Wow I have not updated in months. I have been very busy with school and babysitting and now volleyball is starting. Life is pretty much the same though. I recently tried geting involved with a ministry at Riverview called stephen's ministry, but then I found out you have to be 18... :/ bummer, but oh well because i will be 18 in July. My career goal is to be a counseler and I think it is so amazing to listen to how people feel and have compassion for them and try and help them feel better. So I am pretty sure I am going to apply for that this summer. Exciting. Stuff has been happening lately at holt High School, cool stuff. It seems like BOB has really taken off and so many people are hearing about it and talking about it, which leads to---> going to it. Even if they are just there because there friends are there.... THEY ARE THERE and God is working in their lives. Ahhh it makes me so happy. I have also heard a lot of criticism at the lunch table and such. That has also been a blessing though because it is a chance to stand for Jesus.

The other day I was driving home from volleyball and a litte weener dog in a multi-colored sweater ran out in front of me. He stopped just on the other side of the road to like tease his owner. Then when the owner got like 3 feet close to him he started running in circles all over. The funny part was his sweater... dogs are so cute.

Lj's/Xangas of my fellow high school girls

So Audrey and I were looking through the live journals and Xangas of High school girls, and some of them made us chuckle. We decided to make our own example of one.
This basically sums up the typical high school girl's Online Journal:
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heres a few picz of me just playin around being bored, I look really bad HAHAH LOL, I like just woke up from a nap, so I mean my hair is kinda messed up and my eye lashes are totally not curled.

This is Auderz, she was like totally not ready for this pic. hehehehe. This is me and Auderz hehehehehehehehe. Kisses, muah LOL. We are so CCCCuuuuraaaaazzzyyy! OOOMMMMGGGG we look so bad!

"all a Girl really needs:

are her best friends * a

closet full of clothes

and* a cute boy to kiss."

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Requirements for a high school girl's online journal:

1) You must have a bunch of pictures of yourself hitting seductive poses.

2) Each picture must have an explaination of how bad you look in them, when really, you spent 3 hours getting ready to take them.

3)The colors of the text have to change frequently enough to give the reader a seizure.

4) You must only use internet grammar. On plural wordz, replace the "s" with a "z".

5)Each entry must be topped off with an extremely touching and meaningful quote, like the one in my example.

LT

We just got home from LT and I definetly got what I prayed for. It was an amazing experience. I was almost disappointed to come home because I loved how intense the worship was and how easy it was to believe and worship when everyone around you feels the same way you do. It is hard to come home but then this is where God is needed the most. I met so many amazing people and made some really great friends. I can't wait to go back to BOB wednesday and see them all. Oh yeah If you are reading this and you don't already, you should go to BOB, it's gonna be awesome. I will write more later.

More excited than electricity!

LT is in 3 days and I am soo excited. I'm really looking to find God in a way I have not yet. Please pray for me and everyone going that we will have a fufilling experience. Thanks!

Thank you God

Audrey and I drove up to her cottage in pentwater Tuesday night just to get away for the day. We left after I got done babysitting at like 5ish, and we got there at like 8:00. There was some construction so it took a little longer. We went to bed all cozy, woke up the next morning at like 10:00 and spent the day swimming and laying in the sun on her private Lake Michigan beach. It was so relaxing.. I have been working way too much.

On the way home however, it was less relaxing. We were on 96 just short of Portland and we were in the left lane approaching this green ultima which was in the right lane. We were about to speed up and pass him but he swayed over to our lane, cutting us off and then swayed back over in the right lane. "What is this Ultima doing? Get away from this guy" I said to Audrey. So she passed him and got about 30 feet ahead of him. She had still left about 20 feet between her and the car in front of us. We entered a construction zone where all the cars in front of us were at a dead stop, lined up, we breaked to stop, slowing down to about 30mph and next thing we knew it the green ultima slammed into our back end going about 65. He bounced off of us twice because audrey had to break in order to not cause a pile up by hitting the bumper-to-bumper traffic ahead of us. I started screaming for her to get off the road and drive into the shoulder and so she did. The driver of the Ulitma followed us and instead of breaking to stop his car, he decided to use our car as a little stopping wall and hit our car AGAIN. It was not a fun experience
At least we know that the ford focus can take a hard hit and you will only get whiplash from it. Seriously though, Pay attention when you friggin drive otherwise you are not smart person and I don't like you.

Conversations with God

I recently started reading "Conversations with God- An uncommon dialouge" by Neale Donald Walsch. It is a big conversation between Neale Donald Walsch and God-- what God would say according to Neale. I'm not sure about it. Some of the answers do not go along with the Bible. I definitely think that it is cool to read things like this but I also think it is very good to hold the Bible above any other book and if they dont match, then to take what the Bible says because that is the word of God. Conversations with God more refers to a universal God, and he refers to Jesus as a saint, and also Budah as a saint. As a christian I believe that Jesus was the son of God sent by him to wash us of our sins and now there is the trinity God Son and Holy Spirit. I believe that there is no other God above him so that is why I dont agree with Neale refering to Budahh as a saint. The book has some really cool ideas, but some of them that I think are wrong. I definitely suggest this book to anyone though, if you are the kind of person who likes to think.

