19 days….

My roommate just informed me that there is 19 days left of school until graduation. I still find it difficult to believe that I’m about to graduate college. Didn’t I just finish high school? As much as I’m looking forward to graduation and taking a break from school, I’m not so thrilled about entering the real world and having to actually worry about things like having health insurance (something I’ve never had to worry about). There are things I am looking forward to like shadowing and seeing if physical therapy is really the route i want to take. I’m also looking forward to moving back to Fresno and actually being able to get involved in church. I’m not sure if I’m going to go back to working in preschool or if I’ll try something new. After the messages the last couple of weeks, I’ve thought about maybe working in Jr. High. I just remember how much of an impact my Jr. High leaders had in my life and I think it would be cool to give back in that way. As scary as the near future can be at times, I know that God has great things planned for me and I just have to allow Him to use me in the ways that He wants.

Here Comes Obama

It’s 12 am and I should be going to bed right now b/c I have class at 9 am, but it just got done with my manuscript for physio and I’m kind of awake.  So here’s a quick update on what’s been going on.  I graduate in a month, it’s hard to believe…didn’t I just graduate high school.  Michelle Obama is speaking at graduation and I am not happy about this.  I could right a whole post about this and I probably will after midterms.  But I hate the fact that our graduation is no longer about the first graduating class of UC Merced, but instead it’s becoming an “Obama Rally” as the Right Side Paper put it.  It seems the school has become more concerned about accommodating the media and less about our famlies.  We have to have tickets and lots of securtiy…great…I feel this is going to take much of the fun and joy and celebration that should have came from this event.  Now if your friends and family want to come your going to have to say sorry the school won’t let me have anymore tickets, the news apparently comes before you.  Last I checked, was graduation suppose to be about the students, not the speaker.  I guess that just isn’t the case here.  The best I can do is email the vice chancellor. 

In the mean time, I working on setting up shadowing a physical therapist.  I’m hoping that eventually that this will become a paid position.  And by that I mean I hope the offer my a PT aide job.  I’m 99.9% sure that this is what I want to go into.  The only other idea I’ve though about is going to PA school, but I think PT is a better fit.  That’s all for now.  I write again when it’s not so late.

NKOTB is coming to Fresno

I’m not gonna lie, when I heard this on the radio, a part of me really did/does want to go this.  I even thought about calling my great aunt to get her seats (and by that i mean she owns seats in the save mart center)….

Life Coming at Me

There’s a lot to write about since this is my first blog of 2009.  So I thought I give a brief summary of what’s been going on in my life and my mind.

It’s hard to believe how fast time really does fly.  I’m already in my last semester of college, well of my undergraduate years of college.  And I’ve finally figured out what I want to do after I graduate.  Getting there will be the challenge however.  I always knew I wanted to go to the a health related field, I used to think that it was pharmacy that I wanted to go into.  But when I stopped to think about what I enjoyed I saw that working with kids is where my heart is.  This is something that God revealed to me after much prayer.  Since I was not made to be a nurse, I’ve decided that I’m going to go into physical therapy with an emphasis in pedriatrics. The only problem is that I’m going to have to wait until next year to even consider applying.  So I’m praying that I’ll be able to find a job during this time (one with benefits) and get to do some shadowing as well.

This semester is promising to keep me busy.  The library’s 4th floor has become my new home.  I think I spend more time here than at the house.  I’m really working hard to try and keep up with my classes b/c  I want to not only graduate, but it would be nice to get a decent grade in the classes.  I’ve got my schedule cut out for me.  I’m talking phsyiology, anatomy, virology, and a stupid research seminar.  Anatomy is proving to be my favorite class and most interesting which is good since I have a lot to do for it.

One thing that I’ve learned in life is that God places people in your life when you need them the most.  Sometimes those friendship last and sometimes they last just long enough for those people to do what they can in your life.  It’s a fact of life that not all friendships can last forever.  But God knew that I needed a person like Steph Wong in my life.  Steph is someone I’ve known for a semester now, but I wasn’t that close to her.  I had been praying for God to bring a strong christian friend into my life and He did just that.  Steph is someone that I can talk to, someone that encourages me, and someone who challenges me in my walk.  I’ve never had someone like this here in Merced so it’s pretty cool.

And to be completely random…this is the phone that I want.  While the majority of Americans would like to have an iPhone, I would like to be different and get this….Samsung Eternity…..

I've been waiting for at&t to come out with a Samsung touch phone

All That One Needs

I’ll be the first to admit that I’m not a huge fan of Christian music.  Don’t ask me why, I just haven’t been able to ever really get into it.  I was channel surfing as I was driving to class the other day because every channel that I listen to was on commercial.  I came across this song and the lyrics really just kind of hit me.  I’ve been kind of caught with life and relationships that this was kind of a reminder to me about life and how in the end God’s love is all really one needs.  So here they are….

By Your Side (Tenth Avenue North)

Why are you striving these days
Why are you trying to earn grace
Why are you crying
Let me lift up your face
Just don’t turn away

Why are you looking for love
Why are you still searching as if I’m not enough
To where will you go child
Tell me where will you run
To where will you run

‘Cause I’ll be by your side
Wherever you fall
In the dead of night
Whenever you call
And please don’t fight
These hands that are holding you
My hands are holding you

Look at these hands and my side
They swallowed the grave on that night
When I drank the world’s sin
So I could carry you in
And give you life
I want to give you life

Cause I, I love you
I want you to know
That I, I love you
I’ll never let you go

I’ve Been Elfed

So last night I get a text from Jasper to check my facebook.  Turns out he elfed me, Azeema, Diana, Estefany, and Brian.  Click on this link and check out the hilarity!

http://elfyourself.jibjab.com/view/MecAf67ctHFx2A74#/owner/MecAf67ctHFx2A74

All ya Single Ladies

I really need to stop basing my blog titles on songs….

