hmmm....bored?

Amsterdam airport...it was exciting for the first 3 hours, the remaining 5 that I have had to wait have been very very longggg...I have even lost excitement of people watchign because I'm so sleep deprived (due to not sleeping more than 1.5 hours in the last 39) that I cannot even look at faces clearly anymore. I should mention that there are only two other instances in my life that I remember where I was actually technically bored. There is not even carpet here to curl up and sleep! Their chairs are made of hard plastic. You can probably buy some for yourself just look in the "most uncomfortable plastic chair" section of your local grocer :P Andy and I got separate halfs of the airplane from Anchorage to Minneapolis and then from there to Amsterdam (a 9 hour flight btw) we have two different planes taking off 6 hours apart from eachother. Can I please here a LAMESAUCE!? So...I'm tired, hungry, and bored :( I would be more excited at the prospect of free wifi but...there isn't any, I get a half hour to check facebook, email, and post this blog then they kick me off. Not to mention that netflix and my Gilmore girl resource do not play in Europe. Urg, only another 45 minutes before Andy shows up in his very own jet (complete with probably 200 other passengers...hehe) and we fly off to Edinburg!!! There is a huge pot of coffee that will be waiting with Andys mom upon our arrival. I can't wait! I just want to not sit in these awful chairs anymore :)

On the major upside along with finally getting to Scotland in the near future we made orange juice ice cubes. Everybody should do this. It made me smile :D

mmm...3am...

Andy and I are sitting in the Anchorage airport. He is currently jumping up and down on a baggage scale measuring his weight in pounds (new concept, lol) and filling out id tags for far too much luggage ;) We had a lovely afternoon with Bob and Joe LaRue yesterday eating steak at the Brewhouse. I love them so much and cannot wait to visit with them again.

OH! We also got married 3 days ago! That's exciting :) The wedding was so much fun and beautiful. Andy's famiyl joined via skype (the internet is a good friend). We left the next day saying goodbye to Lily, Isaiah, mom, dad, Juaquine, Mandi, Grandma, and Grandpa. It was a happy goodbye knowing I will be back in only 4 months for Christmas. Our new adventure starts today

when we actually begin our trek to Scotland. In 26 hours I will be landing in Edinburg airport greeted by Mike and Linda and hopefully coffee since we only slept...1.5 hours last night...ugh...3am....too early!

Anyways, more on our trip later. Right now I seriously need some coffee!!!

Biggest changes in my entire life

Today is Sunday. Next Saturday I am having a wedding with the lovely Andrew Hayes. I will officially become Mrs. Hadassah Silveira Hayes! It is incredibly exciting and thrilling and the most life changing experience of my life.

I have decided that after 3 years at UAF perusing a BA in Music Education I am going to quite school, get married, move to Scotland and follow God with all my heart. I do not know what this entails but I know it is what God has planned for me. I am not able to get a marriage visa at this moment so I am leaving next Tuesday at 4am to go into Scotland as a visitor until Christmas. Between now and then i will attempt to acquire a marriage visa so that the next time I attempt to enter the UK in January I will show my marriage visa to border control and be let in with lights, buzzers, confetti, and balloons (possibly minus the flare but you never know).

I have no idea what this new adventure looks like but I know I am doing what God wants me to do and I am going to be loving my husband for the rest of my life. I am so excited for what might happen and I plan to blog along the way to see what sort of adventure I get involved with and what God has gone before me to plan out.

Lets see what's God has planned for us!

