Happy Birthday Ruthie!
Today is officially my Ruthies birthday!! We've been having a 3 day celebration!
I just wanted to tell you Ruthie how beautiful you are both inside and out. I am so blessed to call you my sister and friend. I hope you have a wonderful, beautiful and special day!
Heres to another year older, wiser and more beautiful than the last :)
I love you!
I just wanted to tell you Ruthie how beautiful you are both inside and out. I am so blessed to call you my sister and friend. I hope you have a wonderful, beautiful and special day!
Heres to another year older, wiser and more beautiful than the last :)
My first day as a teaching student
I really should be in bed right now, but I spend the better part of tonight trying 'organise' my course work for the on coming year. Its going to be full on. Today I had my first lecture for my Diploma of Education, it was both overwhelming and exhilarating at the same time.
Firstly things are alot different on the Mount Lawley campus. Its a whole lot more arty than the Joondalup campus. You can often see the WAAPA students(Western Australia of Performing Arts) frolicking on the grass in their black legging, casually smoking cigarettes. A far cry from the stark beige walls of the computer labs I have become so accustom to in the past 3 years and the 'computer oriented' people who inhabit it. Yep, this campus definitely has a different feel and culture to it.
The lecture I attended was Foundations of Education 1 filled with 300 other Dip Ed students. Call me a small town girl or whatever but this was a bit crazy for me. The biggest lecture I've ever attended was 130 people so to be in a huge lecture like this one was definitely an experience. The lecture itself was both interesting and stimulating and was about what it means to be a teacher. I think the most interesting thing was the fact my lecturer referenced a Christian book called 'Courageous Leadership' by Bill Hybels which is a book about Christian leadership within a church and also another Bill Hybels book called 'The 360 leader'. Combined with what he had mentioned about his values leads me to believe he may be a Christian himself, which for me would be very cool and encouraging.
The tutorial was just as interesting and stimulating. The people in my class were totally,hmm, for lack of a better word: human. Not that the people in Digital Media weren't human but there is definitely an openness in their counternance. I guess you could say the word is friendly. Maybe I just didn't notice that difference in Digital Media since I was comfortable and knew everyone so well.
Actually I think I was most taken back by the humanness of this course. I am finding this so refreshing. The people interaction, trying to understand how people think and how we think - its so human.
I am really enjoying it so far - I'm feeling challenged a bit already knowing what this profession will be demanding both emotionally and mentally but excited as well. This year is going to be a great year!
Oh and I apologise in advance to everyone - this year I am going to be so poor I won't even be able to afford to get anyone cards! Yup struggling teaching student, that's me :)
Firstly things are alot different on the Mount Lawley campus. Its a whole lot more arty than the Joondalup campus. You can often see the WAAPA students(Western Australia of Performing Arts) frolicking on the grass in their black legging, casually smoking cigarettes. A far cry from the stark beige walls of the computer labs I have become so accustom to in the past 3 years and the 'computer oriented' people who inhabit it. Yep, this campus definitely has a different feel and culture to it.
The lecture I attended was Foundations of Education 1 filled with 300 other Dip Ed students. Call me a small town girl or whatever but this was a bit crazy for me. The biggest lecture I've ever attended was 130 people so to be in a huge lecture like this one was definitely an experience. The lecture itself was both interesting and stimulating and was about what it means to be a teacher. I think the most interesting thing was the fact my lecturer referenced a Christian book called 'Courageous Leadership' by Bill Hybels which is a book about Christian leadership within a church and also another Bill Hybels book called 'The 360 leader'. Combined with what he had mentioned about his values leads me to believe he may be a Christian himself, which for me would be very cool and encouraging.
The tutorial was just as interesting and stimulating. The people in my class were totally,hmm, for lack of a better word: human. Not that the people in Digital Media weren't human but there is definitely an openness in their counternance. I guess you could say the word is friendly. Maybe I just didn't notice that difference in Digital Media since I was comfortable and knew everyone so well.
Actually I think I was most taken back by the humanness of this course. I am finding this so refreshing. The people interaction, trying to understand how people think and how we think - its so human.
I am really enjoying it so far - I'm feeling challenged a bit already knowing what this profession will be demanding both emotionally and mentally but excited as well. This year is going to be a great year!
Oh and I apologise in advance to everyone - this year I am going to be so poor I won't even be able to afford to get anyone cards! Yup struggling teaching student, that's me :)
Ahh, bliss...
Its almost mid afternoon on a Saturday and I just got out of bed half an hour ago. I haven't been able to sleep in like this in a long time and it feels so grand.
Feeling kind of lazy today, I think I'll try and do some more reading. I've got about 4 books I'm reading at the moment and the one I'm really trying to work through in time for next months book club meeting is a booked called 'Redeeming Love' by Francine Rivers. Loving this book at the moment, its based on the book of Hosea in the bible about Gods love for us. Its so moving and touching - gosh, I want a guy like that!!
