My First Big Accident

When I was little my family took a trip to Gatlinburg, Tennessee. One of the days that we were there, we went to a place called Ober Gatlinburg which is mountain in Gatlinburg that has a lot of fun things to do. There is ice-skating, arcades, ski slopes, and so much more. Our family decided to go ice-skating. I had never been ice-skating before so it came as a challenge for me. I eased my way to the ice, stepped on, and began to glide very caustiosly while holding on to the hand rail on the side of the ice-skating rink. I went around the rink a couple of times, and felt I was getting descent at it. Mom let go and started to glide on her own so I was on my own. A few minutes later, I took a nasty fall onto the ice face-first. I got back up and felt fine. Mom glanced back at me and gave me a horrified look. She came up to me and put her hand under my chin and pulled it away covered in blood. She grabbed my hand and pulled my quickly off the ice. I began to feel my chin start to sting. I had busted my chin wide open. She took me to the emergency center they had there. They covered my chin in bandages and told me to go to the ER because I needed stitches. After we went to the ER, and they stitched me up I was fine again and ready to carry on with our vacation. It was the first big accident I had ever suffered!

Open Dorms

It's open dorm night, and I'm definately glad that our dorm is not coed! It is kind of frustrating because people are loud, and I know that if I were to be doing my homework, I wouldn't be able to focus! People have been screaming and acting crazy! I also don't like that anyone and everyone is able to come in. I like to have privacy and be able to have peace when I'm in my dorm. It feels like guys are invading my personal space! However, it would be nice if NGU allowed visiting hours for guys to come in girls dorms, just because it is easier if we wanted to watch a movie. Sometimes it's easier to just hang out in dorm rather than having to drive and waste money to hang out somewhere else! Overall, though, I'm glad dorms at NGU are not coed!

God vs. Satan

Over the summer at church camp a really bad storm came up one night! It honestly looked like a tornado was about to hit. The next morning, the guys told us that a tree had fallen on their lodge. Luckily, no one was hurt, but the boy's room that the tree fell on top of did lot of damage. He wasn't in his room at the time that the tree had fallen, but if he was he could've been seriously injured or even killed. Everyone that week was on a spiritual high, and we believe that Satan came in and pushed that tree down to shake us up and put a damper on that spiritual high. God, however, turned this situation 180 degrees in the opposite direction. Apparently, the boy was not saved and he said that he felt like God was after him to get saved. That night, after the tree had fallen he prayed to recieve Christ. God's power was displayed to me. He did all of that just for one person to come to Christ! It's amazing to see God's glory!

A Miracle

Psalm 77 is about comfort in trouble in recalling God's mighty deeds. God is definately a miracle worker. He has worked so many miracles in my life whether big or small. Some small miracles He's done for me being able to attend this college, having awesome family and friends, giving me breath every new day. One miracle that really astounded me last year was when my aunt had an MRI and they had found a mass in her brain that could've been cancerous. She was already a cancer survivor, so there was a possibility that the cancer could've came back. With all the cancer my family has had, I figured it was probably cancer. I was scared because I knew all the pain and heartache my family had already suffered, and I didn't want us to go through it again. My aunt went in for a biopsy to find out if it was cancerous. I remember that night before she found out the results, I was crying out to God. I asked Him to just let it not be cancer. I prayed really hard that night. My aunt found out the results the next day, and to my dismay, it wasn't cancer! All I could thing about was how God had answered my prayer! It was truely a miracle in my life. God is awesome!

Life is Changing

Since I've been at NGU for about 2 months now, many things are different in life. When I go home on occasional weekends, I'm bored most of the time and wish I was back at school. I love my friends and family to death, but its so different when I go back home now! I have so much more freedom here, and when I go back home I feel like I'm back in confinement again! However, I never really ask to do stuff anymore, I just do my own thing at home and she doesn't really care. I guess I just like the freedom of being here on my own and learning new things on my own. I also love my roomie and all the friends I've met here, and when I go home I miss hanging out with them. I usually end of texting them the whole weekend anyways. Life is so different since I've been in college and I love it!

