Wow. What a crazy last couple of days. Where to begin?
Well, as of yesterday(Wednesday) afternoon I no longer have a laptop. Literally 10 minutes after I got my wireless set up, I was sitting outside on a bench and it just slid off of my lap and the screen is now completely shattered. I wasn't even being carelss. It was such a freak accident. And I have dropped it plenty of times before but this time I guess it just wasn't my luck.
So when this happened I kind of just sat there in shock not believing this just happened. I did cry a little for probably 3 minutes but I pulled myself together and realized me crying and freaking out wouldn't change anything so I just had to suck it up.
I was so proud of myself for reacting the way I did. Six months ago I would have freaked out and had a panic attack, but yesterday I reacted so maturely. Yea it sucks cause I hadn't backed up any of my stuff yet but I'm hoping and praying that backing up a hard drive is a pretty common practice. The main thing I'm worried about is my college application essays because I worked so hard on them. And all of my documents, pictures, and videos of course. So I just have to keep praying that things work out and I know in my heart that God will protect me through whatever I go through.
I'm going to ship my laptop back to the US where my parents will hopefully be able to send it off to get fixed and then send to me via my grandparents when they come at the end of October. In the meantime, my awesome roommate Meghan is being so kind and letting me use her laptop when I need to and I'll be able to skype on that. The school luckily has computers as well and I have my external hard drive and a flash drive so I'm fine with working on the school computers and just hanging out in the basement in the computer labs instead of up in the garden on the wireless.
Now to back track a little, I have to write about every other obstacle that has been thrown in my way. When I got to the hotel and started setting up my laptop I realized that I didn't have an adapter that my laptop charger would fit into. So the battery was already dying on it and I was not happy with myself about not checking the adapter before I left.
Later, when I was going to take a shower, I went to turn it on and the shower head started spraying water on the wall and spilling out everywhere on the sink next to it. So then I quickly swatted the shower head to turn the other way and I thought it was fine until five seconds later and I realized that it was spraying out of the tub and flooding the floor. I shut the water off and just started laughing out loud. I guess I had just reached that point of hysteria from sleep deprivation and unbelief at all that was happening.
Throughout all those major obstacles and the little ones such as waiting in lines, blisters on feet, and losing little things, I'm keeping a positive attitude and not letting all these things bring me down and I'm very glad I'm going about my attitude this way. I felt God working in my heart and in my life over the past few months, challenging me, teaching me, and helping me grow to be the Christian He wants me to be, and these last few days have truly been a testimony to that. At home, those changes weren't quite so apparent and some days I questioned whether or not I really was progressing and changing. Now, here in Italy, I know I'm really starting to become the person I'm meant to be.
Already the first few days have been amazing, full of crazy ups and crazy downs. I can't wait to see what else happens and how much more God is going to work in my life this semester.
Ciao!
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