I've Arrived

After 24 hours I have safely arrived in Chennai, India.  I am completely exhausted.  The first flight was around 8 hours long and the second almost 10 hours. We had a 5 hour layover in Frankfurt in the early morning. 

We were greeted with flowers at the airport. 

I’ve maybe had 10 hours of sleep in the past 48 hours. :P

A few things about India so far:

Everyone honks like crazy late into the night

They drive on the other side of the road

Its rain y right now

The showers don’t have curtains

The power cuts out

So, far so good. There haven’t been any major problems yet.  But I’m having fun! :)

Thanks for your prayers

In Christ

~Michelle

GLORY!

Glory to God in the highest, and on earth peace, good will towards men. Luke 2:14


Christmas is here and once again it has arrived suddenly.  With all the  craziness around buying presents and getting ready for India it kind of snuck up on me.
But, it's here and I'm feeling all giddy :)


I love every thing about Christmas. Especially how the each time I hear the story something else seems to jump out at me. It never changes but its never the same. :)

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In Christ alone! who took on flesh
Fulness of God in helpless babe!
This gift of love and righteousness
Scorned by the ones he came to save:
Till on that cross as Jesus died,
The wrath of God was satisfied -
For every sin on Him was laid;
Here in the death of Christ I live.
~~~~~

For unto us a child is born, unto us a son is given: and the government shall be upon his shoulder: and his name shall be called Wonderful, Counsellor, The mighty God, The everlasting Father, The Prince of Peace. Isaiah 9:6

Merry Christmas! :)

In Christ

~Michelle

Friends and Cousins

Just a bit over due on this one.

The other week I got together with my 'school' friends for Christmas. We exchanged gifts and spent the rest of the evening and into the night just talking. We don't see each other much so we have a lot to catch up on.

All together :) I love these girls.

Since I will be gone for the big Wyss Christmas, I decided to give my gift early.  I had Carli's name and she had asked for a fun day out with her friends. So, I took 7 girls out to each at Avanti's and then ice-skating.  It was a lot of fun. I haven't been ice-skating since last winter.

Well, other then that not much has been going on, except for a few set backs with my India trip. I'm trying to remain calm and patient. Prayers are definitely appreciated.

I  leave in 4 days!

In Christ

~Michelle

Not much

I made it through finals.
Social workers don't really have finals we just have 10-15 pages papers as our finals. This semester I wrote over 80 pages of research papers. I thought I was smart and I used the same topic for all 80 of those. But after writing five different papers on human trafficking, it got extremely depressing.  

I've been off school for almost a week now. I am completely loving it. Its so nice and relaxing to not think about anything...Ha.
So far, I've spent break shopping, trying to figure out what is still wrong with my eyes, Christmas caroling, cleaning, making lists, making plans, packing for India...but other than that I really have had a lot of down time.

India is coming up really fast. I can hardly believe it. Ten days to go!

My rabbit is no more. I've had it for ten years at least. I never named it. It bit me so I never really liked it.  I was not aware of it's demise until I saw the cage was empty. It was not of natural causes.
Needless to say, I shed no tear.

It was Jenny's birthday today so, she and Bob and Cecily came over. Cecily is so funny. Her facial expressions are priceless.

Tomorrow marks a week until Christmas. Six shopping days. Let the people go crazy.

In Christ
~Michelle

Well, that wasn't awkward at all

I just had to give a short persuasive speech in front of class on why I would make a good date.

Needless to say no one was convinced.
Thank goodness :)

Everyone had to do it too, and there were some absolutely hilarious ones.

"It will be a good time with a lot of things we will laugh about later..."
"It's ok though, I live in Kansas you can always avoid me later."
This one must be read in a Chinese accent- "If your tired of seeing Americans I'm the one to date." :)

Oh, my.

In Christ
~Michelle

Group work

I strongly dislike group work.

1. I'm the only one who ever seems to remember when things are due.
2. I'm the only one who ever seems to remember what we are supposed to do.
3. I then somehow become the one they blame for confusing them.
4. I'm the only one who ever initiates a group meeting.
5. I'm one of the 50% that actually shows up.

arg. So, I saw this on facebook and it totally made me laugh:

Yup. This is my life right now.  We social workers are supposed to be people persons ...but these group projects are definitely making me realize how much I enjoy working on my own. :)

In Christ

~Michelle

Making a scene

What have I been up to?

Oh...not much accept having way too much fun with crime scene tape. hehe.

The Upper Room used crime scene tape to create a pretty cool Christmas card. We climbed out on our small roofs and leaned out windows to tape it up. It probably looked quite scary. Not an opportune moment for your landlord to walk by. Well, he did and he laughed. a lot. I think I have a pretty awesome landlord.

Anyway...

The Upper Room Christmas Card Tries:

Smiling

Crazy

 

Final Product :)

So, what do you do with left over crime scene tape when you are a college student and you have reason to believe all members of a certain household will not be home?

Crime scene up their front porch :)

  (too bad it was dark out...the picture doesn't do it justice)

And then...hide in the darkness and wait to see their reaction :)

As we were waiting we decided to add to it. So, Katie and I took up street corners to keep a look out and Laura added a chalk man to the scene. We had to keep it nice because obviously we weren't doing this anonymously and we really don't want any great retribution.


I have successfully pulled my first prank...ever.
fun times


In Christ
~Michelle