As any other college student, I sat down to begin truly focusing on writing my papers. Unlike those other college students, I am lame- working on them during Spring Break, weeks before they're due.
I open my saved articles, the quotes I want to use and what I have so far (about 1/5th of a page of lousy ideas). As well as two of the most useful websites ever made:
www.citationmachine.net
wwww.dictionary.com
You might (correctly) guess that I am in the process of writing 3 research papers, a series of 4 developmental newsletters, an assessment summary/reflection, a summary/reflection on my field study and a portfolio. Oh, and a thank you letter. (recieved the letter in the mail today saying I got another scholarships!!!!)
I love school this semester (- one class). I've been telling myself that if I could only make it to Spring Break, I could finish the semester. Well, it's here. And I'm still alive, so I guess I'll have to finish this semester... :)
Gah, I'm such a boring person! School is the only thing I find myself talking about and I know people must get bored of it. Oh well, I'll be graduated in 13 1/2 months and then I won't have to talk about it anymore. :-D 13 1/2 months??!? I, Rachel Nilson, will have a Bachelors in Child Development! how crazy... tear, tear, I'm growing up so fast!
Thursday, March 18, 2010
Monday, March 8, 2010
Hebrews 11:7
-[Prompted] by faith Noah, being forewarned by God concerning events of which as yet there was no visible sign, took heed and diligently and reverently constructed and prepared an ark for the deliverance of his own family. By this [his faith which relied on God] he passed judgment and sentence on the world's unbelief and became an heir and possessor of righteousness (that relation of being right into which God puts the person who has faith).
-By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
-By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
I believe God has forewarned me concerning events of which there is no visible sign. He has given me a love for children who are unloved. I believe God has placed me where I am to prepare me for my invisible future. As much as I want to move on with the next phase of my life, I must focus on this semester. I don't know where or what He will have me to, but I do believe He has a grand plan for my life involving the orphans within the foster care system. I have a burning desire to make a difference in the life of these children. I can hardly wait to see this new, beautiful, exciting future! The flood will certainly come and it will definitely be challanging, but to see the rainbow in the eyes of even one child will be worth the trials.
God is amazing! He will help me through whatever hardships my future may hold. All He asks is for my complete faith and obedience.
-By faith Noah, being warned by God about things not yet seen, in reverence prepared an ark for the salvation of his household, by which he condemned the world, and became an heir of the righteousness which is according to faith.
-By faith Noah, being warned by God of things not yet seen, moved with fear, prepared an ark for the saving of his house, by which he condemned the world and became heir of the righteousness which is by faith.
I believe God has forewarned me concerning events of which there is no visible sign. He has given me a love for children who are unloved. I believe God has placed me where I am to prepare me for my invisible future. As much as I want to move on with the next phase of my life, I must focus on this semester. I don't know where or what He will have me to, but I do believe He has a grand plan for my life involving the orphans within the foster care system. I have a burning desire to make a difference in the life of these children. I can hardly wait to see this new, beautiful, exciting future! The flood will certainly come and it will definitely be challanging, but to see the rainbow in the eyes of even one child will be worth the trials.
God is amazing! He will help me through whatever hardships my future may hold. All He asks is for my complete faith and obedience.
Thursday, February 4, 2010
babies
Isn't this the cutest? makes me want a baby... one of my professors should it to us in class last week and i thinks its adorable!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=txqiwrbYGrs
^this little guy is hilarious!^
just 9.5 inches and under 10 ounces
now i really do have a valid reason for thinking about babies.. honestly! with babies pretty much everything in school, and school being my life.. i really don't have a choice not to think about them. :) sigh, i love babies! you would be proud to know that i have graduated from virtual children to real children. now i get to play and hang out with living, breathing kids!!
Thursday, January 21, 2010
I..
-got to hold Baby Shiloh!!
-have yet to find a field study location.
-am very soon to be overwhelmed with school.
-finally bought a laptop case.
-love said laptop.
-have to get to school by 8:30 to get a parking spot. classes don't start til 10 or 12.
-am excited for one friend who is recently engaged and another who will be soon!
-love my mom.
-kinda wish my jeans didn't have holes.
-should be working on school.
-don't believe in school after 9 p.m.
-have a class which ends at 10:15... p.m.
-got many beautiful earings for Christmas. (love earings!)
-get to see someone tomorrow!
-should be in bed.
-have yet to find a field study location.
-am very soon to be overwhelmed with school.
-finally bought a laptop case.
-love said laptop.
-have to get to school by 8:30 to get a parking spot. classes don't start til 10 or 12.
-am excited for one friend who is recently engaged and another who will be soon!
-love my mom.
-kinda wish my jeans didn't have holes.
-should be working on school.
-don't believe in school after 9 p.m.
-have a class which ends at 10:15... p.m.
-got many beautiful earings for Christmas. (love earings!)
-get to see someone tomorrow!
-should be in bed.
