The last few days, I have felt God moving in my heart, somehow changing me. In any case, I stayed up pretty late last night journalling to God (this is my fourth journal here in Chile!). I woke up at 7:30 this morning and practically jumped out of bed ready to start the day. I brought all the books and papers and drafts of my paper that I have been working on out to the living room. Between my Bible, the Gerstner book, www.netbible.org, and blueletterbible.com, I have been formuatling more and more of this paper. About an hour into the morning, my roommate came out and made us coffee. I sat with him at the table and enjoyed a cup of coffee over Hebrews 11. It reminded me of the days last year, those blessed mornings when I could go to Uptown coffee with Rach at 5 in the morning and just study our bibles together. I don´t think there is any other way I want to start my day. Those mornings, sitting with the sister of my heart, reading the Bible and discussing life and love and most importantly God, were truly a taste of Heaven. And I can't forget to mention the great foam that came on the cappuchinos! Okay, now I am just making myself homesick!
I live near a long thin park called Parque Forestal. It's really quite a nice park and it has a long stretch of a lane for riding bikes or jogging. And since I have a fear of riding bikes in this city, I jog. It's really pleasent. I usually listen to radioDisney on my mp3 player and jog along to Jonas Brothers, Beyonce, or Julieta Venegas. Great stuff. Yesterday on my jog I noticed that the trees were beginning to change. Fall has finally arrived and I am glad for the change. But as I was jogging through the falling leaves, I began to think about how much I like fall. And I had this special moment when I realized that I want to be here in Santiago, jogging through this park for many falls to come. After the past few weeks of cultural adjustment being a little more painful than normal, this was a nice thought to have.
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be prepared for a real challenge!
(but be careful where you walk at night. this is not SLO)
spoken from the perspective of a berkeley professor who is also the mother of a 2nd year student at Cal.
I would have to say that your heart is the sweetest heart in the world, and your mind one of the brightest. Personally, I hope you go to Berkeley. I know, I should be rooting for my own school, but here are my thought: you are way too unique to be sucked into the blond hair blue eyes world of Cal Poly, you should have somewhere where you can really be appreciated for your amazing perosnality and not shunned just because you don´t listen to Ashlee Simpson! Also, I want you closer to my home base. Yes, when I come home I will of course be visiting Cal Poly, but soon most of my friends will have graduated and left, so I will spend more of my time in the Bay Area. Gosh, you are such an amazing girl Emerald and I am so excited to see you grow up into the person you are created to be (I have a feeling that a lot of this will happen once you are out of the parental daily reach!). If you do go to Berkeley, I have some people you need to meet and I know of an amazing church, its in SF, but still...
Okay, darling, I adore you. You are and always will be my friend and my little sister.
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