Yesterday my parents decided that they were going to Riverpark Bible Church for church.  They decided this due to the fact that my mother had no choir and they wanted to go see their friends.  Originally I was not going to go, but somehow I got woken up by my mother to take a shower so I could go.  I have to admit I was glad I went.  It was a good service.  There were many familiar faces, some in which I haven’t seen in years, which made being there comfortable.  I had several “so that’s what happened to them” moments.  The feel of it was very much like the old Ev Free days.  I guess that’s why the call it “ev free 2″ because so many people go there.  However, my mother had other intentions for me going.  As my mother was talking to Cheryl, she asks about how the college group is and how big it is.  Cheryl tells my mom how great it is and that it’s large and so on and how she’ll take me there or have Jamie and Casey walk me there so I don’t have to go alone.  So I told Cheryl maybe next week since I didn’t have my car wit me.  When we get in the car my mother says to be that I should go so that I can meet guys.  Note that she said guys, not people or peers or make new friends.  I found this kind of funny in the fact that she just straight out said guys, apparently I have enough girl friends.  then we had this whole conversations how the pickings at church are slim.  Could my mother be any more forward?  If you’re looking for a man, college group is the place to start.  it’s mother approved.

Holy Crap I’m Graduating

I thought that it was time for me to actally take some time, sit down and blog.  With Thanksgiving coming up I have some time to do just that.  The title of this blog was inspired by two things:  one, I was watching Heroes earlier and I thought Hiro saying “Holy Crap” was funny, and two, that’s what was going through my mind this afternoon as I picked up my Decleration of Candidacy from the Natural Sciences office to turn in, payed my $30 for that, and turned in my Commencement Application form.  The fact I am graduating in the spring didn’t seem real to me until today.  All I could think is that I’m actually going to graduate, given that I’m able to pass cell this semester and my classes next semester.  But I think I can.  The reason I believe this is something I was thinking about a couple of weeks ago.  I was thinking about what in my life is different from other people in my life that allows me to always find a way to pass a class, and realized the answer, it’s the answer to every question.  The reason I have been so fortunate thus far is because I have Jesus to help me pull through things.  He has always provided for me, and this gives me some comfort for the next year.  After I graduate I’m not sure what’s going to happen.  I know that I’m going to take some time off and I hope to find some work that is related to what I want to do.  Sometimes all I can think is “I’m going to have this degree and I don’t know what the hell I can do with it while waiting.”  I actually joked with Sanna the other day on the phone that we should use our time off to find ourselves guys.  We have this thing that we’re suppose to be on the look out for each other.

With talking about Sanna let’s segway into another topic: friends.  In the past, God has blessed me with the right friends for that moment in time/time in my life.  Some of those friendships have faded, some have continued on.  God has a way of bringing certain people into your life when you need them the most.  This semester I’ve made a new friend and he really is one of a kind.  He’s brought this laughter back into my life that’s been missing for a while.  I really don’t know why we didn’t become friends sooner.  With Thanksgiving just a couple days away, I just thought I say how thankful i am for everything and everyone God has placed in my life.

TI and Rihanna meet Numa Numa

I just think it’s funny that the beginning of the song “Live Your Life” by T.I. feat. Rihanna starts out with the beginning of the Numa Numa song and parts of the song plays through out the song.  If you haven’t seen the numa numa video then you won’t get why i think this is funny.  So check it out on youtube and vice versa.  It’s two things that I never imagined being put together, but works.

Thoughts of a Conservative

Since I haven’t written in awhile, this is going to be a really random blog because there’s a lot running through my mind.  The first thing I want to address is politics.  It really bugs me when I hear people say that they are simply not going to vote because they don’t like either candidate.  Like that’s going to chage things and make a difference.  If anything, I think it makes thing worst.  Because guess what, you not voting is not going to change who is going to be president.  Whether you like it or not, one of these two men are going to be our next president.  Now, I may not be McCain crazy (he has grown on me though), but I much rather see him as my next president than Obama.  Any republican would be better than a democrat.  And if you don’t like McCain, think of him as the lesser of two evils and VOTE for McCain.  I’m also so sick of the media paying so close attention to Palin.  Everyone is talking about how she doesn’t have enough experience, yet Obama doesn’t have really experience either especially compared to  McCain.  The BIG difference is Palin is not going to be president, she is simply going to be vice president.  Really what does the vice president really do, sit in senate and break ties?  The media acts like if McCain gets elected he’s going to kill over right away, I highly doubt that would happen.  McCain has changed his views and as well, he’s much more conservative than he used to be.  Plus, Cindy McCain would make for a really cool first lady, I mean she drifts, how cool is that?  Yeah, Obama’s whole platform is based on change, what you need to know is that it is CHANGE for the WORST.  I recommend you do your research and look at the changes Obama wants to change and I strongly suggest you VOTE MCCAIN on election day.  If you’re not planning on voting, get off your high horse and just vote for McCain otherwise, you’ll only have youself to blame for having to live a miserable life if McCain doesn’t win.

On a totally different and non-political note, these are a couple of ideas that I’ve been entertaining for after graduation.  Christina and I were talking about this one day and this is the possible plan.  I’m thinking about talking a year off, getting my LVN license and then applying for PA school.  I’m also revisiting pharmacy school.