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Aleeson
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Name: Alison
Birthday: 6/26/1985
Gender: Female
Interests: eat n sleep.....ahahah yes i'm a pig.
Expertise: having a very delayed reaction. eating. pretending to study!
Occupation: Student
Industry: Other
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Member Since:
10/15/2002
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| Can't believe my luck, I"ll get to see Franklin Graham again after seeing him 2 years ago in Baltimore, this time in my homeeee Hong Kong. Great! So excited to see what God is gonna do in this terrific city =D 
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| First time to celebrate in HK in 10 years!!! So significant. 10 yeasr ago I witnessed the handover of HK to China...now its all the celebrations marking a decade of this city not being a British colony. Anyway. more on that later.
Thank you my babes for a simple yet fun bday. And especially for this gift:
swarovski twin cross necklace.
Christ in my heart always! :) Thank you. So significant and thoughtful...and fitting.
Thank you for all the shouts and stuff too....will write more later. Just wanted to say thanks. | | |
| I'm in Hong Kong!!! I love it here, when the plane landed I smiled ear to ear like an idiot. The warmth, the familiarity, the sweltering heat and humidity, the bustle and efficiency of city life coupled with the quaint warmthness of family. I'm probably romanticizing things (yes I am, let's not forget the pollution, stress, close social circle...) But it's about the second day and as McDonald's says: I'm lovin' it! so far
Just wanted to write down that I celebrated Father's Day with my daddy yesterday. I think it's the first time since maybe 10 years ago. The day was simple, we just had lunch together, played some sports, shopped around City Super supermarket and cooked dinner together at night. But it was pretty great. I've missed being in his company :)
Hope ur summer is going well too! | | |
| Thank you so much for the Senior Banquet last night, to everyone who was there and who planned it.
=)) It was honestly the best night of the year for me.
Thank you for helping me feel what I've missed so so much (I havent' realized)---the true feeling of family amongst this body. I love Stepping Stone, I love the people of Stepping Stone. Thank you for making my 4 years here unforgettable, and showing me support,comfort, comical relief, being a punching bag, willing listeners, whatever....and alll that in way so reflectively tangible of His unconditional love. <3
Thank you for makign us seniors really feel like red carpet starts for a night. The details were so cute with lovely escorts and roses, the awards were so creative, the gifts thoughtful, and the video was touching. I don't know what else to say. It was a perfect mark of the end of undergrad classes!!!!
I'm so glad that we prayed for us being able to feel cohesive and like a family again through this night. I really did. =) Thank you God.
And to all the graduating people!!!! I pray for continual guidance and obedience for thsoe who have no idea what they're doing even after teh next month. And for all of us I pray for a real cementing of closeness of relationship with Him in the coming weeks before graduation. And that we will continue to choose to seek Him, His purposes, to want to be a part of His body...no matter where we are.
I am going to confidently say with true freedom in my heart that I'm giong to be staying here next year for the Masters of Health Sciences Program in teh School of Public Health!!!! It took me so long to decide this. yes, i've ran and hid and dodged this path in every way, but it seems like God really planted this for me at this timing. I never would have thought public health, but He gave me thsi major early on freshman year over my old love international realtions. Mental health, what the heck is this? But He gave me an amazing internship my sophomore summer in the field (and it took me 2 hours to cement that opportunity at the time). Masters was not even in my brain-- but He gave me a sudden tie with my extremely busy advisor who told me that I was the perfect candidate for the MHS program: yeah, my grades aren't the best, but I've got this amazing internship experience, and this was teh first year the Mental Health dept was opening up for BA applicants and I had a real chance. Applying and being accepted altogether took less than 3 months. yet i myself refused to see any of this last year--even last month because I thought I knew best and was thinking God was "out to get me" by having me stay in baltimore for eternity. I'm supposed to be here another year. May it be one that I diligently learn the lessons His so wants to teach me and I know I'm supposed to face. I really need to know that Jesus is my best friend, that there is NO ONE else I can turn to or no other activity I try to busy mysellf with that is going to as fully fill me up with satisfaction that a closeness with Him. I pray that I will really want this everlasting closeness, and be patient and obedient in seeking it.
THis summer is going to be a challenge. I kept telling myself and God, send me to Asia, that's where my heart is. So, I think He's givign me a test. Got a chance for myself to be in Hong Kong for a full couple months after my missions trip to Peru. I'm going to be in a place where I used to call home, where I know I can fully live blocking God out easily. But I know theres more in my relationship with God now than for me to guiltlessly toss it aside for a couple weeks. Pray taht I will take this challenge seriously---and choose to spend time with Him, not because I feel like I need to live up to His expectations or like live in shame/guilt unless I do so, but really because I love Him and I'm choosing to spend time with Him because He loves me. I know that by the way I choose to live this summer, it will determine a lot of how my future path will look like. Partner with me! And for myself: Alison, you can do it. You can choose to be close to God in Hong Kong---you can. Be a light there as you are here in Baltimore.
Wow, this turned long. Guess it really shwos that writing is teh way I digest. Hope you liked reading it if you read teh whole thing. heh heh. looking forward to seeing more photos from last night!! =) | | |
| This afternoon after a delightful lunch with Candice, my Peru accountability partner, I headed off to Bloomberg for my fav class---anthropology class of the Philippines.
I was running a little late (Bloomberg is far away!) when suddenly I caught a familiar face on the right corner of my eye. It was President William Brody!!
He saw me too and I smiled and waved, and he waved back. Then he paused and initiated a short conversation with me. He asked me what year I was, I told him I was a senior and ready to graduate. He asked what my summer plans were, I said I will be in HK after graduation. He then asked if I'm able to speak Cantonese, I said yes, he asked about Mandarin, I said yes.
Then he suddenly switched to Mandarin and we free chatted for a few moments, which was pretty great. He told me he would be in Nanjing this summer to help celebrate Hopkins' Nanjing campus 20th birthday and he was going to give a speech in mandarin then. I wished him luck and said he did a great job at the JHU Chinese new year festival where he gave a speech in chinese as well. Then he ended our convo by saying that he will look forward to shaking my hand at graduation.
Hahha, pretty random, but I guess a cool thing that happened this week. I found Brody to be pretty friendly and converation with him was fairly easy and free flowing, which was great. He totally has an interest in Chinese culture! Wahoo!
Wanted to record it for my own memory's sake.
On a different note---Seniors, we will be completely done after 2 weeks!! Let's GO FOR IT! =) | | |
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