Miss Therapist in The House

So i was super excited for this semster to begin siiince it would be the semster i would counsel people (even though i have no idea what i'm doing) yes and they are REAL people haha....but as 6 weeks have past by i have begin to grow restless without a client...i mean it felt like everyone at nova had a client except for me and my co therapist! I would pray every week and than come in on thursday and nothing...well after my loong week of from school i recieved a rather eciting phonecall on Friday when my partner (co-therpist) told me we GOT A NEW CLIENT!!! yay! i can't say much about them because therapist have these stupid rules about keeping things private...lol but i can say God will truly stretch me because its working with s specific area that i guess i can't relate because i'm not married and i get frustrated with...haha But i can say that i'm totally excited i've been wanting to get in that therapy room and help some people!

But along with this super excitement like the first time you go to disney...is a nervousness because i'm not sure what to expect (This is my first time doing therapy with adults!) just like you don't know what to expect when you go to disney for the first time ever in your life! But i know its all in God's hands...i read the coolest devo out of my beth moore book about fear the other day about ... It was called don't fear it, pray it. It gave the verse isaiah 41:10,13...u should read it if you have a chance! It just talks about how we have nothing to fear since God is at our right hand and he will strenghten us and hold us up! wow thats so cool what an amazing promise! So instead of fearing the solution is to pray! It just reminded me of this because no matter how big this client's problem is with prayer God will give me the right questions to ask =)

Thank Jesus for finally giving me a client!!!!! Lets just hope my client isn't Mr. Hulk there it might make me frightened...haha

Good Friends never get old....

What a weekend! let me just start by saying i love my friends! and this weekend was a very memorable weekend! I spent Friday with moni! at the new outdoor mall which i must say is quite amazing it feels like your not in florida! i enjoyed spending time talking with her its so important to have friends that you find joyful and make you happy! Melissa joined the 24 club and so that called for some celebration right? but see melissa is special she likes interesting things somehow we let her talk us into going to a Bhangra competition! i didn't even know what Bhangra was but now i'm well emersed. Bhangra for those of you uncultural people lol just kidding orginated in India and it is a type of folk dance quite easy and fun! i must say at first i was a bit skeptical since well we were basically the only non indian people there but it ended up being alot of F-U-N! i learned several things like Nova has a Bhangra team! So does um uf and fiu! I also learned some pretty neat moves that i will be using! its quite easy if your interested me moni, nana and melissa can teach you...haha i don't think i have laughed so hard though until i saw a bunch of crazy guys dancing they had no rymthm it was quite the show. Not only did we see cool people dance but but we heard a famous indian singer sing thats right! to bad we didn't understand a word that came out of his mouth! We were so excited when we left that we danced Bhangra all the way to the car...and created so cool moves as you can see above. and the fun didn't end there we got a free bhangra cd! Its so good sometimes to have good friends to just be crazy with and laugh and make anything fun! Good friends bring joy to your life i know my friends do and i'm so thankful to God to have them in my life!

Pics of my christmas, new years, and dress shopping....

time to update i mean it is 2008!

