Make it clap!: Overjoyed

"Let me get through it today, and I shall not fear tomorrow..."

Wow so many different things going on, whurr shall I begin? Well we got dsl now so well be getting rid of our AOL account soon. Which kinda sucks cuz Ive had AOL forever, then to ahve a whole new email account kinda sucks. I hate changes sometimes haha cuz then you gotta get use to errthang and blah blah blah. On top of that my plate is piling up w/so many different things going on. Its a little stressful, but I know God doesnt give me anything I cant handle. Let's see I also put in my app. for CSUDH for the fall. So please, please keep me in your prayers that I'll get accepted. I know I havent blogged in ages, so hurr's a update for yall, so brace yourself it maybe another long one. Ha it may seem a little unorganized w/my thoughts juss kinda jumping all over the place.

It's funny whenever I teach/talk bout reconciliation w/my thurs. kids, soo many questions pop up. I was explaining/defininng the sacrament, what is, what you do, importance of it etc. They're so funny cuz some of them sturrt to get a little skuured. One of the kids said, he doesnt want to go face to face cuz he saw some skurry movie whurr something happened in the confessional. Great! Then the questions of, 'well wha happens if you forget?' or 'do you gotta tell him everything?!!' then the all time favorite, 'are they gonna tell our parents or something?' haha kids I love it!

I titled this overjoyed after realizing something the past couple of weeks. Confirmation went real well last nite, I was able to 'convince' one of my kids after seeing them on mass on sun. to play the geetar for class. We'll for the past month, we've been singing the Mother Mary song, so we've been using the CD. No more CD for us though, ha I gave one of my kids the cords to learn it on the geetar, so we sang it straight from the geetar last nite. Wow it was juss great cuz I really felt the presence of the spirit thurr w/us last nite. THen we finished 'catholic relationships 203' last nite. The past two weeks we've been focusing on relationships and dating. Praise God for banne who sent me these really good articles in terms of dating. It was really good cuz the guy who wrote couldnt of put it any better.

It seems like after the past two weeks of discussing it, they got a lot out of it. Which really good, praise God! The next purrt is juss them hopefully remembering errthang we discussed and applying in thurr lives. Im gonna be sad after may comes and thurr confirmed cuz they wont be mine anymore. Truly these guys are one of the many things GOd has truly blessed me with. At the same time, it made me realize juss how much passion I have to teach. How definetly this is something I would love to do for the rest of my life. Working w/kids you juss get this incredible feeling of happiness, even in the times of frustrations and errthang else. Im sure those like jaymee and banne can attest for this. Especially teaching SRE you get soo much out of it, even yourself cuz the kids feed you at the same time you feed them. Hurr's a scenario that me laugh last nite, I was passing out papers and it went a little something like this:

student: jason...

me: yes?

student: are you dating anyone?

me: (laughs) no

student: are you talking to anyone? or seeing anyone?

me: I laugh again, '(Name), why are you so interested in my personnel life.

student: because I've known you for a long time already, and i want to see you get murried and have kids.

I juss thought that was funny, despite the fact that I'm far from ready for anythign like that, it was juss funny she asked. Its moments like those that make you laugh, smile look up and say, 'Praise God.' Yeah, class isnt always easy, especially when thurr talking but you can juss see it in your eyes the yearning to learn and want to know more. Its even more exciting to see some of my boys come and help me out on thursday nites, since thurr siblings are going through classes on thurs. anyway. ITs crazy though at the same time how I've had soo many of thurr siblings whether on thurs. or tues. in the past. I'm so blessed, that I am.

We had our first official household on monday at my work, I was working at the same time while having household. It was long, but never the less it was coo. Despite the fact thurr was only 5 of us out of wha 12 or 11, it was still fun. We were looking up jordan's friendster after household was over. Household should be fun being that we all know each other and blah blah. So now pretty much errday of my week is filled up.

It seems that I'm not able to receive text messages as of late, I dont know why. As of sunday I was still able to receive them. Now I gotta go to the cingular sturr and check it out to see whas the matter is. Agh I hate calling cuz Im on the phone forever. I didnt realize also that my contract expires in january of next yurr, rather then july. So now that att & t and cingular are officially, 'one' its gonna be interesting to see the changes that are gonna happen. I need to go over to cingular anyway to find out bout unlimited text and the 1000 any time for $39.99 before my billing plan expires.

POps and I had a briefing bout goals and plans for the first core term. It's gonna be exciting, a lot of hurrd work but never the less good. More good things are coming to SH that Im confident that God will continue to use this community to produce more good fruits. I'm also excited to see the new leaders grow and help this community grow. I jokingly told him last wednesday, 'your first 100 days have now sturrted.' haha Speaking of elections, its hurrd to believe one week from now we'll hopefully have a new president. I dont think I've ever seen so many different tv stations emphasize the importance of voting. Im also glad to see so many young people getting involved in the election. Its probably gonna be one of the most important elections in our time.

This past couple months I dont think I've ever driven down to anaheim hills so much haha! Went out to fridays w/reirich on sunday, then came back to have a very interesting conference call w/alaine. ha We sat thurr listening to hurr analyze 'fashion.' She gave reirich her speel on wha you are if you whurr a certain brand or type of clothing. It was so funny cuz before she called we were sitting thurr and we juss sturrted to do a whole timeline from the time he came into the community till now. It's hurrd to believe he's only been around 2 yurrs but it seems so much longer. Anyway, good times, great guy to chill with...he's a good listener...sometimes...ha joking.

I have a new fav tv show now, remember that show new york undercover? It use to be on thursday nites like @ 9pm long time ago. I love watching that show! I watch it now in the mornings. ITs bout those two decetives, one's black and the other's latino. I remember coming home on thurs. nites after sre and turning it on to channel 11 juss to watch new york undercover.

Agh im hoping its gonna rain on friday nite, but its highly doubtful. Im getting tired of working special events. Actually im getting tired of working altogether! I keep forgetting to look at the job fliers at work. I think if all I did was after skool program and not have to work special events, then it'd be coo. THen we have all the holiday events coming up as well, oh its gonna be one busy rest of the yurr. I can't even believe how fast this yurr is slowing ending. Hey makeitclaps 2nd birfday is coming up in a month! haha Wow makeitclap will turn 2 this yurr! haah makeitclaps birfday is also the 50 11 other birfdays going on next month. Wow!!

OH! I went to friendship games on sat. w/calvin, we came at the end of it. Anyway, I was juss kinda laughing to myself cuz obviously the first thought that came into mind was 'spirit games.' So we walked around and saw all these d0pe shirts from the different skools. Like I saw one group that had a shirt that said, 'I love TM.' The same type of like the 'I love NY' shirts. I thought that'd be d0pe to have for SH! I love SH! haah Wha else oh yeah this other group had a shirt that said, 'f.o.b.' which said on the back, 'friendship or bust' haha THen thurr was this other skool who had this other shirt that was made by lrg but had this long all thing in back, which I thought was tight. Calvin was making fun of me cuz I wanted to take all these ideas to use.

Okay thas all for now, I gotta run some errands. So in the meantime, enjoy these pics!! I've been meaning to post them forever but juss barely got them yay!!