Well today has been a day let me tell you! its not even noon yet and i have had enough mishaps to last me a while.
So i intended to wake up pretty early to get a good work out in before heading off to class. The hope was that it would give me a bit of an energy boost because I have been finding it pretty difficult to engage in lessons the last few days. I went to bed at 10:30pm last night in preparation for a 5am wake up call.....instead i woke up at 1:30am, 2:30am, and 4am...apparently i had way too much tea yesterday. Well 5am rolls around and i am dead to the world. 6:45am and i finally wake up. This gives me just enough time to get ready, grab some breakfast and leave. I wanted to get to school early for some fresh juice...no such luck. I leave my house around 7:35am to get to class by 8, which is normal. I go down to get my bike and find it quite quickly for once (it usually gets moved in the night) and head up to street level.
By now its about 7:40ish. It looks like its going to storm and i forgot my bike rain coat, again, but it hasnt started raining yet so i figure ill be ok. I get going and what usually takes me about 5 mins to get to my classroom building takes 25 almost 30. I dont know what the dealio was but i was dizzy and feverish the whole bike ride. So now Im late to class, awesome. My teachers make us sing or dance even when we walk in as the bell is ringing, so who knows what she would have made me do!? I dont mind singing or dancing, as those of you who know me know, but I was starting to see spots and the thought of belting it out made me queazy. So i opted to skip the first hour of lessons and go get a snack and study in the canteen until second hour.
I got a coffee out of pure habit, didnt drink much of it and decided i needed to go home, seeing as the walk across campus made me feel like passing out. The snack didnt help much either, which i guess makes sense because more food only cures dizziness when you havnt eaten, and these days im in the habit of eating pretty regularly ;) So i walk back to my bike and set off for home.
It starts raining at this point. So now im doing my best to not topple off my bike, getting soaked, and im having a hard time navigating traffic. people seemed to be particularly ruthless today, I had more near misses than usual. Then ladies and gentlemen....my bike chain comes off the gear. i tried to put it back on myself, but no such luck. oh joy, luckily i was in walking distance of a little bike repair stand. the guy started rambling off in rapid chinese, too fast for me to understand. with blackened oily hands i point to my bike and told him i just needed help putting the chain back on and putting air in my tires (might as well since i was already there) but he kept insisting....something i couldnt quite catch. i finally figured out that he was saying my chain didnt just fall off but actually snapped nearly in two, so i had to buy a new chain. (i dont know why i didnt understand him, i know how to say all those things) i didnt even bother to haggle, but it was only 35 rmb and really thats not much at all. i let him fix it, thanked him and was on my way.
When i got home i remembered i have no food, so i grabbed my rain coat and went to the grocery store next door quickly to pick up some things. At this point i found 100rmb in my purse and was really excited about it. dangran! (of course) so i get there and get all kinds of fresh veggies and eggs, some fruit, soap, you know basic stuff. only spent 61rmb! when i get home i found that that 2 of the eggs had smashed en route which is a bummer because they were kinds expensive. but i was boiling them anyway, so i just cleaned them off and put them on the stove......where i promptly dropped my cell phone into the boiling pot of eggy water. yes!
today has not been my day, but i can spot the enemy when i see him! My joy will not be stolen from me that easily. So many things happen in our everyday life that serve as distractions from hearing Gods voice. i realize that these things are small compared to what other people experience, and i am very grateful for the hardships i have gone through (not just today), because things could be so much worse. but clearly there is something im meant to hear that the enemy isnt too keen on me finding out. well all i have to say is this: In your face satan, i am MORE than a conqueror in Christ Jesus. Romans 8:35-39