SC State Fair

I went to the fair this weekend in Columbia, SC. It is a family tradition for our us to go every year. There are so many rides to ride, and I am the daredevil of the family so I ride some stuff alone. My favorite ride was Drop Zone. I was strapped into a seat and raised really high in the air, then when I least expected it, it dropped me all the way to the bottom. No one else would ride it with me so I had to ride it alone. We rode many of the other rides as well. The other awesome part about the fair is the food. Fair food is so fattening, but it tastes so amazing! Pretty much all the food they sell there fits into 2 categories: sweet or fried! I had a corn dog for supper, and then topped it off with an amazing Elephant Ear. I also ate some of my mom's fried mushrooms and then a slushy later on. The cool part about the state fair is that they have many exhibits to look at. Every year they have an amazing sand sculpture that surpasses the imaginable. It is absolutely incredible the amount of time and detail they work into the sculpture. I enjoy it so much every year.

Surprise

When I was in the second grade, my mom and dad planned a major vacation for me but kept it a surprise. They were planning to take me on a cruise to the Bahamas. They had already informed my teacher that I would be missing school because of this. My mom had been telling me that she had a surprise for me, and one day at school me teacher slipped and said, "Have fun on the cruise, Morgan!" That caught me off guard. I then began to wonder if that was the surprise mom was talking about. I went home from school that day and asked her if this was true and she asked me how I found out. I told her the teacher told me. The next few days were spent packing and driving to Florida to board the ship. When I stepped on that cruise ship for the first time, I was in awe. I had never seen anything like it before. The other surprise was, my mom and dad had told my aunts, uncles, and grandparents that we weren't going to be able to go on the cruise, but little did they know that we were. After we got settled in our room, we searched the ship for them. We finally found them on the upper deck of the ship. They were all surprised! The rest of the cruise was spent relaxing and exploring the islands of the Bahamas. It was truely the experience of a lifetime!

Fall Break

Fall break is finally here! I live in Aiken, SC which is about three hours away! The drive home is so boring, but I play my music loud and jam to it the whole way home. It's mostly back country road all the way home. I can't wait to get home to see my mom and brother and my best friend. Most of my friends, however, don't have fall break the same time as NGU, so on Monday and Tuesday I will be bored out of my mind trying to find stuff to do. I will be doing homework as well as tryin to catch up on understanding Biology over the long weekend. Then, on Tuesday afternoon I will be driving back up to NGU for the long torturous 3 hour drive.

Something Most People Don't Know About Me

I have always loved to sing, but being the shy type I'm not one to admit it that I can. When I was little, I would sing in plays at my church for the children's ministry. Then, when I was about 12, my family was throwing a surprise party for my dad at my church. I told my mom that I wanted to sing with my cousin at his party, and she told me I could. It was the first time I would actually stand up in front of people and sing for a large crowd. After that, I really didn't sing much except in the car or in my room with the radio blasting. Then, last year me and my best friend were talking at church camp. We both discovered something about each other that we didn't know. We both thought we had a descent voice, but never really acted on it. We decided that we wanted to sing in church for a youth service. We were terrified, but we loved it! We did it again the following year and we also had the opportunity to sing at another church! I love to sing, and even though I don't get many chances to, I still enjoy doing it in my spare time.

Wednesday's Chapel

I really enjoyed chapel on wednesday! I can't remember the speaker's name, but he was by far the best one we have had yet. He wasn't afraid to say what he thought! It was about dating, and it really spoke to me! One thing that made an impression on me was when he said that we should be happy single. I've had a couple guys come in and out of my life for the past month that have treated me not so well, so it's left a bad taste in my mouth for dating. It made me realize no one can complete me but me. I didn't lose interest in chapel this time. I really enjoyed his message.