Guess what?!?! I'm posting another one and it hasn't even been a full week:) haha I just wanted to fill ya'll in on more that has been going on here (and yes, I will come home saying ya'll..I can't help it :p) On Holloween, Morgan and I bought tshirts that glow in the dark with pumpkin faces on them and we wore them all day! It was awesome matching my roomie! lol we had lots of fun taking pictures and turning off the lights to watch our shirts glow..haha! We also went to a concert at the Belcher center (which is where we have chapel on MWF) and it was really fun! At first it was kind of boring because everyone was just sitting in their seats, but then me, Abby, Karis, and Moe decided to run down in front of the stage and start jumpin around....lots of other students followed us then and were jumping around! It made the concert a lot better;) Except for this one moment when some guys were "moshing" and I got slammed into the stage...but other than that, it was great!! Also, on Tuesday night, intramurals for soccer started; we had our first game and we lost 4-0, but the team we played had nine and we only had seven, so it wasn't that bad....plus our floor has very few athletic girls so it's kinda difficult to win:) haha I think that's what makes it so much fun! But anyway, I was running a lot and playing as hard as I could and by halftime, I was SO tired! lol I seriously couldn't move. Today, I am pretty sore from playing.....I think I need to work out more often :p but it's a lot of fun and I'm glad I'm playing!

Another thing that is starting is me and my RA are accountability partners and we are going to meet once a week and go through the Bible. I'm really excited to do that because I love Angela(RA)! She is tons of fun and it will be good to have an upperclassman to talk with! So, if you could just keep us in your prayers that would be great!!

Well, that's all for today! I love you all and hope you are having fabulous days and weeks!
Love,
Mo

Hey everyone....I know, I know..it's been way too long! I have had multiple people tell me to post on here so here you go!!! I will try and keep this more updated I promise:) These past couple of weeks have been crazy. Some weeks are long and others seem to fly by! I have caught up completely on my homework that I missed which is great, but school is pretty overwhelming right now. Most of my classes are giving lots of homework and there are so many things I would rather do than homework:) So, if you think about it, prayer would be good for me!

Things with the girls on my floor are going great! I have had so much fun getting to know the girls! We have done a lot of random fun things like making pumpkin chocolate chip cookies, going to the Longview High School football game, bowling, staying up all night, and lots of other fun stuff! :) They are all really great! Me and Morgan decided to change our room around again and it is so awesome! I think this will be the last time we move it around because we love it so much! We put both our beds on lofts and put them next to each other. It's like we have one big bed and it's awesome! Underneath our beds we put our desks and chair and we hung sheets around the two sides so it's like our own little fort!! :) It is pretty sweet and all the other girls are jealous haha...I know there's lots more I want to tell you, but that would require me to write a book and I'm not feelin up to that this afternoon! lol but I hope you all are happy that I finally wrote on here!

I just want you all to know how desperately I love and miss each one of you. It was such a blessing in disguise to come home because the situation was horrible but I got to see all of you and hug you. You all have been so wonderful to me and I love you very much. I could not have been blessed with better family and friends...you are incredible!

Well, thats all for now. I have to go do some homework so I will hopefully get on here again soon! I love you all and thanks for all your prayers and emails and cards! It means so much to me. I love you!
~Mo

Here Comes a Long One! :)

Hey everybody~
I realize that I haven't written on here in about two weeks so I apologize! So much has happened these past couple of weeks that I'm sure this post is going to be long:) Lets see....where to start?..
Well, first of all, classes are still going really well for me. I'm keeping my grades up in almost all of them and so far have been comprehending a lot! The flight lab I'm in is going ok. It's probably my hardest and most important class right now. I am needing lots of prayer for that! Especially the conviction to go and practice (which my parents have already talked with me bout that haha). I had my first big test in my flight science class and was pretty nervous BUT I got an 82% on the test! I was really excited because one of my friends, Jessie, told me that I scored higher than other kids who already have their license! That made me feel pretty good, I'm not gonna lie:) So, yea, school work is going pretty good so far!!

Intramural football has started up and our floor is participating...it is so much fun! We play flag football and currently my position is wide receiver! lol it's very entertaining to watch some of these girls play because half of them have no idea what they are doing! We have had two games so far and unfortunately lost them both, but we're having a great time playing! It's also been a great way for me to get to know some of the girls on my floor better. Because of how our floor is set up, it's hard to get to know the girls in some of the other suites because I don't see them as often. But now that football has started up, we have been practicing and playing together which is so much fun! Oh! And I scored a touchdown:) hehe it was great

This week has been really great in that I am getting to know the girls in my suite a lot better! One girl, Amanda, and I had a long talk last night and just shared alot about eachother and I'm so happy we did because I finally have gotten to see more of who she is! Also, we as a suite have done a lot more with each other. Last week we went out and took some pictures and we all dressed alike and took some fun pics! I'll post some of them up so you can see them. It was a lot of fun!

