so today I just came back from my amazing and wonderful three night stay at CBC. it was so weird this time to walk on campus and be a commuter. I wasn't exactly a student, yet, I wasn't exactly a "visitor" either. Its my home, CBC is just as much my home as this house I am sitting in now. Its where I fell in love with the love of my life, where I started to intently learn about the God I love and serve, and where some of my most momentous growing experiences and challenges have taken place. Its the place where my professor of New Testament Theology comes up to me and gives me a hug in the halls, asks me how my wedding plans are coming along and says with the most sincere voice that he has been praying for me all summer long and is thrilled that I am finally getting the surgery I need to correct my Endometriosis. Now tell me, where else do you experience that kind of love?

Its the place where I walk up to the registration table and am greeted with a charging David Iwai who picks me up and gives me the most aggressive bear hug Ive ever had in my life! Where Traci tramples over me practically and cries, and where I walk up to the Student lounge and see the biggest smile EVER on Julie's face! With big hugs from her and Tanya! I cried when I drove away from the campus today because not only am I leaving Cam there now until our wedding day... but I am leaving my family behind. I am leaving my life there to accomplish what I need to here, in order to return there. Its crazy to think about, and Im sure my tears will flow once again before these next three and a half months are over... but boy, did I ever feel the love these past few days!

The life of a CBC student is one that I will miss once I graduate and move on, but its seriously the life and the place that I love. I LOVE being a student, I LOVE education, I LOVE psychology and religious studies. I would be a forever student and accomplish a Ph.D if I could afford the time and money.

But tomorrow, I return to IGA... and count down the days until I go back for another visit to CBC on the 13th. And today in the car home I realized that I wouldn't be able to accomplish all that needs to be accomplished if I was at CBC this semester. Its a GOOD THING that I am here in Surrey, that I am at IGA. Its the right step in the correct direction and I keep getting told that the time will fly by. Honestly, I hope so!
Now... I have showers to look forward to! Can you believe it? Nantina my maid of honor is throwing me a shower tomorrow night. Im sure I will post some pictures when I can, I am thrilled and well... will most likely be overwhelmed. But Im SO EXCITED! :)

Finally.... the invitations are in the mail, and I am going to get all the little details done and sorted out soon, and I will feel like a bride! WOW! me... a bride :)

Blessings.