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    lots of exciting things have been going on in my life recently and I am just now finding time to blog about them! I know I'm a giant slacker..but I have just been so busy lately! School is definitely in full swing and I am swamped with work alllll the time.
    school. lets rewind to this past sunday. I had probably 3 mental breakdowns/mid-college crises. I have literally been studying for one class for almost an entire week. what class it is? death. okay I'm kidding...its anatomy. but it may as well be called death by stress. we have covered all the muscles, nerves, veins, arteries, organs, and anything else you could possibly think of in your trunk up to this point. and they couldnt make it easy on us and split up each unit and have a test every couple weeks. no, of course not! they decided to make our lives miserable and do a month and a halfs work in one test! woohoo! i LOVE it when they do that! I had my lecture exam this morning. wanna know how it went? well, it was alright. some parts i knew right off the bat, i could logically work through the others, and then there were my favorite kind. the questions that i had no idea what the answers were. dont you just love those? yeah..i feel the same way. i have my lab practical exam tomorrow and i think it will be a little easier because i just have to identify the structures on cadavers, diagrams, models, and cross-sections. i will probably blog again on sunday or monday to let yall know how it went.
     my major. well, as you all probably know, i am currently a kinesiology-exercise science major with a concentration in pre-physical therapy. why i decided this would be a good major for me? it sounded like a fun idea and physical therapists make bank. and you may be asking, what are you gonna do? change majors? funny you should ask! why, yes i am changing majors! and now you may be asking, what are you changing it to? thanks for asking! im changing my major to elementary education and i could not be more excited! everyone who knows me, know i absolutely ADORE children. and i have wanted to be a teacher since about the 5th grade. my heart is finally settled and i am so happy about this decision. its going to be a strange transition from all science classes to education classes...so be praying for me that it will be a smooth transition please :)
    housing. so jmu is super weird about how they do housing. all my friends at other schools dont have to decide on their living plans for next year until this spring. but of course jmu likes to be different and make us decide in october. yepp thats right. i have to decide this month what i am doing about housing for next year. so weird but oh well. i have been really conflicted about housing until earlier this week. i was going to live in a two or three bedroom apartment with two friends and i was pretty settled on that. but something just didnt feel right about those plans. (*background info - people in Christian organizations at jmu like to rent big houses with 6-10 people in their small groups and name them cool things. some examples, the yellow submarine, the funk house, the full house, the salt shaker, etc*) so i knew some girls in my small group were thinking about getting a house but i hadnt put much thought into doing that because i already made plans with other girls. on saturday and sunday, i randomly got the thought of living with my small group girls. it was so out of the blue that it had to be a God thing. later on sunday evening my roommate from last year (megan) had called me and told me that a spot in the small group house had opened up and they all wanted me to live with them. oh heyyy Jesus! i instantly said yes and knew that this is what i needed to be doing. we have been talking about houses for next year alllll week and have actually seen one house that we all LOVED and are pretty sure we are going to get! there are going to be 10 of us in the house and we will each have our own bedroom! this house is so big and im obsessed. it has lots of potential to be cute. we just need to go in with an open mind and bring lots of Jesus in that house :)
     needless to say, this week has been very super stressful. like i said earlier, i had a breakdown on sunday night. i was just so stressed and confused that i didnt know what else to do but cry. i opened up my devotion that i do every night before bed and the verse of the day was 2 Corinthians 5:7 Live by faith, not by sight. let me repeat myself, oh heyyy Jesus! i love love love when things like this happen. it gives me chills just thinking about it. all these stresses in my life were not random or accidental. the Lord knew what i was going to be going through and he gave me answers that couldnt be more direct. i can honestly say that i am genuinely happy for the first time in a while. i was walking to class the other day and i randomly got the song God is so good stuck in my head. and yes, that is the song that we all learned in like preschool. i have been walking around with a real smile on my face all week and it feels so wonderful and so real.
  * here are some Bible verses i have read lately and they have really stuck with me.
        Matthew 11:28
        1 Cor 16:14
        Romans 12:12
        Romans 8:28
        Psalm 63:3


 love yall :)