Star Wars

Without fail, the electric guitarist, Devon Coogan, proceeds to dress up like Hans Solo for Convo. I'm thinking now is a good time for the rest of the band to get their act together. I call upon Justin Kintzel as Luke Skywalker, Erin Wilson for Laya, Brandon Sharp for the role as C3PO, Sarah Kinas as R2 D2, and Charles Wright can be Chubaka! poor drum guy...what shall he have? Does Jordan Spicer want to be Obi one? or Darth Vader? hmmmm I shall ask. As for me, I have had the most fun in the world the past couple of weeks as you can tell because I have stopped posting. Firstly I won third place in my photography class for the most amount of pictures in the smallest amount of time. First place won a tripod. next time they say there are prizes I will try to win cause honestly I thought when he said 'prize' he meant maybe ten dollar gift card for the winner. He bought a tripod (60-100 dollars), and then three books on editing, style, and purchasing. I went for editing cause that's my favorite part of the process. Embarrassment hit me in Evan class. We had a guest speaker come and say "if everyone in the world was like you, what kind of place would that be?" it was supposed to make us reflect on all of our bad decisions and rethink how we should behave in the world but no sooner had he posed the question than I thought If everyone was like me, it would be a better world. DANG NABIT! I'm horrible. I should never think that. No matter how many times I told that story to people though, they keep telling me that's okay cause it's true. WHAT!? NO! I should not be having thoughts like that. I'm glad people like me and agree with what I thought but no. Last week I had most my tests! I am so relieved that they are done! To celebrate Krystell and I went swing dancing. I had sooooooo much fun! But I arrived late so the instructor had to pull me to the side to teach me when they started open floor dancing. He was so short and I was in heels. I'm so glad that I'm not taller than i am. average is good. Especially when dancing. then i was dragged onto the floor by what is considered a extremely attractive man. He was blonde, tan, and wearing a hot pink polo. these boys are not my type but he had the brightest smile in the world. We danced for awhile and i taught him a new move, but my favorite part of the night was when this one guy who was dressed up in 30's attire asked me to dance and no joke, I didn't have to remember the steps. I naturally went there. But we only danced for close to two minutes. I wish it had been longer )=. Krystell and I went home and we were so pumped we ran around the block a couple times haha. Lilyia came into the dorm one day and proclaimed, 'we should rearrange our room!"......ummmm we've been leaving here for over a month and you want to move everything around?...reluctantly I followed suit and Lilyia is AMAZING!! the room looks sooooo much better now and my desk is right by the window! I'm actually getting natural light! Not that that matters cause I've been spending all my weekends over at the westover hahaha. Yesterday we went to Charlottesville and hung out at the Mellow Mushroom (=. Dude this place my have like 500 drug references but the pizza is to die for. I wish I had saved more. After we walked and climbed all over the University. Honestly I think I want to take up parkour now. Really I love to climb. it invigorates me. I also have decided that next semester I am going to join a softball or lacrosse team. i need a sport I just have to be doing something. Time and time again I have told my friends here that although football is great I would rather be playing it then watching it. i also want to continue on my book that I'm writing. But mainly I think I'm going to use a pen name. cause I've been getting so many compliments this week on a variety of things and i realize i really don't like it. I never know what to say in those instances. I feel like i really don't deserve it and thank you is too small a thing to say. Anyway, I love you all thank you for reading and commenting. You all mean sooooo much to me and I wish I was there to talk to my Oregonians!
Emily

Awkwartunity

This school rocks! i was on espn, there were fireworks for every time we scored a touchdown and then after the game. I swear I go to school at disneyland. But when I say awkwartunity, I'm happily joining awkward and opportunity in marriage. Because in the case of the Price family, we find every opportunity to be awkward. Today my photography class cancelled the quiz we were supposed to take. Instead we listened to our teacher discuss which blades of grass he didn't like....mkay. Then I watched John the Gospel in my New Testament class. There's a part where Jesus is breathing on the disciples. It was like he was Aslan. I laughed so hard I cried. In my History class we had a huge exam and the guys behind me are trying to get everyone encouraged and pumped. One of the guys asks me what my major is and when I told him it was VCAR he's like, "oh, I'm not allowed to date you." way to go on the whole encouragement thing. I took some AMAZING pictures of my roommate Krystell, and had some help with edditing from Gabe. Gabe, you scared Krystell, she doesn't know that you're a pro hahaha.The next night, I worked out with Cesia, Abby, and Erin. I really need to do it more often, I LOVE IT! I miss working out, I miss working out for 2 hours before practicing lacrosse. no really, I do. I was sitting in my bed after the night was over wishing I could do some suicide runs on the basketball court and those jogging sprints where you run in a line of 5 people and the person in the back has to run to the front of the line and when they reach the front it starts all over again......I wanted to do that. I was so pumped. Anyways after working out we watched the guys play basket ball. Jenny came and asked me to go deliver a strawberry banana smoothie to Hotcakes (Dillon). So I go get the smoothie, park outside his dorm, and call him.
"hey! come out I'm at your dorm with a smoothie!",
"No really? Jenny didn't have to do that. I'm at c-lab though.",
"really?",
"yes, but just give it to my roommate Matius"

