possible reasons for (much more) homesickness this year:

back to emily: i walked out of the toys, toys, toys (or maybe this was sometime after that) and my dad saw her walk by. she didn't know we were there so she was walking walking walking and i was chasing her, running in the food court a bit. when i got close to her i looked on her name tag which said "laura" so i thought it wasn't her. looked at the side of her face and it was. nice to see her. she quit ae but they called her to work today.

the quiz: maybe we need to do some bonding, people. or you need to read this more :p i was trying to be tricky though..hee hee.

tijuana: they are leaving in a week! i was excited today. i think i may have felt some excitement i expect to feel when *i* am going on a missions trip soon...yet i don't when *i* am going :p

don't copy my example, but... i've been thinking: i've become a university student (except i haven't done an all-nighter yet, i don't drink or club and i am not addicted to coffee). but the skipping... which is now acceptable. and being late. however, i will not skip poli. sci. (my favourite...and i'd be in trouble if i missed the notes)

oh yeah, last sunday we ate dinner at this restaurant really close to where i live...good prices :)
yesterday my parents and my brother saw the passion of the Christ. before i wasn't going to but then later i thought maybe i would..i don't know.
urbana worship cd coming out soon! (urbana.org > urbana 03 > store)

english version: "i don't need a man to wash the car for me. but if you do insist, then honey take the keys" espanol: something like "i don't need a man who pays for my dinner, but if you insist, here's the bill" ha ha.
(don't need a man/no hace falta un hombre, jaci velasquez)

today a professor from hong kong came to my poli sci class and talked about china.

yesterday i looked @ my mexico journal. contrary to what i thought, i had covered everything (or maybe not the whole day of something...) there were things that i had forgotten about. MEXICO TEAM IS LEAVING NEXT SUNDAY! (PRAY :p)

yesterday i also realized i'm not totally screwed up (though tonight was a diff. story).

i love spanish...

notes to self: taiwan (please don't ask :p )
homeless man's smile

aqui esta mi QUIZ

ate taiwanese food w/ sam today. mmmm.
had tcby w/ sam today. mmmmm.
saw john glover -- he's coming to wloo next year!

PRAY for mission fest, okay?
and pray for haiti too...for the political sit. and spiritual situation...i read missionaries have been leaving and the radio ministry has been hurt by what's going on.

well, went for korean bbq today. hope there are no germs from raw meat on me or stuff that i touched that belongs to me :p then we went to adrian's house and got kicked out. at korean bbq we ate cake for barry and we prayed for him at adrian's house. and i talked to emily a little in the car. i wish my friends were at waterloo...well sam and josh are...and if emily and other ppl were i probably wouldn't see them much anyway...

not very happy about the work (or lack of work) done today...was hoping to get some of my essay written after dinner tonight but dinner was longer than i thought (also missed gilmore girls but oh well :p and 7th heaven is on monday's now so i can watch..unless i go to church...). but it was good to see ppl...i saw steph c. and patrick! and other ppl but i didn't talk to all of them a lot. and karyn and greg and ppl from queens (that i don't know) were there.

oooh, today i picked out glasses! RED-ish :). well they're like burgandy-ish. or maybe burgandy-ish-purple-ish...

i don't think we're moving anymore. or going to hk/china this summer, 'cos of that bird flu stuff and other diseases going around...

well, off to the eye doctor tmw. apparently i got new glasses last year...oh well, hopefully i can get new ones this year...red or green or purple or blue..yes...i would also like purple hair or pink streaks or to dip it blue..but i don't think that will happen soon.

