Praise Jesus!

(tracy, i like how you expect me to write a detailed version of the trip...)

i give you permission to skip everything till everything after Saturday

thursday: left tucson around 845am...super long car ride...i only slept for barely 3hrs the night before, and since my dad was the only driver for our van, my mom specifically told me to keep him occupied so he'd stay awake...so i tried talking to him most of the time...when i fell asleep, he woke me up to help him work the GPS, Hao Nian Dang for dinner, yum! then i took the girls to Ten Ren's...because we were in the area where i'm actually pretty familiar with...they fell in love with the buttermilk toast i ordered for them! haha, drove another like 2hrs to get to our Residence Inn Marriott hotel...in which we somehow beat Tim shushu...hahaha! then around 11pm was when Winston was gonna get to the hotel...so when we saw through the room window that he arrived, we all hid in the room, turn off the lights, and i stood by the door ready to open it...when we opened it, turned on the lights, everyone sang Happy Birthday...when it's not his birthday...then i said Merry christmas! and kathy said happy new year! yup, we're a weird bunch...chilled around, slept...(it took us 12hrs to get to thousand oaks...@_@)

friday: up at 830, devos, breakfast, practice - went out with dad to do copies, buy lunch, and get random stuff -, lunch, practice, dinner, hotel, yg, pinkberry, hotel - chilled, talked, goofed, slept. oh, around dinner time, my eye decided to burst into blood...not literally, but my entire eye was red...it was SO nasty...haha such a great way to meet people at yg, "hi i'm jocelyn, with the nasty left eye!"

saturday: up at 730, devos, went back to bed because i felt like poop - i was so sick, i had no voice left in me, woke up at 845, went to church, did full rehersal without a voice...lan fong ah yi was like "can you do it tonight?!" i was like -in a whispering, raspy voice- "yeah no problem, i have faith that i'll be alright, it's just spiritual warfare", went out with dad to get meds and lunch, went back to hotel to rest/change, went to CCCTO for the praise night!

Praise Night: PRAISE JESUS! the voice...or rather, the lack of voice i had earlier that day was SO bad...i could not make any sound come out, and being the one that's supposed to start off praise night...not a good thing at all, and even 5min before it was supposed to start i was eating like 3 Halls...and still squeaking...but the moment i stood on stage and said "hey, welcome to praise night!" my voice was perfectly fine!!! it was amazing! God is so good! He healed the mute! hahaha...it was amazing, i was able to sing the songs, i was able to shout the "commands" everything was good, at the end of the night the girls were in shock of how loud i was able to talk...the Praise Night turned out really well, i don't know how it was for the people, but it definitely was a good learning experience for us! Praise God, though we tend to make mistakes, He is good and always there to catch us! (12:40isham Sunday)

(4:05pm Monday) skipped school today, cause i still felt like poop, and there's too many things to catch up on...woke up at exactly 3pm...felt good, but the moment i woke up, i could feel all the sickness in me...so gross...pictures from the trip i being uploaded as i type! yay!