I’m ready to go back to the mountains, back into God’s beautiful creation…I am so thankful that the Lord has created such places for us to enjoy and for us to meet with Him there.
It is so nice to escape from the city every once in awhile to enjoy the serenity and beauty of the mountains…maybe I’ll go up this week… 
If I can come up with the money, I have the amazing opportunity to travel to Israel in June for 10 days, with an academic group, to investigate the Israeli/Palestinian conflict first-hand. It is actually an amazing deal, and I know that if the Lord wants me to go, he will allow me to get the time off and the funds necessary.
I know that my parents will LOVE this news, LOL, but this is a place to which I’ve always wanted to go!
In addition to the costs of going, I will also have to consider getting another passport…Arab nations don’t exactly like to see an Israeli stamp in your passport, and I plan on going to more Arab nations in the coming years.
I am so excited about this possible long-awaited opportunity!!
So, we’re not going camping this weekend…but it’s all good! We’ll go soon, I’m sure of it. Also I have an interview on Tuesday (not really an “interview”, actually–I’m almost guaranteed the job!)so please pray. It looks like it is going to be a great weekend!
We’re 99% sure that this is the long awaited weekend to go camping in the desert and burn all of our Christmas trees! 🙂 I haven’t been camping since September, and I’m ready to go again.
I love camping!
…but hopefully we don’t get ourselves in this mess again…we’ll have to be good! 🙂
I think I know what I want to do with my life!
Ever since I went to Tunisia, I have been thinking about learning Arabic, because it would be challenging and something unique. Now I’m thinking that I should learn Arabic so that I can assist the government with translating, to help fight terrorism and to help with any information they receive. I know that they are really looking for people who love this country and can speak Arabic, and I’m really getting excited about this possibility.
I’m praying about it, but this might be something I could easily see myself doing for the rest of my life! 🙂
Temperature at 10:24am: 78 degrees.
It feels SOOO great! Even though it is WINTER, I appreciate this beautiful Spring-like day (the second one in a row!). Maybe SoCal isn’t so bad…
Texas just beat USC in the Rose Bowl. I’m not a Texas fan, but I am SO sick of hearing about USC–I can’t escape it here! LOL. So, a few of us were really hoping that Texas would win.
41-38!!
As most of you know, I have a slight “obsession” (if you want to call it that) with the show “24”…
Thanks to Cameron, I am hooked on this show…(during Spring break last year, he introduced me to season one, because he wanted to try out his new DVD player)…between March and June of 2005 I watched the first three seasons, in order to be caught up by the time season 4 came out on DVD, and by the time season 5 started in January.
I was given 1-3 for graduation from my mentor and his family, and I just received a package today for my birthday from my mentor and his family: SEASON FOUR!! I am SO excited! Now I can be completely caught up by the 15th-16th, when season 5 premieres.
My roommate has been getting into it as well, so we are watching season 2 currently. I hope that she will watch season 5 this Spring with me–it’s more fun with someone else watching it with you!
Off to watch 24…oh, by the way, interview on Thursday. I’m not entirely slacking off!
Even So, Joy 