This one time, at Music Camp....

Yeeeeeeeaaaah.

What a fantastic week.

I just got back from my first week of music camp as a FACULTY member. Yeah that's right. The girl who was once caught making out in the bushes as a camper so many years ago has now come back to defend these same bushes. Ha. Oh the good times...especially when I can joke around with the faculty members who caught me. Ha. Who knew? Me. A theory, vocal and Bible teacher.

It was seriously one of the best music camps I've ever been to. The kids were so well behaved, (The senior girls had a party for the junior girls and the senior boys are all such little gentlemen.) the activities were well planned, the guests were amazing, the classes were fun and the Spirit moved. It was just fantastic. Mind you, the weather wasn't the best and I was run ragged morning, noon and night. Nevertheless, the experience was incredible and I will definately be partaking next year. (God Willing)

On the College frontier (I think that's how you spell it) All of my forms have been processed and it's all good. I am set to head out in 9 days. Wow. It's actually happeneing. Messed up. Ha. I'm excited to be filled with everything World Harvest has to offer. Not to mention seeing my pals down there too. Yay Rebecca! Party at your place! With a pool!!! Whoooooo!! Ha.

And as for the love portion......well. We've started looking at rings....I know!!! Rediculous!!!!!! Woah. Like I'm a grown up!! In numbers only I assure you. Oh my.

I am excited to move on. It's gonna be fun.

Out.

Uuuuuupdate.

Hello All!

What's that? I've finally updated???? Yeah. Summer tends to be the busiest of the seasons (excluding Christmas) for me. Especially this year now that I am depending on other people to drive me places. That means planning ahead of time. What's that about?

Well. The time draws nigh to when I will be heading out on my next journey towards independence. I leave for Bible College on the 15th of August. Woah. That's like a month and 2 days away! Messed up. Anywho, I'm real excited to see my American buddies as well as embark on the experience known as Bible college. As an added BONUS I'll get to be only 6 driving hours away from Deborah!! Whoo hoo!

My time at home has consisted, as of late, of finishing all my forms for Bible college, my youth, Josh's youth, Josh time (Ha), going to the gym, playing solitaire and being sick. Seriously. 3 boxes of tissues in one day. Not even right! Fortunately the sickness is almost gone and the forms are almost all sent.

It's been nice to be home for this past month. I really miss all my peeps in Toronto though, especially Debs. And I miss the NGS brand of humor. Oh well. Hopefully I'll be taking a trip in their direction in the fall and Debs will hopefully be visiting with Jess and her hot new car! Whoo!!! Fun times for sure.

That's all for me. Just thought I should keep everyone posted on how it's all going.

Yeah.

I wish everyone I'm friends with could be in the same place. Then I wouldn't have to miss anyone! Everyone come down to World Harvest Bible College In the fall to Visit! Ha!

No seriously. That would be sweet!

Out.

Not a Barrel of laughs...

Ok. Now I'm not one to complain, especially about the magic subject known as food, however today will be my exception. I just payed 30 bucks for a meal and didn't completely finish either of my 3 courses. That is never a good sign for me. Shall we begin.

Starting, I got ruded out by some old ladies. Our waitress (who could barely speak English) sits us right next to the computer that they use to make the bills so we were constantly surrounded by people....it made me nervous.
Course number 1: Calimari with chipotlé sauce. The crispy coating was too salty, the lettuce it was served on was old and soggy and the calimari was so tough and tasteless it was like eating erasers. However, the chipotle sauce was devine.
Course number 2: A texas style steak sandwhich. How could that possibly be bad?? Well, I'll tell you. The steak was overcooked, burnt and tasteless, there was no sauce on the bun (although there was supposed to be), the "coleslaw" was merely more sgredded soggy lettuce and I could count the fries on two hands I'm sure. The redeeming quality was the mushrooms and the slice of pickle. Delish, however, not enough to redeem the meal.
Course number 3: Fresh strawberry cheesecake. Again, I ask how could it be bad?? Well, It was the best course of the three. The cheesecake was good, the crust was tasty and the strawberries were fresh....BUT! It was covered in a very artificial tasting cherry sauce. YUCK! I hate cherries! Oh well. At least It was a good cheesecake.

So, arg. I'm not a food critic but today's meal was sub-par. Oh well, I still thank God that I have food in my belly. Heck for 30 bucks I would have eaten the plate.

Ha. Out.

Hot Mom.

Ok. I've come to the conclusion that parenting is the best work out of them all.

Hopefully anyone that still reads this knows me well enough to know that I don't have kids. BUT I have been spending alot of time with a certain pair of Snow kids and believe me, they could give any gym a run for their money. I mean, I'm getting a full body work out!

