International program

October 26th - A really busy day!!! ► International Program

I call it International Program, though it's actually Dia de la Raza (Columbus Day), because we had it 2 weeks after the real day which is October 12th. Here in Montemorelos University we have a variety of international students and because of this, the program is more oriented to be an international thing instead of commemorating the day of Cristopher Columbu's arrival in the Americas.

But why did I say it was a busy day? Well, the Student Council (I'm part of it) this year was in charge of getting the flags ready and all that it involves:

• People
• Flags... this was a hassle because some of them weren't ready 'till the last minute, and actually two of them were incorrect!!! what a problem!!!
• Sashes... we thought we had them all, but when we double-checked there were like 8 or 9 missing, so had to do them last minute!
• National customes... well, this wasn't a problem

*If you click on any of the pics, you will see the rest of them on my flickr. Enjoy!! ;-)

Mexico!


The last song, with everybody participating on stage.


With some cute kids that at the same time are crazy!!! They were my students in children sabbath school during the summer, so every time i see them they say hi to me ;-)


With a friend from Antigua and Barbuda.


India! well, Sohorin is from India and he is from the States I think, but lived in India for a while... or something like that LOL


Japan! They are from Japan but have lived here in Mexico for like 25 years or more

Student Council
Can you see my shoes?! I don't know what I was thinking LOL... cause after all the running up and down, I was really but REALLY tired :( but hey!! they look nice right!?! heheh

This afternoon I was going to town with some friends and one of them was reading the mission story for tomorrow, and being the curious girl I am, I asked her if I could see the magazine. To my surprised I saw Toshi's pic in one of the stories and I went like crazy!! LOL I was like... I KNOW HIM, I KNOW HIM!! HE'S MY FRIEND!! hehehehe it was funny... cause it wasn't a big deal for any of my friends hehe but I was just having those funny times I guess we all have.

Toshi, if you happen to read this, I just wanna tell you that I'm glad you decided to follow Jesus ;) and I'm also glad that you are my friend ;) lots of love to you and my dear friends I have from those good times in Thailand.

I don't like Wednesdays at all!!!!

Wednesday is the day when I wake up like extremely early, comparing to the rest of the week, so I think that's the main reason why I don't like it. Usually I get up at 3 am or sometimes 4 (when I don't have a lot of homework). I don't even know how this whole waking-up-really-early thing started :( but anyway... that's how it is now.

The word Wednesday is equal to teaching practice (at least this semester), and that takes a lot of my time. Appart from my normal teaching job and my uni classes, I have to do teaching practice in a public secondary school in town. The first days I didn't like going there at all, but now that I've been going once a week for like 9 weeks, I think I'm kinda enjoying it, but I still preffer my job at the Language Institute.
Another reason why it is not my fav day of the week is because I start classes at 7:15 am (the other days I start at 8).

This morning I was thinking that I should do something so that I don't have to wake up that early to prepare my class and do some homework, but what to do?! Once I tried to do the class planning like 2 days in advance and guess what..... no ideas at all came to my mind. I've descovered that my mind works better when I'm stressed out or when I know I have short time to do things. I guess that's normal for me, so unless something really big happens to make me change, I think I will have to wake up early and hate Wednesdays for the rest of the semester LOL.

I got some more pictures of our MG activity last sunday...

*Pictures from PULSO

Week of Prayer

Last week we had our Week of Prayer with Pastor Doug Batchelor, speaker of the TV program Amazing Facts. We had great messages, great stories and great music every morning and evening! We always start our week of prayer on Friday, so it has actually two weekends. The second weekend was really cool. I got to play with a string "quartet" on Friday for the Communion service, and then on Sabbath with the Orchestra. Sabbath morning was more than AWESOME!!! The sermon was great, and the music was great! The orchestra with the Chamber Choir... great combination!!! And then, as part of the traditions here at the university, the second Sabbath all the students and faculty have lunch together. So it was a cool thing, though there are lots of people and it takes longer to get your food and dessert and all that lol.

Communion Service - Friday evening


Playing for Communion Service - Friday evening


Lunch Time


*Pictures from PULSO

Today's activity with the MG club was so much fun, but a lot tiring. We are supposed to finish 21 honors by the end of the school year, so every saturday afternoon and sunday morning that we have our meeting we have a special guess to teach us an honor. Today's honor was Drilling and Marching, but before the instructor came we had a special activity that was lots of fun. It was kinda like a race. I laughed through the whole thing, and I'm so glad that I just watched the activity LOL. After that, the instructor came and we started marching. He's retired from the Marine in Mexico, so you can imagine how the whole class went. It was only an hour but when we finished, we were all really tired. He's realy strict so we marched around the place, and we even did push-ups because he saw some mistakes. I liked it but it was extremely tiring!! I hope that next time we do it, it's not to hot or not hot at all... that would help a lot.

*Click on the pic to see the normal size.

If they come late, they have to exercise LOL... better wake up early!






This was taken just before they fell... it was kinda funny!!




And after this kinda cool part, came the marching part, which wasn't that cool lol.... Don't have pics of that because I was busy and the instructor was really strict :(

I finally finished reading MY SISTER'S KEEPER by Jodi Picoult. It took me longer than I thought (wanted to finish it in a month and took me 15 more days) but maybe it was because of all the school work.
I'm just fascinated with that book!! When I finished reading it (this morning at 11:00 am to be exact lol) I was really excited because of how everything ended up so clear in the final 4 or 5 chapters... and it doesn't really have that typical ending that you can guess even before getting to the end of the book.
Vivian, you gotta start reading that book like right now!!!

MG Club

Sunday morning activity with the Master Guide club -IXTUS-

Last year I was part of the MG club as a counselor, which was cool, but this year I'm not a counselor anymore.... now I'm in charged of all that has to do with camps. I like it better this way because when we have regular activities I'm not totally involved so I can have fun and help as well LOL.
ok... enjoy the pics (not lots of pics... hope I can get the ones I took)

That camera isn't mine :( but I had some fun with it last sunday...
It was cool to be back to pic-taking time.

Blog tag!

First I read Lerie's blog and saw this blog tag thingy, and then read Shimona's blog and it was the same entry (Shiz tagged by Lerie)... and then here I am (tagged by Shiz), doing the same thing lol


Tell everybody 5 facts about yourself. Usually something unique or that you think few people know about you.

At the end of your facts. Tag 5 people (list their names down) and those people who are tagged will write 5 facts about themselves and tag 5 other people and so on and so forth!



Sendy's 5 facts

1. I started playing violin since I was 4 years old

2. I had a mole/birth mark on my foot (don't remember if left or right) that was removed in high school... and that's the only "surgery" I've gone through lol

3. I wish I could have a perfect eyesight, but at the same time I enjoy wearing my glasses lol

4. I've lived in Montemorelos University area all my life minus 4 years (3 living in another city while my dad was doing his masters and one in Thailand) and yeah... it was great living outside this place lol

5. I love my name and the way it sounds hehehe


I Tag.....
1. Espy
2. Sara
3. Dell
4. Fifi
5. Doris