so ya i totally cant sleep right now, the people here like went to bed like 2 hours ago. and ya i have just been reading in the dark outside. and then i looked up and during the time i had been reading, it suddenly got karazy foggy. like seriously you could feel the fog. it was quite insane. usually im not sitting in the fog and fealing it, usually i am driving through it. ya anyways on with the story.
by the way if you havent read the excerpt before this one i would read it now. becuz this is part 2. anyways ya. so like after lunch we continued driving. seriously amazing scenery. i honestly don't know how a person c0uld doubt that God made the earth by looking at his amazing creation. like ya you felt so close to got...literally and figuratively, close in the literal way meaning that it felt like you were gonna drive off the scary cliffs. anyways ya so we ended up stopping at this place and if you walkked up this hill you were sposed to be able to see the original farm site or something. so i ran up the first big hill only to find another big hill at the top. so i went up that hill only to find another one. i was not impressed. i was like this better be some totally impressive farm or else i will be mad. so then i get to the top of the next one only to realize tyhat i have to walk like pretty far...on flatness though to get to a part where i can view the farm. ya it wasnt that impressive.
anyways more driving. and ya eventually we arrive at the hostel we were gonna stay the night in. ya it was so nice. like seriously. and i bonded with some english boys....haha so i said that i didnt really like english boys cuz they have bad teeth...well these guys didnt. ya it was great fun.
flip there is a suicide bomber moth like swooping at my head cuz the computer is the only light and it was deadly scary. anyways so we stay the night at this super nice hostel, and there was this super awesome dog htere...so friendly and his name was shadow. i really liked the dog. anyways ya more driving. we stopped in this town and had lunch there, and ya went shopping. and some of us bought some fish and chips...which were pretty good. nayways ya more driving. and then we stopped at another river and we ended up going swimming again.
and k ya the rocks at the bottom were really sharp. and anyways i didnt have shoes on and we were gonna float down the river. and i got into part of the current and i was floating past the others and i couldnt get out and it was karazy. and finally i got out. and ya. i have scratches all over me. and i went again and someone lent me their sandles so it was much better. and then i could get out. ya and more driving. ya good thing i love driving :)
anyways so ya i get back to the base and i wanted to have a nap before dinner and ya i get into bed only to realize that i had to hand in my itenerary or how ever you spell it. cuz ya i have this around the world ticket and i had to figure out where i wanted to go and what was on the way. and ya it was karazy hard so i couldnt sleep. ya but anyways so after the DTS is over, and we have graduation in israel. im gonna take a bus to egypt for a few days (this is all tentative) and then back to israel and take a plane to vienna, then to rome, then to frankfurt and then to london. and then home cuz i need to be home for part of the summer for my friend kyras wedding. and then some time after that i am going to the cook islands and then to fiji and then to new zealand and back home. so like if any of you wanna go with me to the cook islands, fiji or new zealand and spend a few months there that would be totally cool. and yopu should totally do it cuz i kinda wanna spend a least a month to like 3months in either of those 3 places.
anyways ya i am gonna go and i will talk to you all later...and i know i have said this before, but its really cool when you all comment.
angee
Monday, January 30, 2006
what a world
what an amazing world we have. i had the opportunity to take like a 7 hour road trip this weekend all around new zealand pretty much. ... well thats what it felt like. we took a drive through this national park/huge farm. like seriously the landscape was incredible. like it changed so fast, we drove in flatness, then like these nice cute little mountains, then rugged mountains, rolling hills, green mountains, and like ya you knwo those movies where they drive on the cliff and you thought taht you would like go off the edge. ya it was pretty much scary beyond all reason.
ya it was a really good time. we stopped for lunch beside a river and ended up going swimming. we were gonna float down the river, and ya there was this one really rapid part and ya this girl in front of me decided to stand up and i was right behind her and one of my legs went between her 2 legs. and so like she was on top of me, and my ankle was under us and it was bent in a really hurting position. and ya my ankle was killing me...and it snapped. and it really sucks cuz we were hours from any hospitals...just kidding. no we got entangled right before it felt like it was gonna snap.
but ya i will tell you the rest of the story leater cuz i gotta go get ready
ang
ya it was a really good time. we stopped for lunch beside a river and ended up going swimming. we were gonna float down the river, and ya there was this one really rapid part and ya this girl in front of me decided to stand up and i was right behind her and one of my legs went between her 2 legs. and so like she was on top of me, and my ankle was under us and it was bent in a really hurting position. and ya my ankle was killing me...and it snapped. and it really sucks cuz we were hours from any hospitals...just kidding. no we got entangled right before it felt like it was gonna snap.
but ya i will tell you the rest of the story leater cuz i gotta go get ready
ang
Tuesday, January 24, 2006
NEVER SAY NEVER!!!!....EVER
Hey guys,
so ya today was quite the interesting day...we got our outreach teams. Yeppers i am going to europe. hahaha i know. its just so weird. Like i know i should be thrilled becuz europe just has sooo much culture but ya its just weird. i so don't know what to think. but ya i'm going to Russia! its really wack actually. and k God put me on the seriously most diverse team ever, if you saw us all together you would be like haha, God what are you thinking. so we've got 2 team leaders, the guy is karazy, like seriously he's this wack guy from california, and then theres the girl and shes from canada, actually turns out she lives like 30 min away from me...so thats just kinda funny. then theres this married couple and they are interesting and the wife is just like anti touching huge big bubble type person.
