny slash creepy was about this older black man like in his 60's. He comes in the door and the first thing he does is give me a creeper stare down smile and then comes up to my register asking where a certain kind of shampoo is, so i lead him to where its at, and then he asks where the brushes are for handsome men like himself. I just responded with the polite fake smile.
Once we got to the brushes, he turns to me and says; "why thank you, but you know what, you know what, you got a real pretty face; you could sell that face. Well dang did you know that you got such a pretty face. Dang. How old are you?" I say 20, and he responds: " well dang i thought you were in yo thirtys or somethin. Im like triple yo age. dang, well dang. I could be yo father. But, do you have a boyfriend, are you single?" Of course to get him to leave i say, "yeah i have a boyfriend, he's pretty great. His name is Je'sus." ( i tricked him and just said jesus in spanish. hehe, i thought it was smart at least. :) ) His response, "oh i see so you like hispanics, well dang. I guess I will leave then."
So quick as i could, i rang up his stuff and sent him on his way. My thought about this, " What in the world just happened?" Then i was creeped out, but i can def laugh about it now. :) It was funny if ya think about it.
So thats a little window of my what its like at my work, i re-stock shelves, ring people up on the register, try to avoid all creepy old men, and answer the phone in dutch for kicks. Its an exciting adventure. :)
Friday, August 14, 2009
Monday, July 13, 2009
Latest Update on my life.
My my it has been a while since the last time that i have written on here. I think that it is high time that i write on here again......
Well, I have been home from Rosedale a little more than a month now and have been working on "re-entering" back into home life with my family. Its definitly a growing but challenging experience being back at home on little old County Road 40. I will admit that being back at home hasnt been easy for me. I think its definitly been a time where God is telling me to slow down a bit and not be SO involved with social things. A time to really teach me about not depending on my habit of wanting to be constantly doing social things with people. I gues as well of re-learning how to have a social life that isnt automatic like college and reach is. :)
While being back at home God times definitly have become fewer and fewer........But,
I am happy to say that things have gotten much better. I think it began to get better when we had a really good communion service at my church for fathers day. It was such an eye opening sermon.
It was a time where God was really speaking to my heart. Of telling me that He understands how hard it was for me to accept the fact that i wasnt accepted into being on staff with YES ministries. I had thought that i was accepted into the program but it turned out in the end that i was not the right person for the job. So since this God has shown me that i cant just sit here and mope in the idea of failure over working with YES.
So, with Gods help i gathered the gumption to start looking at colleges once again. Even tho, while I was at RBC i was saying that oh I dont think that college is really the place for me. Im kind of thinking that actually i think it might be. But God definitly has worked through me taking steps forward at such a time as this when I dont know what I actually want to do. He worked through my trust that He would work it all out.
And you know what, He has. I got a call from a director from RMM; Todd Miller and it sounds like their may be a strong offer for a two year internship in Gazientep, Turkey. I know, WOW, right!! It is SO SO huge. The only information that I know about it so far is that I would be living with this 70 year old lady who would be my mentor. She seems to a real powerhouse of a lady. She says that she has felt this call in her life at her age to be a prayer warrior in Turkey until the day that she dies. wow, she sounds amazing already. Like this woman has lived life and here she is at her age still fully living it. wow. amazing. :)
Basically the work that i would do is go to turkish language school and take an online course in teaching english as a second language and work at the orphanage down the road, and who knows their could be a possiblilty of hosting future REACH teams and as well go to an english college in the area and have that be a source of outreach as well as i would make friendships there. :) All of this is so big, and I mean Im still processing it all in my mind. I think right now until i find out more information about what is going to happen I am on the fence of going to college and doing this thing in turkey.
So be praying for me folks as I begin to make huge life pin point decisions.
Well, I have been home from Rosedale a little more than a month now and have been working on "re-entering" back into home life with my family. Its definitly a growing but challenging experience being back at home on little old County Road 40. I will admit that being back at home hasnt been easy for me. I think its definitly been a time where God is telling me to slow down a bit and not be SO involved with social things. A time to really teach me about not depending on my habit of wanting to be constantly doing social things with people. I gues as well of re-learning how to have a social life that isnt automatic like college and reach is. :)
While being back at home God times definitly have become fewer and fewer........But,
I am happy to say that things have gotten much better. I think it began to get better when we had a really good communion service at my church for fathers day. It was such an eye opening sermon.
