salvation mountain.

yesterday i went on an adventure to salvation mountain with alisha, josiah, and kevin.

seriously the coolest thing ever.

check it out! 

can i please do something awesome and meaningful with my life please?

on the way there we stayed on the 10 a little too long and ended up in the middle of nowhere. 

it was a cool place for a quick photo tho.
the self timer feature on cameras was a wonderful invention.
seriously i have had a great summer so far. i have loved spending time with lots of different people and getting to do some awesome things.

1 month down.

3 more to go!

You see flowers in these weeds.

this is a project that i am working on right now. 

the assignment was to create a "statement of faith."

so this is what i came up with. 

used one of my favorite all time songs, dandelions, by five iron frenzy.  

basically God sees us a beautiful flowers even though we are weeds. 

just like dandelions. 

unconditional love. 

seriously, how can he see us as anything but the wretched sinful weeds that we are? it blows my mind. 

like the gifts we bring him and the way we try to worship how can it even compare to what he has done for us? but even though what we bring to the table looks like nothing we are still treasured. 

well, its almost 5 in the morning. i had a fantastic day. now i need some sleep. 

woo.

so i work in the graphic design computer lab. 

its fun. i just get to sit there and work on projects and help other students who come in to use the lab. 

but this week  the four of us who work in there were given a new task to accomplish. 

we are making fire escape routes for every classroom on campus. 

we have to draw up the building and room and then add a nice dotted line to show the most efficient way to exit a building in the case of emergency. 

its kinda tedious work. but i like it. 

the thing is they didn't tell us what the most efficient way to get out would be. so we get to figure it out on our own. 

im nervous that i will draw the dotted line the wrong way and then someone might get hurt in a fire because i thought it would be better to use one set of stairs as opposed to a different exit. 

so tonight i went to cbu's first annual woo fest. 

basically an all male talent show providing the men on campus an opportuinity to woo the ladies. 

it was so entertaining.

happy valentines day. 

love and respect.

im working on a paper for my "art and the bible class"
and just thought i would post a quick blog.


"The sacredness of human personality is evident in that God created man in His own image, and in that Christ died for man; therefore, every person of every race possesses full dignity and is worthy of respect and Christian love."

i freaking love that so much.
and i don't even know what love means.


here is a quick video from louisiana. these are jane's 3-7 year olds playing musical chairs.
it makes me smile.

amazing love story.

wow, this is a cool story.
check it out.

i will for sure be reading this guy's memoirs.

oh the memories.

i love these girls.
and i felt like posting goofy pictures of both of them.
but today i got to go out to lunch with alisha and jane, and we laughed a lot, cried a little, and basically i miss spending all of my time living life with them.

the thrill of a child.

i hate fireworks.
i think they are so overrated.
i think they are wasteful.
random explosions in the sky. totally unsynchronized. no overall scheme. just pure chaos.

and then last night i watched the disneyland fireworks for the first time ever. and it was magical. and i take everything back.

tangent

THIS IS A MAJOR TANGENT FROM MY LAST BLOG SO I DECIDED TO MAKE A WHOLE NEW POST. and i just realized that that was in caps lock.
becuase i do not type correctly. i look at the key board while i type. when i had computers in 7th grade we had to play typing games and i cheated.

so this is where it started....
well actually i can always get away with lying on the internet. its kinda a new hobby of mine. like i really find joy in posting bogus status updates and stuff. i think people take myspace/facebook wayyyy to seriously. (and i know this might sound hypocritical coming from me, but im pretty over the whole thing.) like if you really care to know whats going on in someone's life you should ask. oh but wait, you cant ask people how they are doing because thats just a casual greeting. "hi how are you" "good how are you" is the normal exchange these days. and people really dont care what your answer is. i usually respond with "fine." and people ask "aw why fine?" like its just so unexpected to hear that.
i really hate whats happening. because when i ask my friends how they are doing or how their day was i really care about the answer. and it hurts when i get one word back.

another thing that stinks about our normal conversations is how often people say "i love you" why do we only have one word for love?
i love chipotle.
i love my family.
i love game show network.
i love God.
i love to blog.
i love water.
i love music.
i love making lists.

we should have more words.

im behind on blogging.

the begining of freedom.

i kicked off my spring break with the best kind of party you can go to... a wedding!!!!!!
kimie cook is now kimie klawer. and i still dont know what to do, should i change her name in my phone book? (yes i have first and last names entered in my cell)

their wedding was beautiful. it really excites me to think about them spending the rest of their lives together. i really know that they love each other but more importantly the both love Jesus. their wedding really was awesome because Christ was the center, and if you want to have a successful relationship that really is the only way to do it. EEEE!!!!! congratulations mr and mrs klawer!!!!!!
(this is a picture from when we camped out at the mo val chick fil a opening.)
kimie you really should start blogging.

