La Musica!

Life is awesome for me right now!
I'm going to be vice president of Friends of Internationals (the international student ministry I'm involved with) next semester and I'm SUPER stoked about this opportunity God has given me. I'm also teaching a conversational English class for international students at Florida State University and I'm already starting to make lesson plans. I'm going to try to pick up French as my third language next semester, too, with also classes in Spanish literature and culture that I'm really interested in. After the semester ends, I'm headed on a plane for Peru to share the Gospel with villagers in San Jose de Quero for two months! In the meantime, I've made some amazing friends at this ol' university that I can't wait to spend time with and such :)

Yeah life pretty much rocks right now. But the rest of 2011 wasn't that way, and it's funny how the music I listened to each month of the year kind of shows what was going on in my life. Because it's 3:38 AM and my sleeping schedule is waaay off from pulling too many all-nighters for finals and I can't sleep, I'm going to make a list of songs that I listened to each month of this year.

January-Finally Home by MercyMe (My grandma had just died that Thanksgiving.)
February-When You Love Someone by Bethany Dillon
March-Yo No Se Manana by Luis Enrique (A salsa song about making the most of each moment in a dating relationship and not making promises about the future, because love can end easily. Great song!)
April-Desert Song by Hillsong United (I was in a terrible car wreck and my world was falling apart. But God was still God, no matter what season or circumstances I was in.)
May-Dear John by Taylor Swift (I was going through a breakup from a not-so-good relationship, and Taylor's amazing lyrics helped me get through it and make sense of my crazy emotions and thoughts!!!)
June-Up and Up by Relient K (Even though things had been bad in April and May, I had an amazing job tutoring Spanish students at my college that was so much fun. Most of all, I realized that at FSU orientation life had been rough, but it was about to get a lot better with my move to Tallahassee in August.)
July-Innocent by Taylor Swift (I had some people do some really mean things to me one night in July, but I forgave them and realized that one mistake doesn't define who a person is. Everyone makes mistakes.)
August-Now-This is Home by Switchfoot (Within the first week at FSU, I knew that I was exactly where God wanted me. I was super happy there!)
There's a lot more songs I could include for the fall semester or comments that I could make about why each song was important to me, but I don't want to bore your or myself heh. With that, I'm going to bed.