This past weekend, my cornerstones group went on a little retreat for a night to a campground in Arkansas. We camped out for the night and just relaxed! It was a nice break from school! There is this river that goes through the campground so on Saturday we went swimming....it was SO COLD! The water was freezing and after awhile you got numb so you couldn't really feel it. haha you looked around and everyone in our group was just sitting still and shivering! It was really funny:) We had a good time but I was glad to come back to campus the next night!

Every Sunday night we have this thing called Prayer and Praise. Students go into this smaller chapel and we basically sing and pray and it is one of my favorite parts of the week! I cannot express to you how incredible it is to be surrounded by so many who share the same faith as you. I know we experience this in church, but its so encouraging to have all these kids my age truly seeking the Lord. It's been great too, to break off into groups for prayer time because we can all just share what is going on with each other and sometimes we don't even know the people in our group but since we all share Christ in common, it doesn't matter. We can just put everything out there and it's ok. I absolutely love it and just wanted to share that with you all! :) God is good and I know this is where he wants me right now. I really enjoy this school! But don't worry because I'm not gonna live in Texas:) When I say I like the school, the state is not implied lol and therefore you won't have to worry about me liking it so much here that after school I will live here...thats definately not the case! haha

So there are definately some cultural differences here in Texas that I've noticed. For example, Texans call pop "Cokes"...it's really weird and I can't figure out how they know when they are talking about a coca-cola or pop because its the same word! Strange! Also, they call shopping carts buggies! I told Morgan..."that's what the amish drive!" :) haha Oh and..you know how Florida doesn't have good grass? Well Texas' grass is just like Floridas! I'm still trying to figure out why Texans like their state so much:) Oh and I was driving somewhere the other day and saw a sign along the road that said "Don't mess with Texas." This sign kind of looked like a speed limit sign with the white background, black letters kind of thing...I mean did the gov. people of Longview decide to put that up or what?! Crazy Texans! haha Well I love you all and hope things are going well for you! Miss you and I will try not to wait two weeks til the next post! :)

LOVE YOU!

Flight:)

By the way...today I had my flight sims lab and I got a 92.5% on my work for this week! I was feeling a lot more comfortable and confident. Thanks for your prayers! Love you.

Redecorating!

So this week went really great and really fast! I couldn't believe it was the weekend already! Classes so far have been pretty good...nothing too awful and so far my grades are still doing good! The flight simulators are difficult but slowly getting easier which is good. I've been much more encouraged about them but I still need lots of prayers because none of the manuevers are getting any easier! :)
This week we had some Extended Orientation activities which were really fun. I only participated on Friday night because I had homework the rest of the week but we played capture the flag with our brother floor (2A) and teams were freshman vs. upperclassmen. The freshman won! We had a great time! After the game ended, we went to this hill at the center of campus to find the "Berm Beast." None of the freshman had any clue what this was but we went up the hill anyway...then, some of the boys pushed this huge tire up to the top of the hill (I was still confused by this point). When they got it up and started pulling out padding from the middle and handed someone a helmet, I realized that the Berm Beast was the tire and you got in it to ride down the hill! It was the funnest thing ever! When I got in I thought, "this is going to be crazy..." then they pushed me down and it felt like I was rolling forever and it was so much fun! When they stopped me at the end of the hill, I got out and was so dizzy! haha I had to hold on to some people til i got my balance back but it was really fun!
2A had to do a lot more EO stuff than us girls did and one of the boys had to come in and sing to me. The song Fall for You by Secondhand Serenade...yea it was awkward! He told me later that my face was really red...I didn't know what to do with myself when he was singing...it didn't help that there were lots of other people crowded in my room and I was sitting on top of my bed as he looked up to sing to me. It was funny and awkward!
Another EO activity involved our brother floor pushing a truck with a trailer full of G1 girls on the back...it was a nice ride around campus for the girls but I felt bad for the guys who were pushing the truck! :) After that we went up in the mushroom building to play some games. One of the games we played was "I have never." One person has to stand in the middle, say something they have never done, and everyone else has to get up and find an open seat...well it got pretty intense and people were running into each other to find chairs and one time I got up to run across and I ran directly into someone! I hit my head pretty hard but luckily neither one of us was hurt too bad;)
Me and Morgan went to another girls room last night and got some really great ideas of how to decorate/design our room...so, after we left we went to our room and completely rearranged everything! We bought wrapping paper and put it on one of our walls and then we got some frames and put those up and lights and pictures and of course my michael phelps poster :) and we got a $1 shower curtain and are using it as a curtain for our window! It looks so cool and i love it!! :) The pics are of our NEW & IMPROVED room so you can all see how awesome our room is:) ha we love it!
Prayer Requests for this week:
-my parents are headed to Africa this week so safe travels for them!
-continuous prayer for my schooling and flight simulators
-that our floor would continue to get closer together
-and that I wouldn't miss home too bad and these next few weeks go fast so I can come home for Thanksgiving:)
Love you all!
Oh yea! I almost forgot! On Thursday night we came into our room and there were termites on our printer and floor! It was so gross...then, Friday night, we found a few roaches!!!!!! We were too scared to sleep in our room that night so we moved our mattresses out into our suites lounge and slept there for the night! The next morning we went to Target and found some bug spray so we better not find any more of those in our room!!! :)

End of First Week!

