I have so enjoyed the additional amount of reading time I have had lately. I have been finishing books just liked I wanted to! Hopefully that will continue throughout the summer (and maybe into the school year!). One book that I read and wanted to share about was Kisses From Katie. The book is written by Katie Davis, who is just a few year older than me, and in it she shares her story of how God brought her to Uganda and changed her life there. She went for what she thought was just going to be a gap year in between high school and college, but she ended up starting a non-profit organization, adopting 14 young girls, and sharing the love of Jesus in so many different ways. Her book describes all the different ways that God provided for her and how radically he used the country of Uganda to change her. It was such a blessing to read this and got me thinking a lot.
When I was a young kid, I fell in love with Africa. I memorized the geography of where each country is (yes, I am a nerd...), and I researched statistic after statistic. I did projects for school on specific countries, organizations, and problems in Africa. I really could not wait for the day that I would get to go to Africa, but towards the end of high school I lost some faith in God's plan and stopped thinking that he might one day send me to Africa. This book reminded me though that God's timing is perfect, and I have started praying fervently again for the people of Africa and that he might one day send me there.
The book also had me thinking about my future, specifically my career future. Katie never attended college or got married or gave birth to a child. But God equipped her to be a mother, a nurse, a founder of a non-profit company, and so much more to the people of Uganda. Katie's book reminded that my job in life is to love wherever God calls me, and there are so many ways to love. I have absolutely no idea the location or situation he is calling me to, but I do know that right now I do not feel at all called to be a music teacher in a suburban American school. This freaks my parents (mostly my Dad...) out because they know how much I'm paying to get this college education for a career that I don't know if I want one day. This is why, I have started praying and looking a lot into student teaching abroad. There is a program called Educators Abroad that sends student teachers all around the world. There are a few different African locations and many other countries too. There are so many details to work out with my school, the program, the finances, etc, which is why I am ask God to make it clear if this is plan for me. I cannot help but smile when I think about student teaching in Africa somewhere. Until then, I'll keep loving right here where God has me!
Tuesday, June 5, 2012
Friday, June 1, 2012
Pinterest Fun!
One of my fun goals for the summer is to do crafts and things from Pinterest since I have a little more time on my hands. Well so far, two of my best friends and I have been trying lots of different things. There has been quite a few successes and one that didn't work out so well...
One craft we found on Pinterest was bubble painting. You simply mix paint, dish soap, and water in a cup. Then you blow bubbles until they get to the top of the cup, and then you pop the bubbles with the paper, and they pop onto the paper. For some reason, our blue paint would not make bubbles at all. I tried blowing the bubbles, and I ended up with a splatter of blue on my face. I sure was glad we decided to use washable paint! This was a super easy craft that took very little time to do. I thought it made cute simple cards to give to people!
I'm using a lot of the craft time I spend with my friends to make decorations for my floor next year. My floor verse is Revelation 21:23, which says, "The city does not need the sun or the moon, for the glory of God gives it light, and the lamb is its lamp." So the decorations will the be the progression of the sun as you walk down the hallway. My friend and I made two poster boards for the night time part. It was fun to splatter paint with toothbrushes. My friend Emily and I have never been artists, whereas our friend Jenny is very talented at art. So Emily and I were quite proud of ourselves for painting a moon!
A Pinterest craft that Jenny found for us uses toilet paper tubes to make fun wall art. You first flatten the toilet paper tubes, then cut them into smaller pieces (we did four 1-inch sections on each tube). You then hot glue them together in the design you would like. After that you can spray paint it any color. The three of us had an absolute blast with this craft!
Our biggest pinterest fail was making jello cookies They are pretty much just sugar cookies with jello powder added in, but we made a few mistakes. First of all, we were shocked by the large amount of butter called for (1.5 cups), so we just put in a 3/4 of a cup. Then I dropped the vanilla extract bottle into the batter, so we had a little too much vanilla. And then, we ran out of white flour, so we decided wheat flower would work. We then realized that we should have put more butter in because the dough was so crumbly, so we tried to add more butter, but that didn't work so well...The recipe had us making four different flavors of cookies, so we sectioned the dough off into four parts. The recipe said to add just two teaspoons of jello powder to each section. That didn't seem like very much to us, and in the pictures online the dough looked so colorful. So we added quite a bit more jello powder, practically the whole packet. So the dough was full of little jello granules, and our hands were covered in jello. We make little dough balls and baked the cookies, but nothing changed much to them in the oven. We tried each flavor (orange, lime, raspberry, and berry blue), and they were all pretty disgusting. They tasted like jello-flavored play-dough. They were not pleasant to eat, but we had so many laughs while making them!
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I'm using a lot of the craft time I spend with my friends to make decorations for my floor next year. My floor verse is Revelation 21:23, which says, "The city does not need the sun or the moon, for the glory of God gives it light, and the lamb is its lamp." So the decorations will the be the progression of the sun as you walk down the hallway. My friend and I made two poster boards for the night time part. It was fun to splatter paint with toothbrushes. My friend Emily and I have never been artists, whereas our friend Jenny is very talented at art. So Emily and I were quite proud of ourselves for painting a moon! 
A Pinterest craft that Jenny found for us uses toilet paper tubes to make fun wall art. You first flatten the toilet paper tubes, then cut them into smaller pieces (we did four 1-inch sections on each tube). You then hot glue them together in the design you would like. After that you can spray paint it any color. The three of us had an absolute blast with this craft! |
| I made a sun for my floor! |
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| I think we had more fun with adding graffiti to the cardboard! |
Our biggest pinterest fail was making jello cookies They are pretty much just sugar cookies with jello powder added in, but we made a few mistakes. First of all, we were shocked by the large amount of butter called for (1.5 cups), so we just put in a 3/4 of a cup. Then I dropped the vanilla extract bottle into the batter, so we had a little too much vanilla. And then, we ran out of white flour, so we decided wheat flower would work. We then realized that we should have put more butter in because the dough was so crumbly, so we tried to add more butter, but that didn't work so well...The recipe had us making four different flavors of cookies, so we sectioned the dough off into four parts. The recipe said to add just two teaspoons of jello powder to each section. That didn't seem like very much to us, and in the pictures online the dough looked so colorful. So we added quite a bit more jello powder, practically the whole packet. So the dough was full of little jello granules, and our hands were covered in jello. We make little dough balls and baked the cookies, but nothing changed much to them in the oven. We tried each flavor (orange, lime, raspberry, and berry blue), and they were all pretty disgusting. They tasted like jello-flavored play-dough. They were not pleasant to eat, but we had so many laughs while making them!
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