Neale Donald Walsch: How do you talk, and to whom?

GOD: I talk to everyone. All the time. The question is not to whom do I talk, But who listens?

Neale Donald Walsch: Expand on that subject.

GOD: First let's exchange the word talk with the word communicate. It's a much better word, a much fuller, more accurate one. When we try to speak to each other Me to you, you to Me, we are immediately constricted by the unbelievable limitation of words. For this reason, I do not communicate by words alone. In face, rarely do I do so. My most common form of communication is through feeling.

Feeling is the language of the soul.

If you want to know what's true for you about somthing, look to how you're feeling about it.

Feelings are somtimes diffucult to discover--and often even more diffucult to acknowledge. Yet hidden in your deepest feelings is your highest truth.

We are the Champions!

I love this sport

DISTRICT CHAMPS!!! We defeated Okemos after double overtime and a shootout! We play Portage Central on Tuesday.

helloooo

oh its always better when we're together

We beat GL tonight... now we are on to Everett, then most likely Okemos. Aaghhahhhhaaa (my cry of excitement).

This week has been impossible

Mission Impossible



I have been so stressed lately with school and soccer and life in general. AHhhh! I slept in until 3pm yesterday because I was so tired out from the whole week. We beat both Okemos and EL in the CAAC tourny which makes us tournament champs, but we played like crap in the regular season so we took third overall. So now we start districts on tuesday and we will most likely be playing okemos in the finals. I'm excited!

Ouch, I feel so bad... you little twerp

Bet that hurt...


My little sister is suspended from school for tomorrow (Which is her birthday). A boy was making fun of her at her track meet and saying some really mean things to her, and she got so mad that she kicked him in the jewels! I don't want to laugh, but I don't feel bad for this kid at all. I know it wasn't right for her to do what she did, but what a little jerk. I hate it when kids are bullies. Luckily, my sister is the kind of girl who will just teach him a lesson and forget about it, other kids don't forget it when they are bullied, and it drives them to do some scary crap. So the moral of the story is don't bully people.

I've got a game Vs. Everett today, but I'm not playing in it because I'm still sick. I have to go get ready though, Have a nice day!

My lovely car

This is what MY 91 buick looks like.



BUT... my wonderful parents are getting me a NEW CAR for my birthday (July 6th).... YAY!

It has been a good year, many memories in the "Blue beast", also known as "the blueberry", the "blue bombshell", and "the hurricane".

Buick Without Rust

this is what a nice 91 buick looks like.

Erika and I 

Audrey and I on New years 

I'm sick

I'm pretty sick so I feel like crap. Mom thinks it is the flu. I'v got the chills and my head really hurts. I've been out of school since monday afternoon and I don't know if I will be going tomorrow even. We play Everett tomorrow... so its not really a big deal for me to miss that game. I hope Ryan doesn't catch it.

I can't describe how anxious I am for school to end. I'm so sick of waking up early. I got a babysitting job for the summer and its every other week from 8:30-4. Nicky and I are going to switch weeks. This way I will get a week of downtime, and if I want to go to the cabin or up north with Audrey it will work out good.
I'm going to go take a shower now, see ya.

Please pray

I just got really bad news and I can't even think right now but I am using this blog as a way to get it out. My grandpa, the sweetest man I have ever met, my number one fan at all of my volleyball games, and one of my biggest christian role models, is getting very sick. I was over at my grandparents house the other day and my grandma told me how he was forgot to eat his oatmeal that morning and he just left for work, leaving it in the microwave. Recently, he also keeps forgetting to take his medicine and when my grandma asked him about it, he said that he forgot because he moved it into the bathroom. My grandma told him that he had Always kept it in the bathroom, and he started crying because he couldn't believe he didn't know that. He sees the doctor tomorrow, but he is showing signs of Alzhiemer's and his mother had the disease also. I am so scared and I can't picture the struggle that is ahead of my family if he does have it. Everyone please pray for him and my family, thank you so much.

Panama City here we come!

I leave for Florida in 2 days. I can’t wait to hear that ocean!
We beat St. Johns yesterday 3-2 and we play Lumen Christi tomorrow… they are a good team. It is kind of weird playing outside mid now after I have played in the center my whole life but I think it will be a good adjustment once I get it down. From how we played yesterday, I think we are a solid team.

Meaps are OVER! They were so hard! These past few days have gone by so slow… I just want to be on the beach sipping a cold drink.

Well I’m going to go pack for FLORIDA and do some other stuff… See ya!

Meaps are fun!

Today we took the math meap and it looks as if there will be no money going to miss Frances Dejongh for college because she can't stop daydreaming and didn't pay attention in Algrebra II. I will definately have to retake that one. I was in the MIC room for an extra hour finishing the test up. Math is hard!

We got our uniforms at practice today and we have a scrimmage tomorrow in Ann Arbor so we'll see how that goes!! Hopefully good... Go Rams!

Sorry this is so short but I have to get some sleep, i'll update later... hah well prolly not.. I like writing these but I never have any time!

-Francesca-