Arms: Holding and rocking a 15 pound baby for 2 hours. Playing "backflips" with a 3 year old. Doing curls with a 3 year old. Ok...that one was kinda obvious.

Back: *see holding 15 pound baby. Lifting both babies and toddlers when they say "uppies" or "huggies" or some variation of the words "up" or "hug". Feeding a very hungry baby. The balancing makes for fun back cramps!

Abs: *see playing backflips with 3 year old. The state of constant cringing around 3 year old kicking toddlers...all your muscles are tensed.

Legs: Bouncing a fussy baby, both on lap and standing up. Playing soccer and other running sports/games with any age kid. Honestly....the energy! WHACKY!! Lifting kids with my legs to get them to go to bed....you know, when they attatch themselves to you?

There you have it. The best work out regime imaginable. Plus, it's all worth it when they're asleep. Or their parents come home. haha. But come on...with that work out, how could I possibly NOT be a hot mom??

Oh my. The rants. At least I updated!

Whew........

16 hours on a bus...and worth every second of it.

Ahhhhh.....here I sit. Sick and exhausted. Yet strangely satisfied. Why, you ask? Because the good ol' WHBC has got me singing it's praises once again.

That's right, I have once again returned (safely might I add) from one of my favourite places at the moment, Canal Winchester, Ohio. And this time was even better than the last!

I'm not going to go into extnsive details or anything, I am completele worn out, but I will say that I have no doubts that I am called to go to that Bible College. I love everything about it down there! And most importantly to me, I love the people so much. I've only known them all for about a total of 3 weeks and I still managed to find myself crying because I'll miss them all. Although it could have been because I was leaving Joshua again....but I'm sure it was a combination of the two.

I will put a special shout out there to Rebecca, who was gracious enough to open her whole life to me for the past 6 days. I even got to sleep in her awesome bed! I'll miss you the most Rebecca. "Lesley?? Where are you? This is rediculous!!" hahaha...no worries the midol is all gone and I'm real glad Cam still hasn't figured out what it is.

Not to worry boys, I haven't forgotten you. Andrew, Adam and Cam especially. You guys are my bros of all bros.

And last but certainly not least, my Joshy. Yay! I'm coming home in June! Too bad you had to find out like you did, but hey now you have lots of time to buy me gifts for the airport. Hahaha. You know I love you...even if my note was crap. Lol.

Now I go on a 3 and a half month hiatus from the college but I know that it's gonna be even better next year. I wonder who I'll room with? Hmmmmm?

Out.

P.S.-> "Junk!" HA! Gets me every time. Totally love that kid. (In a plutonic way Joshua! ;)

A little taste of the Harvest.

Hey hey.

I'm back and freshly basted with a little american sauce. Haha. For real. Debs says that I have an accent already...oh me and my adaptibility.

So, this past weekend I had the priveledge of travelling south of the border to a little town called Canal Winchester and a little (totally not little in the least) place called World Harvest Bible College. It's a non-denominational bible college based out of Columbus, Ohio and it just happens to be where my boyfriend currently attends school. I went down there for college days and I ended up getting alot more out of it than I expected.

For starters, does anyone ever watch Smallville? Seriously, that's what the place looks like. It's in the middle of all these wheat and corn fields and it's so green and beautiful. The weather was great as well. The campus is simple and quaint, 3 buildings. The dorms are great. OH!! Super cool fact. The girl's dorms are in...you ready for this? CUNNINGHAM hall. Yeah that's right. SO meant to go there. Everytime I told people my last name they thought I was making a joke. And the crown jewel of the place was definately World Harvest church. The place is MASSIVE!!! And it's so beautiful! The entire background of the stage is covered in a hugs black sheet with lights on it so it resembles the night sky. Gorgeous. There's also the cafiteria which is covered completely in windows (called the mac) and a k-12 school called Harvest Preporatory School...maybe God's taking me there to be a teacher after all...hmmm? And my favourite part is the Breakthrough Ministries. It helps aids orphans and has freed over 20,000 child slaves in Zambia. Praise God!

The services are amazing as well. So much passion and energy!! And absolutely no bull! 100% bull free! (and I don't mean the animal) I love the Church's pastor, Pastor Rod Parsley. I like to think that I have been blessed with the gift of discernment (when it comes to pastors anyways) and I don't always like every speaker I see or hear, even if I like what they say. But pastor Parsley has a real love surrounding him. Did you know he's written 65 books?? At least it's somewhere close to that. He's so in tuned to God and he is just a cool guy. And he's huge! I wouldn't mess with him!! There's alot of church in a week there. 4 services. 2 sunday and then chapel on Monday and Thursday. And it's not boring church( as bad as it sounds...sometimes I can't help but snooze in a sevice). It's so great! The chapel band and choir are awesome and the songs that they do are just so spirit-pumping. There's not always a sermon, sometimes the sprit just moves and we end up worshipping for hours...seriously the time flies. But all in all it's good stuff.

