magic mountain

well i believe my last post was almost a week ago. it's probably time to change that. well wednesday and thursday were normal days nothing super duper exciting. i don't think there was anything super exciting on friday either. i had to close at work that day though. that stunk especially since we had to be at the church at 7 the next day. saturday we went to six flags magic mountain. it was alot of fun and also very scary. those rides are so intense! there was only one that i didn't get on, i have been on it before and i didn't like it. they have a new ride called tatsu that's really cool. you basicly ride on your stomach, the whole ride you fly like superman. it's fun. we ended up staying until the park closed. i slept on the two hour drive home but we didn't get home until 2am. it was very late. we all had church in the morning too. we went to church and smacked each other when one of us fell asleep. afterwards i had play practice. today was the read through so we all just sat there for the first day. i also had to close at work last night and now i'm at school. as you can imagine, i'm a little tired. the excitement for the day yesterday was that my cousin had her baby. her name is iris aurora! i'm so happy for tamsin! yay! my first cousin to have a baby! also, after church alex came and talked to my dad. he wanted to get my dad's blessing to date me before we went official and everything. it went alot better than i thought. i thought it would be really awkward and everything but it wasn't. mostly it was just my dad being really really nervous. haha. well, until next time...

swing dancing

well its been yet another week. this weekend was pretty cool. me, alex, lauren, janae, carissa, and katrina went swing dancing on friday. it was alot of fun except for the fact that none of us remembered how to swing dance. it didn't end up lasting very long because of it. we ended up going out to denny's afterwards which was really yummy. we ended up getting home at like 2 or 3am. it was pretty late. i had to work on saturday too, i was pretty tired. sunday was good. i went over to andrew's house. we watched the chargers vs bears game. it was actually a good game, i was suprised that the chargers could beat somebody especially the bears. weird. it was fun though becuase we were all rooting for different teams and it was getting crazy as always. irma made some really good bbq too! i ate so much! i was really full and sick. then i drove home and my mom had dinner waiting for me so i had to eat again! it was crazy, i haven't been that full since thanksgiving! i had to go to work all full like that too. at least i wasn't hungry so i didn't eat any more of the pastries. school on monday was decent, nothing super exciting. i was really tired in biology though and i kept falling asleep. i felt kinda bad but if that teacher would stop being so monotone we wouldn't be falling asleep. i closed the store last night too, so now i'm at school really tired. i don't really like wednesdays anymore because they're so long. i have school all day and then i have church right after. i have to open in the morning too! so after church tonight i gotta go straight to bed since i have to be at the store at 4am! well i'm still very tired and i have about an hour and a half till i have my class but that's ok. anyways, have a great week everyone!

questions about russia

well i have been sick with a flu for about two or three days now. it's not cool. i hate when i can't eat! i called out of work on sunday so i didn't want to call out again last night. i felt too bad about bailing on everybody on sunday. i still feel like crap but its a little bit better than it was. so that's good. they went easy on me at work and let me take longer breaks since they knew i was still sick. alex knew i was still sick so he called me at work. i was way busy though so i wasn't paying attention. i felt bad. then i went to break and brandy called me out saying there was some guy waiting for me. so i went out there all weirded out wondering who would be there. dude, alex came and bought me a flower to make me feel better. how did i get a good christian guy, i will never know, but i'm glad i did. God has truely blessed me even in my stupidity. i don't deserve any of this. i screwed up and still he allows me to have this relationship. He is truely amazing and i owe Him big time! in other news, i had been very seriously wondering about if i should go or not. i didn't tell any of my friends about my concerns but just prayed about it. then i went and talked to three diff friends and said pray and have God say yes or no and give me a verse. they all said yes and the verse was go into all the world and preach the gospel. that sounds like i'm supposed to go back to russia, don't you think? i'm excited! i'm going back to my other home!

beach baptism

well sunday was our church's annual baptism. it was alot of fun. after church we all went down to oceanside and had a bbq and hung out. then we had the actual baptism and lauren got baptised! it was awsome! layne, our youth leader took us out on his boat too. that was tons of fun! we went out into the ocean and then he just told us to jump out of the boat. so we got to go swimming way out there. that was cool. we also had a bonfire and did worship and smores too! yummy! i'll post pictures from it later when i get them from my dad. yesterday was labor day, so we all had school and work off. me, lauren, janae, and alex all went to bj's for some of that famous pazzookie! (its a giant doughy cookie with ice cream on top) then we went and saw superbad over in murrieta. it was superbad but it was funny too. so that was fun, it was just some nice time of hanging out. sometimes that's exactly what we need. i also went to another storms game last night. that was fun. the storms won, yay! anyways, i still have to do my homework for tomorrow. have a great week!