A Little Too Quickly

This past week has been great! I finished my first year of college and had an awesome time at my roommate's house. Yes, we accomplished our goal and took two lambs to her house (around 500 miles from school, I think). 

Along with trekking halfway across the country with two lambs and a U-Haul trailer, we had a lot of fun doing lots of different activities. I was introduced to the world of the FFA organization and to the college town where my roommate will be living next year. I helped plant corn and I learned how to build a "satisfactory" barbed wire fence. There was also AI breeding going on, which I was able to observe. According to Elisa, I'm an official farm girl now : )

Life in her world is a little different than the life that I've lived. It was truly an eye-opening experience and I'm thankful that we had the time we had. One thing that I believe that everyone should have in life is a friend with different opinions than your own with whom you can agree to disagree but be willing to share your opinions in discussions. That's what Elisa and I shared. We spent a good two and a half hour drive discussing different things, including our opinions on Christianity. We come from two different denominations but our core values are the same: we are saved by Jesus Christ's sacrifice on the cross for us. By grace alone. 

Now that the trip is done, it's time to look ahead. The rest of May will be a busy one, including a family trip to the beautiful Black Hills of South Dakota, work at the daycare starting, and my sister's graduation tomorrow. On top of all of this, I hope that I can make trips out to my grandparent's house/dairy farm to ride my horse. I'm also going to be starting the Rosetta Stone program in hopes of honing my Spanish. Four years of Spanish in high school is not going to go to waste. I am planning on raising goats this summer, too, as extra money for college. I'll let you know how that all goes.

I want to draw attention to something that is going on in my gorgeous state right now. There are rumors (and it has been proven that they are only rumors) that a billboard was going to be put up by PETA claiming that beef is just as bad for a person as marijuana is. (SD Corn Blog - PETA Billboard) People in agriculture need to speak up for what they do, because if we don't others will speak for us and not how we want them to.   They don't always realize what they are saying because they haven't heard our side. That is happening way too much, but there are people out there who are doing something about it. Check out the links on the side of the page for their take on agriculture.