It was a time where God was really speaking to my heart. Of telling me that He understands how hard it was for me to accept the fact that i wasnt accepted into being on staff with YES ministries. I had thought that i was accepted into the program but it turned out in the end that i was not the right person for the job. So since this God has shown me that i cant just sit here and mope in the idea of failure over working with YES.
So, with Gods help i gathered the gumption to start looking at colleges once again. Even tho, while I was at RBC i was saying that oh I dont think that college is really the place for me. Im kind of thinking that actually i think it might be. But God definitly has worked through me taking steps forward at such a time as this when I dont know what I actually want to do. He worked through my trust that He would work it all out.
And you know what, He has. I got a call from a director from RMM; Todd Miller and it sounds like their may be a strong offer for a two year internship in Gazientep, Turkey. I know, WOW, right!! It is SO SO huge. The only information that I know about it so far is that I would be living with this 70 year old lady who would be my mentor. She seems to a real powerhouse of a lady. She says that she has felt this call in her life at her age to be a prayer warrior in Turkey until the day that she dies. wow, she sounds amazing already. Like this woman has lived life and here she is at her age still fully living it. wow. amazing. :)
Basically the work that i would do is go to turkish language school and take an online course in teaching english as a second language and work at the orphanage down the road, and who knows their could be a possiblilty of hosting future REACH teams and as well go to an english college in the area and have that be a source of outreach as well as i would make friendships there. :) All of this is so big, and I mean Im still processing it all in my mind. I think right now until i find out more information about what is going to happen I am on the fence of going to college and doing this thing in turkey.
So be praying for me folks as I begin to make huge life pin point decisions.
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
Latest Aspirations
In my life I have been trying to discern what I want to do with my life and where God is leading me to go. This week my ideas of what i want to do is: Either do missions with some program for a year, or go to a missions college in pasedena or Minnesota. Or else go to huntington university for some major which i would have no idea what i would do it on.
I have been googling different missions programs and so far I have seen one program that i liked which it was called "Thrive". This program entails a one year internship near Johannesburg. Which I would have training and bible classes in the morning and then later in the day i would go out and teach bible lessons or run a bible school. Then as well be teaching community leaders different biblical skills that they can convey to their people. One smaller aspect is that we would do little medical trips in the settlements and be working in the local schools.
It sounds really interesting to me, plus on my vacation that i would take i would want to go and visit Refilwe, (the place where my team spent our outreach.)
I feel like their must be a reason of why all i can think of every day is south africa and the feeling that i need to return to the country that i cant get out of my head. Either its just an emotional connection that is calling me back, or it truly is God that is calling me back.
I had good conversation with a friend that when we are trying to decide what to do with our lives, its good to try and discern what God wants for us in our lives. But then we have to realize that we do have to make a choice and God will not always come to us in some big prophetic dream or something of the sort. We may not get some big sign that we want. God may want us to decide and what ever we decide God will still teach and bless us through anything that we decide. So we need to stand as strong christians and just put a trust in ourselves and in what we feel God is calling us to do.
Im still at Rosedale right now, and its been good but hard at the same time. I mean when is college not hard. At times i do feel a bit depressed that life here in america is still stinky and just not enjoyable any more. That the only way i can truly be happy is if im back in SA. Which completely is not the answer. I need to be able to find a sense of "ok-ness" with being back at home. But now that i have experienced the world for an extended amount of time, home is not really home anymore. The world is now my home.
So as I am here at rosedale every other week i have been fasting from something different. The first week i started out by just doing liquids but since i am hypoglycemic i got really sick from doing that, so after the third day i decided to do a rice and bean fast for the rest of the week. That was really good. It was a dry time in my week with God, but at the end God helped me to see that i need to stop looking into the future and just take one day at a time. So then i skipped a week and then will do a fast this week and then skip a week and so on until it equals 40 days. Im so very ready for it. I wanted to do rice and beans this week, but you know you are poor when you cant afford to go on a rice and bean fast. lol. In result i have decided to fast from facebook which is hard. But i mean its an internet site that i seem to not be able to go a few hours without not checking. In result i am not going to look or check it until noon next monday. I know i can do it, it will be good for me. :)
Once i get paid this friday i will be paying back a handful of people and then buy rice and beans that will last me for like three weeks and then cook them at the begining of each week that i am doing the fast so that i will have a stock and not have to buy anymore. I cant wait to see the end of this.
