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I grew up outside of Kansas City, MO, in a little town called, Raytown. I attended and graduated from Blue Ridge Christian School in 2003. Which seems like a lifetime ago. I worked at Starbucks for several years, apprenticed a pastry chef, wrote a business plan for a coffeeshop and all of that is preparation, little did I realize for my next big move in life. Cafe Terra Nova, a coffeeshop in Santiago de Compostela, Spain. I am moving there this October to explore church planting with a group of my friends, the Swains and the Baileys, and to take on the role of manager, eventually, when I can actually speak Spanish. So until then, I am living in my 100 year old house, with 5 other girls, and other visitors this summer. I play the role of Lulu's Hawaiian Ice manager, house cleaner, baby-sitter, barista in my various jobs. I have a garden that is growing strong and I love to weed and water it, looking forward to the day that I get to make amazing food from things that I have grown myself. I love my life. I have the best of friends and my heart is alive and kicking.

My Interests

Coffee, Cooking, the creation of a community, relationships.. basically people.

I'd like to meet:

Henri Nouwen. Any of my great- great- grandparents... a national leader, any president, king, or diplomat, and have dinner with him, I would love to hear what they talk about at dinner.

Music:

just about anything. Espically when it's my friends.

Movies:

Crash, Pride and Prejudice, the Invisible Children, Hotel Rwanda, the Constant Gardner, Walk the Line, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, Ever After, Remember the Titans, Princess Bride, Oceans Eleven

Television:

I do not own a TV, it's been really nice.

Books:

Mark of the Lion trilogy, Moby Dick, the Scarlet Letter, Wethuring Heights, the Inner Voice of Love, Red Moon Rising, From Foreign to Famuliar

Heroes:

Betzi Schroeder, Amanda Allbee, Nicole Wilkie, Nathan Haas, Greg Buckman, Jim and Amy Bailey, Team Spain, Josh and Mary Shaarda, Laura Hackett, Amanda Kane, Linnea Spransy

My Blog

Coming home.

I am sorry to all of you who are looking for a deep blog. I do post those sometimes. This is just excitement. My boyfriend comes home from India and Nepal in less than 8 hours. Let me just tell yo...
Posted by Lauren on Tue, 03 Apr 2007 11:34:00 PST

my first hire.

I hired my first employee today. And had to tell another that we were not going to be able to hire him. I feel like a manager right now.
Posted by Lauren on Mon, 26 Mar 2007 09:43:00 PST

two years. (and counting...)

Jason and I have come a long way. Carol asked us tonight when we started dating. We looked at each other until Jason responded "well, I always tell people we started dating two years ago, and then...
Posted by Lauren on Tue, 13 Mar 2007 11:03:00 PST

wow, cool people.

I love people. not that this should surprise people. BUT.. I have an espically fond place in my heart for emo, grunge, hard core kids. I just spent the afternoon snuggled into ...
Posted by Lauren on Sun, 10 Dec 2006 02:50:00 PST

avoidance

I avoid things that I can't control. Things that I don't understand. Things that don't fit into my plans. and thus... I keep my heart at bay. I am lonely. I miss out. I don't enjoy the depths of...
Posted by Lauren on Sat, 09 Dec 2006 10:39:00 PST

little things

I love french pressed coffee. I have missed my coffee grinder and french press. For me it's the simple things in life that get me excited, like my french press. and samples at stores, it makes my d...
Posted by Lauren on Wed, 08 Nov 2006 12:45:00 PST

Ending seasons

I watched my brother, David, ended a season of his life tonight. He's played soccer since he was 4 years old and tonight he played his last soccer game of his high school career. As we hugged and he...
Posted by Lauren on Fri, 03 Nov 2006 09:30:00 PST

So typical

So typical.It is so typical for me to stay consistent with something for a while, and suddenly without warning of schedule changes emotions or logical reason, I'm horribly inconsistant. So to those of...
Posted by Lauren on Fri, 27 Oct 2006 03:02:00 PST

adventures with the Consulate General of Spain

On Tuesday morning, I bustled around the International Teams office, collecting all of my final paperwork for my visa. I jumped into my little Blue Ford Tempo and headed into the big city, in search ...
Posted by Lauren on Fri, 20 Oct 2006 10:22:00 PST

SLA otherwise known as Second Language Aquisition.

I sit in a class making many funny sounds. Trying to speak Korean and other weird phonomes. But I find myself becoming accutely aware of sounds I've not noticed before and can move my mouth in new w...
Posted by Lauren on Wed, 04 Oct 2006 05:55:00 PST