Then there are the people. Seeing Joshua, of course, was fantastic. He's grown up so much from when he moved there. He was such a boy and now he's growing into a man. It's pretty crazy. And I wish to state, for the record, that he is currently in his new prime(looks wise). His old prime happened before we dated and I was always kind of sad that I missed it, but now...oh he's so passed it. He looks GOOD! Ha. And all of his friends are amazing! I was really scared I wasn't going to like them, but I really do! Every single one of them. I will give a special shout out to 3 lovely ladies. Natalya and Jenn who allowed me to spend my time there as their roommate and Rebecca, who quickly befriended me and gave me more mints then I could count. Haha! Seriously though...I'm addicted! I need more!! Everyone I met were super nice. Especially the guys that we hung around with for the most part. Which were pretty much the guys from the band Josh is in. (Oh! and Chris and Wes and Jacob!) Yeah. That's right! Josh is in a band! A good one too! They have gigs and everything!! they have a my space if anyone's interested. www.myspace.com/themissionband Check them out. they're really good. I got to video tape them one evening...and do an impromptu photo shoot of the 3 guitarists.

So yeah. That's that. I'll be going there in the fall and that will take 2 years. Oh praise God. I finally know what I'm doing. Yessssssssss. Nice. Well, hope you enjoyed my rant!

Out.

What do I want??

I want to lock myself in a room for a week and go a little crazy.
I want to get so unbelievably passionate about something that I tear at my hair and jump around when I even think about it.
I want to paint and sculpt and draw and carve and do any kind of art I can find.
I want to mix colors wildly on a page in a burst of feeling and momentum.
I want to lie back and contemplate the stars and just how little we really are.
I want to jump into the ocean without being scared of how cold it is.
I want to taste gelato at some point in my life.
I want to be able to just pick up and go if I feel like it.
I want to learn as many different languages as possible and use them all eventually.
I want to crack open a book and not be able to put it down until it’s finished.
I want to write an opera.
I want to learn to play the cello.
I want to take a train right across Canada and not worry about food, clothing or money.
I want to wash my hair in a river.
I want to lie down in the rain and leave my body print on the dry ground under me.
I want a trampoline.
I want to skydive and not have any apprehension of the ground beneath me.
I want to walk down the street and not care if anyone notices me.
I want to watch a sunset in absolute silence.
I want to listen to music so sweet and real that it makes my body move with it.
I want to venture into a virgin wood and close my eyes and breathe everything in.
I want to see an ice covered pond with no ripples.
I want to learn how to blow glass.
I want to dye my hair blond again someday.
I want to laugh so hard that I can’t breathe and tears roll down my face.
I want to experience the rush of touching the skin of someone I love.
I want to get caught up in a romantic moment and not think about what comes next.
I want to learn to play guitar better than I do now.
I want to dance and dance and dance!
I want to meet as many new people in my life as I can.
I want to have the God-given ability to heal and not be prideful of it.
I want to scream and bang my head and punch things sometimes.
I want to learn to box.
I want to make a movie.
I want to buy a really great camera soon.
I want to have at least 4 children.
I want to be able to go south for the winter because I don’t like being cold.
I want to wear flip-flops or bear feet all the time.
I want to wear a toga.
I want to experience the 40’s for a day.
I want to be in a musical again.
I want to cover my entire room in photos.
I want to make a quilt.
I want to have a really, really great cup of coffee for once in my life.
I want the ability to go back and watch my life like a movie.
I want a second chance to say goodbye to my father.
I want people to love people, regardless.
I want to tell my friends I love them and not weird them out.
I want to take home every orphan from every home, war-torn or disease ridden place in the world and then take all of the abandoned animals and give each orphan a pet or two.
I want never have to experience a migraine again.
I want to get a job that I can’t wait to go to.
I want another shot at company 150.
I want community in East Toronto Church.
I want to eat every food in the world at least once in my life.
I want to have the ability to be alone.
I want to be able to do a back flip.
I want get baptized in the Jordan River.
I want everyone in this world to recognize God as their father.

Hmmm...yeah.

That's what I want.

No compromises.

Sunday Sweetness.

Yesterday was one of the best days I've had in a long time.

I love people. I don't care what my stupid Gap review says. I love them and I love to meet new ones...or at least reunite with one's I haven't seen in a while. It was a good day.

Hope you all had a good one too.

P.S.- 614 is money.

Out.