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Wow its the twenty ninth of December already i cant believe it :O

I have done so much this year:

• Spring Harvest and i <3>
• stood as a human statue for 2 hours to raise money for a school in Africa.
• Painted the church walls =]
• went for a tour around the hipperdrome theatre and got to play with the lights.
• had a awesome birthday weekend
• met some one with the same birthday as me,
• got a mac :)
• Found her love for kaeroke
• Mattress Slides
• Preached :O
• Went 2 festival and didn't care woop woop
• became a bible college student
• became addicted to facebook
• Soul Survivor and witness people falling over
• learnt what exegesis means =]
• blogged
• became a poser and loves taking foto's
• discovered Jesus Junkie
• Said good bye alot =[
• Did the after eight challenge
• Dressed up proper posh like
• May her lil Gummeh bayr Aodhan properley not on a bus :)
• Saw what i had asked to happen 2 years ago happen =]
• left home =0

this is just a taster of my year just said the high bits because don't wanna moan lol

poodle tip xxx

First Semester @ CliffLand

It is coming up to the end of my first semester @ CliffLand and these have been some of the best but hardest ten weeks of my life. I have met some amazing & awesome people and friends i will keep forever. there have been some moments i will never forget like on my second day going to a traditional methodist church in a tutu and Amy went in fairy wings, yes we got a few looks but it got us closer together as friends and not we have a unique bond. in my first week there was a Hawaiian night and bongo the monkey became a gangster. The best part of Hawaiian night was the games, like the one where we made Amy M-B as a hula dancer and it was hilarious. On that night i could tell who the couple of our year was just by the way they acted around each other, and the way they were so competative with the hula-hooping. Cel Suprise they are now together awwwwwwww, he asked her out on the edge how sweet is that *sticks fingers down throat*. One sunday during our amos study sesh, James Andrew Charlesworth the 3rd came bak from home with a twisted knee, Bx who is like the brown owl of our year was going all first aider on him when TJ just randomly comes out with we're at bible college why don't we just pray. I think that day i realised we don't pray enough here so thanks to James now i have vowed to pray more. B day was the funniest day, i had barbie and a bin man sat next to me and a bubble bath and a bubble wrap bride infront i saw a bubble theme going on, then randomly bob marley and black beard the buckaneer walked past the window, strange sights. one weekend Me, Amy, Andrew and David J, went to sheffers to see/meet Penny who is David's fiancee, there is alot of marragies happening next year like Alex and Patrick, Margret and David. I have really enjoyed all the random trips to tesco, it has been amazing because you see shops in a different light wen you are cooped up here. One other night Me, Matt Derrick, Amy Mercer-Bailey, James, Bx and Dan were in the ikea lounge learning how to self defense and i haven't laughed so much in ages. there is many more amazing memories that i have but i am running out of words. To all the fellow cliff inmates and day inmates i hope to have many more awesome memorys with you.



Love you all loads
may you have a blessed and joyous Christmas
Bex xxx

Christmas!

What do you think of when the word Christmas is said? Presents, food, family, Cards, a cute little baby in a nice clean manger. I often think like that it has only been recently that my eyes have been opened to the state of that stabke Jesus would have been born in. If anyone else was born in that stable they would most likely died :(. The stable would of been full of Ox's and Donkey's who would of been to the toilet so their would be flies and stuff around him. So like on the card there wud be a buzz around him just not of light. Then there is the bodily fluids of mary (Who has just given birth) on the card she looks really awake and happy. I think if i had just had a baby i would want to sleep and being interupted all the time would annoy me. Christmas isn't really as cute and as cuddly as our society makes it out to be. It is about a child being born into poverty in a dirty stable laid in a manger which animals eat out of with no doctors or medicene just joeseph and a few animals. I hope you remember the people who are born in places just like jesus was even though our medical science knowledge is developing everyday. Have a good Christmas and remember our brothers and sisters all over the world at this time.

bex xx

Procrastination!!!

this is my week in one word in an acronym

Procrastination
Riting stuff
Opening doors
Church
Rearranging furniture
Apple Macs
Stalkin people on Facebook
Tesco!
Internet
Newspapers
Adium
to do lists
Ice Cream
Organic Chemistry
Note to self!

and i am still currently procrasting now writing this lol x

Even the squirrels getting are getting it!

I was sat on the wall out side lecture room 3 this morning before i led morning prayers, I was just chillaxing and stuff and these 5 squirrels were just playing around together and it made me realise that this place is such a community even the squirrels get it which is a good thing because we seem to have the whole of derbyshires squirrels on our little patch there is loads of them, just like cliff you have staff, residential students, day students, part - time students, ma/cen/ymm Etc . students, note takers, cleaners, mantence and estates, kitchen staff and admin.

