"You can give without loving, but you cannot love without giving..."

First off can we say wha the heck is up w/this weather! Can we say its juss been blazing hot these past couple days! Geez it feels like summer all ova again, pretty soon imma have to turn on the air conditioner inside the house. Cmon give us cold, cold, cold wind, so i can go out and wurr my nice brown jacket i bought for the fall and winter! Make it rain so i can lay down and listen to the raindrops falling from the rooftops(ooh baby tell me whyd you have to go?!) haha get it anyone? Naw forreal i need cold wind juss how winter should be, none of this really hot weather so im wurring shorts. Cali weather always is weird.

I love my confirmation class, despite the fact that its extremely huge! Praise God i have a good aide to help me deal with all 28 of them. THough its mostly juss the guys who do all the talking. It was harder tonite w/o having an aide to get all my admin. work done. For example i have to check off their mass cards, take roll(which makes it hard cuz im still trying to learn names, almost there.), check off these confirmation info sheets they needed to turn in. Have them turn in the rest of their homework as well. At least with an aide that person can do my work for me while i focus on giving to the needs of the kids.

Tonite was great class, errtues nite i look forward to be with them. I truly want to help them grow. Next week i think were gonna discuss apologetics bout the church. ANyway, tonites discussion was about relationships. I had them first journal what qualities they look for in the opposite sex. I was reading/grading most of the papers tonite. Pretty good stuff for being that young of an age. It was tight how some of them perferred that the 'significant other' be catholic. SO after i broke it down to them, i said look im 21 years old i dont have a girlfriend, i never really had one, and do i mind? do i curr? Not really, cuz i know GOd has a plan for me. I said im fine being who i am and not having anyone.

Gave them the whole speel bout whurr they should focus their time. I explained that Jesus didnt spend his years of public ministry looking for that 'someone.' He didnt go from city to city and try to spit game at some girls. He spent his time doing God's work, crying out the gospel. Jesus didnt care about who he should date or wha not. I told them how im at that age whurr its no more lets juss date for a while. I said im at that age whurr i need to focus on whether i see myself spending the rest of my life w/this person. If i say no then obviously then thas not the right person. I said use this time while you can to develop a closer relationship w/God. TO develop a prayer life cuz thas so important

Then i went into the whole say you do find that someone. I shurred w/them that the person that God sends has to be catholic. No doubt. Juss so we shurr the same type of faith background. I told them to look for someone that will help you grow closer to God. Not become a distraction or hinderence. I asked them if theyve seen other people or gone through their own experience of a break up. They all said yes, i said it sucks doesnt it? They said yeah. Then i said why go through that experince if you know wha its like already. One said well youll get experience from it. So i said okay youll get experience, but wha happens when it happens over and over again. Good stuff, i like having class discussions with them cuz it allows them to open their minds and see other things. A girl asked bout the expression, 'seeing each other, ' and my opinion on it. I said to me if theyve been 'seeing each other' for a at least a a couple months or more then i already see them as bf/gf.

Man its tiring reading all these journals especially being that i got almost 30 to read and comment on. Along w/the whole focusing their life priorities on skool and God, i advised them to get involved w/church functions. One of my students is involved with this youf group at St. Boniface called 'El Shidai.' THey do typical youf group activities, praise & worship, service, bible study. So as im reading these journals, i was suprised w/all the qualities they really wanted. It was cool most of them really put thought into it and not juss put 'nice, caring, swe3t...blah blah' SOme of them actually put their reasons behind it. One girl stated that she didnt want anyone who swears. One guy said he didnt want a girl who was going ot be insecure with herself. Meaning when he talks to other girls that are friends, she wont get upset and jealous. THough i noticed the girls put more effort into what they wanted then what the guys did. Good stuff, good stuff! I shouldve read 1 cor 13:1-13 and used that .

