An Ambassador in Chains

In some crazy turn of my life, God has led me to participate in Mission Year starting this September 2nd. I've been signed up to do this since last November, and as it gets closer, I want to start actually documenting my life throughout this whole, crazy ordeal. A lot of the time, I'm excited about what God's going to do with me this year, but most of the time I'm flat out terrified, because Missions is not what I do. It's just not. But, I'm packing my bags and heading to Houston on September 2nd, five days before my 21st birthday, and we'll see what happens by the time I get back on July 29th, 2012.
It could be excellent, cheesy, terrifying, horrible, wonderful, amazing, or all of the above. I'll just have to find out.

  • Happy June!

    Happy June!

    Happy June!

    Now you have two months left to live in Houston.

    Oh.

    Yay…

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    higgitusfiggitus:

    Today my mom wasn’t home, so my eight year old sister asked me to set some words for her so she could write her daily sentences. I knew she did them every day, but I’ve never bothered to read them before.

    My sister is a lot of things. She’s extremely smart, fairly quiet, and absolutely hilarious. But today I learned two new things about her:

    a) my sister does not have a way with the written word

    b) my sister is addicted to crack cocaine

    I don’t know what the fuck she’s smoking but I want in on it sweet baby jesus I did not know what to do with myself while I was reading some of these

    what is wrong with her

    I don’t even understand what some of these mean









    (things you should know: I am natalie, and her “silkys” are two little silk & velveteen blankets she’s slept with since she was born.)

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    So…S-Club came on, and then I went to reblog this, and they’re definitely dancing to it, on beat and everything.
So great.
Also, I miss Ashley a lot.
You’re cool, Ashley. Just in case you forgot. ILOVEYOUANDSTUFF.
=)

    So…S-Club came on, and then I went to reblog this, and they’re definitely dancing to it, on beat and everything.

    So great.

    Also, I miss Ashley a lot.

    You’re cool, Ashley. Just in case you forgot. ILOVEYOUANDSTUFF.

    =)

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    I have a new-found love of awesome bikes. I should get a picture of Mr. Hosea’s bike. It’s the best thing ever, pretty much.
That’s all.

    I have a new-found love of awesome bikes. I should get a picture of Mr. Hosea’s bike. It’s the best thing ever, pretty much.

    That’s all.

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    Hip-Hop Saved My Life — Lupe Fiasco (featuring Nikki Jean)

    Check it —> 1:08.
    That house is two blocks from my house. One of my students used to live in it up until a few months or so ago, when his family moved two houses over. His grandmother and great-grandma, Miss Dianne and Miss May, still live there.

    How surreal is that?

    Lyrics, yo:

    Dedicate dedicate
    Uh this one right here goes out
    To my homie with the dream
    Know what I mean

    He said I write what I see
    Write to make it right
    Don’t like where I be
    I’d like to make it like
    The sights on TV
    Quite the great life
    So nice and easy
    See now you can still die from that
    But it’s better than not being alive from straps
    Agreed
    A mead notebook and a Bic that click
    When it’s pushed and a wack beat
    That’s a track that’s weak
    That he got last week
    ‘cause everybody in the store
    Was like that’s that heat
    A bass heavy medley with a sample from the 70s
    With a screwed up hook that went
    STACK THAT CHEESE
    Something something something
    STACK THAT CHEESE
    Mother sister cousin
    STACK THAT CHEESE
    He couldn’t think of nothing
    STACK THAT CHEESE
    He turns down the beat writers block impedes
    Crying from the next room a baby in need
    Of some pampers and some food and a place to sleep
    That plus a black Cadillac on D’s
    Is what keep him on track to be a great MC

    (Chorus)

    Reps Northside so he rocks them braids
    Eleven hundred friends on his myspace page
    Stack that cheese got seven hundred plays
    Producer made him take it down
    Said he had to pay
    Open mic champ two weeks in a row
    Ex boy with a boy flow
    Glow like Leroy you should see boy go
    Got a daddy serving life and a brother on The Row
    Best homie in the grave
    Tattered up while in the cage
    Minutemaid got his momma work like a slave
    Down baby momma who he really had to honor
    ‘cause she was his biggest fan
    Even let him use the Honda
    Drive up to Dallas went to open up for amateurs
    Let him keep her debit card
    So he could put gas in it
    Told her when he get on
    He’s gonna take her to the gallery
    Buy her everything but the mannequins your dig

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    His man called said “your time might be now”
    They played your freestlye over “Wipe me down”
    They played it two times
    Said it might be crowned
    As the best thing out the H-TOWN in a while
    He picked up his son with a great big smile
    Rapped every single word to the newborn child
    Then he put ‘em down and went back to the kitchen
    Put on another beat and got back to the mission
    To get his momma out the hood
    Put her somewhere in the woods
    Keep his lady looking good
    Have her rolling like she should
    Show his homies there’s a way
    Other than that flipping Yay
    Bail his homie outta jail
    Put a lawyer on his case
    Throw a concert for the school
    Show this that’s it cool
    Throw some candy on the cadi
    Chuck the duece and act a fool
    Man it feels good when it happens like that
    Two days from going back to selling crack, yes sir

  • How Mission Year Creates Its Own Reality That Only Somewhat Reflects What’s Really Happening In The World:

    How Mission Year Creates Its Own Reality That Only Somewhat Reflects What’s Really Happening In The World:

    How Mission Year Creates Its Own Reality That Only Somewhat Reflects What’s Really Happening In The World:

    1.) You don’t realize that there are going to be Summer Olympics this year until the gym teacher of the school you work at announces that the school will be having its own mini-Olympics on the last day of school.

    2.) You still don’t actually put together that the reason your school is having this mini-Olympics is because there are going to be Summer Olympics this year until three quarters of the way through her explanation of the Olympics.

    3.) Your neighbors ask you about huge pieces of news, like tornadoes and other big such things not far from where you live, and you blink at them and answer, “What tornadoes?”

    4.) You realize that celebrities have died because the St. John’s choir somehow manages to pull off singing “I Will Always Love You,” in the middle of worship on Sunday morning. And the entire congregation loses its mind.

    5.) Your cousin gets an internship in Arkansas for the summer, and you suddenly remember that you have a cousin. Who you can actually talk to.