Sick---->Recovering

I was sick after coming back from the camp in Connecticut. 

I woke up at 3 am, and felt nauseous and my stomach felt uncomfortable. I threw up twice and had diarrhea for few times. Even though it was warm in my room, I felt really cold, so I wore my warmest coat to sleep. I think I ate too much of different foods in the camp. And esp. I had a past records of stomachaches because I'd eaten too many different kinds of food. In the morning, I didn't feel like eating anything but congee, so I ate and laid in the couch awhile before going to BB meeting. In the afternoon after meeting, I ate with my family and then went to the doctor, and rest most of the time.

I feel so much better now, and I'm being careful of what I'm eating. When the times I was sick, I realized that there are many people cared about me. The my family and B/S in church were concerned about me. I hope I didn't sound like a trumpet when I was not feeling well, but it's their concern that made me recover much quicker than before I was sick. And TG that He has been listening to my misery. I guess after I recover I still need to be careful of what I eat in my daily life. : )

P.S - Class registration tmr, I pray that I can register all the classes that I need&want to take. : )

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving!
In my opinion, I think giving thanks is not only on Thanksgiving, but also to give thanks everyday for everything that I have. But looking back at 2008, there are a lot of things I should be thankful for. Even though they are not always big events, or even miracles, but it is the little things that make up of what I have now that counts, especially all the things that are given by God:

1. I’m thankful that I can live in the U.S. Even though I know there are some things I like and don’t like of where I live, but comparing to many poorer countries, I can enjoy and have many luxuries that others may never enjoy in their whole life.

2. I’m thankful that I have many “easy” classes this year, and obtain a satisfying term GPAs overall. Comparing to the classes and grades I had for the past semesters, I feel that this year; my classes has gone very smoothly, with many of God’s blessings.

3. I’m thankful that I have obtained my driving license. It’s not easy to obtain one since the road test is considered difficult of where I live, but I’m glad I’ve passed it. I hope to have chance to practice my driving skills to better prepare myself.

4. I’m thankful that I have peace for my future, or my career path. For the past months it has been a roller coaster ride for me in terms of what I should do in my future. It feels that everything is fallen into place now as I’m preparing myself for graduation next year. I continue to pray that I will have a good career path waiting for me in the future, with peace and hope.

There are so many things I can thank for, yet it will not be finish if I list them all. However, I will continue to give thanks everyday for what I have. I know that what I’ve obtained myself, there are blessings and grace from God along the way.
I end this blog with “Give Thanks”, a beautiful song that motivates me to live my abundant life everyday, that I’d never felt that I had in the past.

"Give thanks, with a grateful heart
Give thanks, to the Holy One
Give thanks, because He’s given Jesus Christ, His Son (x2)
And now, let the weak say I am strong
Let the poor say I am rich
Because of what the Lord has done for us (x2)

Give Thanks!" : )

P.S – I’m looking forward to see the movie “Tales of Despereaux”. I remembered last summer I picked this book for summer reading for my students. Now they made a movie, and it’s showing on Christmas. Hope it’s good as the book. : )

Accidents

I just encountered two accidents in one week from last week. Thank God I was not the subject of the accidents, but it's a little shocking to encounter twice in a week.

The first accident was when I saw a woman fainted in the lady's locker room in my gym. On Wednesday after swimming, I was waiting on the line for the shower. I saw the Chinese woman standing normally by the door of the steam room. After only few minutes when I finished my shower, people were a little panic because that woman was lying on the ground and the women said she'd fainted . They called the ambulence and she was sent to the hospital afterwards. I helped call her family phone since she was Chinese, but no one answered. It was the first time I'd seen someone was unconscious.

On Friday night when I was waiting for the bus on the bus stop, I saw a minivan driving in normal speed to past to the intersection with the green light, but it crashed to another minivan with a loud "psshh!!!", which was horizontally on the other side of the intersection. There were a lot of pedestrians by the side of the crash of two minivans. the minivan which was being crashed was able to move to the side, but the minivan which crashed the other one just stopped there, but the driver did not came out of the car as more people were curiously looking inside the car to see if he got hurt. (I think he/she did) It was also the first car crash that I actually seen almost without a blink of an eye. I was startled and was in a little even when I was riding the bus home.