then we have this peurto rican attitude girl, ya and she is so motherly and ya just funny. then this guy who is the funniest guy ever and hes from korea, this other girl who is all anti touching and then this other girl who likes to be alone alot. and then theres me. i really havent figured out where i fit in yet. but its just so funny. there is 9 of us and ya. God really does have a sense of humour. cuz he put me on the team i didn't want to go on, and with the people i didn't wanna be with :) haha. ya but i am expecting amazing things for him. i just knwo that he is gonna heal some people, umm what else just ya its gonna be a hugely awesome experience. oh and if any of ya talks to valli...don't tell her cuz i wrote her and i think i need to break the news to her gently.
anyways ya i am totally expecting awesome things from God...Oh and i get to go to greece!!! i am sooo stoked about that.
anyways so what do ya all think abotu the election results? i really wanna hear your feed back...as if bloc quebecois beat out the NDP. i usually vote NDP...but i have seriously lost hard core respect for the ndp party since i lived in saskatchewn. the ndp party totally ruined saskatchewan. like seriously saskatchewan could be so seriously rich i mean they have a huge diamond mine with some of the nicest diamonds in the world...and how many of us know that? and like they have aton of oil that when it gets really big there they are gonna give alberta a run for their money.
but what about stephen harper. personally i think he is a pompos as$. hah ya but i didn't vote really. but ya i wouldn't have voted for paul martin either. but apparantly he's resigning. and there is no marijuanna party in my riding or i would have been all over them. although there was a christian heritage party and the thought of that would have scared me hard core...it just sounds all amish or something.
anyways ya its kinda funny thsi election stuff. this is like the first time in 13 years that conservatives got in. but k i read about this in a new zealand news paper. isnt that funny? like seriously canada made the new zealand news paper. that just blows my mind. but anyways i am gonna go...
oh i am now on travel journals..i will just be displaying pictures there from time to time but i will include the link in my blog and i will tell yall when i put new pictures on.
anyways have a great day and enjoy your new conservative government...haha so glad im not there to enjoy it :)
ange
later gators.
so ya today was quite the interesting day...we got our outreach teams. Yeppers i am going to europe. hahaha i know. its just so weird. Like i know i should be thrilled becuz europe just has sooo much culture but ya its just weird. i so don't know what to think. but ya i'm going to Russia! its really wack actually. and k God put me on the seriously most diverse team ever, if you saw us all together you would be like haha, God what are you thinking. so we've got 2 team leaders, the guy is karazy, like seriously he's this wack guy from california, and then theres the girl and shes from canada, actually turns out she lives like 30 min away from me...so thats just kinda funny. then theres this married couple and they are interesting and the wife is just like anti touching huge big bubble type person.
then we have this peurto rican attitude girl, ya and she is so motherly and ya just funny. then this guy who is the funniest guy ever and hes from korea, this other girl who is all anti touching and then this other girl who likes to be alone alot. and then theres me. i really havent figured out where i fit in yet. but its just so funny. there is 9 of us and ya. God really does have a sense of humour. cuz he put me on the team i didn't want to go on, and with the people i didn't wanna be with :) haha. ya but i am expecting amazing things for him. i just knwo that he is gonna heal some people, umm what else just ya its gonna be a hugely awesome experience. oh and if any of ya talks to valli...don't tell her cuz i wrote her and i think i need to break the news to her gently.
anyways ya i am totally expecting awesome things from God...Oh and i get to go to greece!!! i am sooo stoked about that.
anyways so what do ya all think abotu the election results? i really wanna hear your feed back...as if bloc quebecois beat out the NDP. i usually vote NDP...but i have seriously lost hard core respect for the ndp party since i lived in saskatchewn. the ndp party totally ruined saskatchewan. like seriously saskatchewan could be so seriously rich i mean they have a huge diamond mine with some of the nicest diamonds in the world...and how many of us know that? and like they have aton of oil that when it gets really big there they are gonna give alberta a run for their money.
but what about stephen harper. personally i think he is a pompos as$. hah ya but i didn't vote really. but ya i wouldn't have voted for paul martin either. but apparantly he's resigning. and there is no marijuanna party in my riding or i would have been all over them. although there was a christian heritage party and the thought of that would have scared me hard core...it just sounds all amish or something.
anyways ya its kinda funny thsi election stuff. this is like the first time in 13 years that conservatives got in. but k i read about this in a new zealand news paper. isnt that funny? like seriously canada made the new zealand news paper. that just blows my mind. but anyways i am gonna go...
oh i am now on travel journals..i will just be displaying pictures there from time to time but i will include the link in my blog and i will tell yall when i put new pictures on.
anyways have a great day and enjoy your new conservative government...haha so glad im not there to enjoy it :)
ange
later gators.
