A Thousand Splendid Suns

For my english ISU one of the books that I read was A Thousand Splendid Suns by Khaled Hosseini. This book was ridiculously good!! I loved it.

This books is about two women who come from different backgrounds and eventually cross paths. It tells the story of how they find happiness through each other.

Yes. The description sounds pretty lame and cheesey, but it’s actually such an amazing story. It’s more of a girls’ book, basically because it’s about women and so it’s more relatable and emotional in that way.

It was really enjoyable, though, I would recommend it to any girl who wants a good book to read!

As well, I went to see a movie the other weekend, and there was a very well put together preview for a movie called “The Other Boleyn Girl”. Than in the library the other day, a book with that exact title was lying on one of the tables, so I started reading it. It was so good! I’m really excited to have time to just sit down and read it, because I’m hooked. I can’t wait to read that book and than see the movie when it comes out. It looks exciting!

An Exciting Revelation!

Do you remember the assembly we had the other day? The one by Free the Children? Did you like it? I really, really enjoyed it. It actually got me thinking a lot about my role and why I’m here.

I’ve been having a lot of trouble and frustration trying to think of what I’m suppsoed to do with the rest of my life, as I’m sure some of you have been (as your blogs have told me…). Everything that I’m somewhat interested in, as soon as I think about doing that for the rest of my life I’m like, “meh.. ehhh.” and I don’t really think that it’s right for me.

When I was listening to the speakers though, the whole time I was thinking, “Yeah! Yeah! That’s right!” And it just really struck me that that was something that I could do. Helping people is actually a huge passion of mine. My youth group does outreach events where we go around the neighbourhood and hand out batteries for smoke detectors, or we serve breakfast for needy people in the community, and these are actually some of my favourite events. I really look forward to these.

So, just thought that I would share my revelation with you guys. It’s just exciting, finding something that actually I’m actually excited to spend years and years doing, whether it’s helping people in our community, or going on trips to Africa or Asia. I’m just really stoked about it.