School is officially, completely, unapologetically back with a whole bunch of books (there are 3 in my kindle on top of these) to read and things to learn.
aI am excited!
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Books. Show all posts
Sunday, October 2, 2011
Friday, August 12, 2011
My mother in law blessed me with a Kindle! I have been studying 2 Corinthians 3-5 for school and all the books that i was required to read were available on kindle so I've been reading on it. I am still getting used to it, it's different you know, no highlighters, no post it notes, no notes on the margins. But I am saving a ton of money on school books, so I am ok with it.
I do love having the ability to carry 4 books + a Bible in one small kindle, it's lovely and so good for my back and shoulders. Thank you so much other momma, you are such a wonderful blessing to me, God spoiled me when he brought me into your family.
Wednesday, May 4, 2011
Sunday, February 27, 2011
We walked downtown with our friends Kevin & Tanya (who are engaged and it's so exciting!!) last Thursday night and had to go into the huge Borders on 5th and G that is closing. I am so sad the Borders won't be there, I love going and sitting on the floor in between the many shelves to read pieces of books and look at beautiful pictures of places I have never been too.
We got a couple gifts since everything was discounted and left sad knowing it might be the last time we hang out at Borders, I am hoping a Barnes & Noble rents the place ha.
Monday, January 31, 2011
My aunt, my cousin and I went to Pei Wei to have lunch. Besides the wonderful meal I got a fortune cookie that made me think.
When I was a junior in high school I wrote a book of short stories and submitted it to a contest. I got first place, which surprised me a bit, but excited me enough to write another one during my senior year. Once again I submitted it to a contest, and once again I got first place. There is something about being a teenager doing what you are passionate about, getting praised for it; you already think you know it all at 17; this kinds of things make you think you could do it all, win it all, beat it all.
In college I started in an engineering major, saying that I wasn't good at it would definitely be an overstatement. I passed all my classes because I was persistent and proud, and my friends would help through my sad inability to understand algorithms. Taking classes I didn't enjoy, studying long hours to try to understand what to others seemed so simple took a toll in that teenage invincibility; not only was I unable to do it all, I started to realize I knew squat.
In my second year I wrote a poem; after being pushed by friends I submitted it to a contest and got 4th place. I felt accomplished, but my confidence in my writing and my results had dwindled so much it wasn't enough to keep me going. It was enough however to bring the hunger for words back into my life. That's when I started taking literature classes and thinking about double majoring; every class I took was so challenging yet so fulfilling. I felt like I wanted to know more; I wanted to dive in inexistent worlds that had been painted for me years prior by people whose imaginations and unparalleled ability to create marvelous stories were so surreal and admired by me I could barely contain my wonder.
The classes were difficult, but the more difficult they got the more I felt like the teenage girl with a passion for pages full of words was coming back out of the darkness. I remember taking a Shakespeare class in which I had to read so much literature about the literature I felt like a psychologist trying to determine a prognosis for the characters behaviors. It was fascinating, absorbing, exhilarating; it was like living in one of the books at all times, jumping from science fiction to drama to comedy; from ancient times to 1920 to last week. A train going everywhere was my mind; the only stops happened during my engineering classes were imagination was not only discouraged, it was also mocked.
I've always loved writing, since I can recall I've devoured books like everything around me has disappeared. I've grown less confident on my abilities to write; I feel like ever day I spend without writing I grow further away from the girl with the potential to write contest-wining books. Especially since I moved here where I spend 90% of my day speaking in a foreign language trying to remember words in that beautiful Spanish I miss and have started to butcher every time I talk.
Since high school I've started 3 different books with 3 completely different subjects. I want to finish all three of them, and let people read them; after all a book not read is hardly a book at all. I want the confident 17 year old who would write almost daily to crawl out of the box where she has been hiding for the last decade.
I am dusting the books I’ve started and hopefully the fortune cookie will be encouragement enough to actually finish them and share them before the calendar brings a new year... we'll see.
Thursday, November 18, 2010
I am so excited about the new books I got for school. They are all about preaching and sharing the gospel, can't wait to start reading them and learning more about sharing my faith. I really do love school, I just recently started studying again, pursuing my masters degree and I am already planning what I'll be doing next.
Every day after school I get home and I am just beyond excited because God's plan for our life is so clear while I am listening to all the teachers and as we come together for prayer. Going back to school has been one of the best decisions we've made, I can't wait to be back in class!!!
Thursday, September 2, 2010
So as you know I started pursuing a master's degree at PLNU and it has been really interesting and fun. I think I am one of those people that love school. Anyways for my next class these are the four books I have to read (which I gotta get on it because they have to be read by Oct so i can go ahead and finish my assignemtns) and I just thought it was interesting that those were the books. For those of you who believe in God I definitely think He's trying to say something to me. For those of you who don't believe in God, He's definitely trying to say something =D.I am excited to keep learning!
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