A CrysMiss Vlogust

So, I realize I did not post in July. Blame my body! I arrived on a Friday back in Manila from my summer in Aninuan just 2 days before our required All Staff Retreat for Faith only to wake up Saturday morning full on head-colding. This meant going to ASR on Monday sick, trying to sleep off the sick the day we got back and going to our Student Excecutive counsel retreat on Friday-Sun still not at 100%. With only Monday & Tuesday to prep my classes/room, you can imagine my scramble to be ready for school on Wednesday. It’s moved from crazy days into crazy weeks and the crazy is still not over. But, I did managed to wiggle in a little something extra for my August post.

Being that it’s September 1, the #bermonths have arrived and it’s officially CHRISTMAS time in the PHILIPPINES (no, I’m not kidding. Someone was singing “It’s the Most Wonderful Time of the Year” two days ago and I shouted, “NO, 2 MORE DAYS!! 2 MORE DAAAAYYYS!”) here is an early Christmas CrysMiss present! Teehee.

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Leaving on a helicopter

July 3, 2014 No Comments

So we flew on a jet plane north to Tuguegarao (it’s just as much fun to say as it is to spell)

Commence Life Change

July 1, 2014 No Comments

This is the face of how Hannah and I feel about May. It’s a no good terrible rotten time. Too much change, too many goodbyes, beginning a love hate/relationship with skype. But that is the life we lead, it is the nature of the expat/missionary life. When you venture to a place far away from the home and people you grew up with the world suddenly becomes a much bigger place. You can’t unmeet people and forget that life is going on without you in each new place anymore than you can forget that life goes on in the place you grew up, went to school, church etc. Sometimes I’m like whhhhy did I open that door? I cannot shove it shut! I cannot forget you people! But then I recognize that it’s only such a painful experience because it’s such a great experience. In the end, your world gets smaller because your friends begin to populate the areas between you and the people you love that are furthest from you. I could just play hopscotch across the globe and find pieces of my heart that were stolen from me (okay okay, I gave them willingly). Anyway, you get the idea.

A Midsummer Night’s Dream

July 1, 2014 No Comments

This post is hard for me to write. Mostly because it’s hard to describe the experience with words. For those of you know the kind of experience I had with my senior theatre project at Cedarville then you understand exactly the kind of emotions, awe, and wonder that this production evoked. It truly was a midsummer night’s dream. NOT intentionally PUNNY! (The hot season in the Phils or summer is from from March to May. Our play was April 24-26. :o) The great thing about Shakespeare is that it a blank canvas, you can do whatever you want with it. But I’ve come to realize that the blank canvas can also be TOTALLY overwhelming when you aren’t an abstract thinker. Thankfully, I had willing people around me who stepped up to help brainstorm, design, choreograph, buy fabric, paint, sew, and tell me the ideas I did have weren’t crazy (even when they were). I felt like the luckiest director in the world as I sat in the audience and watched our creation come to life.

Corregidor

July 1, 2014 No Comments

For those of you who do not know what or where Corregidor is (and there’s a good chance you don’t really know since history books

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