[es.toy.kan.sa.ðo] I'm tired

Today is April 2. That means there are only 26 days left until classes end. I cannot wait. I'm kind of done with this semester. I'm ready for it to be warm full time and to be summer. Speaking of summer, I now have a schedule for this summer. I will be working 7-3 every day M-F. 40 hours is just what I want and need. I'll be able to save a ton of money and relax. It's going to suck a little having to commute from VA Beach every day to Norfolk to be there by 7, but I can't really complain since they'll be paying me oh so well.

For a while I was thinking about getting a new car. This was if a job I had been interested in worked out, due to a lot of driving, but it didn't so I decided that I didn't need to get a new car. Now however, my car seems to be falling apart. One of my back windows will never go down again, and the other day, the other one went down and wouldn't go back up. My friend had to help me manually get it up. Blue also now starts shaking when I hit around 65 mph. Never used to do that, it also always smells like gas when I drive. Maybe these are signs to look for a new car, or to just wait until it dies completely. It has 203,000 miles and is a 1995. Let's hope that my car and I can keep it together long enough to be able to get a new one!

Not too much else is going on. I get to register for classes soon. This is my last time worrying about scheduling and if my classes are available, but let's be honest, I've never worried about that because I get to register first (Honors College, athletes and seniors), and no one takes upper level Spanish classes. My title is in Spanish, but it's written out phonetically, this is what I've learned in my Spanish Phonetics class. It's very interesting stuff. Next spring, graduation semester, I will be student teaching and not taking any classes. I am very excited to graduate and move on to the next stage, which is grad school. The more I think about it the more I will most likely stay at ODU. I know everyone says, "Don't get your Master's from the same place you got your undergrad." But I don't really care. I love it here and they have a good program. Why move? I know I won't be moving back to NY again, well, hopefully. I love Hampton Roads and am eager to start teaching here. Virginia school systems, in my opinion, are not as good as the schools I went to. There are a lot of factors that play into that, but I hope that I can bring my enthusiasm for learning and my subject to the children here. Time will tell!

Yesterday I wrote my Urbana support letter. Urbana is a conference hosted by InterVarsity every three years and it's coming up this year! Exciting. It's a student missions conference and I cannot wait to go and see all the different mission organizations and 20,000+ people there worshipping God. It will be amazing. The only downside is that it costs around $600 with air fare, hotel, food costs and the cost of attending the conference, hence why I wrote a support letter. Hopefully God will move in people's hearts to donate and get me there!

Last night we had our push for signups for Rockbridge. Another event InterVarsity hosts at the end of the school year. It's a week long retreat in Goshen, VA (The mountains) and is amazing. This is my third year going and I am as excited as ever. The track I signed up for is the Good News track, one that encourages/teaches us how to share the Gospel. It should be very challenging, but I'm sure God will meet me there.

Not much more to do today, just work and a ton of homework. Good thing about April 28 is that classes end. Bad thing about it being April 2 is that there is a ton to do. Oh well, such is the life!