Looking Toward Thanksgiving

One of my favorite holidays each year is Thanksgiving. I love all the different foods and fun on Thanksgiving. Each year on Thanksgiving my family wakes up and watches the parade on television, goes to my Pawpaw's house with my mom's side of the family for lunch, and stays there until time to go to my nanny's with my dad's side of the family. We do this every year so that we can spend time with all of our extended family. Not only is Thanksgiving a time of great food, which I absolutely love by the way, but it is also a time that I reflect on my thankfulness. I have so many great things to be thankful for, and I am so blessed. I am thankful for my family, even though me and my younger brother don't get along well I love my family so much. I'm thankful that even though my older brother is in college, he's only 20 minutes away and he comes to see me all of the time. I love this because my older brother and I are very close. Thanksgiving is a wonderful time of year. Also, I chose this picture of ham because I don't like turkey on Thanksgiving, I'd rather have ham. 

Influence on Career Day

At my school, we had a career day on November 16, 2011. Everyone had to choose 4 sessions to attend. The 4 sessions I chose were Engineering, Law Enforcement, Ministry, and Nursing. My favorite session was the nurse session. I don't want to be a nurse, but the way that the lady spoke about nursing and all the perks made me consider to be a nurse. When I grow up, I want to be an actuary or an accountant. The nurse that spoke to us loves her job alot, and it made me think that maybe I would be happy with this job. She did a great job speaking, and I really enjoyed her presentation. I learned a lot about how nurses can work in such different fields with just being a registered nurse.

Food for Julius Caesar's People

This semester my freshmen English class read the play, Julius Caesar. In response to this play, we each had to do a project from a list of different projects. I chose to do the food project. For my project, I researched the dinner, Cena (Coena), from ancient Roman times. I learned many things about the customs and rituals of the ancient Romans during their dinner time. Did you know they layed on a couch to eat supper if they were rich? I didn't until I researched it. I brought in sparkling grape juice, a bag of fruit that included grapes and oranges, and a pork tenderloin that was cooked in grape juice. Each of these things were some of the things that the Romans would have ate duirng Julius Caesar's time. My whole class ate everything with their hands, because the Romans didn't have forks during that time. Here is a link to my presentation on the food.
Ancient Roman Food Prezi

"Be Transformed, Not Just Conformed"

At my private Christian school, we had a spiritual emphasis week during the week: October 31, 2011- November 4, 2011. A spiritual emphasis week is a week that we have chapel everyday, and it's a big emphasis on a certain topic each year. Our school usually has these weeks twice a year. This year the week is about being transformed, not conformed. The speaker, Brent, challenges us everyday to stop living out the good and evil and just live out the life of Christ. One of my favorite things we have talked about this week is the stuff we went over the first day, being refined. God is like a gold or silver refiner, he takes us out of the mood and dirt no matter how deep He has to dig, and makes us as good and as pure as a solid piece of gold or a glittery diamond. The refining process of Christianity, just like the refining process of gold and silver, is a very long and rough process. Each part of the process is going to hurt. The processes are: Being taken out of the mud, being cleaned off, being heated up to a liquid, being boiled and the gunk scraped off the top, being boiled with lead to suck out all of the impurities, and last being hammered and shaped into what God wants us to be. This process will require a lot of heart, dedication, and time, but it is something all Christians need to go through at some point. I love Mr. Brent's analogies and his whole speech on this day. I think that what he said applies to me, I just need to let the Lord refine me, just as a lot of Christians do. Being refined isn't something that will be easy, but with God we can all make it through.