Sunday, January 22, 2006
choices, choices....ahhh
so today we had to choose where we wanted to go on outreach. man alive i thought i knew where iwanted to go. but then when it came down to it i really had no idea at all. like at all. so i finally wrote down some choices but i really don't know if thats where God was gonna send me.
you see theres always been a country that i didnt want to go to. one of my friends has always wanted to go to Russia. when she went to VTI (venture teams international) she assumed that God was gonna send her to russia becuz there had been a team going there...nopers. GOd sent her to africa. and quite frankly i really didn't want to go to russia, i always have wanted to go to africa. and so me and my friend valli always had this joke that God would send me to Russia. well I am not sure if thats where I am going, but i felt that i needed to write it down as one of my choices becuz I think that God wants me to be willing to go anywhere. i will definately keep you updated. but if i end up going to the russia/eastern europe one i will be going to russia, hungary (hopefully i will get to see stacey) slovakia, romania among others.
but ya i am still praying cuz i would really like to go some other places. i would love to go to the middle east. although my mom probly doesn't want me going there cuz if i end up going there one of my crazy aunts (sorry aunt dyanne if you are reading this) watches all these documentarys and she will definately tell my worrywart mom about the things that happen there :)
but i have no doubt in my mind that God is gonna use me in ways ive never imagined and that ya he's gonna rock and change my world for the better.
i will keep ya posted.
later guys
ang
you see theres always been a country that i didnt want to go to. one of my friends has always wanted to go to Russia. when she went to VTI (venture teams international) she assumed that God was gonna send her to russia becuz there had been a team going there...nopers. GOd sent her to africa. and quite frankly i really didn't want to go to russia, i always have wanted to go to africa. and so me and my friend valli always had this joke that God would send me to Russia. well I am not sure if thats where I am going, but i felt that i needed to write it down as one of my choices becuz I think that God wants me to be willing to go anywhere. i will definately keep you updated. but if i end up going to the russia/eastern europe one i will be going to russia, hungary (hopefully i will get to see stacey) slovakia, romania among others.
but ya i am still praying cuz i would really like to go some other places. i would love to go to the middle east. although my mom probly doesn't want me going there cuz if i end up going there one of my crazy aunts (sorry aunt dyanne if you are reading this) watches all these documentarys and she will definately tell my worrywart mom about the things that happen there :)
but i have no doubt in my mind that God is gonna use me in ways ive never imagined and that ya he's gonna rock and change my world for the better.
i will keep ya posted.
later guys
ang
the ends of the earth
K man, have you ever looked at a map or a the globe and seen where new zealand is? I am at the ends of the earth! For serious its totally karazy how far away from like anything i am. I went to the ocean yesterday. i didn't really end up surfing. but i definately did get sun burned. that was fun stuff. i had fallen asleep in the sun and ya i have the funkiest tan lines ever. ya it was great fun. then we hung out in Christchurch for a bit. ya that was yesterday (saturday). and on friday we went to this Mauri...(its the native people of new zealand or soemthing) and we learned about their heritage, and we learned some mauri flirting dances. haha it was so funny. K i guess the guy who was in charge of the tour thing, didn't realize that we were from a a bible school and he kept making jokes about the male anatomy, stuff being erect and ya stuff like that. it was pretty funny. i laughed. and then we went shopping in Christchurch.
K i totally picture cities in other parts of the world to be different, especially their malls. but seriously its like all the same.
new zealand is a lot like Canada it seems. like we even have the same grass. like i think thats pretty weird. like the same grass. and instead of cows like we have in canada they have sheep. lots and lots and lots of sheep. like seriously large amounts of sheep. i like sheep. anyways ya.
Today is my last day to choose where in the world i want to go...literally. haha its gonna be an interesting decision. and liek ya we give 3 choices or what not. so ya. basically its all a win win situation ya know? like traveling the world, i get to experience sooo much. anyway its lunch,,,gots to get in line!
angee
K i totally picture cities in other parts of the world to be different, especially their malls. but seriously its like all the same.
new zealand is a lot like Canada it seems. like we even have the same grass. like i think thats pretty weird. like the same grass. and instead of cows like we have in canada they have sheep. lots and lots and lots of sheep. like seriously large amounts of sheep. i like sheep. anyways ya.
Today is my last day to choose where in the world i want to go...literally. haha its gonna be an interesting decision. and liek ya we give 3 choices or what not. so ya. basically its all a win win situation ya know? like traveling the world, i get to experience sooo much. anyway its lunch,,,gots to get in line!
angee
Thursday, January 19, 2006
one giant sleep over
k where i stay i am sharing a room with 10 other girls. there are 18 girls in this 2 bedroom building sharing 3 showers and 2 toilets. talk about alot of estrogen. thats pretty karazy i'd say. I am supposed to figure out which outreach destination i would like to go on soon. actually by sunday, my options are : south east asia, far east asia, middle east, africa, south america and eastern europe. the way i look at it...its a win win situation. any of my options would be totally awesome to go to. and ya its gonna be pretty awesome.
on saturday i am gonna try surfing...hahaha. should be great. and plus i've never really been to the ocean so that will be cool. we had 2 options of what to do this weekend, one was the surfing/beach bumming, one was rock climbing where the battle in Narnia was filmed and another was just some mountain climbing. i will get a chance to go to the narnia grounds some other time. i hope its nice and hot on saturday cuz the weather has been quite menopausal.
