So I have been rather busy doing work and school...I am working on my research paper which is all about Islam and Christianity. It has been rather interesting to study and learn what people think on the subject of Islam. I have been looking at this website that explains all about Islam and even has self quizzes, I am sure you will all be happy to know that I now know enough I could convert! Anyway... I am also working on a presentation for my mission class on the country of Pakistan...that should be fun I actually really enjoy presentations. The fact that I already know so much about their religion will help as well :)

Plans for this summer...I talked to Nancy with Brother's and she sounded hopeful that I should be able to pick up about another 20 hours a week for the summer, that plus my housekeeping job will put me at about 44 hours a week. Nancy also said that Brother's did not have an official policy about Red Cross disaster response people, but that she would look very favorably upon it and to go ahead and do the training. Ms. K helped me to find a summer class to take this summer at the U of O it is Arabic 101 it is about 4 weeks long and will be 5 credit hours when finished. I have also been looking at doing Camp Agape in Hi but I have not decided about that yet. Camp Agape is a camp for the children of people that are prison.

This Saturday was the 103rd Roddy Fest in Florence, so i invited a bunch of people to go and check out the festivities. Well two people responded that they were going to the coast so they would be unable to go to Florence :) the rest did not respond. So I invited Makayla and Piper a couple of kids of two EBC student's. They were really excited to go and then Kent said he wanted to go as well. So the four of us headed to Florence...we had a great time! There was a carnival that the girls really enjoyed (it was fun watching them). We then tried to find a bunch of the other stuff but a lot of it was missing...We did eventual find the car show and flower show though. It was humorous to me that us girls were all commenting on the color of the cars. As we left the response was I liked the blue car with purple flames, or I liked the pink car (lol). The flowers were humorous because we were expecting something spectacular after all they had had a festival for them for 103 years. So it was funny when we realized they were the same flowers that are everywhere...but through much trial i discovered that the pink flowers smelled good but the red ones did not smell at all...We then went to the coast since it had stopped raining and was then a beautiful day. Us girls had all packed lots of extra clothes counting on getting wet (there was a 70% chance of rain and a ocean the odds were good we would be wet). We all had a great time playing in the ocean and then in the sand (i am still finding sand in my ears). We decided to head back to the car to change into dry clothes and drop Kent off at a birthday party (some guys from church were all heading to Florence that evening to celebrate). When I realized I did not have my keys...I went back and by the grace of God found the keys! They were under about two feet of water and 75% covered in sand...apparently one of the times that we moved all of our stuff they were left behind. Us girls headed back to Eugene and made some necklaces at my place (using the beads G-ma gave me for Christmas - Thanks) we then went to a ten o'clock movie (there mom said I could have them out as late as I wanted). After the movie I took them home and then came home and collapsed myself.

I have also been involved with other social activities with my church and people from campus...

I am still trying to figure out fiances for next year... it is between 12000 and 13000 for the year. I have received $2250 of scholarships and about another $1000 of discounts. I am eligible for about $12000 of loans. I am hoping to raise a bunch of the money this summer and have been contemplating getting a third job but I think it might be to much with also taking that class and I would like to get more involved at my church.

Anyways this is what I have been doing and thinking lately.

Scholarship Info

Hey just to let ya' all know I have received 3 scholarships a $500, $750, and $1000. I will give you more information later...