30-Hour Famine, Romantic Troubles, School problems!!!....
Awww, long time, not posting...and HEY, i'm not breaking my internet abstinence here...i am hooked up to the internet, but i'm just using my client to post here, i'm not on the actual site or anything...teehee....i really miss chatting and reading friends' pages....please don't take me off your friend's list, i'll be back to commenting and reading in April
Famine
Well i got back from the 30-Hour Famine yesterday night...and....IT FEELS REALLY GOOD TO EAT! Weirdly, I didn't get hungry during the whole famine....most of my friends weren't hungry either. I get hungrier during Geometry and Chorale than I did for the past 30 hours.
Anyway, I thought this year's Famine was pretty good....instead of the usual routine of going to Shui-Nan Market and buying 10 NT's worth of food to donate to the homeless/playing games/washing cars we went on a spiritual retreat in Puli. I must say that it was GREAT. Seriously, it was...i mean, i know that for most people, the thought of going off into the mountains and fasting and praying sounds like a drag, but i liked it a lot. There weren't many people there...like maybe.....25 people, both students and teachers/counselors in all.
-the bus ride The bus ride was cool...the sophomores stole the back seats and freshies Dylan and Esther joined us there. Haha...I didn't say much, but i observed...Andrew falling asleep, Tim L flexing his biceps, revealing that he is actually pretty buff; Jon, Luke, and Jeremy singing/mimicking/mocking Taiwanese taxi and opera songs ("Kang-guo lai, kang guo-laiiii!" "I like-eee Hawaiii..." *bong bong bong* "Haiiiiii-ya!!!! Tah men gwooorrrrr laiiii!"). Anyway, the sophs there were Laraine, Ruth, Tiffany, Alison (but she hung out w/ the upperclassmen), Andrew, Tim W, Tim L, Ted, Jon, Luke, and me. After driving for two hours, we arrived at the camp ("Puli Valley Bible Calley"....-__-???), found our cabins, and headed off to the obstacles course (kinda boring, but haha...) then went to the chapel to sing and pray...and that was cool! We all got really into it, especially after watching the video about Rachel Scott, one of the victims of the Columbine school shooting...it was really touching how she lived her life and was all on fire for God. The worship and praying was really good - with all the prayers, fellowship, and mountain solitude, you could really feel God in that room. I love that feeling of being in God's presence...it's all kind of surreal yet so REAL somehow..*sigh* it's hard to describe, but it's a great feeling...actually it's more than a feeling, it's also like an awareness and all these other things that are hard to describe. After a couple hours of that, everyone but the sophomores (besides Luke and Alison) went back to their rooms, so it was just Larz, Ruth, Tiff, two Tims, Ted, Jon, and me in there messing around at midnight....haha, played a lot of piano....The next day was cool too, there was more praying and worshiping...it was all really moving. We broke the fast by taking communion together, and then i went home and ate veeerrrrryyyy slowly so i wouldn't get sick. Weirdly, I didn't get hungry at all during the famine...even when i started eating again, i was dying to wolf down my food. All i ate was some soup, a few "doo-doo hows", a bit of veggies and a fruit, and tien-bu-lah.....everyone else went to Chili's, but i didn't want to eat so much greasy food after my stomach had been inactive for more than a day. TODAY, on the other hand, was a whole different eating story (hint: Haagen-Dazs, Dove chocolate, macaroni and cheese......)
My nasty grades
My grades are totally bad. I did SO BADLY on the chem test! I got a 76% (38/50)!!! hahaha! i usually do well on the tests, but i've done poorly for the last couple....i seriously need to study harder. I just kind of winged the last one, I didn't think it'd be THAT hard....so now i'm totally worried about my gradeds...and yearbook is so stressful now! WHY OH WHY did i pick SO MANY long spreads all clumped together in two months??????? I am so dead for that class, i'm really behind on my gargantutron, monster-sized, godzilla spreads....
Famine
Well i got back from the 30-Hour Famine yesterday night...and....IT FEELS REALLY GOOD TO EAT! Weirdly, I didn't get hungry during the whole famine....most of my friends weren't hungry either. I get hungrier during Geometry and Chorale than I did for the past 30 hours.
Anyway, I thought this year's Famine was pretty good....instead of the usual routine of going to Shui-Nan Market and buying 10 NT's worth of food to donate to the homeless/playing games/washing cars we went on a spiritual retreat in Puli. I must say that it was GREAT. Seriously, it was...i mean, i know that for most people, the thought of going off into the mountains and fasting and praying sounds like a drag, but i liked it a lot. There weren't many people there...like maybe.....25 people, both students and teachers/counselors in all.
-the bus ride The bus ride was cool...the sophomores stole the back seats and freshies Dylan and Esther joined us there. Haha...I didn't say much, but i observed...Andrew falling asleep, Tim L flexing his biceps, revealing that he is actually pretty buff; Jon, Luke, and Jeremy singing/mimicking/mocking Taiwanese taxi and opera songs ("Kang-guo lai, kang guo-laiiii!" "I like-eee Hawaiii..." *bong bong bong* "Haiiiiii-ya!!!! Tah men gwooorrrrr laiiii!"). Anyway, the sophs there were Laraine, Ruth, Tiffany, Alison (but she hung out w/ the upperclassmen), Andrew, Tim W, Tim L, Ted, Jon, Luke, and me. After driving for two hours, we arrived at the camp ("Puli Valley Bible Calley"....-__-???), found our cabins, and headed off to the obstacles course (kinda boring, but haha...) then went to the chapel to sing and pray...and that was cool! We all got really into it, especially after watching the video about Rachel Scott, one of the victims of the Columbine school shooting...it was really touching how she lived her life and was all on fire for God. The worship and praying was really good - with all the prayers, fellowship, and mountain solitude, you could really feel God in that room. I love that feeling of being in God's presence...it's all kind of surreal yet so REAL somehow..*sigh* it's hard to describe, but it's a great feeling...actually it's more than a feeling, it's also like an awareness and all these other things that are hard to describe. After a couple hours of that, everyone but the sophomores (besides Luke and Alison) went back to their rooms, so it was just Larz, Ruth, Tiff, two Tims, Ted, Jon, and me in there messing around at midnight....haha, played a lot of piano....The next day was cool too, there was more praying and worshiping...it was all really moving. We broke the fast by taking communion together, and then i went home and ate veeerrrrryyyy slowly so i wouldn't get sick. Weirdly, I didn't get hungry at all during the famine...even when i started eating again, i was dying to wolf down my food. All i ate was some soup, a few "doo-doo hows", a bit of veggies and a fruit, and tien-bu-lah.....everyone else went to Chili's, but i didn't want to eat so much greasy food after my stomach had been inactive for more than a day. TODAY, on the other hand, was a whole different eating story (hint: Haagen-Dazs, Dove chocolate, macaroni and cheese......)
My nasty grades
My grades are totally bad. I did SO BADLY on the chem test! I got a 76% (38/50)!!! hahaha! i usually do well on the tests, but i've done poorly for the last couple....i seriously need to study harder. I just kind of winged the last one, I didn't think it'd be THAT hard....so now i'm totally worried about my gradeds...and yearbook is so stressful now! WHY OH WHY did i pick SO MANY long spreads all clumped together in two months??????? I am so dead for that class, i'm really behind on my gargantutron, monster-sized, godzilla spreads....