hey if you are reading this please comment cuz ya i would love to hear from yall.
but i should be off.
talk to you later
angee
on saturday i am gonna try surfing...hahaha. should be great. and plus i've never really been to the ocean so that will be cool. we had 2 options of what to do this weekend, one was the surfing/beach bumming, one was rock climbing where the battle in Narnia was filmed and another was just some mountain climbing. i will get a chance to go to the narnia grounds some other time. i hope its nice and hot on saturday cuz the weather has been quite menopausal.
hey if you are reading this please comment cuz ya i would love to hear from yall.
but i should be off.
talk to you later
angee
Tuesday, January 17, 2006
Almost time to go KaRaZy
Hey guys,
school kinda started today. but we were just going over some administration stuff...ok actually it started technically yesterday but we had our first 'lecture' today. it was pretty sweet. today was on worship and tomorrow is on intercession. which is pretty cool.
the school isn't like a bible school persay like that you learn history and stuff but like you focus more on your personal relationship with the Lord. and God is really gonna ya do some hardcore work in my life. its gonna be karazy. but it will all be good change. and if ya don't think its good change in me...its pretty much too bad for ya :) haha not to sound harsh but this is really between me and God.
but pretty quick i will find out where in the world (literally) that I am going. so i will keep ya posted on that. i really have nothing of importance to say. haha its sad i always have something to say. but living with 27 girls its kidna hard to fit words in.
anyways im gonna go do something, we have a free night tonight...before all the trouble starts haha.
anyways i will talk to yall later
angee
school kinda started today. but we were just going over some administration stuff...ok actually it started technically yesterday but we had our first 'lecture' today. it was pretty sweet. today was on worship and tomorrow is on intercession. which is pretty cool.
the school isn't like a bible school persay like that you learn history and stuff but like you focus more on your personal relationship with the Lord. and God is really gonna ya do some hardcore work in my life. its gonna be karazy. but it will all be good change. and if ya don't think its good change in me...its pretty much too bad for ya :) haha not to sound harsh but this is really between me and God.
but pretty quick i will find out where in the world (literally) that I am going. so i will keep ya posted on that. i really have nothing of importance to say. haha its sad i always have something to say. but living with 27 girls its kidna hard to fit words in.
anyways im gonna go do something, we have a free night tonight...before all the trouble starts haha.
anyways i will talk to yall later
angee
Sunday, January 15, 2006
The Hills are Alive...
Yeppers, i have like mountain/foot hill things in my back yard here. its pretty sweet. someday, hopefully tomorrow morning i shall go for a short climb. anyways i went to a pretty sweet church service this morning. it was rock awesome, i totally didn't know what to expect but ya its pretty out there. ya it was a pretty good service i would say.
but anyways i really have nothing else of importance to say. We haven't started school or anything yet so i can't comment on that, but tomorrow we start some stuff.
anyways i love yall and i will talk to ya later
angee....
ps you can always email me, and ya im gonna give yall my address...please please please write me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it only costs like a dollar 50. or you could send me a package :) that would be super dooper awesome!
anyways byebye for now
ang
but anyways i really have nothing else of importance to say. We haven't started school or anything yet so i can't comment on that, but tomorrow we start some stuff.
anyways i love yall and i will talk to ya later
angee....
ps you can always email me, and ya im gonna give yall my address...please please please write me!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it only costs like a dollar 50. or you could send me a package :) that would be super dooper awesome!
anyways byebye for now
ang
Saturday, January 14, 2006
the land of the kiwis
Hey all,
I am finally in Christchurch after umm lets see...30 something hours on a plane. thats karazy man. i decided like halfway to christchurch from singapore...actualyl wehn we were right over top of australia and i saw land and i thought it was new zealand....but it wasn't. anyways i decded that i no longer wanted to travel and that i was super ready to go home. but ya obviously i havent turned around and come back yet.
So Tuesday night around 11pm, i went to my dads house so that he could drive me to the airport. well after a night of no sleep, i got ot the airport at about 3:30am. my friend valli had saiud that she might meet me at the airport, and at first i was like whatever, but then i was like ahhh i ened someone with me. i felt so incredibly alone. but ya she came, and i was super dooper thank ful for that. anyways ya flight from Edmonton to Vancouver was basically very uneventful. got to vancouver adn ya had to walk across the whole airport to go to departures.. .. i thought the walk was long...until i got to LA. ya that was so far. and it was so hot. and ya i pretty much did not enjoy LA at all. but ya i;m not bitter:)
but my bitterness was made up for becuz i got to travel with singapore airlines. yep they were super awesome. they made my traveling experience all the more pleasurable. we had like good airplane food (weird but true) and like they would hand out like hot clothes to wipe your face with and such. ya it was pretty cool. and so like half way thru the flight, i had fallen asleep before take off...haha ya i was tired and pretty used to flying by then. well they were like we will be in Toyko in about so and so minutes.
i was like what the? i thought i was flying to singapore. well people ... meaning my travel agent neglected to tell me that ya there was a stop over in toyko but i was getting back on teh same plane. so i sitll had to like walk across the whole airport...well not that far but ya.,
anyways ya so finally 6and a 1/2 hours later i made it to singapore. some how fopund the hotel counter and got shipping to a hotel. they sweetest hotel ever .... i could have never afforded to stay there if the airline hadnt of paid for it. it was sweet.
