The Truth About My Gap Year : Part I

I've been so productive today, I decided hey, I could probably throw in some blogging into all this productivity! I'm 6 months into my gap year, and to say it hasn't quite gone the way I would have wanted it to is an understatement.

Y'ALL.

I had all these goals and was so mega super pumped up about this gap year. LOL. Jokes. It's basically that quote that says "If you want to make God laugh, tell Him about your plans" by Woody Allen.

Some of my goals for this gap year were:
- Two internships; the total number of internships I've done in my past 6 months add up to a nice round number of 0.00.

- Get involved in music; I still do not own a musical instrument despite having the ability to play the piano, flute, violin and a dash of guitar. Fantastic

- Be adventurous; this is the vaguest of all vague gap year goals. I still have no idea what that means. I guess it could mean anything right?

- Get healthy/ work out; what is healthy? Who is work out? I am currently not acquainted with any of these terms.

- Improve photography skills; THE ONLY GOAL that I've somewhat achieved. My instagram game is much better. I feel like my artistic side is just poppin' at the moment. My eye for interesting colors and compositions is just YAAZZZ.

- Be consistent with everything [walk with Jesus, taking care of mom]; also another goal that I've SOMEWHAT achieved. I still really struggle with having a daily quiet time, especially in the mornings. I'm not a morning person, but that's not even an excuse.

But on a serious note, I'm sorta bummed about all the things I haven't achieved in my gap year, but on the other hand, I'm trusting God to come through for me all the time! Like okay so what if I haven't done 2 internships yet and I'm half way through my gap year? God has promised me in Jeremiah 29:11 that He has plans for me to prosper and not to harm me, plans to give me a hope and a future. So really its all good in the hood.

This is a long text post, so I guess I'll do a part 2 on it! :) Thats all for now.

You can catch up with all my gap year posts here:

Why I Decided to Take a Gap Year
The Gap Year Grind: Volume 1
It's a Beautiful Day Not to Be in High School
The Gap Year Grind: 5 Lessons Learnt So Far
The Gap Year Grind: A Guest Post

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Happy New Year + Some Other Shenanigans 
10 Thoughts I Had Whilst Watching Exodus
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Enter into his gates with thanksgiving, and into his courts with praise: be thankful unto him, and bless his name. For the Lord is good; his mercy is everlasting; and his truth endureth to all generations. Psalm 100:4-5

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Happy New Year + Some Other Shenanigans

Hello! I haven't really felt any motivation to blog, just because I didn't think I had anything to share? ANYWAYS.

My Christmas and New Year's was so so so fantastic! I was surrounded with fambam and one of my BEST FRIENDS from middle school and his mom! Much fun. Such wow. Yes. So I basically spent all my waking hours hanging out with S and my sister Kiki and catching up on all the shenanigans we hadn't been up to for the past 5 years. According to my calculations, we STILL have not caught up on all the shenanigans. Can I just say 2 weeks are not enough time to catch up with people even when you hang out with them all day errday? Ugh.

Highlights from the holidays

- Artcaffe waffles. We want to marry you. Like yesterday.

- Singing loudly whilst walking on the roads. yes.

- Hanging out at New Life. 

- Mall shenanigans. 

- Maasai Market! :D

- Hanging out at home

- Too many selfies, hilarious videos and voice recordings. Literally. TOO MANY.

- Harmonizing all day errday. and also FAILING at harmonizing 600% of the time. Fantastic

I seriously wish I could handcuff these two to myself, but that's probably illegal and like.. apparently they have lives to live? Okay? Whatever.

Much cute. Such wow.

Can I just say that puberty was so good to all of us. Because in middle school we looked horrible. like for real. Like ugh no.


SO YEA. I'm too lazy to actually talk about what my family and I got up to over the holidays. Just know that shenanigans, A LOT OF LAUGHTER and food were involved. MMKAY. I hope your holidays were fantastic and that you spent some well-deserved time with your families :) Also, I'm 900% sure I've overused the word "shenanigans" but I really can't help it. It's become a part of who I am.

The righteous will flourish like a palm tree, they will grow like a cedar of Lebanon; planted in the house of the Lord, they will flourish in the courts of God. Psalm 92:12-13


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