Turkey vs. Fish?

This past week was Thanksgiving Break! It was so exciting to come home and see all my family. I was mainly excited for two things in particular; one reason was because I could sleep in my bed from home and the other reason was because I couldn’t wait to eat home cooked food for a change. I was seriously going through some type of withdraw from my bed from home. I don’t really mind sleeping on the beds in the dorm but it doesn’t compare to the twin sized bed that is so incredibly comfortable at my house, something about being able to roll around in your bed without the fear of falling off of it is very nice. The food was the next thing that I was missing terribly, other than my family of course. My family and I are vegetarians, so when it comes to thanksgiving turkey is not or first option as something to eat. Normally my mom will cook some amazing fish for all of us to eat and some delicious side dishes but this year it was a little different. This yea some of my family members that are not vegetarians decided to come over and join us for Thanksgiving. To appease everyone my mom decided to make cook the fish and bye some chicken pre made from the store. It was a very strange occurrence in my house to smell chicken when I opened up my refrigerator. The last time that I ever smelled meat in my house was when I was in middle school. Somehow my mom seemed to make both the fish and the chicken work well together for thanksgiving and everyone was very full and the end of dinner, even going into the next day.

            Advice: Even though something may seem strange and bizarre to you at first, don’t look to write it off at first glance, give it a try because you could grow and learn from it.   

Victory vs. Defeat

            This past weekend the Eastern Univ. basketball team, that I am a part of, went on a road trip to Ohio. The trip itself, going one way, took around nine to ten hours. It was weird to be in a different state that was so far away, just to play basketball. It almost did not seem real at first but once we got there and we started to warm up I almost couldn’t believe that we were actually here to play basketball. We were well prepared to play the first team that we were scheduled to play that day but we did not have the best start to the game. The other team kept the score pretty close the entire game but we ended up pulling it out at the end. This would mean that we would be in the championship game the following day. This time we could not have any rough starts or it could prevent us from winning the game the next day.

            The next day finally came and it seemed like a long time coming. Finally we are at the place that we drove ten hours for spent a lot of time preparing for and here it was, right in front of us. We started our warm ups but you could definitely feel as though we were kind of flat. This was a very bad thing because as basketball players, it helps to come out in warm ups hyped up and ready to play because you get the feeling that you can do anything you want, almost as it you are a super hero and nothing can stop you. One of our seniors stepped up and brought everyone together in an effort to get our together so we could win this game and it began to work. We started to take thing a little bit more seriously and it seemed like we were going to start out well. Unfortunately, we didn’t start out as well as we had anticipated. We did however keep fighting and we started to get back in the game, in fact we were winning at one point. Then at the end we started to lose our heads and make mistakes. Sadly, the other team began to capitalize on the mistakes that were made but we never stopped fighting and we never stopped working. At the end of the game we came with-in two points of beating the other team and the referees began to make some really bad calls. The game was lost by three points and it was time to go home.

            Advice: Never stop fighting for what you want and for what you believe in because it may turn out that one day what you really needed or wanted may happen for you.

Lucky Day!

         This week was one of the luckiest weeks in the year. On Friday it was November 11, 2011 or 11/11/11 and quite a large amount of people made a wish when it turned eleven o’clock with eleven minutes, making it 11/11/11 at 11:11pm. For myself I simply made a wish but, unfortunately nothing to exciting really happened. So, I wanted to see if anything really happened to anyone else on this day. I looked up the date 11/11/11 into my computer and I found a news feed that I thought was very special, especially considering that 11/11/11 was also Veterans Day.

         The article that I found was called born on the Eleventh Hour. This article talked about how a woman gave birth to her child on the exact hour that it turned 11:11pm. Her husband and her-self did not realize that he was born at 11:11 pm until the nurses began to get excited. The most interesting part of the whole story was the fact that the parents of this lucky baby were also in the military. The mother had retired but the father was still very active on the force. In fact, the couple met in when they were both in the military. God works in amazing was, and I pray that he will continue to watch over our troops until they are all safely home.

                Advice: I have noticed that coincidence are usually an act of God, so make sure to pay attention to them because you never know what may happen or where God is calling you to go.

Leaving So Soon!

This past week was very interesting. I live in a suite were there are three people residing in one room and only two people residing in the other. I live in the room were only two people stay in that room. There has been some underlying tension that has been building in our suit recently. I believed that it was from some issues that were capable of being fixed. So there was a meeting about some of the issues there were going on amongst us. Unfortunately, I did not realize how serious the problems that everyone was having had been building up so much. So it came as a surprise to me to find out that two of the girls from our rooms had decided that they want to move out. It came as even more of a surprise that the other two suitemates also had decided that they are planning on moving into another room on our hall. No one has moved out as of yet and a lot of the tension that used to exist is not really there anymore. Now I have been left as the only one that is not moving to another room. So, you could imagine how stressful this week must have been. One thing that kept me going this week was a song by Adele called Someone Like You,<iframe width="420" height="315" src="http://www.youtube.com/embed/KTTECcPh_dA" frameborder="0" allowfullscreen></iframe>( You should check this video out;). This does mean that I have to find another roommate by next semester, which is another thing that I will add to my to-do list. OH the joys of life!

            Advice: When you are having an issue with nyone, talk to them about it before it is blown out of per portion and it becomes a bigger mess then it need to be.