It's a beautiful life.

Well, I knew I wouldn't be very good at keeping this blog up to date. I was never a journalist. :) But here's a news update.

School's going good. It's ab week in my yogilates class so we did every kind of situp for 45 minutes 3 times this week. That makes me feel awesome! I've started running since the weather and also my health has gotten better. Hopefully, I'll be in good shape again when summer finally starts.

I've almost got my whole dance routine down, and it's been a struggle. We preform it at Lane on the main stage June 6 at 2:00 p.m. if anyone would like to come laugh hysterically.

French is well, tres dificile. I've been studying about 4 hours a day and I'm starting to feel like it's sinking in. It's been a whirlwind of knowledge and I think I might even pull out a B, which I'm usually anti but in this case I'll be happy with. The bad news is that since the dollar keeps loosing value in the world market (now $1.57 to 1 E ) it looks like my trip to France is going to be postponed. Oh well, my new goal is to be there on my 30th birthday (choke!) but that's really only in 3 years. Realistically thats how long it's going to take me to become fluent and save up enough money! :) So again, patience is my lesson. Why the repeated theme Lord? I guess I am always in a hurry.

Oh and how prayers are answered. In my last blog I wrote about church and my confusion around it. About a week later I was reading the Eugene Weekly and I found an article that sparked my interest. Inter-Faith Meetings. This is exactly what I'm looking for. They have been meeting since right after the 9/11 attack. In an attempt to discourage an instant hatred for all Muslim people and an acceptance of all they started meeting the 11th of every month. I read there are up to 10 different religions represented. Every meeting speakers from different religion speaks about a selected topic. I couldn't believe a. I hadn't heard of this before and b. that it actually existed. Thank you Lord for answering my prayers. I've always wanted not only tolerance of others and their beliefs but loving acceptance. I know some Christians feel moved to convert people, I just feel moved to love people. I believe in peaceful accepting coexistence. Fighting over religion and "holy" lands, or wars based on "Manifest Destiny" have always seemed like oxymorons to me. Has the world really improved since people have been fighting over religion or "for" religion? I don't think so. Can't we teach and learn the most through love and acceptance? Everyone is going to make their own decision anyway, it's our God given right to have free will. When I picture Jesus Christ as the example of our way to live I see only love, a bit of sternness about what's universally wrong, but always unconditional love as the end result. So I am now excited about church! I can't wait to attend on June 11th. I'll let you know how it goes.