I am pumped. Majorly, seriously, totally pumped. Today I wore one of my favorite Christmas gifts (a shirt that says CLEPtomaniac on the front) when Anna and I went into Tulsa to take some CLEP tests (Anna passed hers, btw). I took the American lit. CLEP (the one I failed by three points last May) and scored a 60 (an improvement of 13 poitns)! Meaning that I automatically gained 6 hours of credit! I then took the English Lit. CLEP and scored a 55 (with no prepretory studying), gaining another 6 hours of credit! In one afternoon, for the price of $130, I got 12 hours of credit! That is HUGE!!!!!!!

I'm literally sitting here bouncing up and down thinking about it.

School start tomorrow. Linguistics. Oh boy. I'm not looking forward to that class...Dr Bently is not a good teacher.

Here's something I wrote last week...on the fourth, I think.


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Howdy. I’m actually updating within a month of my last update. Do I get a gold star Chera?

I’m loving my new laptop. I’m sitting in the living room at Donald’s and Corky’s typing this…is that cool or is that cool? And I’ve been spending time at a coffee shop enjoying the wireless, where I’ve been studying for my next CLEP test.

Yup, time for another CLEP…it’s actually been about 7 months since I took one. This one will be American Lit…the same one that I failed by three points last time. Once I pass it then I’ll have an automatic 6 hours added to my transcript….you’ve got to love CLEPs. Mom got me a shirt for Christmas that says CLEPtomaniac. I love it.

Ethan and I plan to test for first degree brown belt at the end of this month. (There are three levels of brown….third, second and first. Oddly enough, it goes in reverse order…third is lower than first, which is right before black. But once you get on to black belt…then a third degree is higher than a first degree. Yes, I know it doesn’t make any sense.) We’ve got a bow kata that we learned only a few weeks ago…so that will be a challenge. I’m excited about breaking at this test…I’ve been working on some cool power breaks. I’ll be posting it on YouTube afterwards…assuming I actually break the boards. My leg was mostly healed…until I threw a jump spin crescent and hurt it again.  At least I’m still kicking (haha…I’m so funny)…just not kicking very high.

Circuit City is horrible. I went to buy it on Monday…but they didn’t actually have it in stock (in spite of the fact that they had advertised that they had it). So they offered me an open box one…I looked it over and there was a problem…it was a return and the previous owner had put a password on it. So they said they would get it fixed…three times I drove down to that stupid store only to hear them say how sorry they were that it wasn’t ready in spite of calling me and saying it was. Finally they told me, “Ok, we can’t get the password off. So you can take the laptop and buy the restore disc…and we’ll refund you the price.” I told him that I had come to buy a working laptop, not pay for a working laptop so that I could get a broken one instead and then fix it myself. Eventually I ended up with the display model…and they were total jerks when I finally picked it up.

Assuming ticket prices don’t go up between now and my next two paychecks, then I’ll be going to Taiwan over the summer. China was the original plan, but it would only be about ten days and would cost about $3000…while I could do Taiwan for two months for about $1500. Plus I’ll be bringing Andrea and Young (Pastor Samuel’s kids) back with me, so they’ll spend about a month at our house. Right now I’m working on getting some basic plans in place for summer English camp at the church…I’m also trying to find some other American’s who can help with camp. I’m trying to get Andrew and some people from the Nantou team to sign up. Anybody here in the states interested?