Joy In The Midst of Struggles

|| 2 0 1 4 || As i reflect on the year of 2014 two things come to mind: transitions and reality check. This year was a time of the unexpected. So let me take you through the main events and what i learned. Graduated College The time had finally come where i graduated from the most amazing university: Azusa Pacific University. This place easily became my new home and the time had come where i had to say goodbye. Especially goodbye to a life i have known for the past 16 years...school. This was the first transition of this year. It had been like every other summer where i move back home but then in august i would move back in with the most amazing girls...nope. When would i move out again? When am i going to see my best friends again? What job am i going to get? These were all the questions i had to deal with in this first transition. The period I would like to say The Unknown Summer Oh summer is usually a glorious time of reading books, tanning, and endless days. Well thi...

I am taking a class right now on disabilities and one of our assignments is to watch a movie featuring an individual with a disability. the movie i chose to watch is called front of the class. it is about an individual who has Tourette Syndrome and his journey through childhood until now when he is fighting for a teaching job. the funny thing is as i was watching this movie it was like i was watching my life before my eyes. the things he went through are exactly what i have gone through. even his viewpoints on having a disability are like mine.  in elementary school the teachers thought he was dumb...like me (just because you have a physical disability does not mean you are dumb. going on job interviews are horrible...some of the interviewers don't even give you a chance because of your disability (exactly like how so many interviews went for me this past summer) people stare at him in public because he is different...just like me however, he and i both agree th...