Before these two accidents happen, everything seemed to run normally. Who would've thought the next minute, something unexpected or bad would happen? I'm sure the Chinese woman and the drivers did not expect the accident to happen to them either. But it happened so quickly. Even though usually when accidents do happen, mostly the bystanders would try to help with the situation, but I was wondering, how much can they help them with? Maybe I'm not a person who have seen a lot of these accidents happen before me very often, and maybe these seemed to be minor accidents, but it made me wonder, how could we predict them? Or what if the situation is much worst, like probably to the point of death? What can the subjects do? Or to what extent can people, even doctors or nurses can help them? What if these life-and-death accidents happen to you or me, how would you might've felt? How much can you do about it? To me I wouldn't know much. I probaly felt scared and shocked, and even nothing if I'm unconscious. But what I know is that I would put it into God's hand, or even have more peace, which I probably wouldn't have had if I never believe.

I pray for the woman and the drivers, that they would recover from the accidents.

I attended a B/S wedding this morning. It was very cold today, but it was good. The choir did well too. Lol.

Psalm 23:4 - "Even though I walk through the valley of the shadows of death, I will fear no evil, for You are with me; You rod and staff, they comfort me."

Relaxing Saturday~~

This Saturday is the first Saturday that I did not have to go to work early in the morning. So I didn’t have to wake up too early (as usual), and slept for few more hours. (Though I miss my Saturday school students a lot, aww…). Nevertheless, it’s good to have a morning off which I don’t have to worry to do anything.

It is nice out, with mild cold breezes. I’m glad to hang out with my friends, whom I haven’t seen for months. We ate brunch to celebrate our friends’ belated Birthday. We ate and talk, it was great to hang out as a “Murrow family”. We even stood outside the restaurant to talk for a long while before splitting. Lol. It seemed like we couldn’t leave each other Lol… Although we are going to different schools and moving towards with different careers and everything, it seems this bonds from High school split. I wish we can still hang out every few months and see how gradually we’ve been changing (For the better, of course), until some of us have their couples or even with kids, Lol.

After the mid-terms, I feel kinda tired. I guess a week of studying and test-taking has drained much of my energy. Also it reminded me that I need to go to gym more to get my adrenaline going. : P In addition, I miss my little cousins… I haven’t seen them for a while. Hope I’d get to see them soon. : )

Love is...

It was a good hangout day with B/S in Sharon's place.

Happy EFS 10th Anniversary!

Wow, can't believe it's the 10th anniversary for English Fellowship. Although I have not been long enough to be in EFS for 10 whole years, it's quite amazing to see from past-to-present pictures from the slideshow how brothers/sisters has grown. Sunday was the celebration. After we watched the slideshow together, B/S shared about their feelings. ( I shared briefly too!) Then, we had our love feast. (I made salad, Lol...) We ate and played group games. It was quite fun! Reading the EFS memoir makes me feel so blessed to be in EFS. It's so true that even each of us have different personalities and different backgrounds, we can still come together and love each other as like a warm family. It's so amazing that God give us this family-like Fellowship to share with. We eat, go to camp, take pictures, play unos, play basketballs, and many other things together. I hope to continue to learn and grow in EFS. : )

This is the day that the Lord has made... : )

It’s so precious that Lord has given me a beautiful day today. I felt that He had given me so many blessings that I cannot count them all… : )

Count my blessings:
Thank God for this beautiful day today
Thank God for giving me smooth trains to go to work
Thank God for sending me good people to guide to the right directions to work
Thank God for comforting me and walking with me in the unfamiliar place I was in when I was walking to work
Thank God for allowing me to work with nice people today
Thank God that work ended so much earlier
Thank God that I could see a heart shape in the cloud, which made my day <3>