Hi! Thanks for all those mails.Camps were cool but tiring as usual but always a growing experience.The lady from the University came and we talked and she said I couldn't do an undergraduate course as a regular student but as a parallel if you know what that means you'll know that it's very expensive to do a parallel course.The other option was therefore was to do a diploma on clinical medicine she asked me for more options that she could research for me and I told her Dentistry and Biochemistry so she's going to find out for me which of the three will be possible for me then she'll tell me.I really thank God for that,Thats a step and she is a believer and really understanding,the kind that I'd really cope with.I was to do the temparament test with my mentor last weekend but we couldn't maybe we'll do it tomorrow.He insists that we need to take enough time to do it and not to rush through it but I'm eager to know stuff about myself.Thanks for your prayers for the camps.About what your dad said,I think he's right I want just the best for you and if thats it then let it be.I hope you realise however that that re-defines our relationship from boy-girl friend to just friends.I can not begin to say all the things I'll miss from that but I know its the best way its the only way.Obey your father he's God's number one voice to you as a father and even as a pastor and I can not challenge that at all.All the best with no hard feelings.Hey I'll not be on line tomorrow cause I'll be leading the word of life service check you on blog next weekend.Miss you.
Giddy.

This is going to be really hard for me to tell you. Please try to understand. I was talking with my dad a couple of nights ago. We had one of those talks that are hard for me to hear but that are good for me becasue I get to absorb his knowledge. He said that, in principal and fundamentals, he was not opposed to you, beign African and all. And I believe him! However, he said that he thinks I need to rachet me relationship with you because he knows that there are some cultural differences that neither he nor I understand. He said that often women are prizes to be won and he said that whether you think that they are or not. He want me to back off. He wants me to widen my perspective. He said that he thinks right now in my life I'm too young to be focused like I am. It's not that he doesn't want us to write, but he said that he didn't think that phone calling or sending gifts was a good idea. Please try to understand. I really respect my dad and I think that he has a lot of wisdom and I want to be a discerning daughter. I think I can do that by just trusting him. More than anything, I want to be wise and doesn't Proverbs talk about listening to your fathers instruction? Please tell me what you think but I probably won't be online as regularly anymore. Don't take any offense, either, you've done nothing.
Bethany

So I am sitting down, eating my lunch today, without a single worry, and one of my friends come up to me and says "Bethany, you have GOT to come look at this guy on the other side of the lunch room! He looks just like Luke Wilson!" And so out of sheer curiousity, me and my two friends walk over to the other lunch room and as we are walking, we are talking about how we are going to have to be really smooth in order to make whoever this guy is that looks like the guy I dated, think that we are NOT spying on him.This whole time I am thinking to myself "Who in my school, looks like Luke? Sam must just be imagining this similarity." Well, I turn around to see who this guy is and he waves at me! It was Luke! I couldn't believe it! He is supposed to be in Germany! What is he doing in my school? Well, I chatted with him for a few minutes about what he was doing but during this casual canversation, I am telling myself that I just cannot get rid of this guy. Everytime I think he's gone, he pops back into my life again, if only for a brief moment. I thought I'd tell you about that because I thought it was so immensly bizarre. I can't even tell you how weird it was. I still can't believe that he was here. Well, I also told you about this because I'd feel like I was being dishonest if I didn't, since you know everything else about me. It made me want you to stand beside me SO BAD so I could introduce you to him as "My Boyfriend" and it would give me a little bit of inner satisfaction, as bad as that is. Anyway, that was my adventure for today. You know, if I wasn't such a curious girl, none of this would have happened in the first place. Well, I miss you so bad and I'm praying for camps. When is your last week? Sweet dreams, Guapisimo.
Bethany

I presume that I since I haven't heard from you I won't until next week. Maybe you were talkilng to the lecture lady about college so I won't be be too jealous since it's important in dealing with your future (wink). I would be hope that things went very well and you better tell me all about it. Services today went really well. Some friends and I from church went out to our nieghborhood canvasing about the Christmas Carol that we have every year. It was alot of fun, besides the blustering cold wind that was at our faces. I decided that I love to joke around and not be serious but at the same time I really enjoyed being serious inviting people to our church. I thought to myself that I must be such a quirky girl. I suppose you've had that figured out for some time. I have to see that I have never seen my sister so happy when she is with Jeremy. Sigh. My dad says that he wouldn't be surprised if there was an engagment ring by spring. Which makes me sad because never once has my dad made a bad call on any of the boys the either me or my sister has liked- usually he has called the plays at least a month in advance. I would do anything for discrection or wisdom like that. Anyway I am really looking forward to Christmas vacation now because I will have Jen all to myself and Jeremy won't be there to make me feel bad that my boy isn't here with me. Do you get a long christmas vacation? Hey what were you telling me about a temparament test? Did you learn anything new about yourself? I'm curious. My first speech meet is on Sat, I think. I'm kind of nervous, but not too bad. I've never done what's called drama before. I'm acting out a whole short story by myself. I am five different characters and it's lots of fun but I'm probable not as ready as I should be. I have to leave at 7:00 in the morning and won't be back until late afternoon so I hope that it won't interfere with any plans of yours for talking online. I really like you and I can't wait to hear from you.
Bethany