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Name: Melissa
Interests: enjoying God's creation. hand-holding. tea kettles. good conversation.
Occupation: Spanish teacher, improviser
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Member Since:
5/16/2003
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| The other day I tried to check my Xanga from school (my workplace). I didn't think it to be problematic since I successfully peruse Facebook.com and Gmail from that same desktop each blessed day.
HOWEVER, when I attempted to reach Xanga.com I got a warning message that blatantly claimed: staff member/porn.
You dirty scoundrels! Quit posting that filth.
Love,
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| Ever since August I've been thinking and planning and hoping and wishing to go to LLeida, Spain (in the Northern region of Catalunya) as grad student through my MBA program at WMU.
Tonight I finished my essay. Tomorrow I'm mailing my paperwork. This week I'm finalizing my recommendations (dropping the papers with the recommenders, etc.) and most likely phoning to set up my interview with the program director.
Nerves. I have nerves. Good, excited ones, but also sad and scared ones. I want to go be in Spain and I want to study abroad again (hopefully I have a bit more wisdom and resourcefulness about me now), but I don't want to be gone from my family, friends, and Andy from August until June! That seems quite long. In all it is less than a year, however.
Goal being to accrue enough graduate study credits in my year abroad to complete my MBA while teaching English (or working some other job) in Spain to support myself and my living situation (rent a flat or share a flat with some people I don't yet know).
It's creeping closer and closer (the deadline for the app. that is.)
I pray that this goes the way the Lord would have it.
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| Of all the days, today is the day I don't want a snowday.
I mean, I'm okay with it, but I had plans today. I wanted to go out to lunch with Robyn and Cindy. I wanted to get some exams out of the way and graded. I wanted to use my FRIDAY for grading purposes. Today, however, I cannot grade a single thing since I am totally done up to this point.
So I suppose I ought to be thankful for a day of R&R.
I might take a bath, go to the gym, get some things done around these parts that have been un-done for a long time that I love to put off...I WAS on the phone with Julie In't Hout until 1 a.m. Michigan time- not a care in the world that it was so late. So, here I am. Tuesday morning, no school. After a day off for MLK day...
What's a girl to do with a snowday while her boyfriend is so far away in CO and skiing all day!?
That's my Andy.
It's the 22nd. He'll be back in MI in five days! It's been too too long.
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| I'm back teaching. I'm going back to grad school (Thursday, but praise be to God that it isn't the 2x per week drive I thought I would have to make...that's just brutal.) Andy is gone far far away in CO for all of January. I'm grumpy and unmotivated. In fact, I just wrote a list of things I HAVE to do and a list of things I want to do and xanga didn't make either, but here I am, wasting time...procrastinating.
I'm very tired after my 12 hour day. I arrived at school at 7 and I arrived home this evening at 7:15. Sick.
I now realize I should have done something (anything really) over Christmas break in order to ready myself for this week. Woops. What a great break it was though. I didn't do much of anything except spend money and run errands (thank goodness that's done for now too...lacking money currently.)
That's my resolution this year. Debt-free by 2009. I can handle that. I'm sure I can. More like debt-free as soon as possible and then start saving for the Catalonia adventure.
I'm writing like I feel. I feel like an unexcited worm. wiggle wiggle blah. | | |
| Most things are going really well.
Last week Tuesday we had a 1/2 day then conferences (all were wonderful- so uplifting and encouraging), followed by a great chat/hang out time with my French colleague Robyn.
Wednesday morning I hopped a plane to Cali to see Julie, Nick, & Eva and met up with Chris Adema when we got there. We had a blast! Julie and Nick are such amazing hosts and so open and comfortable and relaxed that it made us feel like we were home even though we were in THEIR home. It was wonderful to attend their church and hear their pastors (one T-day and another on Sunday) and worship with them (Nick even played the drums on Thanksgiving!)
I loved spending time with Matty and Lisa DeBoer- it was a great joy to be with them again- it had been since their wedding! Too much time. It was sad to leave that beautiful place and wonderful friend circle and community. But, b/c of planes and air traffic controllers I didn't get in on time to Chicago and go to take Monday off (sub day). So, it was practically a full week off of teaching I had. It just made going back easier b/c I missed my students. I have great learners and fun personalities in my classes.
Andy picked me up from the airport and we made Mac 'n Cheese in the middle of the night on Sunday night/Monday morning. It was great- but he didn't cook the noodles long enough :) We keep learning about the other person. He was great for making it and doing the dishes while I unpacked.
I missed Andy while I was gone. I called him at least once (if not twice or thrice) each day and it was great to be back and see him. We've seen each other every day that we've been in the same city since we started dating. Even if it was/is for just a few minutes.
Andy helped decorated the Christmas tree with my parents yesterday and we wore antlers (as I ususally do, but he didn't last long they "pinched his temples" psh.) it was great. First time for Andy decorating a real tree instead of a false one. The smell is unbeatable. Real tree is the way to go.
Last night after the RCI show I went to Andy's friends' house and played catch phrase with a bunch of fun people. Then Andy and I went to Ricky T's house and watched season 1 of the Office until 2:30 am. I am thankful for Ricky T, Lyz, Andy and our times together at Rick's. We have a great time.
In all the busyness of my parents flying to NM and coming back Wednesday after I left and came back over T-day weekend, we'd been communicating via phone a lot b/c my Grandma Rozeboom wasn't doing so hot. He heart had a tumor and a blood clot- she wasn't eating very much if anything, her breathing was short and pained, and she couldn't sleep but coughed a lot. After two weeks of reciting psalms over her bed, she slipped into a coma and then passed away on Friday night. My grandpa Rozeboom is going to be alone for the first time in the past 67 years. They were about to have their 68th wedding anniversary in the end of December. Please think of them and pray (if you will) for my Grandpa as he faces this new situation. Also pray for my dad and his siblings because even though she had a different way of mothering, she was their mother. Goodbye to my dear "Grandma Toots." (That's what G-pa Roze always called her "Toots" - I don't know why?)
The life cycle is something, isn't it.
My Grandma E, my uncle Dave and My grandma Rozeboom passed away in the past 2 years, but my nephew Simon, my neices Anna and Rachel were born in that same time frame. Now Sue Rozeboom is due (very soon) and my sister Bethany is pregnant again! It truly is a cycle. We all come and go. I suppose this is a reminder to al of us to be present in every moment since we only have this life one time.
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