Feeling kind of lazy today, I think I'll try and do some more reading. I've got about 4 books I'm reading at the moment and the one I'm really trying to work through in time for next months book club meeting is a booked called 'Redeeming Love' by Francine Rivers. Loving this book at the moment, its based on the book of Hosea in the bible about Gods love for us. Its so moving and touching - gosh, I want a guy like that!!
AOG Lift Conference
I've been helping out at the AOG Lift conference all morning - boy am I stuffed! The conference is a statewide thing for all the pastors of AOG churches to come together, get sown into and be refreshed. It was such a privilege to be able to serve the pastors that do so much to serve their churches.
I had to be there by 7am to help prepare the food and I was bit late. I know, its something I need to work on, but I had slept in till 6:30am after having turned off the snooze on my alarm clock, but I managed to pick up catherine and get there just a bit after 7.
It was totally amazing to see so many pastors in one room - like, these are the men and women who have given their whole lives to serve God. Literally living on a prayer. Some were pastors of churches of 10 people, and some were pastors of thousands all coming together to encourage each other. It was so interesting watching some as they come in (I was greeting at the door) and admire the water feature we have and comment on how beautiful our church is. It made me so proud of my church family and made me realise how blessed I was to be a part of this church and Gods Kingdom. I never want to take anything for granted!
Well I am totally pooped - going to have a rest before church tonight, yay can't wait :)
I had to be there by 7am to help prepare the food and I was bit late. I know, its something I need to work on, but I had slept in till 6:30am after having turned off the snooze on my alarm clock, but I managed to pick up catherine and get there just a bit after 7.
It was totally amazing to see so many pastors in one room - like, these are the men and women who have given their whole lives to serve God. Literally living on a prayer. Some were pastors of churches of 10 people, and some were pastors of thousands all coming together to encourage each other. It was so interesting watching some as they come in (I was greeting at the door) and admire the water feature we have and comment on how beautiful our church is. It made me so proud of my church family and made me realise how blessed I was to be a part of this church and Gods Kingdom. I never want to take anything for granted!
Well I am totally pooped - going to have a rest before church tonight, yay can't wait :)
New Developments 2
Oh-my-gosh. Guess what?? I just found out a couple hours ago I got into my graduate diploma!!! I'm so excited!!!
I just got home not long ago from enrolling into my units. Its been a bit of a wild goose chase trying to get all the paper work done with uni and with centrelink, and after two trips back and forth to the university today I finally got there! I'm going to be doing a Dip Ed Majoring in Media with Computer Education as a minor, in other words I am going to be a media and computer teacher!
It is so crazy how fast this has happened - applied on Tuesday, get accepted on Thursday and start uni on Monday! This year is going to be full on I know, its a 2 year course compacted into 1 year with a 10 week full time prac. Its going to be a hard slough especially with the money factor considering I won't be able to really work during semester but its different knowing this is something I want to do and can picture myself doing. I know Gods going to provide a way here, Hes already opened the doors. Its going to be a great year!!!
Anyways I better get a start on my centrelink forms, its 20 pages thick! Yay!
I just got home not long ago from enrolling into my units. Its been a bit of a wild goose chase trying to get all the paper work done with uni and with centrelink, and after two trips back and forth to the university today I finally got there! I'm going to be doing a Dip Ed Majoring in Media with Computer Education as a minor, in other words I am going to be a media and computer teacher!
It is so crazy how fast this has happened - applied on Tuesday, get accepted on Thursday and start uni on Monday! This year is going to be full on I know, its a 2 year course compacted into 1 year with a 10 week full time prac. Its going to be a hard slough especially with the money factor considering I won't be able to really work during semester but its different knowing this is something I want to do and can picture myself doing. I know Gods going to provide a way here, Hes already opened the doors. Its going to be a great year!!!
Anyways I better get a start on my centrelink forms, its 20 pages thick! Yay!
New developments!
Well new developments have been going on, firstly: I resigned from my job this week as a web administrator and technical writer. After 2 months of working fulltime in IT I just realised it wasn't the place for me. I missed the people interaction (I could basically go a whole day without talking to anyone) and basically the job itself wasn't my full potential and I didn't feel like I could grow and be commited to this for the next couple of years.
In a way it wasn't like I couldn't see this coming, I knew half way through my degree this isn't what I wanted to do but when I finished it I still wanted to give it a bit of a chance. I knew that if I got my act together I could proberly do it. Unfortuately with multimedia and IT in general, if you are not driven and have a passion for it you're not going to go far in the industry. And thats exactly what I lacked: passion and the career mindedness to do it, but that brings me to the my second new development: I've applied to go back to uni to do my graduate diploma in secondary education!
Its an idea I've been playing around with for the past year or so, since I realised multimedia wasn't something I wanted to do, but the idea of another year of intensive study just put me off a bit. At that stage I was at the point of just getting through each unit to finish my degree that the last thing I wanted to do was more studying - especially if it was going to be anything like what I had already studied.
