This Season of Life

Edited: Sorry for this terribly long post! They will not usually be this long!
Where do I even begin?
Well lets start from the veryyyy beginning.
Back in elementary school I said I would be a teacher when I grew up...long story short, that hasn't changed. What did change is that now I am not saying I am beginning the process (or have begun) of becoming an elementary school teacher. I applied to the education program, and got in. It may not seem like such a big deal but I know people personally who didn't get in, because the program is competitive and their expectations are high with grades, letters of recommendations, etc. So last Wednesday when I received the e-mail that I had been accepted I praised God, because only HE helped me through, to get to where I am today.
So, today was the orientation. Oh boy, college just got a lot busier, time consuming, and stressful at an entirely different level. Part of that is because I am "double majoring" in education and english. Next semester, although I was planning on taking 4 emglish upper-division courses, advisors discouraged me from it unless I was willing to "kill myself." The minimum would be 12 papers for the four classes. So I am sticking with 3 english courses, and will take one in the summer, or winter. We'll see.
But, being informed of so much like the 4 NYS exams I have to pass, the 50 hours of field experience every semester, and a bunch of deadlines I must meet.
Oh well, I know that Jesus is still by my side, and I saw that even today, when my ENGLISH ADVISER told me the courses I was going to take would satisfy certain requirements, but in reality THEY DIDN'T. I had my classes all planned out, and then this. BUT God made everything work in such a way, that I was able to take the classes I actually needed to take and have a similar schedule, like my previous, pre-made one. I guess the next two years will be sleep, school, homework, and blogging of course ;) but I will try to be as involved in church as I am now, because my fear is choir might have to go :( On the other hand, I am probably only taking 13 credits, so maybe I will have more time, but then there is the field experience and my linguistics course which I heard is a killer, so we'll see.
Wow if you just read through all that, then wow! Thank you for hearing my thoughts out!
 
For a much funner post check out my friends blog, Diana who confesses about unusual things in her life. Maybe I'll do something like that her sometime.
Now I'm off to working on my paper. I woke up yesterday at 7:30, worked all day on school work til 11:45 pm. (Only had one class that day), and today looks like I'll be up just as long, for I must finish my paper.
Blessings,
Lesya

Life as Usual

Yesterday was the start of a busy week for me. A Family Systems Theory research paper due Thursday is consuming most of my life right now. Additionally, I have other assignments and tests to prep for, but through it all I am praying that I keep my head "above the water" and do my best in everything.

I guess school pretty much defines my life right now, so in the back of my head I am thinking of summer:

I can't wait to be able to jump into 

 a pool on a hot summer afternoon...

...and enjoy family barbecues...

...and finally, just be able to relax and do much of well, much of what I want to do!

But in the meantime....I must get back to work. You know those moments when you just don't feel like it??? I'm having one of those....I just don't feel like doing any more research...I don't feel like figuring out the APA citation... I don't feel like writing my paper...and I don't feel like heading to class today. 

But I must. 

So I will stop complaining and REALLY head back to work.

Tomorrow I will hopefully post on my future career goals and how my orientation went for the education program.

Until then,

Blessings!

On The Cross

Happy Sunday! This song keeps "ringing in my ears" on this lovely Sunday. This little 11 year old boy composed this song himself and it is such a powerful song in my life. I actually had the privilege of hearing him sing it, when he came with his family to a church in my area a few weeks ago. His dad is also a powerful preacher, Bob Cornell, if you'd like to YouTube him.
Be blessed!

Prioritizing Time

Hi to all! Particularly this semester, (Spring 2011-Sophomore year) I've been working on prioritizing my time because with so much to do and "so little time" I couldn't do "it all." So I went about re prioritizing. I added time reading my Bible and praying, decreased the time spent on the computer which could also be a challenge, quitting coffee house (another post in its self), added more piano playing time and finally trying to set a schedule everyday. Although I still struggle with prioritizing I'm glad I chose to do something about it, even if it only helps a little. Does that make sense what I just wrote?

Anyway, THIS BLOG-this was part of prioritizing my time as well. I want to be able to look back in a few years and see what I've been doing. I tried keeping a diary-but that did not work out so well. So, after reading others' blogs I chose to start my own for now. I'm not expecting to get more than two followers, instead I am doing this for myself. To look back at in the next few years and laugh? or realize how "mature" I was? I don't know but I'm excited. I've had the idea for the past month now, but never got around to starting a blog. I told my friend of "this idea" and so randomly she created a blog last night which got me to create a blog that very night as well! Oh, the influences of friends!