I've been excepted to Murray State, but I'm not sold yet. One reason I am pursuing this school is because of the major they offer, The Bachelor of Arts in International Affairs. What I would like to see, however, is their pursuit of me as a potential student. So far they have offered to be friendly...if I contact them. Which is fine for now. However, I don't know if it got lost or they forgot, but my acceptance letter hasn't come. Instead a brief email that stated: "Congratulations on your acceptance to Murray State. You can find the class schedules here at our website." Like I haven't done my research. The other article notifying me circumvently of my acceptance was a letter from the department of my major telling me the basic things about the department that I already know. Unfortunately, I have thoroughly researched everything I could on their website regarding the major, department, and classes, even down to knowing which classes are typically offered in the spring, fall and summer. Telling me I can learn more about my choice of major on the website is sad to me. Because I would hope that anyone pursuing a degree in this department would do their research. It is not as if I went through the list of majors and chose one at random.
Anyway, I will be pursuing an individual tour of the campus and speaking to an advisor about what this major and my next few years will look like, including the transfer of my credits.
--MovingGirl
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Tornadoes and boredom
Politics...There is a part of me that wants to be a diplomat someday...
I actually wrote a whole chunk on politics last night and am now sick of it...
Sigh. I'm so ready to be in a house, ready to be where God wants us. Alayna and I want to go deep into God...especially in a bible study. We haven't found that yet...
I'm bored and impatient and my will to write deteriorates immediately I'm on this blog. Not much to say but that I'm ready to be undr the faucet. We all are. If only we can get my dad on board. But God has shown me that I'm to honor my father and mother. And I'm learning how to do that.
We made it through our first tornado storm. About six tense hours In our camper until the storm reached our city of Murray, and then about forty-five tense and fun minutes while it passed overhead. We got the sirens and the 70mph wind and the nickel sized hail. We keep hearing this was a drill. Which means more is coming. We just keep trusting God.
--MovingGirl
Monday, January 16, 2012
Saying Goodbye
It's amazing how a few days can turn into a month when you are busy. What I meant to be a daily post totally fell off the map. Through no fault of my own, though. I lost the book for a good two weeks and then finally found it and forgot it. I'll start it up again once I start up writing again.
I'm actually on my lunch break from work, trying to maintain a positive attitude about going back. I SO do not want to be there. All the university students are just now returning and buying all there supplies for the next semester, and I'm ringing up their items with jealousy, so frustrated that I am unable to do the same. I'm ready for school again. I'm SO ready to be finished. To complete my degree. To learn more Japanese. I want to continue so bad and I'm extremely frustrated at not being able to. We are still in the RV, we haven't even been able to move on a house yet and my job just gets more boring with every scanned item.
I'm struggling with my faith right now. I'm struggling with walking the light path. It's so easy to want to fade into the dark when you can't see, only feel.
I want to be done surviving, I want to live. Things are starting to move around us, and we feel the tension of it all, but we are held still, all the while energy growing around us.
I'm so tired anymore. I just want to sleep and sleep and sleep. I want to quit and work more at the same time. I'm just so exhausted. And this is not the first cycle. This is the third cycle I've gone through. I'm sick of it.
Jesus, what happened? Why can't we move? Is it something we haven't done yet, or a prayer that needs to be prayed? Is it a heart change? A different scope?
The camper keeps getting smaller and smaller...God we need more grace to last this season out. We are ready to say goodbye to our old lives...
--MovingGirl
P.S. Or vision. Something to be excited about again.
Love you Jesus.
I'm actually on my lunch break from work, trying to maintain a positive attitude about going back. I SO do not want to be there. All the university students are just now returning and buying all there supplies for the next semester, and I'm ringing up their items with jealousy, so frustrated that I am unable to do the same. I'm ready for school again. I'm SO ready to be finished. To complete my degree. To learn more Japanese. I want to continue so bad and I'm extremely frustrated at not being able to. We are still in the RV, we haven't even been able to move on a house yet and my job just gets more boring with every scanned item.
I'm struggling with my faith right now. I'm struggling with walking the light path. It's so easy to want to fade into the dark when you can't see, only feel.
I want to be done surviving, I want to live. Things are starting to move around us, and we feel the tension of it all, but we are held still, all the while energy growing around us.
I'm so tired anymore. I just want to sleep and sleep and sleep. I want to quit and work more at the same time. I'm just so exhausted. And this is not the first cycle. This is the third cycle I've gone through. I'm sick of it.
Jesus, what happened? Why can't we move? Is it something we haven't done yet, or a prayer that needs to be prayed? Is it a heart change? A different scope?
The camper keeps getting smaller and smaller...God we need more grace to last this season out. We are ready to say goodbye to our old lives...
--MovingGirl
P.S. Or vision. Something to be excited about again.
Love you Jesus.
Thursday, December 15, 2011
Essentials in Civil Government: lesson 1.1
I. Government and Laws
This first chapter starts out with a quote. "Order is Heaven's first law."
I love that about this textbook, each chapter starts with a quote that means something. The first chapter taught me that the word 'government' comes from the Latin word gubernator. Which I knew, but the meaning therefore, means one who steers, guides, or is a pilot. Therefore, "the word government means guidance or management." So the book is a study of government, meaning "how the affairs of mankind are managed; how men and women are guided in their journey through the world amidst other men and women; how society is held together and controlled. The study is of great importance, and should be of great interest, for the happiness of men depends largely upon the kind of government that guides and controls their lives."