For a couple days after I resigned from my job I felt a bit discouraged and deflated, I had a job interview lined up as a multimedia developer which I didn't really want to do but it was something. I knew teaching was an interesting option but wasn't sure if I could get in as it was just a week before the semester started again but I decided I would try and apply anyways.
That was 2 days ago. I spoke on the phone with my course co-ordinater and from what I could gather it was mainly a matter of him looking at my application and then approving it. I'm really praying Gods going to open a door for me here, He knows my heart and my passion for High School kids and if this is what He Wills then He will also have to help me pull through financially as well. I'll keep you updated!
On another note: Alison has written two new songs Circular Roads and Under His Arms (click on the titles to listen to the songs). She is an awesome woman of God and I always knew she was musically talented but shes truely blown me away this time! They are so good!
In a way it wasn't like I couldn't see this coming, I knew half way through my degree this isn't what I wanted to do but when I finished it I still wanted to give it a bit of a chance. I knew that if I got my act together I could proberly do it. Unfortuately with multimedia and IT in general, if you are not driven and have a passion for it you're not going to go far in the industry. And thats exactly what I lacked: passion and the career mindedness to do it, but that brings me to the my second new development: I've applied to go back to uni to do my graduate diploma in secondary education!
Its an idea I've been playing around with for the past year or so, since I realised multimedia wasn't something I wanted to do, but the idea of another year of intensive study just put me off a bit. At that stage I was at the point of just getting through each unit to finish my degree that the last thing I wanted to do was more studying - especially if it was going to be anything like what I had already studied.
For a couple days after I resigned from my job I felt a bit discouraged and deflated, I had a job interview lined up as a multimedia developer which I didn't really want to do but it was something. I knew teaching was an interesting option but wasn't sure if I could get in as it was just a week before the semester started again but I decided I would try and apply anyways.
That was 2 days ago. I spoke on the phone with my course co-ordinater and from what I could gather it was mainly a matter of him looking at my application and then approving it. I'm really praying Gods going to open a door for me here, He knows my heart and my passion for High School kids and if this is what He Wills then He will also have to help me pull through financially as well. I'll keep you updated!
On another note: Alison has written two new songs Circular Roads and Under His Arms (click on the titles to listen to the songs). She is an awesome woman of God and I always knew she was musically talented but shes truely blown me away this time! They are so good!
Security.
I love God. I love the security He brings to my life, to just know that everything is going to be just fine, to just know that He is in total control.
I love waking up every morning knowing that I am called, anointed and favored as I keep walking with Him everyday. This is the sort of security nothing else in the world can bring. Its a security that makes known to me I am loved, valued and special because of what Jesus did on the cross for me.
I love God. I love the security He brings me, the confidence He has in me. Like a reassuring father, He cheers me on every day to do better and be better. And sometimes I, like a child can whinge and complain but He just keeps loving and encouraging me. He tells me where I can change (as much as its painful to hear sometimes) and gives me the tools and strength to do it. I never want to be not doing well - I am either doing well or I am going to be doing well. I am commited to change.
To be secure in Gods love is a wonderful thing, and every day I am learning to see my self more and more the way God sees me (like all His daughters): a princess more precious than jewels and with value far above rubies or pearls. (proverbs 31:10)
But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. - Jeremiah 17:7
I love waking up every morning knowing that I am called, anointed and favored as I keep walking with Him everyday. This is the sort of security nothing else in the world can bring. Its a security that makes known to me I am loved, valued and special because of what Jesus did on the cross for me.
I love God. I love the security He brings me, the confidence He has in me. Like a reassuring father, He cheers me on every day to do better and be better. And sometimes I, like a child can whinge and complain but He just keeps loving and encouraging me. He tells me where I can change (as much as its painful to hear sometimes) and gives me the tools and strength to do it. I never want to be not doing well - I am either doing well or I am going to be doing well. I am commited to change.
To be secure in Gods love is a wonderful thing, and every day I am learning to see my self more and more the way God sees me (like all His daughters): a princess more precious than jewels and with value far above rubies or pearls. (proverbs 31:10)
But blessed is the man who trusts in the LORD, whose confidence is in him. - Jeremiah 17:7
All that I can say right now.
I know I haven't written much on here. Like Jon mentioned on my tag - I seem to be changing my template more than actually writing anything. Its not like I don't have anything to write about - the opposite actually. There is so much that has happened in the past few months I guess I just don't even know where to begin.
Inside of me is just what seems like a jumble of adjectives that more describe the situations than actually telling anything that makes any sense. Maybe its because I've just been so busy. I haven't had much time since I've been working to just sit down and sit in Gods presence, without others, without time limits - just me and God and all the time in the world.
There are some new developments coming up I'll have to tell you about when I have more time but in the mean time all is good in my world.
Inside of me is just what seems like a jumble of adjectives that more describe the situations than actually telling anything that makes any sense. Maybe its because I've just been so busy. I haven't had much time since I've been working to just sit down and sit in Gods presence, without others, without time limits - just me and God and all the time in the world.
There are some new developments coming up I'll have to tell you about when I have more time but in the mean time all is good in my world.
