Here's what I love about my major. Okay, here's ONE of the things I love about my major, and the fact that I'm an undergrad at this particular school: We get to go on field trips!!! No, we did not go to the Fire department and get to see how they make the sirens run (rats). Instead we went to Kentucky's second poorest neighborhood and visited a Church Plant that started three years ago and now has about five different ministries (They are able to do these ministries because they are partnering with SEVERAL churches in the area, many of whom are well-established and, if I may say so, rather wealthy or well-off financially).
It was good to get out of the classroom, especially since the last few days I've been going through the "I hate college I just want to be back on the mission field" phase that hits me at least once every semester - usually somewhere around the 1/4 or 3/4 finished semester mark. Figuring out the 'what kind' and 'when to' of adding ministry to my schedule has been challenging my entire college career, and there have been many occasions when I've hit the point where I think, "Oh hang it all. Lord, just have someone ship me these books to wherever I'm at on the field and I'll read them there. I'm done with school. Can You please just drop a plane ticket into my lap please? Like, right now?" At this point I'm not entirely sure where to, just someplace with a poor people group with an interesting language who are overlooked and in need of a vibrant, dramatic, loves-to-teach personality to tell them about Jesus.
But at the end of all my fantastical musings and plotting and ravings, I realize that God has provided the opportunity for me to grow and learn here - and in so many ways not academically - and it would be bad stewardship to toss the opportunity aside. So I heave a heavy sigh and look at how short the summer break is and how few pennies are in my account and pray I'll be able to go on a short term trip and then buckle back down to being a semi-responsible, semi-grown up student and employee.
*snarl*
In other news, I rediscovered frosted shredded wheat cereal tonight. They had boxes on sale at Kroger and for some very odd reason they looked absolutely delicious. So I bought some. And had two bowls for dinner. Don't worry, I had a big lunch. I have been trying to figure out the very delicate balance of eating healthy yet at the same time eating cheaply. Cheap meaning about $80 per month. Hehe. No I have not yet mastered this fine art yet, but am improving. See the thing is that there is a reason why some brands can charge an extra 5 cents to five dollars than the store brand stuff. The reason is quality. Quality means health and happiness and food that actually tastes like food and not mildly flavored cardboard. If absolutely necessary, I can do flavored cardboard. But 'absolutely necessary' only lasts so long before my immune system starts lodging formal complaints and when they go unheeded makes me suffer from a cold for going on a month now.
Therefore, I have discovered that V8 sells a juice/vegetable blend that is delicious and nutritious. Shredded wheat - same thing. I bought a beef roast almost a month ago for $4 that I hack pieces off of (carefully that is) and when eaten with mashed potatoes is great. Also, eating 3 oranges for breakfast is tasty and a heck of a lot better than those nasty store-brand excuses for bagels with cream cheese. Eggs are a lifesaver. I am trying to be more proactive about eating a very very large spinach salad with carrots and other greens when I'm at work so that I get veggies and don't waste the free meal I get every shift I work.
So yeah. The joys of college budgets and eating habits. NOT that you really wanted to know all of that. However, I felt like writing it. And it's my blog. So there.
Fun news about spring break: we are going on a 'mission trip' for class to the suburbs of Chicago to help a church planting team do research on the various people groups living in that area. I've also had to start thinking about summer plans. There's a really cool Missions Camp for girls that I've been looking at for a while, but also a unique opportunity to go to China with a lady who was there for three years and is now going to Seminary. Its possible to fit both of those in, and visit my family back North, however I'll start the fall semester still trying to catch my breath, and thats how I spent last fall semester. In fact, thats how a lot of the Missions Majors started the last fall semester, and we all repeatedly got together and asked each other, ''why did we do this to ourselves again?" And yet, comparing notes about summer plans, I'm pretty sure we'll all end up doing the same thing again. :-)
Okay, well, I need to head back to my apartment and get some laundry done.
~Princess Ouch~
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