Joyfulish-Happy News!

WoW...WHOOT, Emily has very joyful news!!!
There have been two very major "things" I have been praying for/wanting in the past few months or so, and in the past two days God has answered them both. I heard news of the first late yesterday evening, and the other just earlier tonight! I won a CMU Outtatown Leadership Scholarship, and I am going to Australia.


Scholaraship

Yeserday evening I recieved a letter (actually the letter itself arrived on Friday, but due to the "reno-mode" of our household that was never convayed, none-the-less...) from CMU. As I had applied for their Leadership Scholarship at the end of February, I had been a little curious and worried as to their verdict. The letter was thin, so I was initailly preparing myself for defeat, but lo-and-behold, it said CONGRADULATIONS, and I was ecstatic! It is worth $1000 and since the Outtatown program aspires to set me back several grande it was a big help.

I also was overcome because (story time) in January I wasn't sure if I could afford to go back to Camp to work over the summer since that would leave me no time for another job, and Camp doesn't really pay much in the financial aspect of things. I was very much at a loss because I was faced with either not being able to make enough money for my trip to South Africa, or not being able to do what I was passionate about over the summer. Well I spent alot of time in prayer and taking with other people, and I really felt god telling me that I needed to leave things up to Him, and that I was right in wanting to go back to camp. For me this was a relatively huge step because I have never been very good in stepping out in faith when it came to financial issues.

When that letter came I was filled with a sense of God's blessing. I don't really want to say that "God has been faithful.." because I believe that He is faithful no matter what, even if I didn't win, but it just reaffirmed that God did want me to work on more trust in that area of my life, and, well I just felt God's special blessing. I was really pretty neato. I can hardly wait until this up and coming school year, though I have many good things to look forward to in between so I am fairly content.

Australia

I am also extremely excited about travelling to Australia, which I will be doing June 13-25 (and I'll get back just in time to be completely jet-lagged for my grad!) There are 7 of us going from my school and I am extremely delighted to be one of them. Originally they weren't sure how many they were able to take, but thankfully in the end all 7 of us made it!

I promised to buy my sister a boomerang because apperantly the ones from Australia are really good...well, yeah, but if you want something, I am taking orders!

For those of you who might be confused as to WHY we are going, be proud, it is a wonderfully nerdy reason indeed! We are going for a big science week thing as well as some other marine exploration and kangaroo spottings and whatnot. WHOOT! (or as the truely geeky say it, "w00t")!

Unfortunatly by the end of June I can not be expecting much surfing and hot sandy beaches because in Southern Australia they are experiencing their "wintery-ness". Oh well, atleast I will hopefully not be suffering a terrible burn for grad then no?


Well until then I shall be plugging through the rest of my school year, although really after May 8th things get significantly better. Here are some of the things I must do in the next month:
-FINISH biotech project
-Safoni-Aventis Biotech Challenge
-MSSS
-Toronto National Biology competition
-AP exams
-Envirothon Practise
-Renovate the House
-all those little smaller things that you'd feel whiny about mentioning, but they all seem to pile up

I appear to actually have some free time from the end of AP exams (May 8th) until right before the actual Envirothon kicks off (around Victoria Day, the 22nd). Then of course followed by trying to finish my chem class early since I will be leaving an entire week before the course actually ends and I have to write he exam ahead of time! (AHHHH)

On a slightly more random note, if anyone has seen my Coldplay CD, let it be declared that I'd like it back!