Break's over, Back to Work!

Argh. Technically, school has started for me. Though my regular classes don't start until tomorrow (EVIL! NOT looking forward to them. At all), I had to sign into my online classes today. Nothing major yet in either classes, but I am worried how I will manage my time with assignments (plus, for Cultural Anthropology, we have to take tests in the Testing Center! Not via Blackboard! Ahhh!). Hopefully it'll be okay. The rest of my day was fine, work was fine. I got my textbooks, which was nuts, took me 20 mins to find a parking spot! I hate being a commuter student. I'm already getting School Depression (where your stress levels rise, you get crankier and more cynical and your brain is washed of almost everything but homework).

Anyway, in an attempt to cheer up, here are Urbana stories.

From the Realm of Randomness,

Ashley

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Prevention:

-Youth Clubs

-Awareness

-Advocacy

Protection

-Counseling

-Education

-Sponsorship

-Advocacy

Prosecution (the weak link)

-Training

-Enforcement

-Advocacy

What can I Do?

Pray

Act-let your voice be heard

-Child Soldier Prevention Act

-Human Wrong Initiative

www.humanwrong.org

-Child Protection Combat Act

worldvision.org/advocacy

5:30ish Got a text from a friend who is also at Urbana (he went with the group he's involved with at U of I). He wanted to know if I was having fun yet. I thought that was nice.

7:25ish Dinner (around 5:50pm) was good, I feel stronger.

Things in session included testimony from Cheryl Bear-First Nations Christian from British Columbia (she's a Native American), a Native American dance, and an interview with head of OMF International Patrick Fung. All were very cool.

RANDOM NOTES FROM SESSION

Ruth Padilla DeBorst from Costa Rica

Many people are forced to move

Where are those of us who claim to know Jesus?

700 people leave El Salvador EVERY DAY

2 million children are forced into the commercial sex trade

God is near at hand

God is not only with the immigrates, foreigners and refugees, His Spirit is IN the hearts of them.

Jesus sees, loves and recruits foreigners and people on the move.

"God, tear off my blinders and allow me to see"

Love Demands Death

We are called to recognize Christ in the faces of refugees

END OF RANDOM MESSAGE NOTES

York Moore-"Christ is out to win the world"

The Word (according to Greg Jao): Be a witness, not a traffic obstruction.

9:51pm: Track session was good.

11:34pm THE BUS DIDN'T GET LOST! PRAISE THE LORD!