Community is a difficult word to explain but i'll try, i think it is a type of fellowship and organised society.

living in a Christian community is sometimes harder than the actual work it self because people get stressed and tired and little things start annoying you but then you get over it. Sometimes in this type of community you just want to be really sinful and bad but you know you shouldn't.

well i am off to finish assignment now toodles!
woop woop street angels presentation tomorrow prayer muchly appriciated!

bex xxxx

Even the squirrels have it

I am sat in the Digs reflecting on a few weeks ago. We had an oasis space and it was cool being around people. We were listening to the small still voice of god, a lot of people were broken and their cracks were showing I was one of them, but we ministered and used our pastoral gifts on each other. I love the fact us first years can be in each other’s company in completeish silence and still enjoy it. It was blessing and made me feel on top of the world, so I got some clay and made a giraffe because giraffes are tall and know where they have come from and how far they have made it. I can’t believe how much I have changes these past 6 weeks. I still remember what was going through my head whilst mum and dad were driving me up cliff lane it was “What am I doing?” and “why x3” but then I met some awesome people who I will never loose contact with ever. I am having to write this on paper as my Mac aint arrived yet but if our reading it then it has ☺. Whoop Mac ness. There is a few reasons why I wanted a Mac they are: because I wouldn’t get as many viruses, I really dislike windows at the moment but the best reason is I can sit in a coffee shop like star bucks (mmmmmm yummy Coffee) on my Mac drinking a Thai chi latte with my leather jacket and write a blog and the apples cute. On Thursday night we had a bonfire with fireworks, sparkerlers and bonfire lollies. It was hilarious and so much fun yet I still don’t like fireworks they scare me muchly ☹! Also on Thursday I handed in my first proper assignment it was for Resourcing Christian worship, I had to write a worship outline then do a reflective commentary on it. It was 1549 words long, when I handed it in it was the most amazing relief to post that assignment thought that little letterbox. At morning prayers on Friday, the song with the chorus “ I’ll stand with arms high and heart abandoned in awe of the one who gave it all yes I’ll stand my soul lord to you surrendered all I am is yours!” was playing in the background when we were surrendering our days to God and it still isn’t out of my head ☹. On Saturday I went to Sheffield with Amy, Andrew and David. We went to David’s fiancées house and she made the most awesome pizza ever especially for a student lol. I went to curry’s to buy a wireless dongle then on the bus home recognized I had bought the wrong one EPIC FAIL! On Sunday morning Caroline and I couldn’t get to our “Church” (it still doesn’t feel like I’m part of it yet) because unfortunately the people who drive weren’t going. We then went for the bus but got to the bus stop half an hour late HEHEHE, so in the end I went to Calver Methodist Church. David Whitworth was preaching on Micah 6:8. I want to preach like him there is something about him, which makes me stay engaged and not take my eyes off him. Then after dinner we had a lazy Sunday afternoon preparing for our Old Testament lecture on Amos 3-4 with Ian’s help. It looked like a Mac party because there were Macs everywhere. At the student led service Beth and Dee were talking about words and how the little things we say has the biggest impact on someone’s and I kept thinking about yoof and how I said so many bad things to some of the people there. So if any of you read this I am so sorry forgive me please, I love you all so much I wouldn’t be the person I am today thanks for all your support through this I love everyone in Tod and everyone in Cliff. + bless!

random bloggage on life at the mo!!!

Hey people this is ma first blog woooo dunno why i started one just thought i would before the transformation 2 mac is complete hence my url name thing being taking the second bite out of the apple.

Its reading week this week but unfortunatley havent done that much reading i have only done the reading for david firths lecture on monday morning becasue i hav found out if i have done the reading it seems 2 go in eaiser and i don't get as confussed. I am also really glad i don't have to do another Theological Reflection for a while that was the hardest essay ever!!!!

anyway this is what am finkin about right now has anyone else noticed that of all the groups on facebook that people join, one of the most often seen recurring themes is "I've dropped my phone down the toilet, numbers please". Now is it just me, or does that not seem like a rather ridiculously careless thing to do? "Oh no, I was playing a game of solitaire while texting my friend Dave and also talking to my mum all at the same time as using the little boy's room and it accidently fell out of my hand and into the toilet."
Just a thought.
there is some more things i have been thinking about this lovely day here is a few:

• David Tennant is actually beautiful and suprisingly Scottish,
• I know it sounds really silly to say, but no matter how upset, hurt, stressed, tired, emotionally drained or angry I feel a cup of coffee ALWAYS makes me feel better. Something about that hot brown liquid that just instantly makes me happy (and no, it's not the caffiene.)
• that the mr muscle damsel in distress has changed wasnt the point of that advert to show that even the kings of geekdom (Who rock by the way) can clean with ease 
• BANG AND THE DIRT HAS GONE!!! (wrong advert)
•  i say Maximo you say PARK

well you've had a look into my mind speak soon!!!