It's been a tiring week, and though today was just as (or even more) tiring than the past few days, it was still a really good one. =) Some reasons shall not be stated here (ahahaha), but I'm just writing this bit here so that some time in the far future when I come back and read my old blog posts, I'll remember today.

(Just for myself: [-Swapped chapel day-] ^^)

Tomorrow after school, we're going on a church camp at the beach. It'll be nice to get away and let my brain recuperate. I feel like it's been fried by all the tests and everything else I've had. Oh, but you know what? Somehow, really, it's true that when we are weak, God is strong. Today I was feeling like X_@ when I went in to school. During devotions, Mrs Lisa prayed that "may all that we do today honor and glorify You." And I was thinking like, Man, I'm so not-with-it today, I dunno how I'm gonna be a regularly functioning person... all the more someone who's a good friend and through whom God can shine. But, very surprisingly, today it seemed like I was able to talk to, relate to, be friendly, and be friends with more people than I usually do. I guess when our human strength is faded, that's when God's power can really kick in. =)

I'm kinda losing my voice now, from yelling so much in drama class, because today we did the scene where Jo gets mad at Amy. Poor Rissa, had to get shaken and whacked so many times. :P

I've made probably around or over 30000 neopoints for Jana in the last few days! :D Lolll.

Okayz, I'm about to unceremoniously fall asleep here at the desk, so I'd better go. Ciao~

PRAY, MOVE, get WORKING!

Talk about revival. I'm seeing new doors being opened, more people questioning, more hearts searching. More believers moving, more workers reaping.

I'm glad that people on both sides are starting to reach out more. Reach those that have been put within your range. Pray not just for "the world", but the immediate people around you, in whose lives YOU can be a catalyst of change. Show love to those who walk by you in the halls everyday; those people who can be touched by just a simple smile or a word of encouragement. Reach them.

I'm praying for a specific few, because I feel that God is opening those doors, and whatever He opens CANNOT BE CLOSED. May it not be that when I stand before Him, He will say that I missed those opportunities He placed before me, that I didn't take the paths He placed there for me to follow. These people are my friends, people I care for. Their hearts are being prepared, their eyes are being unveiled. Do I care for their friendship and their "hi"s and "hello"s, but not care enough that- unless I take the careful initiative to talk to them about Christ- their souls are bound for eternal suffering? What kind of a friend takes the good times, but doesn't care for what happens to people after that? What if I said "I'll talk to her about it tomorrow", but then tonight she was killed?

God, provide the time, the patience, and all the other resources I need to do Your work.

May it be that we will see a revival in this land, and that we may do our part to get it started in this school. Amen.

Alrighty, just a short post to catch up on all the highlights of the past few days. I've got like, 20 minutes before I'd better go to sleep. Our first AP World test is tomorrow... 3 essay questions, in 70 minutes, over 8000 years of history. Hehehe. :] WoOp.

Last Wednesday was a holiday for us. Verity and I went to hang out at Central, and then we went to the spa. Her bday present to me. ^^ We had roughly a good 6 hours of talk. Sorry, yes, I'm afraid even I only serve to strengthen the belief that girls like to yak and chit-chat. Verity and I have some good, in-depth convo tho.

On Friday after school, Becky, Ruthanne, Joanna, Rissa, and I had the photo shoot for the Little Women poster! Full makeup, hair, costumes. I've got some pictures, and hopefully I'll get around to posting them when I have a little more time. We started dressing up during last period, and when the dismissal bell rang, some of us went and stood outside the green room and waved and yelled at our friends, telling them to come watch the show in Nov. They all had a good stare and a good laugh over seeing us in big poofy dresses. For publicity's sake. ^^

Also on Friday (well, we'd planned this last week, and we set it up on Thursday after school), Ruthanne, Joanna, and I made it Caleb's birthday. Yup, made it. His real birthday's in June, but we wanted an excuse to do smth nice for him. So we'd set up his locker with presents inside, and a big greeting card that opened up when you opened the locker door. We got random people to wish him happy birthday (and when our "plants" wished him, other people who weren't in on it also believed that it was his real bday, so it snowballed). Mr Philip brought the audition choir to sing to Caleb during one class, and even Mr Bob had the class sing later on in their Spanish 2 class! XD

Actually, we 3 culprits were getting kinda worried that maybe dear Laurie was mad about what we'd set up, but later on he said that he did have a good day. Even if it had been really really weird to have a non-birthday with the whole highschool involved. Hehehehe. ^^''

Yesterday was youth Sunday. When we went out for lunch together after that, I just remember Tim (British dude) getting insulted over the fish and chips and he ordered, saying, "Oh c'mon, they call this fish and chips?" We didn't know any better, but I suppose he IS British, so. =] Yeah.

This week we have 4 tests. (Schedueled so far. Some teacher may decide to add another one.) Why do all the teachers somehow always end up giving tests in the same week?? And they say they "aren't conspiring against us". XD Oh, oh, and they always say that they're keeping within the rule of "no more than 2 tests on the same day". Which is reasonable and true, but, technically that could mean up to 10 tests in a week.

Anyway, now's not a good time for me to start playing Jana's neopets account. X) YES, GO AHEAD, LAUGH. I had a spare moment a few days ago and decided to revisit neopets just for old times's sake, and make some money for Jana's account in the process. Oh deary. I've ended up spending for too much time on it. Juussssst becaaaaauuse we've growwwwn a few years doesn't mean that what once used to have us so addicted to neopets has entirely lost its appeal.

So time for bed now. Thanks to everyone who's been helping me with the AP World Hist test. ^^ All the best to us tomorrow!