*shock* It's already wednesday!

So, it's already Wednesday which means that I've already been home for at least a week! *sigh* why, is this reading week going by so ridiculously fast? I'm actually surprised that I was actually able to get a bit of work done eventhough I was downtown for the past 3 days volunteering at a speech therapy clinic. It was awesome! I had the chance to job shadow these great speech therapist, sit-in on their therapy sessions, and learn more about what speech therapist do.

After 3 days of volunteering at least 8 hours a day, I feel like I've been there for at least a week! Anywayz, they were so caring, and welcoming and yeah, definitely a great experience. oh and the most amazing thing was that 2 of the speech therapist there, one that I met through connections/contacts and another one, were Christians! So, I got to understand from their perspective how it was being a christian AND a speech therapist. *smilez*

I've not only learned a lot about Speech, but also about a whole part of downtown that I've never laid eyes on. It's not that the area that I went to was a bad area, but the kids and the whole atmosphere was totally different compared to the 'sheltered' life that I was coming from. Uptown girl, and not going to public school until grade 10, and even then I went to school in a relatively 'upper class' neighbourhood. So, on monday..I remember sitting at the back of the streetcar and slowly the feeling of uneasiness crept up, as I left the downtown core and proceeded towards the area east of the DVP (Riverside I believe). As the 'crowd' on the bus began to change from downtown corporate men & women to teenagers on their way to school, and the neighbourhood changing to an older, more run-down part of town, I remember feeling a bit uncomfortable. Partly because I was actually sitting near the back of the bus where these teenagers were and, yeah..call me sheltered or whatever, but I was not used to the language, and behaviourism they were using...and partly because I knew that the area wasn't the most glamorous part of town. anywayz, what to take from this? I know that I am so blessed. Blessed beyond imagination, and you know what..in the end in terms of helping people. It takes a changing of perspective when being in such areas, and I believe we should be aware of the labels that we give to certain areas/people.. simply because they are from a certain area of town. Yes, it may be true that they're from that area, but it doesn't matter. God calls us to love them regardless, and they always need our help.

cold..oh so cold here in the basement

It's currently 11:12pm, but by the time I'm done this post it'll probably be a bit later. Well, I just got back from dinner with my parents..so I'm superstuffed, and also supertired after going to good old congee wong for dinner. :) talk about uncreative in terms of eating out, but this has already been the 2nd time I've gone there since coming back home (we went there last night for dinner).

I wonder how this reading week will be like, it'll probably involve me being 'antisocial' with my head stuck in a book or doing 'research' attempting to start/finish assignments before I go back to school as this girl has so much to do! *sigh* Which is slightly sad, as that makes me even more of a workaholic. Yet, I can argue that it IS reading week...so i'm doing the literal thing that the term implies. BUT aside from reading my books, I can't wait to start volunteering on monday at Toronto Speech & Language Services !! I also get to finally see Joyce for dessert on monday night (yes night Dor, since it might be a bit difficult to have demitris monday morning :P) and of course I get to see my superduper cool coffeechicks and exchange v-day presents for my special valentine who's a cool & awesome girl. *smilez*

on a sidenote, it's getting freezing cold here in the basement so I must get out of here before my hands freeze to death. So, here comes the end of my non-thought provoking post.

blessings abound

I've been so blessed, these past couple of weeks, months, years that i'm almost ashamed that I don't thank God enough for these blessings that he's pouring down upon me. Instead, I focus on the erroneous details of my life,, such as volunteer placements that are falling through on me, not doing well academically, drifting friends.

BUT..if I think about it, ever single prayer I've prayed God has always answered it...and not JUST answered it, he's multiplied it!!!

I prayed t0 God to help me find a volunteer placement. I found one, but it fell through much to my dissapointment. Yet, in the past month, I've been given the opportunity to volunteer at 3 places. One during reading week, one during this term at Elborn College, and just recently the opportunity to volunteer with a speech therapist that I met at church here in London.

I asked God, when debating over which university to choose to allow me to be in a place where I would continue to grow in my walk with God, and have God-loving brothers and sisters....even if that meant leaving my comfort zone where I would be far away from my own close friends. and God did just that. He's been challenging me year after year in my faith ever since I started Western.

God has done so much more, but writing them all down here would be quite lengthy. Just know that God, can and will do so much for your lives. All it takes is to have "faith as small as a mustard seed." However, the hardest part is giving up your stubbornness or your feelings of inadequacy in order for God to take your life, and transform it.

"Because you have so little faith. I tell you the truth, if you have faith as small as a mustard seed, you can say to this mountain, ‘Move from here to there’ and it will move. Nothing will be impossible for you.”

Matthew 17:20

elections on my mind

i slowly struggle to get up from my bed as my computer turns on *wierd, how fast it turns on*..i'm still feeling sleepy as I begin to enter the people I want to nominate for exec next year. As I begin to type in "who, I want to nominate"..there's this odd ringing sound in my ear, that just keeps going, on and on. At the same time I'm thinking: .should I even nominate these certain people?, who does God want on exec next year?, what role does God want for me? and should I even nominate people when I'm half asleep!!...and honestly what is that ringing sound!??

it's 5pm..the ringing sound is my cell phone going beserk, after unsucessfully trying to wake myself up for the 4th time. I'm NOT really entering people on my computer..since its been all a dream, a very realistic one in fact.

Actually, as of late, I've been having these dreams... where I'm either nominating ppl for exec, in the actual election where people I know ARE actually being elected OR being in an exec meeting. It's soo odd and realistic, because most of the time I'm always asking myself in the dream why I'm there and either praying for those certain people as the election continues or asking God myself where I fit in all of this.....

hm..well, elections close tomorrow according to my daily "friendly reminder" e-mails from "acey eff" *smilez*