Interestingly enough, it talks of children's different governments to whom they are under, and the benefits and consequences therein. The first is the government of the parents. Then the government of the school and home. Last is the government of the city, state, or nation. The first section of the book addresses the three of these and has so much awesome wisdom and truth I wish they used this textbook in schools today. The reading level itself is of a higher quality than what high schoolers are reading today in public schools.
Another quote: "If the governments that control us are wise, and just, and kind, we are made happier by them; if they are harsh, or foolish, or tyrannical, our lives are made miserable by them. By studying and understanding the different forms of government under which we live we may prepare ourselves to make them better."
Have a great Thursday! I'm working from 2:30-11 tonight and only the Lord is going to get me through. This is a long week with too many hours...I can't wait till after Christmas.
--MovingGirl
This first chapter starts out with a quote. "Order is Heaven's first law."
I love that about this textbook, each chapter starts with a quote that means something. The first chapter taught me that the word 'government' comes from the Latin word gubernator. Which I knew, but the meaning therefore, means one who steers, guides, or is a pilot. Therefore, "the word government means guidance or management." So the book is a study of government, meaning "how the affairs of mankind are managed; how men and women are guided in their journey through the world amidst other men and women; how society is held together and controlled. The study is of great importance, and should be of great interest, for the happiness of men depends largely upon the kind of government that guides and controls their lives."
Interestingly enough, it talks of children's different governments to whom they are under, and the benefits and consequences therein. The first is the government of the parents. Then the government of the school and home. Last is the government of the city, state, or nation. The first section of the book addresses the three of these and has so much awesome wisdom and truth I wish they used this textbook in schools today. The reading level itself is of a higher quality than what high schoolers are reading today in public schools.
Another quote: "If the governments that control us are wise, and just, and kind, we are made happier by them; if they are harsh, or foolish, or tyrannical, our lives are made miserable by them. By studying and understanding the different forms of government under which we live we may prepare ourselves to make them better."
Have a great Thursday! I'm working from 2:30-11 tonight and only the Lord is going to get me through. This is a long week with too many hours...I can't wait till after Christmas.
--MovingGirl
Wednesday, December 14, 2011
Essentials in Civil Government: the preface
For the next who-knows-how-many days I will be posting an excerpt and quote from an old book I found in a musty box sitting on the warehouse floor of an antique shop. When I first opened the cover, something about the first page struck me as being totally obsolete and at the same time, so intriguing. Underneath the title, Essentials in Civil Government, were the words 'a text-book for use in schools'. Something about those words struck an odd chord in me, and I read on.
The book starts out with a preface that I believe to be amazing. This is a text-book first written in 1908. I wish the text-books of today were written with the same intent and purpose. (For legal purposes the book is no longer under copyright law and may be found on google books for reading.) Here is the opening paragraph:
"Of the whole number of pupils who can study Civil Government with profit more than nine-tenths are in the upper classes of the grammar schools and in the lower classes of the high schools. In these classes there are nearly two million young people who can be led into a just appreciation of the rights and duties of citizens. Here is a rich field for the sower, an opportunity vast in its proportions for improving the quality of American citizenship and elevating the American electorate."
The most important part of this paragraph being the last statement: "an opportunity vast in its proportions for improving the quality of American citizenship and elevating the American electorate."
Now we water down the quality, disparage the rights of citizenship, and tear down the American electorate. All out of a "sense of fairness and equality and preservation."
The best part comes at the end of the second paragraph, however, which says: "The primary aim of the book is to establish political ideals and to indoctrinate in notions of civic morality." Civic morality? The book just gets better.
I do want to note that on some subjects it is outdated, such as a woman's right to vote, though it never suggests that it would be wrong, just states the facts. By S. E. Foreman, PhD, it is one of the best two dollars I've ever spent.
--MovingGirl
The book starts out with a preface that I believe to be amazing. This is a text-book first written in 1908. I wish the text-books of today were written with the same intent and purpose. (For legal purposes the book is no longer under copyright law and may be found on google books for reading.) Here is the opening paragraph:
"Of the whole number of pupils who can study Civil Government with profit more than nine-tenths are in the upper classes of the grammar schools and in the lower classes of the high schools. In these classes there are nearly two million young people who can be led into a just appreciation of the rights and duties of citizens. Here is a rich field for the sower, an opportunity vast in its proportions for improving the quality of American citizenship and elevating the American electorate."
The most important part of this paragraph being the last statement: "an opportunity vast in its proportions for improving the quality of American citizenship and elevating the American electorate."
Now we water down the quality, disparage the rights of citizenship, and tear down the American electorate. All out of a "sense of fairness and equality and preservation."
The best part comes at the end of the second paragraph, however, which says: "The primary aim of the book is to establish political ideals and to indoctrinate in notions of civic morality." Civic morality? The book just gets better.
I do want to note that on some subjects it is outdated, such as a woman's right to vote, though it never suggests that it would be wrong, just states the facts. By S. E. Foreman, PhD, it is one of the best two dollars I've ever spent.
--MovingGirl
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