Keep pourin on the prayers Jesus. Love you
I have been googling different missions programs and so far I have seen one program that i liked which it was called "Thrive". This program entails a one year internship near Johannesburg. Which I would have training and bible classes in the morning and then later in the day i would go out and teach bible lessons or run a bible school. Then as well be teaching community leaders different biblical skills that they can convey to their people. One smaller aspect is that we would do little medical trips in the settlements and be working in the local schools.
It sounds really interesting to me, plus on my vacation that i would take i would want to go and visit Refilwe, (the place where my team spent our outreach.)
I feel like their must be a reason of why all i can think of every day is south africa and the feeling that i need to return to the country that i cant get out of my head. Either its just an emotional connection that is calling me back, or it truly is God that is calling me back.
I had good conversation with a friend that when we are trying to decide what to do with our lives, its good to try and discern what God wants for us in our lives. But then we have to realize that we do have to make a choice and God will not always come to us in some big prophetic dream or something of the sort. We may not get some big sign that we want. God may want us to decide and what ever we decide God will still teach and bless us through anything that we decide. So we need to stand as strong christians and just put a trust in ourselves and in what we feel God is calling us to do.
Im still at Rosedale right now, and its been good but hard at the same time. I mean when is college not hard. At times i do feel a bit depressed that life here in america is still stinky and just not enjoyable any more. That the only way i can truly be happy is if im back in SA. Which completely is not the answer. I need to be able to find a sense of "ok-ness" with being back at home. But now that i have experienced the world for an extended amount of time, home is not really home anymore. The world is now my home.
So as I am here at rosedale every other week i have been fasting from something different. The first week i started out by just doing liquids but since i am hypoglycemic i got really sick from doing that, so after the third day i decided to do a rice and bean fast for the rest of the week. That was really good. It was a dry time in my week with God, but at the end God helped me to see that i need to stop looking into the future and just take one day at a time. So then i skipped a week and then will do a fast this week and then skip a week and so on until it equals 40 days. Im so very ready for it. I wanted to do rice and beans this week, but you know you are poor when you cant afford to go on a rice and bean fast. lol. In result i have decided to fast from facebook which is hard. But i mean its an internet site that i seem to not be able to go a few hours without not checking. In result i am not going to look or check it until noon next monday. I know i can do it, it will be good for me. :)
Once i get paid this friday i will be paying back a handful of people and then buy rice and beans that will last me for like three weeks and then cook them at the begining of each week that i am doing the fast so that i will have a stock and not have to buy anymore. I cant wait to see the end of this.
Keep pourin on the prayers Jesus. Love you
Monday, January 12, 2009
New Term at Rosedale
I have just started my second week here at Rosedale. Ive been thinking about a lot of things while I have been here. Ive had some good conversations, but I have been pondering what my relationship with Christ is. Also of who I really am in Christ, like what my identity is in Him. I feel that I still struggle with Culture shock at times. In training they told us that its a six to twelve month process. I have my bad days, and I have my good days. Part of it has been struggling with depression qualities. I feel so much frustration but then the next hour I will feel happy and like nothing is really wrong. But I havent had any God times. So what I need to do is work on self discipline with my quiet times, and with the things that I do daily. Its like I have this fear or something of the sort of gaining new responsibility. Growing up in our house I had adult responsibilities at a young age, I didnt have the entirety of a childhood. So now that I am away from the home environment I have to start taking on more adult responisbilities. That scares me, its like now that I am away I want to have that childhood stage. Yet I know I am at the age that most people will start taking on the normal adult responsiblities. I know I need to just do it, and accept it all. With a result of all of this thinking I know that I needed to do something about it, so I have begun to do a fast. The fast consists of fasting a week and only having liquids and then the next week eat normal for the most part and then the next week fast again and continue on until the weeks add up to equal 40 days. So it will take me about two months to do. I will begin doing more quiet times and whatnot. Im very ready for it.
The first day wasnt bad at all, It went pretty well actually. But im told its the second day that kind of stinks. I can handle it though. As well this weekend at RBC is a spiritual revival weekend. Starting from thursday to monday morning. It seems ironic that i start fasting this week and know that this revival is coming up. Im so glad.
Be praying that God will be evident to me as I spend these weeks fasting.
The first day wasnt bad at all, It went pretty well actually. But im told its the second day that kind of stinks. I can handle it though. As well this weekend at RBC is a spiritual revival weekend. Starting from thursday to monday morning. It seems ironic that i start fasting this week and know that this revival is coming up. Im so glad.
Be praying that God will be evident to me as I spend these weeks fasting.
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