Well lets see...i'm here for my monthly writing...haha i must say its always fun to just write about my life and havc all you fun people read it....well lets rewind...i've had an eventful few weeks beginning with
1. HOLIDAYS:: these holidays were a bit different i went to NJ! yay! although it was cold as an icebox i must say there were quite a few things i like about the garden state! first, its to cold to exercise daily second, you never have to pump gas third, your nieghbors to New York City fourth, they have pretty deers Fifth, you can make smores in your fireplace inside! Sixth, H&M is only a car ride away! Some of the positives i must say! besides that i enjoyed every minute spending time with my family. I also enjoyed my christmas present a trip to the spa for a mud wrap! i know!
2. New Years:: Good old New Years Eve was spent almost in the air but fortunately Mr. Pilot made it just in time for me to attend my Black and White Party! Yes it was quite the affair with mini quiches and friends we danced the night away and me and monique (my date lol) made our new yrs resolutions....1. To not be in the last women standing club anymore LOL 2. To exercise more ... i'm sure there were more but as you can see i have already forgotten! one thing is for sure something great happened a few days before one of my best friends got engaged yay nana! So that leads me to my next event.
3. Wedding Dress Shopping:: I never knew how hard it would be to plan a wedding until i started helping nana. I never knew the meaning of the street miracle mile until i had to walk every last mile of it...and i know every wedding store in its entire dress and invitation line...lol So if you ever need advice you can now ask me i'm an expert. I joke though i had an amazing time trying to find my friend's wedding dress, it was such a refreshing experience to know that in a few months cristina will be marrying the man she loves! o and there story is adorable but to sum it up in few words she didn't date for like 10 years went to jordan and found her husband (hes from the usa lol).
4. SchooL StarTs:: As excited i was for the semster to be over....and even more excited to discover that i received a 4.0 gpa my first semster! i'm still not super excited about this semster...breaks are always so peaceful and fun and over way to quickly...regardless this is the semster of doom! why kristy do you ask? well i'll tell you this is the semster when i begin to counsel REAL PEOPLE WITH REAL PROBLEMS...ahhhhh. My first week of school i survived without any injury or making a fool of myself...excited to see my friends...and excited about the first day of classes since you get out early! but wasn't excited on thursday when i found out i was going to meet my first victim i mean client...luckily God loves me and my client didn't show so i had to watch everyone else go behind the mirror..it was the koolest thing ever i must admit to watch it being done...it made me so happy and excited that this is what i truly want to do for the rest of my life help people in times in need when they think that can't take it anymore and just be there to help! i loved it! and i'm excited sadly to start school once again.
5. Project Spring Cleaning:: apparantly when i made my new years resolution i secretly decided to spring clean my room, bathroom and closet all while starting school. lol. i know i'm a nut i must say....because i had no idea what the H i was getting myself into....apparently i am a pack rat...who hasn't spring cleaned her closet since she was 7....LOL....i found homework in my closet from like junior high...luckily after much sweat, an almost broken foot, a sore arm and almost breaking the new cubby cabinet i purchased...i finished my project and i am happy to report that my closet, desk and bathroom are fully organized =) and i must admit it feels great (just don't tell my mom ;)
So theres the new year updates! and my last resolution is to write in this things more gosh! If you are so inclined above this post i have posted pictures of my last few weeks!

i love forgiveness!

it's quite humorous that the only time i write in my blog is 1. when i can't sleep and i have something on my mind 2. have exciting news 3. feel sad i so need to write in here more!
anyways....as i sit here awake and can't sleep (which i will regret tommorrow!) ....this song comes to my mind "amazing love how can it be that you my king would die for me..." wow how grateful i am for the Lord's forgiveness (don't worry guys i didn't commit a murder lol just thankful!) Thankful that the Lord knowing my weaknesses, imperfections, and deepest thoughts would love me and die for me know i'm an imperfect person and will continue to let him down at times....but he loves me sooooooooooo much he FORGIVES! Today i was talking with my parents about the shooting that happened in colorado and i was thinking would i have died for a random christian that i don't know willingly so that people may come to christ and the answer in my mind is no...wow how selfish! Not to long ago i was reading in my Oswald Chambers book (thanks Jen) about forgiveness and i realized how selfish i was and somehow i still am! See like i wrote in my Journal..."i assumed that God was suppose to forgive me when i messed up like he owed it to me not ever thinking of where that forgiveness comes from or the price it costed....But God did not have to forgive me! He choose out of his own will to die a very very painful death in order to forgive people like me! It is because of his death on the cross that i Kristina Marie Selecky have been forgiven and will continue to be forgiven it was because of his UNSELFISH SCARFICE!" i have to constantly remind myself that yes i am forgiven but it costed Jesus his life....THANK YOU JESUS FOR FORGIVENESS THAT COVERS ALL SINS NO MATTER HOW BIG OR SMALL! When life gets so busy i have to sit down and remind myself of God's unselfish scarfice! It just amazes me what a great FAther i have and how his love is so overflowing....i can only be thankful =)
"In him we have...the forgiveness of sins..." Eph. 1:7
goodnight guys!

