Charlotte

I know it's been a while since I have blogged. My apologies. People have been encouraging me to and I have been really struggling with what to write about. But I guess I have been inspired by my mom, who has been writing her daily blog about the sabbatical she and my dad are taking. You can read it here: http://pwetselaar.blogspot.com/ But not yet! Read mine first. I'm taking just a few days...

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Blessed by Refugees

I signed up to go to Clarkston to work with refugees without even really wanting to. The opportunity was given to me through my school really last-minute. I took it, simply hoping I would be able to raise the support to go. Going into the trip I wasn't thinking about refugees. I needed to fulfill a course requirement and write a paper about my time experience. I went to Clarkston knowing God must...

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Mystery

I was in the mail room, my hands were full with a hot cup of coffee and my wallet and I was trying to find my keys. It was quite the hassle because a bunch of girls had overtaken the whole mailroom selling someone's entire wardrobe and so I had no table space to set anything down. Not to mention my backpack weighed like 40 pounds all day so it was quite the struggle for me to one-handedly get my keys...

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Through Christ's Eyes

From my journal. 2-17-14     Yesterday at my team meeting for Clarkston, we heard Sam R.'s testimony. I've never known him or really even thought twice about him. Honestly, I've been pretty judgmental and always thought he was pretty weird.      He talked about how he used to move around a lot....like ten times....and he was homeschooled so he never really had friends and...

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A Grieving Campus

I wrote a blog six or seven months ago about David Taaffe. He was my classmate, a star soccer player, a Mac Scholar, an RA. But a very tragic and unexpected fall caused his death that shocked us all. My campus is still grieving. And I'm sad to say that oftentimes, I forget. I forget about David, I forget that he's gone. I hardly knew him. And I hardly have the words to write. I hardly can comprehend...

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Super Bowl

With the Super Bowl coming up, I just wanted to share this article really fast: You'll Never See This Side of the Super Bowl on TV And as a side note, sorry about constantly re-designing my blog. I've discovered I really like change and get bored with the backgrounds really fast. Oh well. Enjoy the article....

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The South Meets the Snow

Today my mom asked me if I was a Yankee Snob. Well, no. Not usually. Don't get me wrong. I love the South. I love living here. It's warmer, people are more polite, it's beautiful, there's mountains, etc. But seriously, people. We got about one inch of snow and that resulted in one and a half days of cancelled classes. Everywhere I went people were making snow angels and taking pictures of the beautiful...

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