SH turned 6 last nite, wow o wow. UNfortunately i missed the mass but i was there for the buffet style potluck! Thought the turn out wasnt as much as last years, its all good. We did though have a couple of cool vistors. A girl named tuy whom i had the pleasure of meeting last wed. at the yfc bonfire came. SHe also brought a couple of her friends from her group @ uci called 'mustard seed.' They asked me how come i missed the mass and i explained ot them how i teach confirmation on tues. nites. I asked when does mustard seeds meet, and she told me on mon. nites. So they asked wha i do on mon. nites. I said well thas probably the only nite whurr im not at a church function. Then they said well you cant leave mon. nites lonely. haha

Christy also came from lf, the only lfer to come. I love their community cuz whenever i go there they make me feel at home. Lf is my 2nd home away from home. I remember the time whurr i was able to go there every sat. Thas whurr i would be on my sat. nites. THough this past yurr ive found it more difficult to get there cuz of my busy schedule. Ill make it up there again soon. Speaking of them, charisse, anthony and christy are going to be coming next tues. I think if theres one group who comes to our prayer meetings the most, it has to be them. THough i gotta return the favor and go up there some more to support them. Its funny when charisse and i were talking how sometimes we want to go elsewhurr, but its juss the drive over there. Thas the killer part and esp. when you dont have anyone to accompany you it gets harder. Praise GOd for loving communities who support each other. There was good food, good people, good fun, good stuff! ahh yes i love it!

IM excited to get started to plan the United Nations, so far i havent really gotten a whole of responses back from the communitites. Looks like charisse and i may juss have to call the different groups to remind them. Its gonna be coo coming together as ONE huge community w/the rest of the communities to shurr ideas and get this 'friendship games' project going. Im going to call it, operation fellowship w/friends. A lot of interesting things have been taking place, not only within my own little world but within the big world as well. I juss read in the paper how recalls in 4 other states have been started thanks to california. That juss totally sucks, see wha message we has californians sent out. Next you know, people will want to recall elected city officials as well. Geez...its becoming a circus!

A 16 year old girl from la habra died early this morning from crashing into a octa bus. She was the passegenger w/her best friend who juss got a new mustang. They were traveling down ball and euclid at tlike 430am this morning i guess popos are trying to figure out which one of them ran the red light. Whether it was the bus or the girl in the mustang. Thas crazy how tragic it made me think how people drive so crazy now a days. Especially teenagers, who speed and rush to get errwhurr. Well im like that too sometimes, if im running behind schedule i try to rush so i can make it on time. So i guess its a sign that your life isnt worf loosing so take things slowly. The pope also installed of the 30 new cardinals, praise God! I love the Pope he juss keeps doing more and more great things to the church, especially within the past month. NEw saints, new cardinals wow, wha more cna you ask for?!

Jennif is gonna accompany me next wed. to my weekly yfc meetings. Shes gonna invite a friend also who goes to yfc, thas gonna be fun. Its always great being able to bring someone else from my community to join me. Speaking of jennif it was great seeing her again last nite, being i ahvent really talked to her in forever! We were able to catch up for a bit. Arisa also made an apperance last nite, until reirich decided ot bone out w/o helping to clean up.haha jk, we kept telling him now that hes on core he has to help clean up. Got to talk to lyn lyn for a bit yesterday when i picked up pics from the soratorios. I miss having her as my co worker. WHo else did i get to catch up with, i guess thas it. Fun stuff taking crazy pics outside last nite juss messin around w/digi cams. Thas the best thing bout digicams you could take endless stupid pics and not worry bout whether youre gonna waste the film or not. Its so much better having a small one then that huge one i use ot have. Thas so ol skool now. haha

Funny thing happened yesterday, so i was calling the burr on my way to work or somewhurr. The phone rings, 'hello?' i thought the burr was on lunch eating at subway cuz i could hurr chewing. I said, 'agh wha are you doing?' Then the person was like huh? whos this?! i thought the burr was messing around so said again, 'agh wha are you doing?!' turns out i got the wrong #, i hung up on the guy i felt retarted, but it was funny.


Teaching SRE is funnnn!

"We gon' clap back, we gon' clap back..."im done, im out GOd bless!