after the wedding i freed the gold fishies in the fortuna fountain. im just waiting for my suspension now. because that is probably breaking some rule. but im pretty good at rule breaking. then me and nik went to drew and johnie mac's apartment and we hung out and had some friendship.

saturday i went out to dinner with the fam for jacob's 16th birthday!!!! for his birthday ate meat! after practicing vegetarianism for about a year he gave it up. so we got to go out for steak!

then i watched a movie with janai and holly. it was nice and relaxing.

today i went to junior high and daniel talked about job and how crazy his life was, yet he still continued to praise the lord when everything was falling apart around him. not to sound lame or anything but i really identify with this. it has been a hard year and i still know that God has a plan for my life and He is the only reason for doing anyhting. its hard to remember that everything i do need to be a reflection of Him working in me. but im trying.

then i walked with holly and bryce to cvs to buy popsicles. i realized that i love popsicles. i watched a movie, started to pack and walked to subway with holly for dinner. jacob came over and we went to sandals together.

now im at home watching some antm.
and i still have a whole week of spring break left!!!!

biblical bibles.

So its seek week at school right now. and i don't even know why its called seek week.
you would think it mans that we are going to have a campus wide hide and go seek game. but then you would be wrong.

what i do know is that we have an awesome speaker three days in a row.
Voddie Baucham is speaking about biblical manhood and womanhood. and the chapel service today was pretty awesome. listen to it!

basically my standards have been raised. i know too often girls settle for some guy because he makes her feel good and feel wanted. but that is not all there is to it. if it was that easy our divorce rate wouldn't be so high. Americans knows how to fall in love but we just doesn't know how to submit.

sex and accountability.

so i realized i don't know how to hold people accountable to stuff.
like do i just call them up and say,
"Hi! It's rachel. are you having sex with your boyfriend?"

on that note... sex.
and love. and dating. and marriage. and attraction. and purity. and sex. and God's plan for my life.it feels weird to say that i have been learning a lot about those subjects lately, because the reality is i have never even dated anyone, well kinda have, but not really.

so i have been typing sentences and then deleting them. and the typing some more stuff and then deleting it. i had a few paragraphs but decided not to post it.
maybe i will finish this thought, but maybe not.

other news: i keep getting sick. all i want to do is sleep. im still coughing a little and my nose is stuffed up but i think im pretty much better.
we will see how i feel in the morning (read afternoon) when i wake up for class.

attention: people who want to give me stuff.

hi. i dont like getting flowers.
holly (who needs to start a blog) was sayting that flowers are a lame gift. and i agree. they just die. she brought up the idea of a potted plant. for my graduation my uncle john gave me a potted hibuscus plant. and its so huge now. we had to move it into a new pot it got so huge.

but how about this alternitave to flowers?
The Common Cold, The Flu, Sore Throat, Stomach Ache, Cough, Ear Ache, Bad Breath, Kissing Disease, Athlete's Foot, Ulcer, Martian Life, Beer & Bread, Black Death, Ebola, Flesh Eating, Sleeping Sickness, Dust Mite, Bed Bug, and Bookworm

i think these microbes are so cute.
just look at the little salmonella.

seriously! so cute.
you can order them singularly or in a petri dish of three.

i am anti-anti-valentines day.

i think its silly when people are super anti valentines day.

its like the day of love. so whats not to love?

which put me in a mewithoutyou mood.
i have also been listening to manchester orchestra non stop.

valentines day.

so next week it seems as if everyone is planning some sort of valentines day get together.

rotic (romantic without the man)- a nice italian dinner for girls
cottage toga party- remember to follow cbu dress code
move night- they will be playing enchanted

i think im going to the toga part for sure. i will probably not attend the other events.

rick warren wants you to check out cbu.

watch the video on the side of the page. or don't. i wont ever know.
rick's top reasons why you should go to cbu:

1. it's not your father's school
   
2. most people find their spouses at college
3. missions is at the heart of the campus
   

oh rick, i want to find my spouse. but the 5:1 girl guy ratio will make that kinda hard.
so right now im content with living life with a bunch of girls. rick was half right. if your a boy you will find your spouse at college.

example: in my anthropology class of about 35 people there are only 2 boys.
Wow. i totally just figured it out... im single because i refer to them as boys. not men.