Herro.
I am back from an exhausting 3-days/2-night trip to Santa Maria for the KIWIN'S Winter Board District Board meeting. We had the most exhausting meeting agenda I have ever had the displeasure of enduring. I am so glad to be home.
But there were some good moments that I am pretty glad about. The Lieutenant Governor of the Coral Division (Hawaii), Nick Jack, is seriously one of the coolest guys I have ever known. He is incredibly humble, an extremely talented guitar/ukulele player, super laidback and relaxed, funny, and also very generous. Though he's two years younger than me, I admire the guy a lot. It's rare that you meet someone who is so genuinely caring for others and completely selfless. I have never seen his temper flare, cuss, or not be the first one to help. He is seriously so different from other people. If there is anything that I took away from the trip in a personal sense, it is the desire to be someone more like Nick. He is such a good friend and I'm pretty dissapointed that he lives an ocean away.
But anyway, this trip actually revealed to me some interesting things. I was reminded of how despicable I must be when compared to God's perfection. Just the simple presence of a couple people that I don't like very much made me very resentful and I had to fight very hard not to show that I was annoyed by them. Even so, I failed here and there. I blame this on my pride.
Oh and there's something else I thought about going to and from Santa Maria. This one is quite a bit different from the other things I took from the trip. I did a lot of looking from the car. Being in an extremely cramped car for 4+ hours was not very comfortable. Especially because I was cramped with people that I am not all that close with. So I chose to be anti-social and amuse myself by looking at nature. And there was so much of it! I never really took notice of things like trees and mountains and waves. At least not in the way that I did this time around. I passed by beautiful rolling hills filled with golden grasses and saw some amazingly intricate mountain hillsides. I must sound like a nut but seriously, nature is beautiful. Maybe that's why there are so many atheists these days. It's hard to believe in God when you live in a concrete jungle made by the hands of men. All you see in the city is gray gray black black black. Noise. Cars. Roads.
When you are surrounded by mountains instead of multi-story buildings and see nothing but green and gold vegetation over miles and miles of rolling hills as opposed to miles and miles of concrete freeways, it's a great deal easier to see God through Creation. Living in the city gives you the false idea that Man is in power. That we are in control and that we can just pave over everything at will. But when you're out of that element and truly placed at the whim of grand nature, it's hard to be so audacious.
Just a thought...
Anyway, that's enough about the trip. There are other cool things going on that I could share about.
My sister Angela is coming home tomorrow! :D Woooooo hooooo!
I am very excited. I have not seen her in approximately 8 months and I miss her a lot :(
And not just because she's being an awesome sister and bringing me some awesome presents! :D
I am sooo pumped to hang out with her and talk to her. Boy did I take her for granted while she was here! It's too bad this week is pretty busy at school and that I have a damned MUN trip Fri-Sunday. Which means I will be missing church again and also, I won't get a chance to see my sister off back to Berkeley! ARG!!!
Anyway, I also have another thing that I wish to address. There is apparently a "Coffee House Night" of sorts on the 29th at my school. It's pretty much a talent show/fundraiser if I have heard correctly. And I MAY or MAY NOT perform. I am pretty interested in performing but I am kind of afraid of failure! I have to think of some songs I would perform so I am on the search for some good songs.
That reminds me, I have been singing really poorly these days. Not that I was very good before but it has gotten worse. I don't know how or why! Although I have a sneaking suspicion it comes from a lack of practice, jamming, and listening of music. To combat this, I am going to constantly pump the music of good singers around me with the hopes that some of the talent will rub off on me. Or at least inspire me to be ambitious. hahahah
These are some of the artists/songs/genres I am trying to surround myself with:
Umm yeah that's all for now. I feel like I wasted a weekend and also like I'm behind on schoolwork, scholarships, financial aid, and all that jazz. I should get caught up soon.
A relatively short update. But that's all I feel like saying for today.
Yeap.
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