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Interests: play piano, read, GOD, sew, crochet, drive, sleep, eat, knit, just started rug hooking, swim, learning new languages
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3/13/2004
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| Yup, I think it's
working. I'm actually posting! haha. No, I will not be
doing this regularly, but I thought I'd do it anyway.
It's my last semester at the
WU. Weird. Got that over with. I guess the last time
I posted, I said I would be a teacher, but I can't say that I'm quite
that sure anymore. I did pass the teacher certification
tests. But I will not be entering the teacher certification
program yet. What I'm mostly interested in right now is
translation. I should have known that translating would be
interesting to me, seeing as how I'm utterly obsessed with learning new
languages. But, now I'm hoping to take step toward the
translation field. I'm psyched about it, but still a bit clueless
of the path I'm going to take. Thank goodness God always knows
the way (but as good of Christians as some people are, it bothers them
to no end that it doesn't bother me when I don't know specifics about
my future, go figure). Maybe I'm a looney for trusting God with
my future so much, but is there anyone better to be a looney for? haha
I'm enjoying my classes so
far. I was going to do an independent study for translation, but
I'm going to be working 20hrs a week, so I decided I wouldn't have
enough time to devote toward an independent study. I'll still be
studying the art of translating on my own time though. I'm taking
a couple Bible classes, Greek, and Linguistics. Actually, I
haven't started Linguistics yet, I just added it today... so we'll see
how that goes.
But anway, I hope everyone out there is doing swell!
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| Hey y'all! Or the few of you who may stop by every blue moon,
haha. If you didn't read my costa rica blog, I'll tell you right
now that it was absolutely amazing down there. I will never
regret going. If you want to see any pics- just send me an email,
and I can hook you up.
Since I got back to the states, I spent a week at home to re-group and
see family/friends, and I've been back on campus working for a
month. It's refreshing to see some familiar faces from last
summer, and even more exciting to see new people this summer.
It's been great getting to know more people. I am also work on
getting a volunteer position at Crossroad Bible Institute- writing to
Hispanic inmates and correcting their Bible study lessons. I'm
really psyched about that and I can't wait to get started.
This past Saturday I went home to take a couple tests for teacher
certification. That was crazy. I was at the test site for 10hrs-
8 of which I was taking tests. Can I just say bleh?
haha. But that's done now, and hopefully I won't have to repeat
any of it. I had to take basic skills tests in Math, Writing, and
Reading in the morning. Then in the afternoon I had to take a
gigundo spanish test- oral, 100 multiple choice questions involving
reading, grammar, and culture (which I wasn't very prepared for all of
the culture questions), and a listening portion. All I have to
say right now is that it was crazy long, and I find out how I did on
August 4.
The summer is flying, and I'm not sure it's clicking yet that I will be
a college grad next summer. Granted, I will hopefully be entering
a graduate-to-teacher-certification program near my home next
summer. And that will take a year to complete before I can
officially be a teacher. The reason I'm doing that is because I
kept changing my major, so at this point in time it will be much
cheaper if I just graduate with my spanish major/bib lit minor from
IWU, then get my certification thru another college.
Anyway, I thought I'd check in, and I hope all is going well with y'all
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| Xanga. Wow, I'm such a bad friend. My sincerest apologies,
Xanga. You see, I... well, I hate to say this. I....
had
an
affair.
Yes, Xanga, it's true. I had an affair. With....
homework.
Yeah, I knew you'd give that face. But it's true, that's where I've
been. And I still didn't do as well with my grades as I had
hoped. So, maybe it wasn't worth it. I'm not sure.
haha. But I have to admit, my fling days are not over. I am not
ready to return to you, yet. But you can rest assure, I will
return. I just don't know when. Because first, I'm going to
have an affair with blogger. Yes, I believe that's where I'm
thinking about doing my Costa Rica journal. It's just an easier
way to tell everyone about how my trip is going. So, my trip
journal will be located at: http://Lyn-in-Costa-Rica.blogspot.com/ , in
case anyone is interested. I will be posted journals with plenty of pictures.
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| Hello everybody...
It's me again, haha. I'm going to attempt to finally update ya'll on my life.
As some of you may know, I've been working on planning a study abroad
trip to Costa Rica for next summer. Well, I think I can finally
say it's final. Yes, I have been accepted, found the funds, and
filled out *what I think* is the just about the last of the
paperwork. I still need to double check if I need a student visa
or not. But yes, I am going to Costa Rica for the month of May
for an intense Advanced Spanish Grammar class. Yikes. I am
not going alone- so don't worry about that. My good friend
Angela, from home, is coming with me. We're hoping to stay in an
apartment provided by the program that is within walking distance of
the campus. I am so psyched, but extremely nervous. I've
never been thrown into a situation like this in which I need to rely on
my knowledge of the Spanish language. That is definitely scary-
but I'm still PSYCHED! 
I also am adding a minor in Biblical Literature, which I am psyched
about as well. I'm in my second semester of Biblical Greek and I
am taking Inductive Bible Study w/Schenck this semester. (he
totally rocks my world). I really enjoy all the biblical
literature professors, and I am ecstatic at a chance to take their
classes. I wish I could have more time to take more, but that's
OK. I'm sure I will have enough of the exegesis projects by the
time I graduate, haha.
On a sadder note, they have decided not to offer Hebrew next
fall. I've talked a couple times with the Hebrew professor, and
she sounded pretty certain they would be offering it next fall, so I
got my hopes up. However, it has been decided that adding another
survey class for the incoming mass amounts of freshmen will be more
beneficial than offering Hebrew next fall. I am so bummed that I
missed my chance to take Hebrew at IWU, but life will go on
Time to go! Love you all!!
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| naps are bad for me....I have a strong itch to rearrange my furniture...
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