A new day

I have been really motivated by reading a blog from one of my professors to do my own so here it is:

I have named my blog respite as I have found "blogging" on Facebook and Google+ to be one of my respites in life.

As many of you know I am a Senior at KSU and many things happen to try to get me down but I have succeeded in overcoming them.  It is not the easiest thing alive being a student with hardly any family or moral support but I guess it is good as I have learned so much about who I am as person.

I have survived into my senior year despite having some learning disabilities and various health issues.  I guess it also doesn't help that I get myself in scrapes... I have been kicked off a horse twice within a year period.  This last one (in October) landed me in the hospital for about a week... EEK!  It was just a freak accident.  I enjoy learning from horses as they show me who I am as a person.  Horses don't ask for an agenda or what your economic portfolio is filled with!  No they just want to be loved and guided.  I have found this to be similar to how I lead my life!  God has guided me and I have had to be in charge of my life from almost day one.

I was abandoned on a street corner in a busy bustling area of South Korea (liken to being abandoned in NYC) and was later adopted by an American family.  Unfortunately it has not gone so well with my adoptive family and we have had to part company.  I have learned to be on my own for a long time and I have been successful in this.  My professor blogged recently about being positive about life whilst slowing down and stopping to savor life.  This is what I am doing!  I have an awesome friends support base and I have some very real opportunities once I graduate!  God guides my inner life and my friends have been so helpful for my tangible life.

Up until last year I was really struggling in alot of ways.  I have had to be looking out for myself in alot of ways.  After the fall I had to deal with alot of financial paperwork connected with my hospital stay and that was difficult.  I had an awesome friend who helped me decipher all the mumbo jumbo of the documentation and hospital paperwork but yet I was able to succeed in finalizing and getting my accounts in order.  It has been a year of struggle yet I feel that my life is starting to turn around.

If you were to ask me a couple of years ago (if I had a spy glass into the future) if faced with the things I have had to deal with would I be ok I would probably say NO!  But thanks to my wonderful friends (who have become my family) I have a successful life.  Everything that could go wrong has happened in the past couple of years yet I have succeeded.  I thought I would let you know the negative then recount the positive as this is so helpful to get your vision for the next year.


The Bad & Ugly:
I was in a serious car accident (a tractor trailer side swerved and side swiped me which caused my car to do 3 360's into the guard rail)
I was knocked off my horse twice (one causing me to be hospitalized)
I didn't get to go travel as much as I wanted
I had a roommate who was having some emotional problems which stressed me out
I had to deal with some harassment
I deal with ongoing learning disabilities

The Good:
I won the Who's Who in American Colleges & Universities National Award
Was inducted into the KSU Phi Alpha Theta National Honor's Society
Bought a new car
Connected with some new and old friends
Continue to work with the iSchool Initiative (an international award winning firm that seeks to revolutionize the way grade schools and colleges utilize technology in the classroom)
Traveled all over the world
Went to Disneyland Paris (EuroDisney)
Started to work on getting healthier
Came into the understanding of who I am as a person!
Became an Anglophil (lover of the UK)
Really just learned who I am and realized I matter!


So all in all I realize that last year was not my finest one but yet this year has so many possibilities!  I hope to embody what one great man said: "It doesn't matter the size of your bank account it matters what you did in the life of a child!"  I also think this holds true for my friends and those who I encounter on a daily basis.

Life is good even with its struggles!