Update on College and Life in General :)

So, here's an update on life.

I have a job. I love this job. It's a fun job. I get to create and design and send emails, help out with Facebook ad campaigns and manage accounts, and learn more about the world of marketing.

Seriously. It's stinking fascinating, guys.

I also passed a test, which leaves me 5 courses (2 DSSTs and 3 TESU courses) closer to finishing my BA. Guys. Guuyyssss. I'm gonna be a college graduate before Christmas guys. 😁😁😁

Weeellll, I say before Christmas, what I really mean is, I'll be done with my classes by roughly September-October, and I'll apply for December graduation. So I'll get a diploma for Christmas. So I won't officially be a college graduate when my last class is over, but I will be a college graduate when my last class is over. Clear as mud, right? Teehee.

Oh yeah, and my youth group went to IYC'17 like, two weeks ago, and my wooooorrrdddd. The music was incredible, anointed, powerful, and all that and a bag of chips haha. The preaching, also incredible, anointed, powerful, it changed my life. One second, the preacher had me laughing my lungs out, the next bawling my eyes out. Our youth group grew closer together, definitely. We literally had the best time hanging out, and we didn't hate each other by the end of it. It was straight up weird not seeing everybody at breakfast and hanging out at dinner and stuff that next week.

Oh, and two of my best friends COMPLETELY surprised me by coming up from Urshan to see me and give me birthday gifts, and I even got to hang out with one of 'em at the Afterburner. The shock and love is still real haha, I'm still extra happy that they came and surprised me, and it's been two weeks. x) Bottom line: IYC'17 was lit, guys.

So anyways, I started studying for this next test, the 'Rise and Fall of the Soviet Union'. Guys. Russia is crazy. Their history is fascinating. If you get the chance to study Russia, do it, and do it with an open mind. I don't keep up too much with current events, but I know that people are having issues with Russia, and I feel like if we understood it, its history and culture and everything, then we wouldn't have half the messes in history that we have haha. But for real. Study it. If for no other reason than because they got cool names like Vladimir and Vasilii and Ivan and there's also the Teutonic Knights and the Swordbearers and the Mongols and stuff. I mean, who doesn't like Vladimir and the Teutonic Knights? It just sounds cool.

Ahem. Moving on.

So I still don't have any idea what I'm gonna name my blog since I am neither a teenager nor homeschooled. Well, I guess you could say I'm still homeschooled, but you get the idea. I'm graduating college soon. I'm not a teenager anymore. And 'A Day in the Life of a Twenty-Year-Old Almost-Graduating College Student' is a bit too much of a mouthful. Plus, I'd have to change the name again when I graduate, and then again when I turn 21. xP

Ayoo. Well whatevs. So, you guys, summer's approaching, which means most of y'all traditional school-goers will be outta school on summer break for a few months, yay!!! And the rest of us non-traditionals are... still in school. What's a summer break? What's a break? x)

This could mean you're facing a bunch of finals and projects and assignments to turn in that you're either totally caught up on or you've procrastinated too much on and now you're feeling the panic set in. Don't worry: You're going to make it. You've made it before, you'll make it again, you can do this. I believe in you.

God bless you guys. Love ya. :)

--Sonya :) <3

Teen-hood Gone, On to the Twenties!!!

It's my birthday. I am no longer a teenager. GUYS. I AM NO LONGER A TEENAGER!!!!

To be honest, it doesn't feel different until I think about it. I've lived on this earth for two decades. I've seen sunrises and sunsets, good days and bad days, rainy days and sunny days and snowy days and chilly days and extra-too hot days.

I made it. Not like, made it. But I made it to my twentieth year of life. That's more than some can say. I am blessed. I got a roof over my head, a crazy family who loves and supports me, crazier friends who make life worth living, the ability to listen to music and read and write and laugh and cry and learn and move and grow. I have coffee for goodness's sake, and hot running water, and a nice phone with a great plan (thanks, mom, thanks dad :D), and a computer, and glasses, and a guitar. I could go on all day and all night.

Something struck me while I was on my way home from work today. Through the ups and the downs, God's been there for me through it all. When I was good, and when I was a complete and total mess of hormones and rebellion and pain, He was there. When I wanted to just lie down and die (both figuratively and literally), He was there, keeping me alive, keeping the blood pumping through my veins and the oxygen coming in and carbon dioxide going out. When I wanted to hit someone over the head with a folding chair or throw someone out the window, He held me back (and in some cases, sent an angel to keep me from doing something irrational like that, thanks, sis).

When I missed my friends and felt completely lost and alone, He was there. When I was broken, He was there. God had, has a plan for me. I can't go a day without Him. He's my rock and my salvation, the One who knows the beginning to the end, the One who robed Himself in flesh and came down and died for me. He's a faithful God. I can't wait to see what else He has in store for me.

And if this God has a plan for me, then trust me, He has a plan for you too. You may not be 20 yet, or maybe you're over 20, but He definitely still has a plan for your life. How do I know this? Well, if He didn't then you wouldn't be reading this, now would you? :D

Trust Him in and through the process. Pain means you're growing and that you're still alive. Pain is a lesson. You just need to learn it. When you're in the fire, He's in it with you. When the storm's raging around you, He's right there with you. Maybe He's calling you to get out of the boat and walk on the water. Maybe He's in the boat with you and you need to have more faith and stop freaking out. He said you'd make it to the other side, and if God says it, it's gonna happen. He's faithful.

Life's such a crazy thing, a precious gift. It's made up of decisions that we make. My life's not over yet, and neither is yours. We both have a chance to make our lives mean something, and God can make it mean more than we ever thought possible. So go do something with your life. Don't give up. Keep pressing forward towards the destiny that God has for you.

God bless you guys. Love ya. <3 :)

--Sonya :) <3

P.S. Guys I need a new name for this blog 'cause I'm no longer a teenager. If no one gives me suggestions, I will be forced to come up with one myself. Muahaha. But seriously though if you have suggestions, comment, I am accepting suggestions and if I like more than one I may just do a crazy mash-up so I don't know. x)