Monday, August 17, 2009
Monday, August 10, 2009
Leaving for... Southeast Asia!
Dear Friends,
It's Elizabeth C--- Your "Class Shepherd." Yes-- we still don't exactly know what that means.... BUT-- I am writing to let you know that I will be traveling to Indonesia for two weeks. In my absence, I've asked two other students, Lydia Suh & Heather Grantham, to look over the blog and reply as need be... I wish you all the best as you prepare to come to SFTS. I will be back in the States on August 26 and eager to help you for last minute preparations. If you have any emergency questions, I'll be checking my e-mail occasionally at elizyaef@hotmail.com. Blessings to you all!
peace,
Elizabeth
It's Elizabeth C--- Your "Class Shepherd." Yes-- we still don't exactly know what that means.... BUT-- I am writing to let you know that I will be traveling to Indonesia for two weeks. In my absence, I've asked two other students, Lydia Suh & Heather Grantham, to look over the blog and reply as need be... I wish you all the best as you prepare to come to SFTS. I will be back in the States on August 26 and eager to help you for last minute preparations. If you have any emergency questions, I'll be checking my e-mail occasionally at elizyaef@hotmail.com. Blessings to you all!
peace,
Elizabeth
Thursday, August 6, 2009
update
Well, no one has posted for a while, so I thought I would try to keep this going.
I am T-minus 2 weeks from moving, and am about 60% ready, I still have some work to do on the duplex I have been renting from my parents so we can sell it after I move out, I am discovering I have been part pack rat for the last ten years, and Have reserved my U-Haul for the thousand mile relocation. I have a wedding I will be going to this weekend (Saturday) for a couple of former counselors at the camp I used to work at (also where I heard my call), and I get to wake up at 4Am to drive home to be commissioned by my church. I had planned on becoming an inquirer last June (2008), but never had a chance to meet with the committee on Prep for Ministry until this week! The meeting went very well, and I should be an inquirer before I leave for San Anselmo. I hope everyone is doing well, and will be praying for safe travels for you all. I know Mike is a bike rider as well, if anyone else has a road bike, we should all get together and do some rides together, and if there are any mountain bikers out there too, I would love to hit up Mnt. Tam with you as well!
Thursday, July 30, 2009
Penultimate
Penultimate is the word that the CEO taught me today. It means second to last. He told me this because today was my second to last day at Nationwide Medical.
This doesn't seem like the perfect forum for this, but I feel unbalanced right now and I just need to write it down where someone else can read it. This place is safe because some of my facebook friends work with me at Nationwide. I'm fairly certain that if one of my co workers was going to be attending SFTS as well, i would have heard about it by now.
As I neared the end of my time at Nationwide, I realized I could not leave without telling the owner and the CEO that my boss was a less than perfect manager. Actually, everyone in my department was counting on me to say something because they were to scared to do it themselves. My original plan was to write a letter and give it to them when I went back in two weeks to pick up my last pay stub.
But, they took me out to lunch today and asked me how I felt about how the department was doing. So, I told them about my boss. A month ago, I was really angry with her and decided that I was basically going to ensure that she got fired when I left. She's been pretty much leaving me alone lately, so my anger lost its edge, and when I was talking to them, I think I made her sound not so bad.
It's not that I really wanted to get her fired, but I almost feel like I let everyone down. The CEO and the owner still want me to write the letter. She might not get fired after all, but hopefully they'll talk to her and hopefully she'll change.
Why do I feel so weird?
This doesn't seem like the perfect forum for this, but I feel unbalanced right now and I just need to write it down where someone else can read it. This place is safe because some of my facebook friends work with me at Nationwide. I'm fairly certain that if one of my co workers was going to be attending SFTS as well, i would have heard about it by now.
As I neared the end of my time at Nationwide, I realized I could not leave without telling the owner and the CEO that my boss was a less than perfect manager. Actually, everyone in my department was counting on me to say something because they were to scared to do it themselves. My original plan was to write a letter and give it to them when I went back in two weeks to pick up my last pay stub.
But, they took me out to lunch today and asked me how I felt about how the department was doing. So, I told them about my boss. A month ago, I was really angry with her and decided that I was basically going to ensure that she got fired when I left. She's been pretty much leaving me alone lately, so my anger lost its edge, and when I was talking to them, I think I made her sound not so bad.
It's not that I really wanted to get her fired, but I almost feel like I let everyone down. The CEO and the owner still want me to write the letter. She might not get fired after all, but hopefully they'll talk to her and hopefully she'll change.
Why do I feel so weird?
Monday, July 27, 2009
The countdown continues
So, this is my last week at Nationwide Medical, Inc., the company where I have worked for over four and a half years. It's the longest that I've ever stayed at one job. Things haven't been so great there for the last year or so though, so Friday can't come soon enough. I will miss the people there for the most part, but I will not miss by boss.
Once I'm no longer working there, I'll finally have time to start getting all of my things together for the move and I'm going to try to write at least one essay per day from the inquirer forms. I'm still in school until August 12th, but that will be much easier to deal with once I'm no longer working.
I can't believe how fast this is all happening!!!!
P.S. I seem to be having trouble commenting on other posts....is there something special I need to be doing?
Once I'm no longer working there, I'll finally have time to start getting all of my things together for the move and I'm going to try to write at least one essay per day from the inquirer forms. I'm still in school until August 12th, but that will be much easier to deal with once I'm no longer working.
I can't believe how fast this is all happening!!!!
P.S. I seem to be having trouble commenting on other posts....is there something special I need to be doing?
Sunday, July 26, 2009
next up for introductions
Catching up on e-mails and other assorted tidbits I see the invitation to join this group. Cool. I will be one of the MDiv students beginning in September. For a while I had a first graders response to God's call - you know, cover your ears, close your eyes, bow your head, start saying nananananana I don't hear you - and wait for it to move on to someplace else. In November 2007 I took one of my daughters to TGIF at SFTS and kept the '72 Hours' literature. In April 2008 my wife and I went to the Discernment Retreat where God's call was very clear. My wife and I, along with our 10 year old granddaughter are moving into a townhouse next month. We look forward to seeing where God leads us. We look forward to making lots of new friends too!
Friday, July 17, 2009
Book Information for Hebrew
Hi guys,
Moa Imchen, your Hebrew professor for the Fall, has made his book list for Hebrew available..... Let me know if you have any questions... If you are like many people in my class, you might be thinking: HEBREW--HEBREW--- Don't you read & write that backwards??!??!?! For some, the language courses are so much fun and for others they can be quite challenging, but those of us who have already taken the classes are more than happy to share our bits of wisdom.....
peace,
Elizabeth
1. Allen P. Ross, Introducing Bible Hebrew
2. Og The Terrible.
The second one is a Comic book and it can be ordered from
EKS Publishing Co.
322 Castro St.
Oakland CA 94607.
Tel:877-743-2739.
http://www.ekspublishing.com/
Moa Imchen, your Hebrew professor for the Fall, has made his book list for Hebrew available..... Let me know if you have any questions... If you are like many people in my class, you might be thinking: HEBREW--HEBREW--- Don't you read & write that backwards??!??!?! For some, the language courses are so much fun and for others they can be quite challenging, but those of us who have already taken the classes are more than happy to share our bits of wisdom.....
peace,
Elizabeth
1. Allen P. Ross, Introducing Bible Hebrew
2. Og The Terrible.
The second one is a Comic book and it can be ordered from
EKS Publishing Co.
322 Castro St.
Oakland CA 94607.
Tel:877-743-2739.
http://www.ekspublishing.com/
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