anyways got to bed around 4 am. then some guy in the hotel called at 8 am and i couldnt sleep any longer. i walked to a near by mall...risking my life each time cuz ya they drive on the opposite side of the road as we do and it gets me EVERY time. anyways ya the mall was like weird, not what i had expected, so modern, so new, so much nicer than our malls...so much more expensive too i'd say.
anyways ya the tour was pretty cool. say some temples, mosques, almost got left behind at one. its funny how pepole think that you are a rich tourist cuz your white. and so they tried to sucker me into a whole bunch of htings.
but hey some of oyu may have seen the chinese purse that i had bought on boxing day in west ed mall, ya i found the exact same purses for like $5...singapore money , which would be like less than 5$ canadian.
anyways i am in christchurch now. im not sure how its going. i dont know what to think yety. so i will update you on that later.
angee
I am finally in Christchurch after umm lets see...30 something hours on a plane. thats karazy man. i decided like halfway to christchurch from singapore...actualyl wehn we were right over top of australia and i saw land and i thought it was new zealand....but it wasn't. anyways i decded that i no longer wanted to travel and that i was super ready to go home. but ya obviously i havent turned around and come back yet.
So Tuesday night around 11pm, i went to my dads house so that he could drive me to the airport. well after a night of no sleep, i got ot the airport at about 3:30am. my friend valli had saiud that she might meet me at the airport, and at first i was like whatever, but then i was like ahhh i ened someone with me. i felt so incredibly alone. but ya she came, and i was super dooper thank ful for that. anyways ya flight from Edmonton to Vancouver was basically very uneventful. got to vancouver adn ya had to walk across the whole airport to go to departures.. .. i thought the walk was long...until i got to LA. ya that was so far. and it was so hot. and ya i pretty much did not enjoy LA at all. but ya i;m not bitter:)
but my bitterness was made up for becuz i got to travel with singapore airlines. yep they were super awesome. they made my traveling experience all the more pleasurable. we had like good airplane food (weird but true) and like they would hand out like hot clothes to wipe your face with and such. ya it was pretty cool. and so like half way thru the flight, i had fallen asleep before take off...haha ya i was tired and pretty used to flying by then. well they were like we will be in Toyko in about so and so minutes.
i was like what the? i thought i was flying to singapore. well people ... meaning my travel agent neglected to tell me that ya there was a stop over in toyko but i was getting back on teh same plane. so i sitll had to like walk across the whole airport...well not that far but ya.,
anyways ya so finally 6and a 1/2 hours later i made it to singapore. some how fopund the hotel counter and got shipping to a hotel. they sweetest hotel ever .... i could have never afforded to stay there if the airline hadnt of paid for it. it was sweet.
anyways got to bed around 4 am. then some guy in the hotel called at 8 am and i couldnt sleep any longer. i walked to a near by mall...risking my life each time cuz ya they drive on the opposite side of the road as we do and it gets me EVERY time. anyways ya the mall was like weird, not what i had expected, so modern, so new, so much nicer than our malls...so much more expensive too i'd say.
anyways ya the tour was pretty cool. say some temples, mosques, almost got left behind at one. its funny how pepole think that you are a rich tourist cuz your white. and so they tried to sucker me into a whole bunch of htings.
but hey some of oyu may have seen the chinese purse that i had bought on boxing day in west ed mall, ya i found the exact same purses for like $5...singapore money , which would be like less than 5$ canadian.
anyways i am in christchurch now. im not sure how its going. i dont know what to think yety. so i will update you on that later.
angee
Friday, January 13, 2006
from the land of ???
hey there all,
sry i didnt get time to write in this before i elft but the internet was down, right now i am in the singapre airport. i just spent the day here traveliing and such. ya its been a complete gong show traveling alone. but all is well and ssooon i will be in new zealand. thank yall for your prayers. man when i get the chance i will have to sit and write something good abo whats happened in the last 48 hours of travelling but i do not have time as my feet are killing me and i am standing up typing irght now. anyways i love ya ll
angee
sry i didnt get time to write in this before i elft but the internet was down, right now i am in the singapre airport. i just spent the day here traveliing and such. ya its been a complete gong show traveling alone. but all is well and ssooon i will be in new zealand. thank yall for your prayers. man when i get the chance i will have to sit and write something good abo whats happened in the last 48 hours of travelling but i do not have time as my feet are killing me and i am standing up typing irght now. anyways i love ya ll
angee
Tuesday, January 10, 2006
hasn't sunk in???
when is the fact that i am leaving in less that 30 hours gonna sink in? basically tomorrow is my lastest day here in canada for at least 6 months. thats totally flipping karazy eh.
i don't think its gonna actually sink in til i am on the plane. thank the Lord that they have plenty of paper bags that i can hyper ventilate into. and i have suddenly developed a fear of flying it seems. i mean what with all these movies that are out about flying, red eye, flight plan. like hollywood really knows how to make me feel good about life :) not to mention their super skinny plastic people...haha but thats another subject all together.
ya so new zealand eh. i still can't believe it.
