Friday, September 10, 2010

The Joys of Life

So I have kind of been ill this past week or so, so I have had a lot of time to just think and do nothing else. For busy people like me who do not get much time to do this, I would actually recommend getting sick just to have thinking time, because if you are truly busy then there is really no other way for thinking time to happen :P True story, lol :)

So basically my mind has been racing about two different things:

1) Joy (specifically related to God)

AND

2) Soccer

Ok, so after that second one anyone reading this is gonna think I’m half crazy to actually spend my valuable time giving a lot of thought into the subject of soccer. But then again, I guess it could be the same for the first thing, depending on who you are and what your personal beliefs are. So basically I am not bothered how you judge be based on what I spend my time thinking about :P :)

So I’ll start off with my first topic. Joy is a very interesting thing. I have observed that teenagers in particular are very specific in what they find joy in. For the majority of all teenagers they either find joy in many, many little and big things, or they find joy in barely anything. I have also observed that adults are not the same as teenagers when it comes to finding joy in things. Of course I am being very stereotypical here; however, in general, adults to not find joy in as many things as that joy filled teenager, but they also find more joy than the teenager that finds joy in practically nothing. I think this is because adults have lived a longer life and had more experiences than teenagers in general. And also, new thing are often the things that bring us the most joy. I may be sounding very confusing, but this is a confusing topic which is why I have spent so much time thinking about it in the first place.

So basically everyone has at least one joy in their life that they literally could not live without. After a lot of though, I have come to realize that God is the number one joy in my life, and I definitely could not live without Him. I mean I do have many other joys in my life, like my cat Mutlu, my books, soccer, running, other sports, music, writing, my amazing best friend :) and my pretty cool boyfriend :) and lots of other things. But honestly I would not have a single one of those things if it were not for God. I mean I may still have them, but either they would be different or for different reasons, and it would not be the same joy. And it makes me so happy that no matter what my situation is, I can find joy in God :)

So my second topic, soccer :D So basically I have been totally psyched about soccer recently. Soccer season is not until spring, but I am so anxious to play soccer, plus I get to play soccer on the AYSL league at the base in about a month, but sadly it might be my last season on the AYSL league cuz I’m getting to old xP But either way I totally cannot wait to play soccer!!! :D The only things I am really worried about are: who are goalie is going to be, and also I am more anxious about who is gonna take Nani’s place as striker, cuz she is awesome but it totally stinks that she’s not going to OIS this year :( We need someone with good aim and that is super fast……. I can’t think of anyone :P Oh well, it’ll all work out and I totally cannot wait to play GCM & IGA this year and hopefully win at least a few games!! :D

Friday, September 3, 2010

Olive Grove

So Olive Grove has actually been over for quite a long while now. I saved this post as a draft a while ago, and even after I finished it I kinda forgot to post it :P So here it is:

We came back on July 4th at 7am. So now I will explain about my OG experience with several pictures:

FIRST WEEK:

P6190004 ^^Serra is extremely happy that I kept her ‘Official Camper’s Photographer’ sign :D

P6190027^^Our group for the first week, the Wild Women :)

P6200041  ^^Bible Study at the beach

P6210079^^Naomi & Konnar – so sweet :) <3

P6210080^^Serra’s Drum Set (Carissa, Naomi, and Mason)

P6230113^^Tye-Dye

P6230121^^Molly is taller!!!!! hahahahaha xD

348734-jamie^^Are Jamie and Jamie cute, or what??

P6230130^^At the Eternal Flames

P6240138^^Dance Elective

P6240144^^Serra’s doing :P :)

P6240180 ^^Cassidy & Me

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^^What happens when you give a bunch of highschoolers markers

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^^I love my brother very much :) <3

34545-tori^^Um, Tommy? Is there something you would like to share with us?? lol xD

34275-jamie^^Station during Bonkers

P6250221^^The Bonkers!!

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^^We took pictures of each other taking pictures :)

P6250233^^I have noticed that people seem to go a little crazy on the last day of camp (*cough cough* *Josh* *cough*)

34074-ben^^(Left to Right) Josh, Ashley, Troy, Carissa, Aaron, Naomi, Ben, and Alexis.

33406-tori^^Those crazy High School Girls!! lol :)

SECOND WEEK:

P6260275^^Carissa & Suzan

P6260277^^Cassidy & Natalie (my awesome roomies :D) 

P6260296 ^^Leila the Dinosaur, scary, isn’t she?? scary awesome!

P6260297^^lol xD Leila and Serra

343769-tori  ^^Ashley & Cassidy

P6270313 ^^Boat Trip!

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P6270362^^(Left to Right) Leila, Caroline, Lizi, and Tori.

P6270352^^Carissa & Molly

P6270406^^Luke & Me :)

P6270410   ^^Cassidy, Luke, and Me :)

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^^Luke falling off the boat….. lol :)

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^^Luke and Me again :)

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^^And again :)

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^^Luke, Me, and Cassidy

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^^My Rockin’ Roomies from the First Week :) <3

(Me, Carissa, Allison, Molly)

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^^Freshman and Sophomores!! :)

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Ownage :)

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^^The People Getting Baptised (Left to Right) Ashley, Katie, Suzan, Talya, Anna-Kate, Paulus, and Joe.

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^^The Amazing View

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^^Roman the Gnarly Narwhal

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^^The Drama Group :)

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^^Leila’s Frog – George

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^^Joe “the Nerd,” attempting to hide from Josh, Konnar and Noah

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^^My Coolio Roomies Ready for the Par-tey :)

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^^Molly in all her Cuteness  :)

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^^A Bunch of highschoolers that stayed up all night on the last day of camp (I did it but I’m not in this picture)

And that concludes my two weeks of camp :) It was fun, have lot of memories, and have great friends :) My Favorite Quote of the Week:

“I wonder what altitude we are at…."

-Cassidy Stecklein

(Note: This was stated when we were on the boat trip, on the boat.)