My New Glasses...the apple of my eye =)

YAY!!!! As you can seee i got my new glasses! and i'm very impressed i must say with my choice...lol...i can see everything now! so i don't have to worry about hitting barriers ne more! lol i'm sooooooo excited for tommorrow so much so that i am completely procrastinating with my homework due tommorrow...lol....today has been a wonderful day...the kids where sort of good (which is pretty good!) except i did have one girl who tried to steal money off my desk in order to buy herself a book from the book fair...haha...i tried on my tinkerbell costume! and it looks so cute...thanks abuela...aww i love her so much...not just because she makes me things because she is just striaght up amazing! shes like 79 and loves to serve people its like she finds joy in it she always cooking or cleaning or doing things for people and i just love that about her my grandparents are both amazing amazing amazing people! And there christian testimony is just wonderful...they are both beautiful people inside and outside and i am so thankful to have them in my life! =) i absoutely love my family if u haven't figured out yet! I'm a little nervous though i have to carve a pumpkin by myself tommorrow...i have never done it ever in my life! so we shall see how this goes...i think one of the k4 students have a better shot than i do...haha...we now its homework time!

i have no excuse...time to update!

ok i know u guys are so interested in my life and its seriously has been a while since i have posted anything! its just school has consumed my life...well and i'm not going to lie i forget my username and password...haha...to sum up today was a great day i guess u can say! i found out i will be taking Mrs. Rizzo's friends till Thanksgiving! yay they are so cute...except today was shaky i had a girl actually cut her lips with safety scissors that was not pretty! luckly i've been watching a lot of greys anatomy to know what to do...lol....today marks the 3 week period till when my semster is finished yay! bad news is though i have alot of work to get done! i've been so happy with my semster thus far i love my professors and my classes...and all the new friendships i have made...its wonderful! its kind of cool that the semster has gone by so fast and somehow i still haven't recieved my loan stupid nova! A couple of other fun things have happened since my last entry...i got new glasses that should be coming in this week yay! now i will be especially nerdy! I got some cool stiches on my shoulder that have been itching me pretty badly...but just pray for that i removed my favorite beauty mark a week ago and the test results should come back on friday so pray everything was normal....but i know its in God's hands so it will be fine! I just wanna give a shout out to daniel pablo diaz who turns 21 today at midnight! yay! happy birthday! we had a great weekend celebrating his birthday...at a place called pashas on south beach that has wonderful medditerrean food just watch out for plastic utensils in ur food (it happened to my friend) lol...everytime we hang out like this i realze how lucky i am to have the friends i do and how amazing my friends are! Also i can't forget the beginning part of my weekend with my girls...it was great! spending time with longtime friends that are my family...i just love the relationships in my life God has been so great over the years just providing me with Godly friends!

What i have to look forward too this week...umm well hello wed is trunk or treat and elevate is doing a pretty awesome trunk using my car...finding neverland is what we like to call it...i get to be my favorite disney character tinker bell! yay! Than i have mute math concert on thursday...whoohoo! i got a great week to look forward to and hopefully u'll hear every minute of it!

A New School

well today was my first day of nova orientation (well for the second time but thats a long story) for marriage and family counseling! i'm excited to be at nova well duh thats why i decided to go there....but was worried about my fellow classmates but God took care of it...today i started out the lengthy orientation day at 8am ewww and went all the way to 3pm...what do you do for all those hours you ask...go over every question known to man, a campus tour, a libaray tutorial on how to look up journals which is boring i might add, a excerise to get to know classmates, and a free lunch...lol so that sums up my orientation for today! i got to skip out early since i had my id card and decal yay for me! i'm so excited about starting monday the program sounds really kool...in 4 months i will actually be interacting with real clients! it kind of makes me nervous but at the same time i'm so anxious to actually start counseling! so it makes my heart happy! i will be a professional soon! i made some friends who happen to be christians...and invited one to check out frc which was kool...i was so worried about being the youngest and i'm actually close to the oldest...lol ahhh being 24 ... lol ...so like i said God worked everything out! Its funny i feel like a freshman all over again haha new school new rules...oh how i miss Liberty!

Moving on to a more funny issue today i went to the movies with a friend after elevate (who will remain nameless for there protection of privacy...lol) and we saw Balls of Fury (its funny but you should probaly wait till it comes out at blockbuster) and were still laughing watching the movie and the movie is about to end and its like the climax of the movie and all the sudden the fire alarm goes off and the power shuts off....wow i thought i peed on myself...everyone was freaking out ...was is a fire NO...was is a bomb NO....was it a fight NO...it was just dolphin malls cheap electricity....lol...note to self next time go to a different theatre...lol after i laughed about it...i mean that is all you can do...luckly we got to see the ending to the movie that was well not so good haha...well off to bed i need my beauty rest for my continuation of orientation week!