Wednesday, December 30, 2009
December
-School: After accepting the fact that I may get a B or two, I was surprised to get get back to my normal all A semester!! next semester starts on January 11th and I am so close to being excited about it! I'm taking five classes (Infancy field study, Developmental Assessment, Teaching Individuals with Disabilities, Language Development and Emergent Lit, and Current Issues within the Family) plus band for a total of 16 hours. This will be a challange as last semester was my busiest to date with only 14 hours.
-Uncool: After much debate and research, I decided to pay my speeding ticket. I may have won had I gone to court, but... it's done and I'd rather not think about it. :)
-Shopping: becomes boring after working in a mall.
-New Job: So I have worked at the Picture People for about 4 weeks now. Everyone says I'm their favorite new person and would like me to stay on after the holiday season. For the most part I sign people in, edit pictures, sell to the customer, take their money, and print the pictures. However the other night I got to take the pictures!!! for training purposes, we give a free sheet to anyone who will let us practice on them. So this lady not only got her free sheet, but she also bought 3 extra sheets! :-)
-Birthday: 3 months and 3 days until I turn 21! :-D
-New Laptop: finally arrived the day after my last final. At least once a day I will go into my room to find someone on _my_ bed, using _my_ laptop. oh well.. I guess I can live with that for a while.
-Holiday Break: makes me miss people! for whatever reason, I hardly ever see anyone- from church and school- during any type of break. this makes me incredibly sad.
-Going North?: stupid us, right? my cousin is getting married January 1st in Nebraska so we're going up there for a few days in the dead of winter. Weather.com says the high is supposed to be 18 all weekend. :-/
-Someone: I miss someone incredibly much. it's been too long since seeing this person and it will be even longer yet as we're leaving Thursday morning. sigh..
-Posts: maybe one day soon i'll actually have something important to say!
-Uncool: After much debate and research, I decided to pay my speeding ticket. I may have won had I gone to court, but... it's done and I'd rather not think about it. :)
-Shopping: becomes boring after working in a mall.
-New Job: So I have worked at the Picture People for about 4 weeks now. Everyone says I'm their favorite new person and would like me to stay on after the holiday season. For the most part I sign people in, edit pictures, sell to the customer, take their money, and print the pictures. However the other night I got to take the pictures!!! for training purposes, we give a free sheet to anyone who will let us practice on them. So this lady not only got her free sheet, but she also bought 3 extra sheets! :-)
-Birthday: 3 months and 3 days until I turn 21! :-D
-New Laptop: finally arrived the day after my last final. At least once a day I will go into my room to find someone on _my_ bed, using _my_ laptop. oh well.. I guess I can live with that for a while.
-Holiday Break: makes me miss people! for whatever reason, I hardly ever see anyone- from church and school- during any type of break. this makes me incredibly sad.
-Going North?: stupid us, right? my cousin is getting married January 1st in Nebraska so we're going up there for a few days in the dead of winter. Weather.com says the high is supposed to be 18 all weekend. :-/
-Someone: I miss someone incredibly much. it's been too long since seeing this person and it will be even longer yet as we're leaving Thursday morning. sigh..
-Posts: maybe one day soon i'll actually have something important to say!
Tuesday, November 24, 2009
November
-School: two assignments and two tests. two springs, two summers, one fall. graduation.
-Uncool: first speeding ticket. in the process of deciding whether to pay, knowing I was not going that fast, or going to court. two days later, a parking ticket. needless to say, I wanted to quit driving for a while.
-Shopping: fun with money. theraputic. necessary.
-Braces: should be coming off in March! orthodontist appointment next week.
-New Job: at a portrait studio!!!!! thank the Lord! for the month of December only, then back to school and daycare.
-Nail polish: lost. :-/
-Music: love the Philharmonic! Straight No Chaser's Christmas Can Can is hilarious! would love to see the Trans-Syberian Orchestra.
-Next Semester: in band at UCO!!
-Birthday: party decided. polka dancing in Yukon. everyone is invited. (never too early to start planning)
-Thanksgiving: in two days.
-Christmas: 30 days.
-Black Friday: new laptop!
-Officially Unofficial: my secret. :-)
-Life: grand. :-D
-Uncool: first speeding ticket. in the process of deciding whether to pay, knowing I was not going that fast, or going to court. two days later, a parking ticket. needless to say, I wanted to quit driving for a while.
-Shopping: fun with money. theraputic. necessary.
-Braces: should be coming off in March! orthodontist appointment next week.
-New Job: at a portrait studio!!!!! thank the Lord! for the month of December only, then back to school and daycare.
-Nail polish: lost. :-/
-Music: love the Philharmonic! Straight No Chaser's Christmas Can Can is hilarious! would love to see the Trans-Syberian Orchestra.
-Next Semester: in band at UCO!!
-Birthday: party decided. polka dancing in Yukon. everyone is invited. (never too early to start planning)
-Thanksgiving: in two days.
-Christmas: 30 days.
-Black Friday: new laptop!
