CrAzY life!

October 22, 2005

So.  this is the new phusebox, huh?  i haven\'t really even had a chance ot check it out... very nice!
my life is absolutely insane right now.  but i love it!  awesome awesome things happening!  here\'s the rundown...

• YoungLife is great this year - i am lovin it!  God has really given me a peace and stregth for it!  My talk this week went well - thanks for your prayers!  it keeps me really busy tho - i\'m gonna try to keep going to campaigners on monday, then there\'s leader meetings on tuesdays, and club on wednesdays.  not to mention that the past few fridays have been spent up there as well (we do younglife 30 miles away)  it\'s a lot!  but it\'s gooood!
  


• darin was hired at our church to run the sr high youth group!  so i am his sidekick!  i teach sunday school every week and help him out on sunday nights... it\'s a blast!  and a great opportunity!  it came out of nowhere but i absolutely love it!  they\'ve never really had a youth group before, so we just made everything up!  it\'s crazy for me to think that we\'re doing all that as seniors in college!  definitely a God-thing!
  


• i\'m pretty far into my practicum at Bradley Bourbonnais Community High School.  it was scary to actually teach the other day - i just can\'t believe that this class of juniors was completely in my hands!  and i\'m teaching the sophomores on monday!  it\'s so fun!  my teacher is great - he has 2 reg eng classes but then he also has journalism, creative writing, and broadcasting!  so i\'m learning a lot about putting together a newspaper and how they run their school tv program!  when on earth did i become this adult in the real world??

so that\'s my crazy life.  that takes up 5 nights a week for sure, sometimes more.  not to mention 18 hours of classes and 10 hours of regular work!  thursdays are reserved for planning the upcoming weekend at church - so that pretty much leaves saturdays!  IF nothing else has overflowed onto them!  the past couple saturdays i went to chicago with darin - my absolute favorite thing to do!  so there\'s still a little time for careless fun! 
all this to really say that i\'m really sorry if i\'m not keeping up with you!  i can\'t even keep up with my friends here on campus!  so don\'t be afraid to send me an email or call me yourself!  i miss you all!  and love you very much!  i\'m coming home *i think* november 11, but it\'ll just be a short trip!  catch me then!

**4 weeks till ARUBA!!**

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October 19, 2005

sooo... tonight... i\'m giving \"THE TALK\" at YoungLife...

so if you see this before 8:15-ish - or i guess at any time - a prayer would be great!

i love fall break :)

October 09, 2005hello from eaton rapids, michigan! it\'s cold here. but i s\'pose it\'s cold at olivet too. crazy northern states. i love it tho
i have recently realized that i have become the biggest wuss of all time. (is that how you spell wuss???) my friends from high school would be so ashamed of me... i would never make it through nashville\'s haunted prison. how sad. darin, brady, kady, and i went to this haunted apple orchard thingy... and i back out. even cried. BUT, to my credit - i went through a corn maze! do you know what that means?? i am terrified of corn fields. in the light. much less the creppy dark. this was a big deal. so am i really a chicken? not totally. just partially. i\'m like artificial chicken i guess.
see ya

spontaneous prayer

October 05, 2005so... fall break is a day away and i can definitely feel it. i love how every prof likes to pile it on before breaks. this week has been insane. and it\'s not going to stop tonight. i cannot wait until tomorrow is OVER!
but anyway... that is not what i logged in to say...
tonight i cried. ok. i cry often right now for some reason, but it was a good cry. check this out:
i have been having the hardest time with these two projects for my visual literacy class. it really shouldn\'t be this difficult, but it\'s just been unbelievable.
enter - susan bailey.
now, susan and i rarely talk. we occasionally leave each other messages or quick updates on lives, but it\'s not an every day occurance - not even every week. she hasn\'t heard about my issues lately. but i had an away msg up about being frustrated with my stupid projects, and when i come home at midnight, this is what i found on my screen:
Dear Lord, please bless Cassie as she works on her projects and give her strength and peace as she finishes them. Thank you for Cassie and the joy she brings to all who know her :-) In Jesus\' name, Amen.
that\'s it. that\'s all she wrote. and is that not incredible? susan is amazing. that\'s twice recently that someone has just instantly prayed for me like that and i cannot even explain how awesome that feels! it\'s a habit i definitely need to pick up.
just wanted to share :)

TOUCHDOOOOWN... TI-TANS!!!!

October 02, 2005

photo from bouclee
the titans are on tv!!!!!! :) this rarely happens here... just on those lucky days when they play the colts!! i\'m not extremely confident in their ability to beat peyton and his crew today (afterall, he\'s a tennessee original too), but i am still WAY excited about actually getting to watch the game! AND it\'s in nashville... ahhh... it\'s like i\'m right at home! that just made my day