anyways on to new things. i just thought of something funny. how funny life is. I had a youth group back in the day (some of who may read this) but i won't mention any names. and like ya we went to church every sunday, and youth group and worship team. k there must have been umm lets see a core group of 5 or 6 i guess. here are the stats, 2 went into missions right after high school. 1 became a drug dealer in highschool, one become a alcoholic after high school. and one starting sleeping around, doing drugs and drinking a ton. you'd think that the 2 who are living for the Lord now would be the 2 that went into missions. nopers...just one,the other one let down their guard, and is now fallen it seems, and the "sleeping around, doing drugs and drinker" is now going to new zealand. yeppers that one is me. its just weird. church kids fall when forced to go to church i guess.
the moral of the story is we all need to find God on our own terms. i found him again on my own terms. noone forced this religion thing down my throat. noone forced me to go to church. we need to pray for those who aren't following God, not shove the gospel down their throats, cuz if we do that they will wanna know God less and less.
angee
i don't think its gonna actually sink in til i am on the plane. thank the Lord that they have plenty of paper bags that i can hyper ventilate into. and i have suddenly developed a fear of flying it seems. i mean what with all these movies that are out about flying, red eye, flight plan. like hollywood really knows how to make me feel good about life :) not to mention their super skinny plastic people...haha but thats another subject all together.
ya so new zealand eh. i still can't believe it.
anyways on to new things. i just thought of something funny. how funny life is. I had a youth group back in the day (some of who may read this) but i won't mention any names. and like ya we went to church every sunday, and youth group and worship team. k there must have been umm lets see a core group of 5 or 6 i guess. here are the stats, 2 went into missions right after high school. 1 became a drug dealer in highschool, one become a alcoholic after high school. and one starting sleeping around, doing drugs and drinking a ton. you'd think that the 2 who are living for the Lord now would be the 2 that went into missions. nopers...just one,the other one let down their guard, and is now fallen it seems, and the "sleeping around, doing drugs and drinker" is now going to new zealand. yeppers that one is me. its just weird. church kids fall when forced to go to church i guess.
the moral of the story is we all need to find God on our own terms. i found him again on my own terms. noone forced this religion thing down my throat. noone forced me to go to church. we need to pray for those who aren't following God, not shove the gospel down their throats, cuz if we do that they will wanna know God less and less.
angee
Monday, January 09, 2006
No Woman No Cry
I don't know why i named todays post that. its one of my favorite songs by Bob Marley. I don't know, i used to hate crying. i would avoid it at all costs. and if i knew i was gonna cry i would do it in the private of my own room. Today i went to a really good church service. i cried. everyone was pretty much crying. no that was an understatement...i was bawling. The preacher was talking about freedom. freedom from stuff. the stuff that holds us back. the stuff that stops us from living for God. the stuff that stops us from bringing more people to God. Stuff being, anger which turns to bitterness which turns to hatred if we don't deal with it. and i don't know about you but i am a bitter person. i remember exactly what the woman looked like who gave me an absolutaly horrible hair cut in grade 8. like talk about bitterness. but ya i am not sure why but i cried alot. i thought i had dealed with alot of issues in my life and i hadnt even begun to. so ya i had this breaking point today, cried, called out to God, the whole 9 yards. and i thought i was done. well tonight i went to another church service in the city, and i realized i had a whole lot more to deal with taht i thought. i have so much stuff in my life that is crap so to speak. so many things that i try to hold on to. and they are hindering me for living a life full of fire for God. and then i realized....i am going to bible school in a few days. what a good place to deal with the crap in your life :) haha so my stretching has only just begun. i should come back from new zealand hardcore skinny from all the stretching that will take place.
anyways ya, letting God work in you and break you is hard. it requires letting down your walls and letting God in. he won't force his way in right now, he wants you to choose him. so i just wanna challenge you that no mattter how hard it is, let down your barrier and let the almighty in. I mean what have you got to lose? ...burdens? Heart aches? lonliness? to me i can't see any negatives in letting God in.
anyways any questions feel free to email me, or ya you can always comment....i would love for yall to comment on what you read.
but ya feel free to cry. i thought i was an emotionless void...cry out to God. don't be afraid to. he won't push you away. he is waiting for you with open arms! use them! Run into his awesome arms of love!
angee
anyways ya, letting God work in you and break you is hard. it requires letting down your walls and letting God in. he won't force his way in right now, he wants you to choose him. so i just wanna challenge you that no mattter how hard it is, let down your barrier and let the almighty in. I mean what have you got to lose? ...burdens? Heart aches? lonliness? to me i can't see any negatives in letting God in.
anyways any questions feel free to email me, or ya you can always comment....i would love for yall to comment on what you read.
but ya feel free to cry. i thought i was an emotionless void...cry out to God. don't be afraid to. he won't push you away. he is waiting for you with open arms! use them! Run into his awesome arms of love!
angee
Saturday, January 07, 2006
FREE THE WHALES!!!
My favorite animal is totally the odder...its a pretty karazy animal...weird at times...totally fun all the time...and its a totally attractive animal...(haha sounds kinda creepy eh odder, but i didn't know how to say an odder was hot without looking like a creepy) OH that that was pretty much the best suggestion ever!!! hahaha.