The Reveal and all that comes with it...

You know when you always go on missions trips u always expect God to do soemthing but you always underestimate what he is actually gonna do in your life but when he does change your life u can't help but just be in awe of how amazing he is and how he just had the perfect plan... let me begin with reveal day...Reveal day was the last day we were with my princessas as i like to call them...we the night before had taken the older girls shopping for new outfits for this special day...and i'm sorry i didn't blog about it but i will quickly mention it...i was heartbroken that dahy some of these girls had never gone shopping...they didn't even know there pant size...they were so used to getting hand me downs...and the idea of them getting to actually pick something they wanted meant the world to them...that was such a wonderful experience to be part of helping them jus tlike if they weer my sister...That night we told them what they meant to us...since we knew reveal day would be busy....and i told them this "all my life i wanted siblings but my mom couldn't have any but than i came here and somehow i have gained 23 sisters and this week has been the happiest day of my life...b/c God knew what he was doing all along he wanted u to be my sisters." i really did mean it...i mean i have so much love for these girls! but back to reveal day...lol...reveal day was just overwhelming so many emotions going on at the same time...it was awesome...i think to see the faces on those girls when they opened there faces was priceless they were like this isn't our house...lol...i mean u could hear screaming, crying, jumping just like u would see in any extreme makeover except these were my sisters...this was my family...these were my friends it was being done to and that touched my heart even more than any extreme makeover...I mean i can't tell you how much joy was in my heart at that point, i never ever ever ever want to forget that moment, i was able through God's help bless and bring happiness to the most beautiful deserving girls on this planet...and unselfishly...these girls brought out in my unselflessness...it wasn't about me ever it was about them and that wow i just thought wow that amazing....Then it was time to go upstairs to show the girls there room I went upstairs to the older girls room...(i felt in the last few days i had really connected with them...b/c they had really opened up to us) I wasn't sure who was in there but it ended up being people i really wanted to see like carol (the one i mentioned before about suicide) Philar, Nataly my beautiful little sister and Carolina....there reactions were all differnet but similar shocked...and touched and than the tears...Carol told me this " We alaways dreamed of a day like this but we never thought it would be a reality...it was just those things you dream of but never came true and i still can't believe its happening" I mean my heart was just so excited that God used us to make this girls dreams come true...i mean i can't even describe in words whaat i felt in that moment in time but i can tell u it was amazing! As alaways we had to leave and when we began to leave the girls (especially the older ones) just began to break down and weep...i mean some of them would not let go...some told me words that i will never forget "kristy i love" or "mi hermana linda" all i could do is just kiss and embrce them...i seriously felt like i had touched these girls lives and i had no idea i was doing so until that moment when all i could do was hug and cry with them...i mean Romy told us she didn't open up to her best friend until after 2 yrs of friendship yet she opened up to us 1 day after knowing us...wow...God that was so u...and at that moment she was holding me and telling me i don;t want u to go...my heart hurt...b/c i didn;t want to leave her or the other girls either...the love i developed for those girls was incredible i never thought i was capable of such a love! I left with no siblings and i cam back with 23 from Peru! I truly would do anything for those girls including scraping grout from the tile...lolThey are such amazing, intelligient, beautiful girls both inside and out...i thank God for loving them so much that he sent us down there to bless them...and despite there past or there lack of sel esteem about themselves...they still love and praise God...wow! Saying goodbye to them was one of the hardest things i have ever had to do in my life, i would go outside the door and keep coming back in for one last hug and kiss...i truly miss and love them...but like i told them i will come back! the connections i made with them i wouldn't trade for the world...i fell in love with those girls and peru all in 6 days...haha This trip was more life changing than i ever thought it would be i've been on trips before but see God choose every single person he wanted on this trip...by the short time to raise the money and the time of the year...only 32 people went out of 500 that said they were interested...and now that i'm home its evident why he choose each of us...not even did i fall in love with peru,my princessas, and God....but i developed new freindships with amazing people who want to live for God and just needed that nudge to get on fire for God and now have experienced what i did in Peru...who have this joy in our hearts that i can't get rid of...God you are just truly amazing...all i can say is wow! i would show u pictures but my camera is somewhere and if u want to see before and after shots of the house than you'll just have to go to flamingo road on chirstmas to see what happened...lol love u guys...thanks for your prayers!

