Hawaii Yo!

So finally I have enough time and internet to post! I'm at a mall sitting outside a Starbucks stealing their internet. I was actually expecting Hawaii to be extremely overrated, but so far it has been much more than I expected. We're on the island of Kauai (known as the Garden Island) staying at the Kahili Adventist School. Kauai isn't as popular as the surrounding island's so it is less touristed which is really nice, I've been able to go on a hike inland to an idyllic waterfall and go boogie boarding. The waves are amazing for boogie boarding and stuff, it's awesome! I want to be able to take away from Hawaii something more than just a good time though (besides a ukulele), we'll see what goes down. I'll try and post some pictures later. (Don't count on it though)

Alliteration

As I sit here on my bed, thinking of things that I can’t control, I listen to the wind whistle around the corner of the building. I guess I can relate to that wind; I sweep myself through life, sometimes moving quietly and sometimes trying to make as much noise as possible. Maybe it’s for attention, I don’t know, but it always seems to have some hidden meaning behind it. Why am I quiet? Well ‘cause then I have the reputation of being the chill one, someone that others can comfortably be their self around. Then why do I make noise? Because even the chill one needs to make someone laugh once in a while. But just like the breeze, I only touch the surface. I rush by, making a scene only long enough for people to take notice, but not long enough to make an impact. I want to be like a hurricane, or maybe like the wind that blows when it’s cold and wet outside (the kind that goes right through you). But how do I live such a life? Someday I’ll find out.

Something I Have to Come to Grips With...

This thing all things devours:
Birds, beasts, trees, flowers;
Gnaws iron, bites steel;
Grinds hard stones to meal;
Slays kings, ruins towns,
And beats high mountains down.

~The Hobbit~

Whistler

So my butt-bone is sore, my thighs and calves burn, my wrists ache, and my neck hurts! But oh was it worth it! Whistler was amazing, even despite my not so amazing snowboard skills. The mountain doesn't even compare to what I've ridden on the east Coast (obviously), I just wish I was able to go for longer. I'd say my snowboarding skills are improving some, we stuck in a group for most of the time so it was kind of hard to go at my own skill level, I even got to snow-plow down a few black runs. I took a few small jumps and landed a couple, so that was pretty tight, but the other peeps in the group were way better than me. Anyways, I'd say it probably was on of the most awesome Sundays I've ever had while being at Fountainview.

Football!

Circumstances seem to eat me up sometimes. I feel that if I'm not in complete control of my circumstances, than I am being used by them. As if circumstance had some will of its own, some hidden ulterior motive, and it needs to exploit me to fulfill it. Now the trick to not being exploited is figuring out what that motive is, but this is normally quite difficult. And finally, when you get to the end of this circumstance, you find out that you have, unknowingly, helped the motive along the whole time. I guess that's why I'm gonna just have to trust that God's will is that motive. He says that "...all things work together for good to them that love God..." (Romans 8:28) and I'm gonna have to hold on to that.
Secrets are also incredibly annoying at times, but only when you don't know what's going on...

Love Goes On

Fortunes fail and disappear,
Like castles in the sand.
Power spoils and causes fear,

But yields to stronger hands.

Fame lasts for a moment,
Then, in a moment, it is gone. 

Oh, but love, love goes on.

Fried Chicken

Don't you hate being in a situation where you have said or done something that you really wish you hadn't. Despite "good intentions", it's impossible to change what is already there and you are forced to watch helplessly and hope that things don't snowball out of control. On top of feeling totally helpless, you also get the wonderful, reassuring feeling that the effects of this action are all your fault. Your only hope is to throw out as many excuses as you can to try and redeem your motives, but this method is about as effective as trying to stop an avalanche with a shovel. And sometimes even what you expect to happen changes from what you feel will happen. Expectations can certainly be very different from reality, and when these expectations aren't fulfilled and something totally different happens, then you have the element of surprise come flying at your face. Anyways... just some random thoughts.