Gods work in me Senior Year Part 2

The second part of my Senior year was the biggest decision I have had to make thus far. COLLEGE! This was the worst decisions for me...ever! One, I hate making decisions in general. People say that you get the feeling when you get on campus and you just know you are meant to be there. That never really happened to me. I literally checked into every single Christian college and university in the US! No joke... this of course made it even more difficult than anything. I hated that I did this! I had to narrow it down from like 500 colleges to 5. I mean yes I wasn't actually interested in every school but I wanted to know my options! So i narrowed it down to 4! I was really excited! I applied to the school my brother had gone to and honestly... I didn't want to go. My parents wanted me to. I just didn't want to disappoint them! So i applied but I knew that it was actually pretty hard to get into. I kind of had hoped that I wouldn't get in. A big factor in my college search was money! I needed to go somewhere cheap. And with my grades I wasn't getting the scholarship I needed to go anywhere close to home! The cheapest one was the one in Chicago where I had applied to. We will come back to that. My friend then told me about Toccoa Falls College. She said it was really decently priced and she knew someone who was going to attend there! So I got in contact with this girl who was going there. I kind of fell in love with the idea of this school! In the middle of nature!!? Nature is my favorite thing! It continually reminded me of God and I saw His name on everything that I looked at. It was absolutely crazy! And I hadn't even visited. Well I then had told my cousin about it because I knew she was still searching as well. We both took a trip down and realized just how far we were. It was sad that it was this far away because we were both such family people! We love our family and love being around them! I got home and weighed the pros and cons. I really wanted to go there. I thought of this as another crazy adventure and I was extremely excited about it! My parents still held out for the college in Chicago because 3 hours was a little more appealing to them instead of 10 hours...I kind of prayed that I wouldn't get in... Well the day had arrived! I got my letter... holding it in my hand and being a nervous wreck! I opened it alone... I ran out of my room yelling "i got in!!!!" part of me was really excited... well what I did not realize was that I read it completely wrong... They had accepted me to the Spokane, Washington campus. 16 hours away!? I was not going to do that! I didn't like the college that much! And my parents did not want me to do that either! So Toccoa it is! I was still excited! All the stress had gone and I didn't need to worry! Because I knew where I belonged...I have completed my 1st semester at Toccoa and it was really tough being so far, but...I loved it! Yes I have thought about transferring next year to be closer but I don't know yet. All I know is that I have met some amazing friends that I believe could be life long friends... and I don't want to risk losing them! I love them so much! I just know that God has everything under control! I don't know what my future holds but I know that whatever happens will be good for me and part of my story! I trust Him with my life. He has this! :D

Gods work in me Senior Year Part 1

So much has been done and honestly I am not sure where to start! Lets start my senior year! My senior year...was unlike most peoples! At the beginning of the year my parents asked me if I would like to have a foreign exchange student live with us for the year. I honestly have a love for foreigners and I was so excited! HECK YES! I was excited to learn more about a different culture and maybe even learn part of a new language. I am an adventurous person so I love to get out there and learn new things. Well he finally got there and it took a little while for us to get used to him and the whole new lifestyle. I quickly learned about what his culture was like and it was completely different then ours. This whole year I knew I struggled with patience! I had asked God for patience... and he gave me Young (our foreign exchange student). In general our family is a speedy family, in that, we are always busy doing something or being somewhere. This was tough on him since he wasn't quite used to it. At times he was a little slower than us and honestly that drove me crazy! I feel awful after seeing how I felt this whole year. It was really tough trying to get used to him being here. He tended to stick by my side like glue. Some nights I would say I was going to bed and he would run into my room and jump on my bed and just lay there so I couldn't go to bed! Little things like this I let get to me. About half way through the year I knew that this was God giving me patience because He doesn't just give patience to someone, He gives you opportunities to use patience. So from then I tried to pray for strength to use patience in these situations! It worked slowly but surely! It was just a really long tough year for me, but I wouldn't trade it for anything! I am extremely grateful that I got an opportunity to meet Young! It was tough like I said, but I learned so much! I realized that I was really that I was being extremely selfish which is another thing that I learned from my Senior year. It was tough but God got me through it!