Community among the dismissed

As my life goes on, I travel the world, and meet with people from other cultures I am realizing that there is so much love and acceptance among the rejected and that those who may be forgotten tend to be the ones remembering others. I worked at the soup kitchen in Fairbanks this morning, Stone Soup, and got to hang out with the homeless in my city.This is something that most people in Fairbanks either do not know exists or they do not take the time to find out about. The workers at this soup kitchen I have had the privilege of getting to know and hang out with a bit. Seeing how hard they work with absolutely nothing of monetary value in return and not any recognition of the hard work that they do except from the people who are getting a warm meal (and in Fairbanks sometimes something warm is the most treasured gift) has really given me a reality check on loving others. I come from a Christian family and I have several Christian friends and they tend to talk about love a lot. God loves us more than we could ever imagine, so much so that He would send his only son to get beaten, scorned, separated completely from his father, and killed on a cross to provide us with a way to be with God for ever in heaven. As a Christian who loves Jesus I try to love others the way that Jesus loved us and many of my Christian friends will agree with me that this is important. But then I go to the soup kitchen...as far as I know, none of the workers are Christians and yet the love that I see coming from them is so immense and so unconditional. They live off of hardly more than the people they are serving, put in hours every day to help others and they do not expect a big paycheck, recognition, or a promotion. The people who work at the soup kitchen refer to the work team as a "family". They notice when a volunteer has been gone for a while and they do everything they can to make sure that they are okay and they want to know what is going on in their life. They take care of eachother, support eachother, eat with eachother, and give so much of their lives to strangers. This is what Jesus did when He was on earth before he died, rose from the grave, and eventually was taken into heaven. God tells people who want to follow Him to engage in community not only with other Christians but with people who just need to be loved. It makes me sad to see people come in and out of church every sunday just to go home and live their lives for themselves forgetting about God or even the people that are around them on a daily basis.

A person does not have to travel the world to find those in need, they are in your town. They are in your workplace, they might live down the road. But it is not always easy, nice, warm, or fuzzy to go and help out those in need. We have to step out of our comfort zone and reach out to the people around us that hurt them. So if you are still reading this I would guess that you want to love people more and so I just want to encourage you to step out and love the people around you this week. Look for somebody lonley, hurting, in need, or just wanting a friend to talk to. It could be anybody anywhere at anytime but if we're not looking for ways to love then chances are that those chances will not walk up to us and smack us in the face. Be intentional and LOVE PEOPLE!!! ;) <3

Waiting to go to seattle

So I am sitting at home. Just finished a tea party and painting nails with lily. She really is a girlie girl :) Isaiah is cleaning up milk he just spilled all over the computer keyboard. He is such a boy! :) I am ultra nurvous about my trip to Seattle considering I will be playing with some of the best players in college bands across the country...I'm quite scared they will find out that I am just a small town self taught Alaskan with hardly any professional experience. After chair tests I think I will feel a bit better. Here's to not shaking during playing tests!!!

Funny things I saw today:

Glow in the dark sunglasses

Cat wearing a rain jacket

2 mullets!

An Asian doing the peace sign...typical

Those things made my day a bit happier :)

Today I was contemplating about blogging (and the fact that blogs use words like contemplating cuz there is either something funny about it or they try to sound smart). I was sitting on a ferry going from Valdez to Whittier and while I watched my little sister attempt to balance with a juice in hand, my ukulele in the other standing on a chair on a tipping ferry I started thinking about how funny it is when people try to balance everything in their life while standing on a foundation that's about to fall apart. I wonder if those are the people who blog...or are they they people who read blogs about people whos lives are falling apart? I don't know. It doesn't really matter since I don't really know who reads this anyways and I only read two blogs.

So I'm basically just kind of bored. I have written a few emails, loaded pictures onto Facebook, checked twitter, watched the Shakiest Gun in the West (watch it. You can find it on Netflix. Amazing VERY old film), studied Music History and am thinking about watching Smallville next. I'm starting my week-long adventure with my family around Seward and anchorage. No idea how it will go since the kiddos enjoy waking me up at 6am to "cuddle" with me...which just means they bounce around in my bed until I realize I'm not getting any more sleep and I go watch cartoons with them and I watch Smallville until about 1am every night. So I thought I would write in my blog which I haven't visited in far too long (since I was traveling around Germany and realized there were funner things to do while traveling around Europe than typing on a computer).

I don't know what this week will hold or why I feel the need to share it with other people...since very few people read this I don't feel bad with wasting peoples time. But...oh well, it keeps me entertained ;)

Til tomorrow when I'm going to hold an octopus at the sealife center....ew