wow

there is so much to tell and not enough time!

this is my first time to get a chance to go to an internet cafe since coming to Spain.

wow i really don´t know where to start...

Tuesday morning i fly out of DFW at 1205pm.
i love airports. i love how you come in contact with the most random people but for some reason have the best conversations. well they tell you to get to the airport three hours before you fly out for international flights...this is very annoying. i mean i completely understand the reasoning behind it and probably will better when something terrible happens the next time when i show up 30 min before my flight leaves. however, in the previous times i have flown...i show up, check in my baggage, get my boarding pass, and am ready to enter the terminal in 10 min flat. and yes thats exactly what happened this time as well. but it was good because i had a chance to spend time with my family on a bench just outside of the security check in. mom and dad prayed over me and after a few tears and many hugs we parted.

meet Andy. i met him when i decided two hours and 30 minutes was much too long to sit at my gate. so i went exploring and stopped at mcdonalds to get a diet coke. i called jenn and after a pretty lively conversation because i was so excited, i noticed a young man sitting across from me. i was really embarrassed that i took was extremely loud...but that started up conversation. He was a middle aged man, from charlotte. he was traveling to New York for business. He asked me what i was doing which led him to tell me all the stories of his nephew when he studied abroad...which led him to tell me about all his nieces and nephews...which somehow led him to telling me all about his career downfalls throughout his life...ya. it was pretty crazy. but i left him as soon as he began to tell me that all the spanish guys were going to fall in love with me. i was very uncomfortable. so i jetted.

meet Mrs Diana. she sat next to me on the plane. She is the director of the Miss Kentucky pageant. we had great conversation about women and supporting their success. i don´t think we stopped talking for the first 130 min. She was great. I had a chance to talk to her about God..about my love for jesus and basically the reason why i am driven to do anything. it was such a blessing!

meet micheal hosea. ha....i wish i could meet him...
well this is when i began to read Redeeming Love. and to all the girls out there who i have encouraged me to read this book...i can now understand why. its absolutely amazing. and now i have become one of those girls who is going to force every person i know to read this book. the problem...now i keep looking for my micheal hosea around every corner. not a good problem to have. so yea the book is wonderful, however it only feeds the hunger within you to find HIM...and thats not profitable.

meet sassy spanish girl. i met her at in philly at the airport. she is a junior in high school and is heading back to her home city..Madrid. she was extremly pretty. She was an exchange student in kentucky. when i asked her if she enjoyed it she said no. when i asked her if she liked her host family she said no. (after being to madrid i can definitely understand why..i´ll explain later) but this friendship worked out great. she told me all the hot spots in madrid and all the things to do and not to do. like don´t where black socks with athletic shoes...hmm good thing i didnt pack that...

meet Rachel. she was my plane mate for about 8 hours. the Lord is sooo good. she was absolutely amazing. however, the plane ride was not. our lights didnt´go out. so the entire trip we looked like we had spotlights on us while the rest of the plane was pitch black. our tv also didnt work. we foudn that out after i bought the earphones....

o not i only have a minute left...i have to go

bye!!!! i´ll write more soon!