The end of one leads to the beginning of another

December 15th, 2009 I officially graduated from the very first year of Ignite. I have gone through two difficult, challenging, growing, scholastically challenging semesters. This was the night that ended it all, but also put into motion the next step in my life, transferring into another school. I had originally had set a solid plan for the next 3 years of my life; I was going to go home and work full time somewhere while working on full time Distance Learning courses through Life Pacific College. From there I would transfer stores (from wherever I was working) and begin Life Pacific College- living on campus. But once again I should have learned from past experiences to have an open mind and a sense of adventure. The director of Ignite, Mike Larkin while taking a photo with me and his wife Roxanne whispered in my ear, "I need to tell you something when this photo is done." I told him okay, and when the photo was done Mike and Roxanne turned and looked at me, Mike began to tell me that he wished I would change my mind about starting in the Fall and start in the Spring, a month away. He said that he already talked to my parents, and that I needed to sit them down and have an adult conversation with them about coming in the Spring. I promised that I would, and that I'd let him know the decision soon. Two days later (Thursday 17th) my mom called and woke me up and asked me if money wasn't an issue would I go to LIFE in the spring. I told her oh heck yes, no doubt in my mind that'd be the first thing I would do. She said, okay, now I need you to contact the admissions people and see about getting stuff done to get you there. So I contacted them as well as Mike & Kristin and got emails back with instructions as to what I needed to do; the deadline: Friday 18th at 12pm. Great, I had til noon the next day to get transcripts, write an essay, fill out all the dorm forms, applications and such. I had written my essay and filled out the application and emailed it to Admissions, and got emails back saying theres more to do. So with the help of the head of Admissions I got unofficial transcripts sent in, dorm application and the money all sent in, the last thing I had to do was the placement essay and Bible knowledge test. I got everything done, all by noon Friday 18th. Several hours later I got an email from the head of Admissions with a list of my classes. :]

So for right now I'm on a new course, (again...) and it is leading me to LIFE in January with 12 units. My biggest concern right now (prayer point) is money, paying for everything. I am going to be looking for a job so that I can work during school, and my concern right now is how I'm going to get to work when I do get a job, because I have no car and there is no bus around school and everything is a mile or more away from campus making it difficult to get there especially if and when there is a change in the weather (rain). So please be praying that if I find a job, that I'd get transportation and that I'd be able to have a schedule that is flexible for my school schedule and that I'd be able to balance school,work and church.

Thanks for reading! I'm excited to be starting on this new part of my life