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Name: Katie
State: Michigan
Birthday: 8/5/1984
Gender: Female
Interests: I love soccer, music, my mom and my best friend (who also happens to be my brother), Calvin College, missions, South Africa, England, Ireland and well lets be honest I love the rest of the International scene too. But I love Jesus the most and lets be honest what is more importent than that?
Occupation: Student
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AIM:  BeatleM02
Member Since:
10/25/2004
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| So 6 months later and I doubt anybody will even read this because I have fallen of the face of the xanga earth, but whatever. I went downtown today with my mom to see the Gerald R. Ford memorials because it is history in the making. I had gone on Saturday, but wanted to see it again and I remembered my camera this time. My mom and I are both history nerds so it was pretty cool. Plus as we were walking back up Pearl street to catch the bus (bonus it was my moms first time on the RAPID) we saw fighter jets practicing for tomorrow's ceremony which will include a fly over with missing man formation. This formation is seldom used becuase it is reserved for those who are high up in the chain so on top of lookng cool it is rare to see. What happens is there are several pairs of jets that will fly in line two by two becuase you always have a wing man. The last group comes in just like everybody else, but than the one on the starboard side takes off straight up in the air towards the heavens to symbolize the missing man going to heaven. The only time I seen it before was on TV for President Reagan's funeral a couple of years ago. | | |
| So in less than two weeks I will be in Europe with my brother, and that is neat. In the mean time I have worked third shift at dispatch for the past few days and I have completely lost concept of what day it is. The shifts have been pretty good other than having days mixed up because all I do is plan the Europe trip and watch the TV show American Dreams on DVD (only season 1 is out which means I am one episode away from running out of more episodes, this saddens me). I am staying in Heritage Hill area in the city with some friends for two weeks, and it is freaking sweet. I love the city and living in it rocks, I feel more at home in this house than I did all year in the house up the beltline. I ride my bike and walk everywhere and have only had to drive to get to work becuase of the lat hours. I am stoked that I get to live in the city next year too, I just don't know where that is exactly but as long as its the city I am fine. Well thats all I got, back to trying to stay awake. | | |
| So I am officially a Calvin College Alumni. Today was pretty cool and freaking wierd all at the same time. Senior breakfast was good beacuse I got to sit with firends and start the day with free food. Then I had to go home and dress up for graduation, thats right folks I actually put on a skirt. The best part about this day were the people who came to my graduation. My aunt and uncle had planned on coming, but because my Nana died earlier this week and the funeral was yesterday they had to stay in Kalamazoo with my Papa.
Becuase of this I had two extra tickets along with the tickets my mom and brother used. Last night after I got back from the funeral and graduation practice I went to see some of my students dance in a new program they are in (PS they did awesome) and hung out with them afterwards. One of them, Jackie, asked about graduation and asked if she could go. So I picked her up at 1pm and my Mom met up with her so she and her 10 month old Aamiyah could sit with my Mom and brother. It was so cool that Jackie wanted to go becuase hopefully she has another reminder that she can do this too in several years time, and it was cool to have one of my students there with my mom and brother because along with my family they are the reason I actually put work into my classes here at Calvin and the way I see it they are really a part of my family. Plus Aamiyah is the cutest kid ever and she is always fun to play with, and I think Jackie actually liked it instead of being bored for 2 hours. Then I got to hang out with my family downtown for a while after dropping Jackie off and now I am once again at Campus Safety because they needed me for a few extra weeks so I got special permission to work here. So yea I have 3 more weeks until I am unemployed indefinently and 4 weeks until Andrew and I leave for Europe. I got no complaints, because no matter how wierd it is to be done and how wierd this week was with my Nana passing away along with the business of this weekend God is good and thats all that matters. | | |
| THANK YOU JESUS, I am now finished with my last undergraduate paper ever. Granted it may be the worst one I have written in a long time, like since high school. But none the less it is done. Also all my journals are done and my interview for admissions counselor was today so that is out of the way as well and now is in God's hands. Speaking of the interview I had to wear adult clothes, like a suit type thing and let me just say I felt like a tool. I went to my friend Natalie's room to change out of it afterwards without warning and seeing me dressed up literally left her speechless, that was funny. But yea all I have now is a presentation in my foreign policy class, and then it is time to study for finals. School is almost done and that is awesome.
On a wierd note concerning school being done I saw a friend that I have seen only twice this semester because she was studying in Chicago and now she is back. We said hi and tlkaed for like five minutes before we both had to go and instead of just saying see you later she said "see you at graduation". Graduating, how wierd is that. Especially becuase I actually worked for it this time. High School I am surprised I made it through, but this I actually earned. Craziness. | | |
| Oh the craziness of the end of the year. I still have two whole papers to research and write before the last day of class and one to write a conclusion to. Along with that there is working as much as I can before I am possibly unemployed for the summer. Youth group will be ending in two weeks and that makes me sad, but then again if I am unemployed for my time here in GR then I have more time to hang out with them. Also amongst all the school craziness there are job interviews so I will have a job next year. I have an interview with Americorps today for a job working with afterschool programs in the local public schools. That would be pretty sweet, but I to be honest I would much get the job that I just found I out I am a finalist for. I applied for admission counselor here and that would be sweet. Yes I would probably have to dress like a real person and wait a little longer to start grad school, but it would be worth it. Plus GVSU lost 2 of my recomendation letters so who knows if I will even get to grad school next year.
This not knowing what is going on with my life next year is kind of cool to be honest. I know for sure three things.1. I will be in Grand Rapids living with a really good friend, along with a new friend along with her two year old. 2. I will be hanging out with the kids that God has blessed me to hang out with and get to know 3. God has the rest of it so I don't need to worry about it. It is cool to get a refresher in how to trust God especially when you know that is the only thing that you can do. Alright well enough wasting time, these papers aren't going to write themselves. | | |
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