Orphanage Emmanuel

On Tuesday afternoon a group of 20 plus myself leave for Honduras. In Honduras we will be working at an orphanage called Orphanage Emmanuel. The pictures above are actual pictures of the children there. I am so excited to love on these kids, I wish I could stay longer but will only be there for 8 day. With this post I ask that you pray for not only me and my team mates but also these children (there are over 400) and also for thier 10 staff members, yup they only have 10 for all 400+ children!

Oxi Man

Okay so most everyone that watches tv has seen an infomercial with this man... or a similar commercial where he yells at you to buy his product. I was watching tv yesterday and was falling asleep and was startled when he began yelling at me to use his product. Of course some people probably just think that he is overly excited, but i am sorry but him yelling at me doesnt make me want to use that product or buy it. Well, maybe a little, especially when he pours the wine and stains the carpet and the clothes and they come out clean. I think we have had that stuff before and it didnt work for me. Oh well, good for Mr. OxiClean man, maybe he does sell the product by yelling at others, who knows!

Thank the Lord for Google.com!

Okay, so I am currently in the process of looking for a job, preferably doing marketing within the creative side of advertising and design.

Well i have been sending out my resume for a few weeks now and recently got a good hit. It was with a marketing promotions company in San Diego, they called me under one company name and left their number on my voicemail, then I received an email from another name with the same number, I ended up calling and they said they were different divisions under the same management. I arranged an interview for the following day and went. I drove for 1.5 hours for a 10 minute interview. They told me that if they decided they liked me (which I was pretty sure I had the job in the bag because I am pretty awesome! :) ) and wanted me to come back they would call me that evening and I would have to come back the following Monday for a day long interview... they literally told me to be there at 9:30 am and that I would be on my feet most of the day and also that I would not be done until that evening... Shady!

Today I told a lot of my friends at church and asked them to pray for me, i was getting pretty excited, especially because the lady interviewing me told me they are looking to hire one entry level position and promote them to an executive position within one year, ONE YEAR people, that sold me!

Well, tonight I spent a lot of time in prayer and when I got home I decided I needed to print out a copy of my resume just in case I may need it, well my parents computer sucks and word would not open, so I went on Google and was trying to get it to work or to just waste time while waiting for it to come up.
While on Google.com i decided to look up this company, come to find out they have a few scam.com reports written about them!
The way these people described the place and how their interviews went... I knew it was the truth! I experienced what they wrote and knew that if I went to the second interview it would be a total waste and SCAM!
My mom and I spent some time looking them up and came to find that it looks like it is a sales job... not the cool kind, but the kind where people stop you in a parking lot asking you to buy some "cool" thing out of their duffel bag. Sorry guys but I am not trying to go to camp or anything and I am not in a gang and trying to clean my life up, so I am not about to be the one to stop and ask you to buy some of my crap!
My mom told me not to call it a scam but honestly, that's exactly what I would call it! And to think, I was considering leaving my family and friends and moving down there!

All I have to say after all of this is, Thank the Lord for Google.com!

A few good things I did get out of this experience are:
Always Google any company I would possibly work for or even consider relocation
I got my first interview out of the way and also I get to turn down my first position (even though they didn't offer me the job yet, You know they were going to, how could they not?)
Finally I have reaffirmed my faith in the lord and knowing that he has a plan for me and that job was not a long term part of it! He works in mysterious ways and tonight he worked through Google.com! Gotta love him! :)



PS... I am still unemployed! If you know of any jobs (preferably within my field of interest) please feel free to tell me about them!

Help out Honduras!

So for those who do not already know, I have been chosen to be a part of a team to go to Honduras and help out and love on 400 amazing kids at orphanage Emmanuel. I will be going with Sandals Church but the road to get there is through a lot of fundraising. There are 22 of us going and we each have to individually raise $1700!
I am almost half way there and to get us even closer we have a few events coming up first off we have a chick- fil-a car wash night this coming Thursday (the 26th)

at Corona Crossings off the 15 fwy. If you are in the area come help us out and meet the team and amybe make a donation. :)
Our next event in this coming Friday night (the 27th) and is a Texas Hold 'Em Tournament. The buy in is $20 but it goes to a great cause and if you win, you get an awesome bracelet like the pros get on the world tournament but better!!!

"I'm Comin'... Out... I'm Comin'..."

I promised myself that I would not start blogging or reveal this blog to my sisters and to the rest of the world until I finished school.
Well, guess what? I finished my last final about 3 hours ago and am now a college graduate, I will be walking this Sunday! Yay!
I will be receiving my BA in Business Marketing and can't wait!
Now my next step is finding a job that I will love, I am talking to someone right now about a possible job opportunity that would be amazing! Pray that it happens.

So my dream job is to create amazing advertisements that are memorable.
Absolut vodka has done just that. I was sitting in my apartment watching TV when an Absolut Vodka commercial came on and you didn't know it was a commercial for vodka until the space people turned the moon into a giant disco ball. It was pretty awesome!
Just thought I would share that randomness with you!

This is ME!

Hello and welcome to my life!
My name is Melissa Jean and I have decided to become the blogging queen! (Hence the name.)
Both of my sisters (Heidi and Liz) are avid bloggers and I feel like the time has come for me to join this blogging world!!!

My life is going to be changing in the next few months. I dont think it will necessarily be good or bad but it will be change.
I am graduating from college and am going to be forced to join the working world!
(Sad day, i know!!!)

With these changes I have decided that it would be kind of fun to blog about them and so here I am!

I love to read about others, I feel that it is sort of like people watching which sounds kind of scary and crazy, but hey, you all put it out there! I just like to look at it. :)

See you around!