Travel Through Time
Where was I today last year?
In Micronesia. Still laughing about the Frosty event, and having a total blast while re-affirming my commitment to ministry and helping the less fortunate. Wow, ministry is so satisfying. I was re-thinking doing Pre-Med, because I saw such a great need for medical help in those islands. I also met a cool couple in Guam, and the husband was working as a doctor there, which was another source of inspiration for me to pursue medicine.
Where was I today two years ago?
Working at the Glendale Adventist Medical Center. I was also tutoring some math and helping Mr. Mullen with his computer. It might have been this week that I went with Eric Sanchez to the 311 concert in Arizona. I was deciding what college to go to, whether Andrews or Southern, but perhaps by this point I had settled on PUC so that I could enroll in the Pre-Med program PUC offers.
Where was I today three years ago?
At home, on Winter break from my Theology studies in Argentina. I was dating Jill at the time, and things were a little shakey, just in my head I think, and we broke up just before I flew to Chile. Wow that was tough. I felt terrible. But in the long run, things weren't all that painful. We're friends to this day, and things are good. I had a life plan of finishing up the 5-year theology program there, which would mean I'd graduate December 2009 (only six months after my prospected graduation here), and then going on to Andrews to get some sort of Masters so that I could be a religion teacher at one of our SDA colleges, perhaps traveling around the globe. Dr. Klingbeil was a great inspiration of mine. He was my Hebrew teacher, and came from Germany, and he was at least trilingual (German, Spanish, English), besides knowing biblical languages. I've been fascinated with German ever since.
Where was I today four years ago?
John invited Sergeh and I to go to FYR, the Filipino Youth Rally in San Diego with a bunch of our filipino friends: Kristine, Carina, Zarah, Jill, and of course John's brothers Joseph and Jason. I forget who else was there, but it was a pretty big group all in all. I had just graduated from high school and was looking forward to rooming with David at LSU. I remember I was on the fence about PUC or LSU and one day David asked me to room with him and I was so touched by the offer that I agreed. At the time I was planning on studying Theology/Psychology at LSU, and really had pie-in-the-sky ideals about life. I had no idea what college was going to be like. I was really dopey and not very serious about things. Somehow that really changed as I got increasing doses of religion. Maybe I'm too serious now? :-\
As for the years previous to that, well they were just summers in high school and I have no journaled records of them. Summer of 2002 my mom was sick, I got my beetle, and I was living with my dad on Winchester with Hamo the crazy armo landlord. Summer of 2001 I think Bryan graduated, Bryan got married, and life was on autopilot. I think I finally "woke up" to life when my mom passed. Funny how that works.
I guess this journal isn't complete until I write this last section:
Where am I today?
I'm at PUC, taking a couple summer school classes (Hist 134 and 135) and commuting to UC Davis for an Intro to Abstract Math course. I'm looking forward to being PUC SA president next year, finally have settled on a math major and am going to be taking a hefty load of math from here until graduation. Religion is becoming a little less cut-and-dry, and I'm getting a bit lost in the gray area. I'm not in a relationship. I'm not in any really exciting transition periods right now. I'm kind of just floating in an air bubble of time right here. Soon the clock will strike and a bunch of things will start coming into place. We'll see where God leads. The suspense is getting... suspenseful :).
Where will life take me in the future?
Who knows where I'll be a year from today. But it'll probably be something not-so-spontaneous, unfortunately. I'll have one more year here at PUC, and then we can see where things go. Maybe I'll go to Bogenhofen next summer. That sounds exciting.
How about I let God lead. Life got boring when I started trying to plan it all out too much.
In Micronesia. Still laughing about the Frosty event, and having a total blast while re-affirming my commitment to ministry and helping the less fortunate. Wow, ministry is so satisfying. I was re-thinking doing Pre-Med, because I saw such a great need for medical help in those islands. I also met a cool couple in Guam, and the husband was working as a doctor there, which was another source of inspiration for me to pursue medicine.
Where was I today two years ago?
Working at the Glendale Adventist Medical Center. I was also tutoring some math and helping Mr. Mullen with his computer. It might have been this week that I went with Eric Sanchez to the 311 concert in Arizona. I was deciding what college to go to, whether Andrews or Southern, but perhaps by this point I had settled on PUC so that I could enroll in the Pre-Med program PUC offers.
Where was I today three years ago?
At home, on Winter break from my Theology studies in Argentina. I was dating Jill at the time, and things were a little shakey, just in my head I think, and we broke up just before I flew to Chile. Wow that was tough. I felt terrible. But in the long run, things weren't all that painful. We're friends to this day, and things are good. I had a life plan of finishing up the 5-year theology program there, which would mean I'd graduate December 2009 (only six months after my prospected graduation here), and then going on to Andrews to get some sort of Masters so that I could be a religion teacher at one of our SDA colleges, perhaps traveling around the globe. Dr. Klingbeil was a great inspiration of mine. He was my Hebrew teacher, and came from Germany, and he was at least trilingual (German, Spanish, English), besides knowing biblical languages. I've been fascinated with German ever since.
Where was I today four years ago?
John invited Sergeh and I to go to FYR, the Filipino Youth Rally in San Diego with a bunch of our filipino friends: Kristine, Carina, Zarah, Jill, and of course John's brothers Joseph and Jason. I forget who else was there, but it was a pretty big group all in all. I had just graduated from high school and was looking forward to rooming with David at LSU. I remember I was on the fence about PUC or LSU and one day David asked me to room with him and I was so touched by the offer that I agreed. At the time I was planning on studying Theology/Psychology at LSU, and really had pie-in-the-sky ideals about life. I had no idea what college was going to be like. I was really dopey and not very serious about things. Somehow that really changed as I got increasing doses of religion. Maybe I'm too serious now? :-\
As for the years previous to that, well they were just summers in high school and I have no journaled records of them. Summer of 2002 my mom was sick, I got my beetle, and I was living with my dad on Winchester with Hamo the crazy armo landlord. Summer of 2001 I think Bryan graduated, Bryan got married, and life was on autopilot. I think I finally "woke up" to life when my mom passed. Funny how that works.
I guess this journal isn't complete until I write this last section:
Where am I today?
I'm at PUC, taking a couple summer school classes (Hist 134 and 135) and commuting to UC Davis for an Intro to Abstract Math course. I'm looking forward to being PUC SA president next year, finally have settled on a math major and am going to be taking a hefty load of math from here until graduation. Religion is becoming a little less cut-and-dry, and I'm getting a bit lost in the gray area. I'm not in a relationship. I'm not in any really exciting transition periods right now. I'm kind of just floating in an air bubble of time right here. Soon the clock will strike and a bunch of things will start coming into place. We'll see where God leads. The suspense is getting... suspenseful :).
Where will life take me in the future?
Who knows where I'll be a year from today. But it'll probably be something not-so-spontaneous, unfortunately. I'll have one more year here at PUC, and then we can see where things go. Maybe I'll go to Bogenhofen next summer. That sounds exciting.
How about I let God lead. Life got boring when I started trying to plan it all out too much.