Anyways, today is a pretty good day...considering I have only been up for 12 minutes. I pity all those people who have to wake up in the morning...muhahaha i laugh at you all! Just joking I am rather enjoying my sleeping in cuz i know come like next week I won't be able to. Hey this time next week...i'm not completely sure cuz of all teh time changes and stuff, i will be in the middle of the ocean or something. WHo knows. but ya i definately won't be in canada anymore.
And then I am gonna say loudly, odder i'm not in canada anymore...but odder won't be there and I will cry.
anyways yep 4 more days til i leave this beautiful country...this country that i really wanted snow in so i could go sledding befoer I left. now im crying. 'i'm crying inside, and no body knows it but you!" just jokes. I'm just thinking about how cold its gonna get right after I leave. haha.
anyways have a great ol day
angee
Anyways, today is a pretty good day...considering I have only been up for 12 minutes. I pity all those people who have to wake up in the morning...muhahaha i laugh at you all! Just joking I am rather enjoying my sleeping in cuz i know come like next week I won't be able to. Hey this time next week...i'm not completely sure cuz of all teh time changes and stuff, i will be in the middle of the ocean or something. WHo knows. but ya i definately won't be in canada anymore.
And then I am gonna say loudly, odder i'm not in canada anymore...but odder won't be there and I will cry.
anyways yep 4 more days til i leave this beautiful country...this country that i really wanted snow in so i could go sledding befoer I left. now im crying. 'i'm crying inside, and no body knows it but you!" just jokes. I'm just thinking about how cold its gonna get right after I leave. haha.
anyways have a great ol day
angee
Friday, January 06, 2006
yeppers indeed
So yesterday I did a somewhat "deep" posting. So today I won't...i mean deep thoughts only come once in a while for me :) so how yall doing. We are all starting to freak around here, i am leaving for newzealand on Wednesday. I don't even wanna count the days...its karazy.
BUt i have a pretty busy weekend coming up...Saturday night is the REGGAE XPLOSION 2006 at the sidetrack cafe in edmonton. so if any of ya are in edmonton this weekend ya should check it out. its gonna be rawk awesome!
Anyways ya i went shopping today...ya always fun. I am looking for a bridesmaid dress for my friend Kyra's wedding...funfun eh. Anyways ya im gonna go cuz i am deadly tired and i will talk to all yall later.
angee
BUt i have a pretty busy weekend coming up...Saturday night is the REGGAE XPLOSION 2006 at the sidetrack cafe in edmonton. so if any of ya are in edmonton this weekend ya should check it out. its gonna be rawk awesome!
Anyways ya i went shopping today...ya always fun. I am looking for a bridesmaid dress for my friend Kyra's wedding...funfun eh. Anyways ya im gonna go cuz i am deadly tired and i will talk to all yall later.
angee
Thursday, January 05, 2006
Harder than the first time
When you were younger, didn't you think that life would get easier as you got older? All I wanted to do was get through high school and then I could do whatever I wanted and life would be easier. And I would be a super strong Christian, a hugely impacting follower of God. I thought that I would be this person that people would look at and see how different I am. Different through God. I always thought that it would get easier to follow God.
But it doesn't...I have to make the choice to follow Him. I have to make the choice every time I wake up whether I am gonna live for Jesus today. Every time I leave the house, every time I talk on the phone, in everything I do, I have to decide who I am gonna live for.
It doesn't get easier, but HE is always ALWAYS there. I never really realized how BIG and huge Jesus's love is for us. It is so big, I can't even fathom it.
For far too long I have let my sin, or the things that have taken the place of God in my life, I have let them define me. I have let so many things that are not even close to who I am define me. I have let someone who isn't me, define me. I have been looking in the mirror for far too long and seeing someone who isn't me. But its time that ends. So many of us just sit in our sin, or are crappy lives so to speak...and we wait, we wait for God to come and help us. We say things like, if God wanted to set us free from this we would be free. If God wanted me to change I would change. But those are lies...Lies are not from him. I have believed those lies for far too long. God loves us, why on earth would he want us to be captured by sin? We need to stop putting this off, we need to change today! Today is the day that you don't have to be dead in sin any longer, but ALIVE in Christ!
I know that I am deadly afraid of this. Becuz I look at my life and I see all the things that hold me down, and I also see how much God is working. BUt I am afraid if he is working this much and I am barely living for him, think of how much more he will do if I let go of all the things that held me captive. And to be honest that scares me, cuz if I saw God work any more that would mean I would have no choice, I've seen too much of God to reverse. And thats scary, so many of us live with one foot in the door, and one foot out the door becuz we are afraid to commit to God. We are afraid to make a stand, we are afraid to make a commitment that we can't keep. We are afraid that we will no longer be able to do the things that we did before. But this fear isn't from God. I am sick of living in fear. I know that Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Why should I keep running away from things that I know are true?
Our world is depending on what we do now...what we do now counts. There are so many people who are empty, who need God in their lives. Who are we to hide what we have?
But it doesn't...I have to make the choice to follow Him. I have to make the choice every time I wake up whether I am gonna live for Jesus today. Every time I leave the house, every time I talk on the phone, in everything I do, I have to decide who I am gonna live for.