So I go up to the dorm door and I'm thinking about the interaction that me and matius are about to have.
Knock, knock.
Hello?-Matius
Hey Matius, you don't know me. But I know you. I'm Jenny's sister. Dillon told me to leave this with you."
As I hand him a Banana Strawberry Smoothie that says 'I Love You Hotcakes!' and run away.

Thankfully he wasn't there.
Later that night I was so tired but I knew I had a bunch of homework to do, I missed my family so much right then. So I texted my mom how much I loved her and missed her..... Later I realized I had sent the text to Dillon.
Fail.

Tribute to Eva

Revelations

Okay i know i haven't written lately. Sorry but I'm working really hard to get my degree! so to sum up. Block party was so much fun, I didn't go to the speed dating thing. In fact I haven't even met my brother dorm haha. oh well there's a tailgate party this saturday before the game. Maybe I'll meet them then. In my spiritual life is this and many more things but this is a really long tangent so I'll leave it at that. I was assigned to do some reflections on the book of Mark so this is what I have written and either discovered or declared how I feel about the text-

Book of Mark: chapter eight if you read it right, Jesus is saying that the four thousand have literally been listening to him teach for three days, three days! That’s incredible, and not to have had anything to eat? This was a dedicated crowd. I have spent countless days in church and no one can even stand an hour of teaching, but when I traveled to India church was held every day for an hour and on Sunday it was six! People were standing up and praying and disciplining to others. How can God look on the Western church and say that we meditate on his words day and night when we can’t even spend an hour in his Holy Place. God is in our hearts but I think we ignore him or refuse to let him influence our daily decisions. The hardest part about being a Christian is not the big choices, it’s the little ones. In chapter ten verses 13-16 Jesus talks about the little children being welcomed in Heaven, and in Deuteronomy 1:39 it says, “ And the little ones that you said would be taken captive, your children who do not yet know good from bad—they will enter the land. I will give it to them and they will take possession of it” which makes me wonder if in Heaven our glorified bodies would be that of children. Which makes sense since Jesus also says in Mark 12: 25 that there will be no marriage in heaven.

Chapters 11-16

            In verse 15 Jesus proceeds to turn over tables of people selling wares in the church. Is this how we should be treating mega churches that put a Starbucks inside their doors? Or even have people pay for food there? I don’t entirely agree with that but I don’t agree that we should be having companies inside the church. The only thing that should be allowed to sell wares is the library. Only books, no t-shirts with “I love Jesus, how ‘bout you?!” written on the front because the House of the Lord is a place of learning. People should be able to read the books for free and then be able to buy them at the same place. In twelve, Jesus talks about how there will be no marriage in heaven. With that said I can understand why Paul advises against it, saying it will distract you from worshiping God. I can see the merit in having an intimate accountability partner but if I’m not going to have one when I die, what’s the point in having one while I live? If I can be my own accountability partner in the areas of my life that I don’t share with others, than I would rather not be distracted. But if God intends for me to have a suitor then he knows I am not strong enough to recognize when I am deceiving myself. Then in the last part of the text in chapter sixteen, my bible says that verses 9-20 weren’t found in the earliest manuscripts. Does this mean that they weren’t supposed to be a part of Mark?  Also at the end it says, “and these signs will accompany those who believe: In my name they will drive out demons; they will speak in new tongues; they will pick up snakes with their hands; and when they drink deadly poison, it will not hurt them at all; they will place their hands on sick people and they will get well” (16:17-18) Does this mean that if I don’t posses all these things I am not a believer? I’ve always wondered that, and it frustrates me because I would like to be able to do all those things because I am bent on being a believer. I am like the man in 9:24 who says, “I do believe; help me overcome my unbelief”. If I do not have enough faith in God to do these works in me, they will not happen. Yet I am frightened by the power of God so much that I do not want to be able to heal the sick or drive out demons.

Thanks to all my readers! Eva, Mom, Dad, Grandma Diane, Savannah and others Of whom I don't know viewed it! I love you all and keep commenting!