the journey...

...to the college life christmas party...

So caitlin and i went to the college life christmas party but what a journey it was to get there lol...we drove up and down this one road i swear 4 times looking for elk grove, called someone twice and stopped at a gas station before finally getting there off a different road(thank you gas station attendant!) We were laughing so hard we were crying, because we were pretty sure we were retarded but then when leaving we discovered you turn on violet then elk grove and thus was our problemo lol... had fun playing mennonite madness and there was a white elephant gift exchange and my desired gift got stolen at the last minute(an aubrey hepburn breakfast at tiffany's photo) and i ended up with some anti static cling spray....sad sad day though Sallianne did have to rap you are my sunshine to take my prized possesion which made the loss a little more bearable.... one really cool idea was that everyone had to bring two dozen cookies then each person made up a plate of a dozen or so and we put a christmas card on them and then you give them to your neighbors...i think its thoughtful and brilliant...

so tomorrow night i have a wedding to go to, my first one in like 2 years lol...it should be beautiful and i am excited...so much love to you all and a good night too...may God grant you great peace and joy today and forever more!!!

hello world...

...its karda...

So week 2 of school starts tomorrow and so far so good..today i went to church at Grace and i liked it and i als:)o went to their college group, that was really cool and very enjoyable. Things are really not so awkward anymore which i am sure happy about! So i think i am on my way to making friends! HECK YES:) So ya what has God been teaching? Well the other day in devotions i was reading in my devotional book My upmost for his highest and it was talking about lusting after things and not necessarily bad things and God really showed me i am lusting after a relationship and that needs to stop... Relationships are not bad things of course but only in Gods perfect timing. So that is something i am currently woking on, and waiting to see how God moves. so ya if you have any advice or comments PLEASE share thanks:)
love you
Karlina

....sunburns,ipods,and laughter...

...just some of lifes adventures:)...

so well hmm ready for my random blog post??? haha you had better be...well two weeks or so agian i got sunburned on my back SOOOOOOOOOOO bad but it was my own fault i was stupid but man alive did it hurt.. couldnt sleep one night it hurt so bad.. at least though i wasnt stupid alone my friend angie got it with me haha... lifes more fun when you are not stupid by yourself..right? So we only have 4 more weeks of camp left sadness deep deep...

Camp promise is officially all over, the second week was so cool there were these woman in my dorm and on my floor that were so AWESOME... they made it so much fun, and caused lots and lots of laughter :) and this past week was all girls jr. high oh what a fun fun adventure in the camp life. I love that week and age group and my girls were simply fabtastic and i cant say anything bad about it they made me laugh and smile and cry for their futures. I find myself praying desperately for their futures and that they are God honoring and help to change the world. I see such potential and hope in them and i pray that never changes.

ok so ya now about the ipod i bought a pink ipod nano and i LURVE it alot, its great adn so easy to use ya know? So ya thats about the ipod.. Priyanke leaves on friday and i am going to be SOOOO sad man i will miss that guy... but thankfully i am spending saturday with rachel and that will help keep my mind off it kinda hopefully... Rachel and i have a date because a week from tomorrow she goes to africa for a month and when she gets back i will be in bozeman so ya.. SADNESS.... um lets see oh ya lol

my friends keep me laughing they are always telling me what about so and so( Dawn says they are just making a pool of guys for me to choose from) they pick crazy random guys and i jokingly said the other day if i went for half of who you choose i would be a polyigamist haha.. so my crazy crazy friends..

well folks thats all the randomness for now...love mucho mas mi amigos
Karda

WE WON....

...the bible quiz...

So in case yall didnt know Rachel and i were the JV quiz coaches for bible quiz and they won the quiz(not the travleing trophey) with a score of 1150... we were so proud of them they totally killed it.. they missed 0 in multiple choice and then when it came time for whiteboards they only didnt answer two questions so they didnt get minus points just zero on those two questions but got the rest right sometimes they were the only ones with the correct answer... man they worked so hard and it all paid off:) we almost cried we were so proud...one group of the highschoolers took 2nd they did okay and their banner won:) haha i got called a traitor..i saw Jr Garcia and Micah (from polson) and they totally made fun of me...lol and called me a traitor. It was fabulous to see them...

o ya the weekend before when i went to havre was a total and complete blast, i had so much fun with Justin and Greg they are some great guys..and i feel blessed to know them(most of the time anyway :) ), i enjoy their company and feel so comfortable with them lol.. Justin is like a brother to me, and greg well i just feel comfortable with him :)... I will post pictures soon ;)

so i have been having headaches pretty much every day and have decided i need to go to the eye doctor and get glasses..also i am going to go to a massage therapist and then the chiropractor and see if that helps. Hope fully it will...