It doesn't get easier, but HE is always ALWAYS there. I never really realized how BIG and huge Jesus's love is for us. It is so big, I can't even fathom it.
For far too long I have let my sin, or the things that have taken the place of God in my life, I have let them define me. I have let so many things that are not even close to who I am define me. I have let someone who isn't me, define me. I have been looking in the mirror for far too long and seeing someone who isn't me. But its time that ends. So many of us just sit in our sin, or are crappy lives so to speak...and we wait, we wait for God to come and help us. We say things like, if God wanted to set us free from this we would be free. If God wanted me to change I would change. But those are lies...Lies are not from him. I have believed those lies for far too long. God loves us, why on earth would he want us to be captured by sin? We need to stop putting this off, we need to change today! Today is the day that you don't have to be dead in sin any longer, but ALIVE in Christ!
I know that I am deadly afraid of this. Becuz I look at my life and I see all the things that hold me down, and I also see how much God is working. BUt I am afraid if he is working this much and I am barely living for him, think of how much more he will do if I let go of all the things that held me captive. And to be honest that scares me, cuz if I saw God work any more that would mean I would have no choice, I've seen too much of God to reverse. And thats scary, so many of us live with one foot in the door, and one foot out the door becuz we are afraid to commit to God. We are afraid to make a stand, we are afraid to make a commitment that we can't keep. We are afraid that we will no longer be able to do the things that we did before. But this fear isn't from God. I am sick of living in fear. I know that Jesus is the way the truth and the life. Why should I keep running away from things that I know are true?
Our world is depending on what we do now...what we do now counts. There are so many people who are empty, who need God in their lives. Who are we to hide what we have?
Wednesday, January 04, 2006
oh the poo hit my shoe
thats what kind of day today has been. yeppers indeed. and i have only been up for about 3 hours.
my dog who most of you may know is quite old. and i was sleeping and he didn't know anyone was home, so he pooped in the house. whatever i can handle a piece of poo. but one piece of poo turned into like 10, and ya some were like rubbed into the carpet. so i had to scrub. then lets just say i also had to clean up my own puke. yeppers indeed. but as i was walking to get more cleaning supplies a little piece of poo which i had missed managed to get under my foot...my barefoot.
Yes that was my day, needless to say i feel like just getting back into bed. but i won't.
I hoped you enjoyed reading all about poop today...at least you weren't the one stepping in it.
angee
my dog who most of you may know is quite old. and i was sleeping and he didn't know anyone was home, so he pooped in the house. whatever i can handle a piece of poo. but one piece of poo turned into like 10, and ya some were like rubbed into the carpet. so i had to scrub. then lets just say i also had to clean up my own puke. yeppers indeed. but as i was walking to get more cleaning supplies a little piece of poo which i had missed managed to get under my foot...my barefoot.
Yes that was my day, needless to say i feel like just getting back into bed. but i won't.
I hoped you enjoyed reading all about poop today...at least you weren't the one stepping in it.
angee
Tuesday, January 03, 2006
stupid pajamas, stupid me
today i am gonna talk about my pajamas. i bought the absolute cutest pajamas on boxing day this year from la senza. kinda tropical looking, anyways yes absolutely cute. well we have this computer chair and someone ripped off the covering so the handles are all sharp. anyway i sat down and the sharp ness caught my pj pants and they ripped hugely. i was quite upset since i had just bought them. anyways so i needed pajamas so i went back to find the same pair cuz they were seriously cute. well there was only one pair left and they were my size. anyways so i bought them. and the other day they ripped. i dont even know how. i was not impressed, and i walked around my house angrily stomping that i hate my life. i dont really, i rather enjoy it but thats not hte point. so the moral of the story is...sleep naked. just joking i put that in for shock value. but if you know me that probably wasnt all that shocking coming from me.
ya i leave in about 9 days i believe.
ciao for now
angee
ya i leave in about 9 days i believe.
ciao for now
angee
Monday, January 02, 2006
MeRrY NeW yEaRs
Hey yall,
I hope you had a wonderful newyears. I had a pretty good one. And today I slept all day which was very nice to do:) Anyways just an update on when I leave...I leave on January 11 at 6 am haha and i don't get to New Zealand until Jan 14 at 11:30am. yeppers i have a 20 something hour layover in singapore. yeppers thats pretty karazy, but thankfully i get to stay in a hotel. which is good good. anyways so that is coming up pretty darn quick.
So what should I ramble on about today? no thoughts are coming to mind so maybe i will write back later. oh joy your all thinking :)
angee
...by the way odder...you are hardcore way odder :)
I hope you had a wonderful newyears. I had a pretty good one. And today I slept all day which was very nice to do:) Anyways just an update on when I leave...I leave on January 11 at 6 am haha and i don't get to New Zealand until Jan 14 at 11:30am. yeppers i have a 20 something hour layover in singapore. yeppers thats pretty karazy, but thankfully i get to stay in a hotel. which is good good. anyways so that is coming up pretty darn quick.
So what should I ramble on about today? no thoughts are coming to mind so maybe i will write back later. oh joy your all thinking :)
angee
...by the way odder...you are hardcore way odder :)
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