Well my first week of school is over! I'm so happy it is the weekend! Classes have been interesting; most of them gave lots of homework. I really like my classes even with the work because each of them start out with prayer and devos. A completely different atmosphere than what I'm used to, but it makes school easier to handle. My flight science class is going to be a lot of work...I believe our teacher put it like this, "It's going to feel like your'e drinking from a fire hydrant." So that is going to be a rough class.

My flight science class has a lab that goes with it where we practice on simulators. Yesterday was my first time and we practiced taking off. It was a lot harder than I thought. To be honest I felt a bit discouraged after I left that class because I couldn't seem to catch on quite as fast as some others in our class. I know it is only the first time I've done it, but it is still frustrating. I was just practicing before writing this and I still did bad. But I will be practicing a lot over the weekend because we are getting graded on it on Tuesday! So, I'm going to need prayer for that please!

I am having a great time getting to know the girls on my floor, people in my classes, and our brother floor. In case you are thinking, "what's a brother floor?" I'll tell you:) Our floor and a floor of one of the guys dorms are brother and sister floors. Basically we just hang out and eat together. It's a good way to get to know other people! The other day we had all school communion and our brother floor came to escort us to the chapel. I figured that meant they were coming over to walk our group...but i was wrong :) Apparently, they really meant that they wanted to escort us! Individually! When one of the guys came up and asked if I was ready to go, and I didn't grab his arm, he was a bit confused. Then I realized "OH! You are actually going to escort us!" and so we continued to walk to the chapel. Lol quite a mix up!

We have a class here for every incoming freshman called cornerstones: a welcome-to-college kind of class. I am really liking our group! Once again a chance for me to get to know people and make more friends...which is what I want! :) And I just found out that we get to go on a camping trip with our group overnight and I'm very excited! However, on the night we are leaving, I had a free ticket to go to a Shawn McDonald concert and I really wanted to go to the concert. So it's going to be a bittersweet night unfortunately! But it should be a really fun time!

As of right now, I can't really think of anything else that has been going on. So I will end this post! :) I love you all and wish that I could come home and camp out for Labor Day! haha I hope you all have a great weekend! I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU I LOVE YOU!

Prayer Requests:
-I can get the hang of the simulators (especially on tuesday when I am graded)
-still the girl on my suite who lost her friend
-and that I can get all my homework done this weekend :)

Thank you to all of you for praying and supporting and loving me!

Well classes are going to start tomorrow for everyone...except me! haha I don't have any classes scheduled for tomorrow! It will be a nice break in my week once things really get rolling! I am actually wanting classes to start because then I will have something to do! (I never thought I would say that before:)) Anyway I was thinking that I would start putting up prayer requests that I have so if you would like you could pray for! A few that I have now are
-that classes would go smoothly and I will be able to push myself to work hard!
-there is a girl in my suite that had a friend just pass away a few days ago and she is struggling so pray for comfort and peace for her
-that I would grow so much more in my walk with Christ
-and that my suite mates will all get along and become more comfortable with each other!

Last night all of the girls in my suite got together to play spoons and it was a really good time to bond. I like all the girls! They are laid back and fun and different which I love! I think we will all get along really well...We decided that we are going to have "spoons" night and name a spoons player of the week each week:) We even talked about getting a spoons trophy to display but we'll see if we can find one of those! haha

Well I love you all and I really appreciate all of your support and love. Hope things are going great back home and today is BRITTANY'S BIRTHDAY so make sure to tell her (I told you Brit I wouldn't forget) :) Love you all! Feel free to call or whatever anytime!

Love, Monica

Hello All!

Hey everyone! I decided to create a blog so that I can keep ya'll :) updated on what is going on down here in Texas. Currently it is very hot and humid but our room is nice and cool! My roommate's name is Morgan and she is very nice! I think we will get along really well! My first day as a college student went great. I've met a lot of new people and I know I'm going to have a great time and lots of hard work to do once classes start! I may not get on here all the time but I will try my best to keep you up to date with what is going on here! Feel free to leave messages, I would love to hear about what is going on back at home...I miss you all already and want you to know that God could not have blessed me more to know you all! I love you and hope your'e having a great day! Love, ME :)

P.S. the pictures are of our dorm...Morgans side on the left and my side on the right!