So sunday-tuesday we went on a school retreat to the luthern camp on flathead lake in lakeside... it was a time of pure beauty and i so enjoyed myself... i had fun "playing" on the rocks with justin,trav,greg and pri...(travis and pri are so awesome... i love those two) and ha pri stabbed me in the arm with a plastic fork(okay so maybe more like poked me), i thought about doing it to him first but decided it was mean lol, but i did it back to him(real mature i know, but hey it was fun), we learned about the holiness of God and it was so cool to hear about and i guess come to a better understanding about His holiness... God is rockin amazing and He astounds me all the time( He shouldnt i know but He does)


Divine Romance Lyrics
The fullness of Your grace is here with me
The richness of Your beauty's all I see
The brightness of Your glory has arrived
In Your presence God, I'm completely satisfied
For You I sing I dance
Rejoice in this divine romance
Lift my heart and my hands
To show my love, to show my love
A deep deep flood, an Ocean flows from You
Of deep deep love, yeah it's filling up the room
Your innocent blood, has washed my guilty life
In Your presence God I'm completely satisfied

is that not an amazing song last night we(Rachel,Jeffy,Mason and Hadden) went to the phil wickham and greg laurie thing at freshlife and that is one song Phil Wickham sang and i loved it...such a true amazing song.. Greg laurie was pretty much amazing too...well thats about it.. i love you guys... and more of my thughts to come and pictures too lol :)

laughter....

so laughter is the greatest... sitting at dinner not long ago (like 10 minutes) my dad was making fun of or teasing my mom and said some word i think it was consiquently...(i forget) anywho and so my sister and i couldnt stop laughing, so my mom and dad would repeat the word and we would begin to laugh agian...lol craziness i know.. but this happens to me, a certian word at a certain time will get me to laugh and then i cant stop.. like the last week of school.. greg and i were reading together the homework outloud and he said like asia or something and it made me laugh and i couldnt stop, so trav kept repeating the word..laughter is a crazy thing.. but you feel so much more alive afterwards... its great and i love to laugh, so i guess i want to say thank you to God for the gift of laughter:) lol...
LAUGHTER IS THE GREATEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....

http://youtube.com/watch?v=krgUf7m6Lr8 check out this video.. this baby is so funny and laughs like me.. its crazy!

life

so ya i got home Saturday afternoon...on Sunday i got to go to my church which was really cool... i love it there most of the time(sometimes the gossiping and such gets me to me.. more on that later)... well i got to see the kids man they are so cute and amazing...Hannah gave me a huge hug and so did her sister Emma(&) and Hannah was glued to my side the first part of the service, Hannah is nine and a complete and utter sweety..at first Ethan and esaei (they are four)wouldn't give me a hug but after church Ethan came up and was like hi miss karlina and gave me a hug and then esaei gave me a hug and wanted me to hurry up so we could go to pizza hut...man i have missed them:)
well after pizza hut my dad had this weeks service at the nursing home.. i helped my dad lead music(haha so not pretty we kept getting ahead of the music), and there is this one old lady who cries the entire time we are singing, it makes me sad, i hope the lady has lived a good life...she seems like such a sweet lady.... i would touch her shoulder when i walked by to help an old man turn the pages of his song book and she would give me the sweetest smile... and then there was this other lady that just smiled the whole time.. she said she can no longer sing so that she would be singing the entire time in her head... it is a sad experience yet one i truly enjoy.. i love the old people they are so cute and touching....
so now my vent on gossip.... i know i am one of the worst that i know.. we all wish to say that we don't gossip, but i do.. not something i am proud of... not something godly or anything like that ... so if you could pray that i would stop that would be nice....
so before i left school when i was saying goodbye to matty, he told me not to fall in love, we have enough drama without it... well it made me laugh, i told him i would fall in love with the mountain lions and bears i guess... so this is leading up to me sharing my theory(most of you have already heard this).. Our hearts are like helium balloons... some peoples are tied around their wrists(its hard for them to give their hearts away),while some are just holding on to their hearts in their fingers(these people give their hearts away more easily....)so these peoples hearts just fly away and they get hurt more easily and so like our parents God must bring our hearts back to us... i guess what i am saying is that i am the balloon holding type and my heart is something i need to hang on to better... let me know what you all think of this new theory! ( i am actually not sure if anyone even reads this).... I always like the wrong people... well people who will never like me back and so on.. currently i like someone who i know i don't stand a chance with.. but the more i find out(even if its not exactly all that positive) i like him more...RAR... so i like to say my balloon betrays me... SADNESS!!!!!!!!!!

well that is all for now.. love you guys:)