SBK2K11 (Spring Break 2011)

So I know this post is a little late, but I'm going with the philosophy better late than never! So let's see Spring Break was amazing! Around 30 Senior Chi O's headed to Galveston to go on a week long cruise. We spent the first two days at sea laying out by the pool and eating the AMAZING food! On Wednesday we ported in Jamaica and got so lucky to have a "tour" by our taxi driver, James. We ended up getting off the boat so early that we made it to Margaritaville before it was open so he took us all over Jamaica to see some of the not so touristy stuff. I can't even tell you how different lives there are from my life here in the states. We got to see some really neat stuff including a Jamaican school with kids playing out in the school yard in their super adorable yellow and blue jumpers! We also got to taste pineapple that James bought for us from a local street vendor. That day we got lucky and the taxi driver on our way back to the ship took us to a shop that if you bought anything would let you have a free phone call back to the states (let's just say I'm pretty sure that was my mom's favorite place I went, ha). Thursday we ported in the Cayman Islands and did an excursion that took us to a coral reef and then Stingray City. I can not even tell you how amazing it was to snorkel in the reef! I seriously can't imagine how anyone could see something so beautiful and stunning and not just be in awe of how big and creative God is. After swimming around the reef we went a little farther in the boat and got out and swam with the stingrays. I'm not going to lie I was a little nervous but it was such a cool experience. A stingray swam right over my leg and then we got to touch them, they are such neat creatures! Friday we ported in Cozumel and caught up with some people we met when we were boarding the boat back in Galveston to go scuba diving. Lucky for us these people had found a great deal and shared the knowledge with us. We got to snorkel and scuba and layout and see a sea lion show and then shop in the town! The weather was super hot and sunny, just the way I love it! Saturday was another day at sea that we spent laying out by the pool. Overall the trip was amazing and just absolutely wonderful. I could go on and on but instead I'll just post some pictures :)

I sound like a broken record, but.......

So back to the same topic that comes up a million times a day in my mind and pretty much a million times on my blog, which makes sense because everything in my blog is what has been floating around in my head. Future...it's the big scary word that my friends and I only half-jokingly took a break from saying because it is so scary/exciting. I can't even tell you how many times a day I have a conversation with someone that revolves around this concept and with graduation approaching the topic of the future just keeps coming up more and more. Today while blog hopping I came across a post that reminded me of something really important, something I tell myself but have never really visualized. The idea is that while the future looks like a really big bolded question mark to me, it doesn't to God. Such a simple concept, right? I mean I have said it a million times, "God has a plan" yet I have never actually thought that God doesn't just have an idea type plan, he has a real, legit plan that he can see. I don't know why this is such a revelation to me but it really is a thought that I have never taken much time to imagine. God can see my future, he knows exactly where I will be in 6 months, what I will be doing, where I will be living, etc. I'm so thankful he knows exactly what my future looks like. While I am extremely eager for a peek into this future I am so grateful that my future doesn't look like a big question mark to Him. I'm mostly writing this post because I know sometime in this question mark of a future I have I will be clicking back through old blog posts and really get a good laugh at what I was doing a week away from my 22nd birthday when I was freaking out about a future I can't foresee. I know this will be the case because when I look back on my senior English scrapbook where I had to write a letter about my feelings toward high school graduation and college I just laugh and laugh. When I read the letter I can't help but giggle at the things that worried me that just played out perfectly in ways I could never have imagined. My parents tell me constantly to quit worrying, it will all work out and I think I am getting better (keyword better, not good) at that but its the reminders like the letter from my senior year in English that really cement the idea in stone for me. I could have saved so much time and energy if I would have just quit worrying and enjoy life the way it was meant to be. And back to enjoying life I'm going to call it a night because tomorrow I'm back to the lake to finish up the second half of my scuba certification! Sweet dreams bloggy friends!

Random Ramblings.

This is a real blog post in terms that I'm counting it towards my 90 for the year but other than that it is strictly what is floating around in my head currently.

• In something around 12 weeks I graduate college.
• In a month I will be floating around the ocean on a cruise with some of my favorite people.
• In less than six months my former roomie/bestie will walk down the aisle and change her last name, being my first friend to do this.
• I really should be working on my assignment that I need to email in tonight.
• Instead of working on said assignment I'm writing this blog and watching the Parent Trap.
• Last night we got to go underwater and use our tanks for scuba, it was AMAZING.
• I have never had less of a clue as to what my future is going to look like, today is a day where I'm really just having faith that God has a plan, because I sure as heck don't.
• I'm really liking my internship still, which is a huge positive because if I didn't I would have to seriously reconsider if I had majored in the right thing.
• I'm super excited for Mom's Day next weekend.
• I feel like I think about me way too much (see above points, all of them use the word I).
• I'm starting to realize that not only do I not have a plan past May 14th but that my life is going to change radically as to who I spend the majority of my time with.
• The above point makes me really sad, I love my friends.
• Sorry for all the bullet points, just felt like blogging all the random thoughts that are bouncing around right now.
• Off to work on the paper
• Sweet dreams bloggy friends.

Back to Reality, For Real this Time

So last week marked the first "real" week back to school and "real" non-break life. Last week was the first week where snow didn't interrupt the week and I started all my classes and worked Monday, Wednesday, Friday at my internship. I'm definitely not used to being quite so busy during the semester but so far I'm really liking it. I love routine and having to be somewhere from 8-5 MWF means that I have to be productive in my off time and that I have to get up around the same time each day. To celebrate the end of the first week back to real life Dani, Heather, Chan, and I took a little trip to Stillwater to see Chan's boyfriend and a bunch of his/our friends. It was so much fun, those boys can just spin you around the dance floor all night long which is one of my favorite things to do! Saturday we got to watch the boys do some work on the farm/ranch, I'm not really sure what to call it. After they finished that up we rode four-wheelers; it was such a beautiful day and it was so nice to be able to enjoy it outdoors. We got back earlier today which gave me some time to finish up my homework and do some laundry and just get resettled for the week. Unfortunately the weather for this week doesn't look like its going to be as sunny or warm with a chance of winter weather for the middle part of the week! I'm hoping it doesn't cancel my scuba class because this is the week we get to get in the pool with the tanks on and learn some real skills, I'm so excited about doing that on Wednesday. I have pictures to put up but its cold outside and my camera is in my car and I don't want really want to venture out there right now, ha. Happy Sunday bloggy friends! UPDATE: I added the pictures :)

My last first day of school...well sort of

So today classes started, my last first day of school, except I didn't have any class. My actual first day of school will be tomorrow when I go to scuba! I am so excited for scuba! There are three other chi o's who are also taking the class the first 8 weeks so we will all be certified to go scuba diving while were on a cruise for spring break. I have always wanted to go scuba diving and this seemed like the perfect opportunity to learn and then have a pretty much immediate chance to actually go somewhere cool and dive. As excited as I am for spring break I don't want it getting here too fast since that would mean half of the semester is over and I really don't want that. So far I'm loving being back in Fay and catching up with everyone again. Tomorrow is my welcome back to reality day where I have a half day at my internship and then class. I'm hoping that since its the first day the lab part of the class won't go the whole time so I'll be able to make it to US Pizza for a birthday party for some of the girls whose birthdays fell over the holidays. For the most part I'm ready to get back into some sort of schedule for the semester and have an idea of how my weeks will look. Happy Tuesday friends hope your week back to reality is going GREAT!