The view from our window at the hotel in London. This is were taxis park, right in the middle of the road! 

A rowing crew going by on the Thames. I saw several teams out practicing that day.  

View from across the Thames in Reading, England where I stayed for one night with some friends. 

Back from London!

Wow has it been a wonderful month of January. Right now just seems like it all went by in a dream. I just spent 3 and a half weeks in London, England!! It was great. I was taking two classes and had the rest of the time to go and do anything I wanted around London. I still feel like I will have to go back again to see all of it. There was about 25 of us from my school that went and four of our professors. We had a rented lecture room that we had class in in the mornings and the rest of the time was free for sightseeing and everything. I had two roommates who are both friends and christians. We had fun going everywhere together. We got to go to both Oxford and Cambridge and we went to Windsor Castle. We saw the changing of the guard at Buckingham Palace and saw Kinsington Palace and walked through several parks in London. Got to see the Peter Pan statue in Kinsington Gardens and walk along the Thames at night. It was so pretty, looking up at the Tower Bridge and the Tower of London all lit up. We went in the Tower of London and even got to go up to the top of Tower Bridge.
We spent so much time walking all over the place. I swear we walked about 6-7 miles a day. It was great. We even got to ride the Tube everywhere and ride the big red double decker buses too. We went for a couple of days up to Edinburgh, Scotland and got to see the Castle there and climb some craggs in the royal park. One day when we went out to Oxford we went to see one of the little Cotswold towns and it was soooo beautiful. I loved London and all but I would definitely want to live on a farm out in the country side. I have now determined that I am going to have to go live in England and marry a Duke or other Noble person and live on a country estate in the Cotswold with a small town nearby and lots of sheep!! We never made it over to the coast but that is something that will have to be done on my next visit!
I love traveling and seeing new places. It was really great because I new a lot of the historical significance of things because of my history classes that I have been taking. It feels a little weird to be back now. In about 2 hours from now I will be heading to my first class for the Spring Term. I'm excited because it is my first physics class. But I would much rather still be in London!! lol. I am glad to be back and see all my friends again.
Hopefully I will be putting some pictures up from my trip soon. I think I took like 200 pictures. lol I won't put them all up.

One Single blossom

One single blossom holds so much beauty and so much of the plant goes in to creating that one perfect flower. It only lasts for a little while but it brings hope, joy, and beauty to a dark and bleak world. I have an African Violet sitting on my window sill that a friend gave to me last year. I have managed to keep it alive and every once in a while it produces these perfect purple blossoms. One has come up now and as I look at it I am reminded of the work that God does in our lives. We are those perfect beautiful blossoms that God puts his all into making. We get our nutrients and strength from him and even though we only are here for a short time God delights in us so much. We bring him pleasure and put a smile on his face, just like my African violet brings a smile to my face and helps me remember to look for the beauty in life.
I think God gave us flowers to remind us of how he looks on us. To remind us of the joy that we bring him and the love that he has for us. I would be crushed if my flower stopped taking the water that I gave it and curled up and died. God let me never withdraw from your perfect strength and the nutrients that you give me to go through life and continue to blossom into the perfect flower that you have me to be. Help me to always bring you joy and pleasure. I want to put a smile on your face. Thank you Lord that you put your all in to creating me to be a perfect blossom, unique from all the others and yours alone! You are so worth all of my efforts to grow to be the Woman of God that you have made me to be. Help me along this journey. You already have done so much, but there is still so much farther to go, so much more to explore and discover about myself. So much more to learn about you. Thank you!!

Well, Summer is here and almost half over with. I guess I need to update what I've been up to!!
I got home from school safely and with almost all of my stuff. The car had a big trunk, which was a very good thing!!! I have been volunteering with Student Venture this summer which has been a blast.
I'm leading a sophomore Biblestudy for the summer. And also helping to plan and lead the City wide meetings. It is really cool because the other volunteers from this side of town are all good friends of mine from High School. We have a meeting this Monday night and Nancy Wilson is coming to speak to the girl and it is going to be so amazing. She is a mindblowing woman of God.
I have also been working about five days a week at Nature's Table Cafe in the Florida Mall, it is hard work but I need the money. I am desperately trying to save up for a trip to London for a month in January with the history department at school. I have always dreamed of going to London and seeing all the sites and stuff and I finally have a chance to go.
I go to work at 3 today so this morning I'm working on some personal stuff, writing letters doing things around the house. It is nice to have a bit of a break. We have been putting down new floors in the house. Taking out the carpet and linoleum stuff. We put really nice ceramic tile down in the kitchen and we are putting down lament wood flooring in the rest of the house. It looks really nice!! We just have two more bedrooms to do and then we will be done. We have also repainted the Kitchen and dining room. I think my mom is very happy with the way it all looks now. The floor also helps a lot with my allergies!! The carpet held a lot of dust even after vacuuming. I am still working on putting everything back in my room though from when we pulled it all out to do the floor in there. I did get to sleep in the dining room for a few nights. That was fun. Well I need to go do a bunch of stuff.
Hopefully I'll update a little more often.
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DONE!

Classes are all done, finished, over with. I will never again step foot inside a class room with Dr. Norman (and for me that's a good thing) She has taught me alot, but I've had enough. Prof. Scavillo my German teacher is on sabbatical for fall next year so his daughter will be teaching the class, I'm going to miss him. We have so much fun in that class. And Dr. Willis, I've already told you a lot about him, I'm going to miss him until next year. Thankfully I'm a history major so I'll have him as my prof. Many more times. (I wonder if I can manage to take all of my history classes with him...hummm...we'll have to try!)

I got my research paper done and turned in and then did absolutely nothing the rest of the day. I was so tired. I had gotten up at 4AM to work on it and then I had a meeting from 6am to about 9am. It was crazy. All I can say is that it was a miracle that I got it done.

Now I just have to do the take home final for religion, a German exam on Monday and My history exam on Tuesday, and I can officially pack up the books forever!! I can't wait to be completely done. I can't wait to come home.

Listening: The silence of my room and the tapping of the keyboard.

Almost done with classes, just one more today and then two more days. Today is my last History class. It's going to be sad. I love Dr. Willis, he is such a good teach and a sweet old man. I'll have him again in the fall though. We have started to pack up our room a little and we've taken the stuff off the walls. It looks so empty and white without posters and things. I can't wait to be done and home for the summer. I miss my friends there so much and just hanging out up at starbucks and the towncenter. I have one big research paper standing in my way though. And it's due Friday. I really need to go work on it. It's a good thing I don't have class tomorrow though, I can spend all day trying to whip out 6-8 pages of pure genius!! lol. It will probably stink. Oh well, as long as I get it done. Can't wait to be done!!!

Trip to Africa
I know that it has been a long time since last summer when I went with my dad back to Africa for two weeks, but I have finally figured out how to post pictures. So here are a couple of pictures and highlights from my trip! Enjoy!


Poor dad got in trouble while we were in Gold Reef City, I had to leave him behind!! 


We were parked not but about ten feet away from this guy, but he wouldn't move, he was to busy sleeping!!lol 


We were driving through a game park one day while we were in Johannesburg, and this guy just walked right across the road infront of the car! 


This is the lake that has formed at the Katse Dam up in the mountains. The water is so Blue and deep. It has filled in the deep valley!! 


These are some of the beautiful Lesotho mountains that we drove through! The road is really twisty! 


This is the Hospital where I was born in Morija, Lesotho! 


This is the horse that I road when we went riding in the mountains on my trip to Lesotho last summer.  

I got bored and started playing around. blogger has all these really cool new backgrounds and formats, and I really like this one!! It makes it look more like a real journal.