pri*mal= ORIGINAL, PRIMITIVE 2: First in importance

School School School! how I love thee! How I love to be surrounded by friends and books, late nights and Vespers, movies and shopping, learning and living. Homework doesn't even stress me out yet. I love the homework! It's everything I wanna do! This is why people love college! Once you get past most of your Gen. Eds, your good to go! I think it's funny also that we become these people we never thought we'd be.... I mean at the age of 6 or 7 we think we'll never leave our parents, that we wouldn't mind living with them when we are thirty because we adore them and don't know how to function without them. Now here we are escaping from them, feeling that sense of freedom the second we set our stuff in our dorm. And it's not even because you now dislike your parents, but it's just time. God creates these "clocks" within us and I guess somewhere between freshman year and now, it went off, telling me I wanna be on my own.

I think we also all need to take a class in forgiving. I think we hold on to things for no reason. Yes, the person may have hurt us, or gone against their word, or something equally devastating. But Kara and I were talking about it and really, it's a win win situation to forgive. One, the Lord says to forgive. Forgive those who trespass against you.... that should be reason enough. Two, if you don't forgive someone, it'll destroy them. I know that's kinda hard to understand, but like look at this scenario. I had a friend who did something very wrong in my eyes, and I was left to feel horrible. I held it against him, hating him for what he tried to do. But we eventually talked and I forgave him because I didn't feel right hating him. And it turns out he wanted to change and changed a lot of things in his life and I'm here to support him for that. He needed me because his friends weren't the best influence and he needed someone to listen and help him get through some rough times. I can not just sit back and watch someone drown. I just can't. If God can give us a second, third, fourth, and a fifth chance, can't we be the same?

Lets see... now for some not so deep thoughts. Life has been crazy for me, especially in the last couple of weeks. I mean I went to Nebraska for Laura's birthday with Zach, Kara, and Justin. That was an amazing time. We got to have some quality with Mason and Laura, we sung Kareoke, explored Lincoln and Omaha, and swam every night. It was just nice to spend time with someone who lives so far away from you! So yay to her and her birthday! Besides that, there has been the whole moving in process. That has been crazy. I've had to pack and unpack my whole life within four days, settle in, and reconnect with all my school friends. It's just crazy! I've seen so many people I know in this last week of school, and it's been good! I enjoy all of them, and just can't see where this year takes us. Oh yes, and as I said, school is just so amazing. I love my classes, I love my teachers, and I love being challenged in the way I need to be challenged. Odd statement I know, but it's true. I'm just saying that this will be an interesting year, and I feel that I'm really gonna grow as a person. YAY!

Anyway, this weekend was good! Full of adventures! I went to Molly's and watched Shooter and fake played guitar and had a nice long convo with molly! I worked on Saturday and then hanging out with seward from late afternoon till late morning of Sunday. We shopped, talked, saw my sister in Eagan, went out to eat, went to St. Thomas, to Bethel, and back to her car in Plymouth. It was just really nice to have that time with her and I dunno. I enjoyed it. We also got to see Jen, Zach, Michael, and Kara. Always a blast!!! OH OH OH!! That reminds me, my birthday plans are in order! We have three options for people to choose from so anyone reading this should read carefully, and pass it on so we can get this stuff underway!

BIRTHDAY PLANS- OCTOBER 20th- OCTOBER 21st
*FIRST- For the few who have the money and would love to listen to these bands, Relient K and Switchfoot are playing at Concordia University and I wanna go with people. Tickets are $20 + shipping and handling. Go to ticketmaster whenever cuz the seats are standing room only so we all dont' have to buy them at the same time, ,just tell me if your coming!
*SECOND- For those who don't want to spend too much money, or can' treally do the other things, I wanna do a dinner or desert somewhere. Just be in a group atmosphere. It'd be really nice to see everyone, and i've noticed that for all our 21st birthdays, we've been in huge groups, and I like that. =) So this all has to be determined still, but I say yes.
*THIRD- I'm thinking of renting a hotel room for the night in minneapolis. We're looking into prices and places, but It'll probably be $10-$20 per person. That's why it's for those who are willing, don't feel bad if you don't want to. I jsut wanted to do something out of the ordinary.

I am saying all of this in advance so if you wanna come and hang out, you can just put some money aside... .you have over a month, so I think it's a good amount of time to know what's going on. I hope all of you show up for at least one of the events! YAY birthdays! Spread the word!

Anyway, time to go. Time to do homework (yay!) I love you all and I'll write more later!

Amy <3