plans for the week:
lunes: get lectured by dental assistant for not flossing
martes: go to eye dr, get stuff dropped into my eye, hopefully get new tacky glasses :), start writing paper, watch 7th heaven :)
miercoles: paper, GILMORE GIRLS (sooo have to after last week's ending..even though jess is gone)
jueves: be done rough copy of paper (if it happens, otherwise on friday) :p, ooh: friends, see exam schedule
viernes: cn tower job fair if nec.
sometime: be called by lady from hydro place on phone, see friends, watch finding nemo & maybe something else.
and soon it will be time to go back...boooooooo :*(

well i talked to my dad a little today about the hydro job...realized maybe i won't get it, though i am more confident now than i was earlier...but i hope that if God doesn't want me there this summer i won't have to make the choice.

today my dad and i ate japanese food. it was okay..also ate ice cream :D the girl was very nice.

tmw i'm [planning on] going to the early service @ church..then coming back to do work...took two whole pages of notes today for my essay. (not good) my mom got me a book y chocolate...my dad and i got my mom flowers..

this has been happening for a long time now, but it's gotten worse..i shrink from stuff that's supposed to make me closer to God or follow Him more or whatever...maybe it's only when i'm avoiding doing something...

"i am shocked to discover that there is gambling here!"
"here are your winnings, sir."
"thank you."
-casablanca...it went something like that :p (that part was funny :D )

could have gone home yesterday too! we didn't learn anything in spanish (and i wouldn't have done something stupid) and poli sci was cancelled...my good class! but today when i woke up, the sunlight was glorious! and it felt sooo good to not be miserable about stuff that had been bothering me!

saw places today -- they're nice but i don't wanna live in them. also saw a transglobe place. oh how i want a bachelor(ette) suite at transglobe!

sometimes i wanna write in spanish. but most of you won't understand it :p and i don't have time to make a spanish blog...that won't have anything deep in it anyway :p i talked to mr. fuller en espanol ayer :p

el verano:

this lady is supposed to call me about a job (w/ AWESOME PAY, but it's in pickering) next week. does working for a hydro company imply that i support the privatization of hydro? it's already been privatized... (i can soooo see dissonance theory and self-presentation theory @ work :p social psych is awesome...too bad i can't spend more time absorbing the material :p ) and i hope there are no scandals re. the env't or soc'l justice...

originally i had planned to do some dist. ed. over the summer..but now i guess i can only do one course (if i get a full time job). i also don't know if we'll be travelling...maybe to hk and/or china... before i had wanted to go to this place in hk for missions (which is progress b/c asia is one of the last places i wanna go :p ..had also talked to my dad about other stuff in that area and been interested in going..)

my aunt is working w/ special ed. kids...so i might be able to volunteer w/ her too if i want.

one night @ urbana i saw the back of this guy who reminded me of this guy @ work last summer...we also had a speaker that told us to think of the hardest ppl to reach and i thought of work...you know the poem that goes something like "some ppl want to sit under the church bells, i want to rescue souls at the gates of hell"? to me, my last year workplace would be "at the gates of hell". if it was for another position (which i applied for but might have gotten full already) i'd be willing to go back there, but i sooooo don't wanna do what i did last year!

i also don't know if i told God i'd do something i shouldn't have if i got this hydro place job...or if i can get out of it... =\ it's about $ stuff...it's not like my parents are overflowing w/ $ for me to use for bills and food, though they would give me $ if i need it...and i didn't realize it would require commuting to pickering (and if it was in toronto like i expected, bus fare wasn't on my mind at all). and it's not that i wanna be rich, but the prospect of saving $ is nice and when you start talking about big $ (by my standards anyway :p ) i don't want to give it away...not so much of it anyway :p and jeidy wasn't on my mind @ all either so i'm wondering if i can use part of it for her...

going to the dominican republic would be nice...visiting jeidy.. :p and i totally never realized 'til recently that during our summer, it's WINTER in south america...so it will not be as HOT (though d.r. is in the n. hemisphere and the temp. is probably the same all year round anyway...

wow there's spell check on this..niiiice. except i don't write w/ proper capitalization so it goes through all of that :p

did i ever write that i've been wondering if i should switch my theme area? right now it's working w/ children (or working w/ children & youth, but i dunno if that'll work out). should i change it to 3rd world stuff?