I have finished my first round of 'midterms' in my first term of my first year at U of A! Hip Hip Hooray! Hip Hip HOORAY! HIP HIP HOORAY!
Today has been a joy, I woke up literally smiling over a wonderful and meaningful dream I had. Its such amazement how your thoughts throughout the day add up and give you a filmstrip of life's happenings when your day ends and your able to reminiscent on the good times. It was like a chain reaction, and because of my happy mood, I stepped into my math midterm with a more positive attitude then I had look forward to.
But what doesn't go, what doesn't come, and soon, not soon, already another round of projects, papers and exams are awaiting me to accomplish.
For now I'll just enjoy my happiness a twinkle longer.
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
Sunday, October 11, 2009
What can I say.
Happy! I feel really happy right now. I guess today started out as a shaky nerve-wrack. Pretty much the whole night was: I was so nervous I couldn't sleep. A week ago our new English Pastor gave me a call and told me that this upcoming Sunday he and our Cantonese Rev. wanted Adoria and I to share about our Urban Promise Internship. To be honest I really wanted to do it and bring all that I learnt and shared back to our church. Here's the twist " You will speak and Adoria will be your translator, and then Adoria will speak, and you will ber her translator-IN CANTONESE. say WAAWHAT?! They say "honesty is the best policy", so right away I was straight forward and told him "my Chinese is not that good, can we have translators?" He just kept reassuring us that its alright, we will be fine, we can do it, all that good stuff. Reasurring eh?
After I hanged up I literally like spazzed out to my mother about the most ridiculous things I had ever heard. All she said was 'Your speaking for God, and its not like you don't know Chinese!' I guess moms are right, I was speaking for God and there's nothing I should've been ashamed of. But I was still being a big worry wort and leading up to today I felt really scared that I would mess up and totally blow it. Even yesterday, the both of us had spent an hour translating our supposely '10 minute' script with chinese subs written in English phonix.
So today came and left, and as I was sitting in the pews I felt so uncomfortable like the feeling you get when your about to go into a room for your piano exam (well for me anyways), I was shaky, my heart was pumping fast as I was reading Adoria's script over and over again trying to 'word' it right, and I felt like I desparately needed a washroom. Weird how ardrenaline works eh? Even the people next to me sensed my nervousness. Anyhow, fast forward we were on stage, and although I would do it over again to fix certain mistakes we made or how we said certain things (actually I take that back), its all behind us and I'm actually Thankful for having the opportunity to be a translator. It was a learning experience within itself and I guessed its just one of those things God just throws at you to challenge you.
So I guess I just came to realize that sometimes things just don't work your way, and even if things are not the way you want it to be, it'll work out, God will fix it up and all you have to do is let him have his way. Easier said then done.
Happy Thanksgiving.
God's way or the highway
After I hanged up I literally like spazzed out to my mother about the most ridiculous things I had ever heard. All she said was 'Your speaking for God, and its not like you don't know Chinese!' I guess moms are right, I was speaking for God and there's nothing I should've been ashamed of. But I was still being a big worry wort and leading up to today I felt really scared that I would mess up and totally blow it. Even yesterday, the both of us had spent an hour translating our supposely '10 minute' script with chinese subs written in English phonix.
So today came and left, and as I was sitting in the pews I felt so uncomfortable like the feeling you get when your about to go into a room for your piano exam (well for me anyways), I was shaky, my heart was pumping fast as I was reading Adoria's script over and over again trying to 'word' it right, and I felt like I desparately needed a washroom. Weird how ardrenaline works eh? Even the people next to me sensed my nervousness. Anyhow, fast forward we were on stage, and although I would do it over again to fix certain mistakes we made or how we said certain things (actually I take that back), its all behind us and I'm actually Thankful for having the opportunity to be a translator. It was a learning experience within itself and I guessed its just one of those things God just throws at you to challenge you.
So I guess I just came to realize that sometimes things just don't work your way, and even if things are not the way you want it to be, it'll work out, God will fix it up and all you have to do is let him have his way. Easier said then done.
Happy Thanksgiving.
God's way or the highway
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