Fail-nami

I have a renewed gratefulness for my bed tonight. Along with a huge list of other things I’m grateful for including a fail-namni! What exactly is a “fail-nami”? I’m glad you asked… In the last year I have become an expert on fail-namies. It is when you get dragged out of bed in the middle of the night and have to evacuate to a tinny room on the second floor filled full of girls. You all sit around a laptop and listen to the news casters say over and over again for hours that a tsunami is about to hit until somebody finally admits it’s just a “subtle” tsunami. Of course you still can’t go back home because something could all the sudden happen. So you lie on the floor for another 3 hours hoping to get some sleep, before you go against all advice and go home not caring if a giant wave kills you because you are pretty sure that after being awake for over 26 hours you are already in hell.

I know, I know, I’m being just a little dramatic. I am so grateful that Hawaii is safe and I would take staying in a room full of girls and being awake for much more then 26 hours any day over the devastating tragedy that hit Japan. As I’m sure all of you know I get very emotional when I don’t sleep. I was doing good until I hit the 24 hour mark at 5:30am and then I kind of started to loss it. I must say I didn’t realize I had so many people who would worry about me so much if something happened. I was overwhelmed with messages all night and day with people making sure I was ok. I feel so loved! (And I’m sorry if my phone not working freaked you out. It’s because AT&T sucks in Hawaii and the second anything happens my phone stops working.)

As long as I’m being grateful I have to give a big shout out to spring break! Wasn’t exactly the first day I had planned since I ended up staying up all night and sleeping all day, but I’m still so excited! My goal for spring break is to do all the things I have wanted to do in Hawaii but have been too busy to do. Since I’m leaving soon and don’t know if I’ll ever be back it kinda feels like my last chance to do all the things I wanted to do here.

As I’m sure all of you are I’m praying for everybody who was affected by the earthquake and tsunami. There are a lot of students here from Japan who have been personally affected. My heart goes out to all of them, their family and loved ones. I see stuff like this happen on the news but it almost doesn’t seem real until you can see first hand the devastation it causes. I feel so blessed and I’m thankful for the safety of my friends and family.

That’s all I have for tonight! Peace!

Mel

PS. Strawberries are proof that God loves us! They are so freaking good!! Although, I think they taste better in California…

(And I also wanted to share some of the graduation pictures my friend Eliza took for me! I’m really excited to be graduating soon!!)