Almost Skinny Dipping

This last week has been pretty busy for me, well thats the story of my life.
Labour weekend was awesome!! Such great weather too!!
We (my family) left half way through church i know it was naughty!! lol But we had to get to karitane by noon to meet some family friends from Dunedin who were staying in Palmerston! We thought they were bringing there boat but the didn't coz there was no proper loading zone for it at the Beach we went to in karitane!!
Anyways we had heaps of fun, Picnic Lunch, smoked chicken rolls, fruit and biscuits. Then afterwards the Parents went to a walk and we the "kids" went down to the beach for a "paddle". However we got up to our knee's in the water and it just felt so good and our pants just kept getting wetter! So i decided oh well i may as well take them off coz i don't want my good jeans to get ruined!! So yes i eventually ended up in the water in my undies (i still had my top on)!! Its ok though they were nice ones (black elle macphersons) and looked like bikini bottoms i wouldn't of done it if i had my old ones on!! So we snuck back to the rocks on the beach to dry off our clothes then the parents just had to come along and we were all crouching behind these rocks!! They had no idea what was going on thought we were just in out togs untill we told them and they suprising just laughed at us!! So thats as close as i've ever come to skinny dipping!! For those of you that don't know skinny dipping has been a great topic at my flat!! None of us have had the guts to go and do it yet

A glass of milk

One day, a poor boy who was selling goods from door to door to pay his waythrough school, found he had only one thin dime left, and he was hungry.He decided he would ask for a meal at the next house. However, he lost hisnerve when a lovely young woman opened the door.Instead of a meal he asked for a drink of water. She thought he lookedhungry so brought him a large glass of milk. He drank it slowly, and thenasked, How much do I owe you?You don't owe me anything, she replied. "Mother has taught us never toaccept pay for a kindness."He said..... "Then I thank you from my heart."As Howard Kelly left that house, he not only felt stronger physically, buthis faith in God and man was strong also.. He had been ready to give up andquit.Many years later that same young woman became critically ill. The localdoctors were baffled! They finally sent her to the big city, where theycalled in specialists to study her rare disease.Dr. Howard Kelly was called in for the consultation. When he heard the nameof the town she came from, a strange light filled his eyes. Immediately herose and went down the hall of the hospital to her room.Dressed in his doctor's gown he went in to see her. He recognized her atonce.He went back to the consultation room determined to do his best to save herlife. From that day he gave special attention to her case.After a long struggle, the battle was won.Dr. Kelly requested the business office to pass the final bill to him forapproval. He looked at it, then wrote something on the edge and the billwas sent to her room. She feared to open it, for she was sure it would takeThe rest of her life to pay for it all. Finally she looked, and somethingcaught her attention on the side of the bill. She read these words....."Paid in full with one glass of milk"(Signed) Dr. Howard Kelly.Tears of joy flooded her eyes as her happy heart prayed: "Thank You, God,that Your love has spread broad through human hearts and hands."There's a saying which goes something like this: Bread cast on the waterscomes back to you. The good deed you do today may benefit you or someoneyou love at the least expected time. If you never see the deed again atleast you will have made the world a better place - And, after all, isn'tthat what life is all about?

Decisions

Sorry i haven't blogged for ages!! I've been so busy latley and since i don't have a computer at home its harder to access.
Alot has happened over the past month I was on holiday for two weeks and my friend Rach came down to stay for a few days that was really cool catching up with her just hanging out and being crazy together. The second week of my holidays was however not a holiday at all I had two extra shifts at work during the day and i got offered a Job on Wednesday and Thursday nights taking photo's at the OUSA blue and gold awards, I was pretty nervous on the first night cause i didn't really know what to expect i was basically just told to turn up and take photographs and print them out on the night. I arrived in jeans and my pink blazer to find everyone in really formal clothes i wasn't told there was a dress sense ahhh!! It went pretty well considering though and everyone seemed pleased with the results. I also had my interview at teachers collage for the primary course however i didn't get into that either i wasn't nearly as guttered as the first time though I think it was because alot of people were praying for me, God has a reason for everything so i just need to trust in him and he will sort it out hopefully. I do though that the option of doing a foundation year that should get me into teachers collage the year after but do i really want to study for an extra year? I have also thought about a Bachelor of Design Communication at the Polytechnic or Occupation Therapy. So i will apply for both and see what happens there. God has really been challenging me at the moment to love people for who they are and look for the best in people, I find it really hard to do especially when i am around people who like to gossip and work and at polytech. Last week i watched a documentry about people with facial and body deformaties It really made me think how i would react to people like that, would i be able to overlook them and would i be able to be friends with someone like that? Todays world is so much focused on the appearance why is that?? Why carn't we learn to love people for what they are like inside not on the outside? Some of the uglyiest people can be so beautiful on the inside and vice-versa. Quite often beauty is only skin deep.