Princess Camp Day 2!

awww i am just falling in love with these girls each hour more and more...its just so amazing i have never had so much love for people i hardly know but i feel like we known each other forever...all the girls are opening up and just being themselves! Today was a fun day...of course it was Soledas Birthday (she is the youngest there) she turned 4 but this girl just brings a smile to your face...see shes 4 going on 23 like my mom said....she cracks me up....she told Carmen (the house mom) that the reason she could sleep in today was because it was her birthday...and she can do anything on her birthday...lol...we arrived this morning and the girls were so excited for what we had planned today they thought there big suprise was going to the park....oh Lord if they onñy knew what is happening to there house in this moment....they would just being so overwhelmed...not that there not overwhelmed now because they totally are so much love in two days...wow! Well we greeted the girls i saw Pilar and she gave me a big kiss and a hug! today was kool because i got to spend time with the older girls and really bond with them....and its so cool b-c its like the sisters i never had..they were loving on me and hugging on me! We took them to the movies...and than after we picked them up...and went to lunch...at lunch i got to talk to Brigget shes the famous one there...shes beauitful and outgoing...and has been at the home for quite some time....me and her sat one on one...and she just poured her heart out to me her dreams...see one of the sad things about the older girls is that there dreams feel hopeless like they will never be done...Briggets dream is to go to a christian university in america....and do sound engineering...it was just so kool to hear that...but it was so sad to here the lack of hope that her dream may never come true the temptation these girls have on a daily basis to have sex or prositute themselves is tremendous! and it breaks my heart that they struggle with that always....men promise them a better life sometimes and its not what they think...but just talking to her and giving her hope about LU and a program they have her face lite up and for an hour and half she talked about the possiblity of going and it just made me happy to have encouraged her to pursue her dreams....then Romy shes 19 came up to us and started talking about how she starts english school monday and how she wants to be a tour guide and she connected with me and began telling me of there lives and school and just started becoming personal...they were so interested in me...its so cute...but most of all i{m interested in them...b-c there lives are so hard but each of them are so amazing! and i just love hearing there stories and dreams and its just so touching to see them love God as much as they do....Not only did i connect with Brigget and Romy.... but with Ursala who is 16 and vivian 22...it was amazing! WE painted each others nails and just spilled our guts including me...haha they told me about there boyfriends...and friends and ursala told me about her family and how when she was younger she used to witness her father beating her mother...it was just awesome to hear those things...and how they trusted me...i loved it! and the best part is when they would just hug me or put there arm around me...awww it warmed me heart b-c i love them like they were my family...i truly would do anything for these girls...like whenever they tell me i like that shirt or shoes...i{m setting it aside and on sunday they are getting it all....lol...i wanna give them the world! They are such beautiful people they deserve the world! i just enjoy being loved by them so much and me loving them...Sorry i{m going out of order of what happened during the day but another favorite part of mine was when we celebrated Solas Birthday....awww her face was just priceless i tell u...the whole day she wanted to know when we would celebrate her birthday but when i walked her down from her room to come to her party her face was just filled with happiness....we had ballons and cake (which is called torta here) and everyone was yelling...and we gave her gifts which she arranged in her room and made me take a picture of...lol it was like wow something so small and yet it means the world to her....it just humbled my heart...this little girl wa sleft at an airport and now she is the queen of our hearts how amazing must she feel!?!? Another thing that touched me today was when the girls were getting ready for dinner...we went to make sure they were all taking showers....and when we went to the first room...we asked did u take a shower? and she had smiles on there faces and said yes and we there is hot water! awwww i cried lol see they have no hot water where they live none....and it just broke my heart to see how happy they were to have hot water...u just had to see the smiles on there faces! wow God is just humbling me....b-c sometimes i can be so selfish and than i am looking at these girls who have nothing...and one offered me food the other day b-c i had none yet...wow! i mean they are so selfless and giving and there haearts are happy to do so and i{m just like wow...u must be empty inside but they continue to give love and affection...it just amazes me! i am in love with each and every girl! and i can{t wait to see them tommorrow as they have a soocer game! God is doing great things guys! I love u and miss u all! Besos!