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Name: Kara
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Birthday: 4/24/1982
Gender: Female
Interests: social justice, NGO's, reading thought-provoking books, scrapbooking, tennis, skiing, tigers, and the Middle East
Most-often-played music at the moment: john mayer, u2, los lonely boys, tourniquet, stryper, aerosmith, james taylor and casting crowns
Expertise: heh.
i'm an expert at being human.
to be godly i have an infinity of learning to do.
but i guess i may be an expert on PEZ...which is kinda weird....but then again, i'm kinda weird...so it fits.
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12/26/2004
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| Alright, so I guess now's the time to talk about that amazing weekend I had...I'm not so great at keeping up with this!
I attended General Assembly of the Nazarene church two weekends ago in Indianapolis. On Friday morning I was looking around in the exhibition hall at the displays of ministries and Christian businesses, and I ran into Aziz, an Iraqi who I met in Jordan last year. As I was talking to him he introduced me to an Iraqi man named Wisam, and Wisam and I got into a conversation about our lives, our hopes, our goals...we could see right away that we had a lot in common. So he asked me if I would go to dinner with him that night, and I happily accepted. To make a long story short, we hung out that night, Saturday, and Sunday, and I have very strong feelings for him. He feels the same way, and we had a very tough time saying goodbye on Sunday. He's in Baltimore right now on a preaching assignment, and is possibly going to fly to Chicago this week to see me before he goes back to Turkey...that's right, he lives in Turkey right now...but God has ways of working things out.
We've talked several times this past week and I feel very connected to him. I can't tell yet what God's plan is, but it was no coincidence that I met him. I'm really excited to see what develops...I'll keep y'all posted!
on another note, jacki and i went to cornerstone this weekend! good times were had by all! jars of clay put on their most amazing show ever and i was SOOO blessed...like a hippie ;). and there was a seminar on prison ministry going on, another gift from God and reassurance that Rachel's House is where He wants me next year. I'm so excited! and i just can't hide it!! | | |
| today's been a little frustrating so far. belna left me to do the food pantry by myself, which was perfectly fine. but secondly, i was put in charge of emergency services, and apparently i haven't been informed about all of our 'policies' yet. a homeless man came in to get a bus pass to the hospital for surgery on his broken leg (which he's now waited 30 days for this appointment). well, belna's out of bus passes, so i was trying to ask around for money to give him to buy passes. mistake #1. we can't give out money in ANY circumstance (which to me, is ridiculous). so i finally inquire around until i find two usable bus passes. so he takes them, i let him sit in the office for a few minutes to eat something from the pantry (which i guess i'm not supposed to trust him to sit in there alone, mistake #2). i wanted him to take the elevator, but according to some staff, for some reason he wasn't 'good enough' to use our handicapped facilities (that's in my own words)...
and yeah, he fell down the stairs. i ended up cleaning up his bloody hand (while people are saying, don't touch him!) and we had to call an ambulance to take him to the hospital. and even the emergency workers seemed super apathetic about his situation. is it because he's homeless? or hispanic? or because he doesn't really matter to anyone around here? i wonder who he has who loves him. i hope he knows that Jesus does.
so today i'm going on a spontaneous trip to house in the wood in wisconsin til tomorrow night to help get camp ready for the summer. i just decided this morning when i got to work, so i'm just gonna be scrubby and not change clothes for two days :). but it's gonna be fun and a pleasant change from this depressing atmosphere.
love y'all. | | |
| I was reading through headlines on MSN today, one of which was "Archeaologists find 2,000 year-old shoe". Hot DOG!
i found another article about going to weddings as a single woman, as 82% of weddings are between may and october...i have a ton to go to in the near future. the article's posted in my livejournal.
after today my nerves will be quite calm. tonight is the noble street concert, in which i'm accompanying the concert choir and also directing the jazz choir. i'm more nervous about the piano playing part, as i am solely responsible for the choir staying on task. i always seem to choke at moments like that.
of course, let's wait and see how i feel before erin rumbley's wedding next week. my nerves will be sky high when i'm about to start the bridal march. i'd much rather sing than play piano. i trust my voice much more than my fingers; after all, there's only one vocal cord to control and ten appendages.
i'm starting to feel the anxiety now also of moving in a few months for such a long period of time. really, i'm not as courageous as people may think i am. i'm a wuss and i'm gonna cry a lot and prolly be homesick very often. i'm going to bring only as many possessions as i can fit in my car in one trip. after all, the women coming out of prison will probably have even less than that. yesterday i went to target to exchange a gift, and i found myself wandering through the aisles, seeing things i wanted and trying on clothes. i'm still so much more materialistic than i want to be! no matter how much poverty i see, no matter how much it momentarily affects me, i always seem to end up still wanting what i don't need and wishing i were someone different than i am. how long before it will really penetrate my will and my soul for good?!
i've got a client, i have to go. lata! | | |
| i love coming to work early and being the first one of the morning to use the bathroom. it smells so fresh. the rest of the day there's this constant lingering noxious odor that catches you as soon as you open the door, and sometimes even if you're standing too close to it in the hallway.
there's leftover pizza in the staff kitchen from last night, and it's taking all i have in me not to eat some right now. i didn't bring a lunch today, so hopefully i can hold out til then. of course on fridays, lunch is pretty much whenever i want it to be...so it may be sooner rather than later :)
this morning i got up at 5:30 and drove my parents to the airport for their week long excursion to the sun in florida. i wore mickey mouse ears on the way there to set the mood. (:3 i'm excited for them. they needed this vacation. and a week with the house to myself won't hurt me either! unless it does...lol, some of you may be getting midnight phone calls when i'm scared of my house's creepy noises. jacki and i are gonna have a sleepover...on a WORK DAY!!! heh, crazy.
i've felt kinda bad for the new maintenance guy at work this week, pedro. see, whenever i'm stocking the pantry, i fold up all the empty boxes from food and put them in a corner in the hallway for maintenance, steve or tony, to take to the recycling bin outside. normally, i put like 50 boxes out there before one of them loads up and ships them all outside. well, since pedro's come, you'll never see one box in that hallway for a period of over ten minutes. as soon as i put one out there, i come back a few minutes later and it's gone. pretty good service if you ask me....but i feel like someone should tell him to let them pile up for a while first so he's not making 200 trips outside a day. my spanish isn't quite good enough to really get the point across clearly...and i've already had numerous misunderstandings with him. oh well. steve will be back next week, he took off cuz his wife just had a baby.
welp, there's my exciting life for you! i'm gonna go work for a few hours on my americorps documentation that's due monday. | | |
| so, i've been told that i look like people before, but this one was prolly the strangest yet...
there's a 70 year old guy named Juan who comes in every month, sometimes, more frequently, to the food pantry for help. he's always very friendly to me, says "may God bless you" many times, and laughs when i try to speak in spanish to him. he's one of my favorites.
today he comes in to get food and we start holding a spanglish conversation as usual. he asks me if mother's day is this sunday, and i say "no, i think it's the 8th, so in two weeks". he says he'll be back then. i ask him for what. he says, "i'll have something for you."
this threw me off a little. i told him that i'm not a mother.
so he says, "my mother died, you look just like her. when i see you, i think of her. so i will bring you something. thank you, God bless you"
so, i'm getting a mother's day gift....because i look like someone's dead mother.
weird. but...okay... :) | | |
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