-Officially Unofficial: my secret. :-)
-Life: grand. :-D
Tuesday, October 6, 2009
Cru
Campus Crusade for Christ Fall Retreat 2009
I decided to go last minute- my sister said I'd never make friends if I didn't. So I did.
I arrive at the carpool meeting place knowning only faces. I knew probably a grand total of 2 or 3 names. We loaded in several cars and began our trip to Miami, OK. Amber, Trisha and I rode in Ryan's car. Pretty soon we girls started talking and I'm pretty sure Ryan was hoping we'd stop sometime before we arrived. :-D We finally arrived, unloaded and joined the others for the first meeting of the retreat. The students were divided into school- OU, OSU, and UCO/other. The speaker was good, not deep teaching, but good none the less. That evening we had "campus time" (ice breakers and prayer with our school), a camp fire and kreoke. Man, some of the "singers" were completely aweful! Being too tired to mingle, I started talking to a girl from UCO, Rachel. Sweet girl- in fact, all of the UCO girls are just the nicest girls! The cabins had a large room with 4 bunkbeds and a smaller room with 2 for a total of 12 girls in a suite thing. Trisha, Amber and Bo Mi shared the smaller room with me. The next morning, after an early breakfast and meeting, we were to have a 45 minute quiet time. Right before we were let out for our quiet time, I had been sitting by Bo Mi (a Korean girl here for a while) and we walked out together. Even though I desperately wanted to be alone right then, she was talking to me and I guess didn't realize we were supposed to be alone. She then started asking questions about praying and God and other stuff. So I answered her questions the best I could. She was not a Christian and didn't understand all of it. A few hours later, we had breakout sessions and she eagerly went to the one teaching about the Bible. Fast forward a few more hours, after dinner and the evening meal, we sat in our room and she began asking questions once again. This time Amber and Trisha were also there. We ended up talking about God for 4 1/2 hours!! (there was a barn dance which I wanted to attend, but felt God's presence in our room) Several times she would stop and think really hard about what one of us had just said. I really believe God was working on her heart. I didn't stop praying as we spoke. This was so exciting!
As far as I know, Bo Mi has not accepted Christ as Savior... yet. But through this experience, God has given me a desire to know Him more, to be prepare to give an answer for my faith, and to really live the way Christ lived. I loved the fellowship of the weekend- it was so nice to spend time with believers! Over the past few weeks in our Wednesday night class at church, Mr. Boyd has been talking about what it means to be a witness. So when he asked for a testimony, I was able to talk about my experience. After class I was again reminded how wonderful it is to talk and encourage others in Christ.
God is awesome!!!
I decided to go last minute- my sister said I'd never make friends if I didn't. So I did.
I arrive at the carpool meeting place knowning only faces. I knew probably a grand total of 2 or 3 names. We loaded in several cars and began our trip to Miami, OK. Amber, Trisha and I rode in Ryan's car. Pretty soon we girls started talking and I'm pretty sure Ryan was hoping we'd stop sometime before we arrived. :-D We finally arrived, unloaded and joined the others for the first meeting of the retreat. The students were divided into school- OU, OSU, and UCO/other. The speaker was good, not deep teaching, but good none the less. That evening we had "campus time" (ice breakers and prayer with our school), a camp fire and kreoke. Man, some of the "singers" were completely aweful! Being too tired to mingle, I started talking to a girl from UCO, Rachel. Sweet girl- in fact, all of the UCO girls are just the nicest girls! The cabins had a large room with 4 bunkbeds and a smaller room with 2 for a total of 12 girls in a suite thing. Trisha, Amber and Bo Mi shared the smaller room with me. The next morning, after an early breakfast and meeting, we were to have a 45 minute quiet time. Right before we were let out for our quiet time, I had been sitting by Bo Mi (a Korean girl here for a while) and we walked out together. Even though I desperately wanted to be alone right then, she was talking to me and I guess didn't realize we were supposed to be alone. She then started asking questions about praying and God and other stuff. So I answered her questions the best I could. She was not a Christian and didn't understand all of it. A few hours later, we had breakout sessions and she eagerly went to the one teaching about the Bible. Fast forward a few more hours, after dinner and the evening meal, we sat in our room and she began asking questions once again. This time Amber and Trisha were also there. We ended up talking about God for 4 1/2 hours!! (there was a barn dance which I wanted to attend, but felt God's presence in our room) Several times she would stop and think really hard about what one of us had just said. I really believe God was working on her heart. I didn't stop praying as we spoke. This was so exciting!
As far as I know, Bo Mi has not accepted Christ as Savior... yet. But through this experience, God has given me a desire to know Him more, to be prepare to give an answer for my faith, and to really live the way Christ lived. I loved the fellowship of the weekend- it was so nice to spend time with believers! Over the past few weeks in our Wednesday night class at church, Mr. Boyd has been talking about what it means to be a witness. So when he asked for a testimony, I was able to talk about my experience. After class I was again reminded how wonderful it is to talk and encourage others in Christ.
God is awesome!!!
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