Journal #28

Where do I feel out of my element?  In all honesty, I pretty much always feel out of my element whenever I am not at church.  I loveeeeee church.  I cannot get enough of being involved in my high school youth group at West Side Christian Church, and within the adult ministry, too.  If I could some how graduate right now and begin working in a church and learning about God and the bible that would be sooooo great.  Sooooo great.  Back to the actual topic: whenever I am at school, the majority of my peers are not Christians.  At least they have not completely turned their life over and do everything for God.  It's high school, obviously kids are not going to do everything like me, but it's still very weird for me.  I'll just be sitting in class and hear snippets of conversation and feel quite awkward when I hear what people talk about and what they plan on doing with their time.  It is a lot of the time quite different from me.  People also know that I am very religious and like to put me in awkward situations just for fun.  In middle school, some of my sports teammates would always try to get me to say cuss words.  I never did, but for whatever reason, they thought it was quite hilarious to make me say things I did not want to say.  I was very very out of my element.  During the summer I generally spend all of my time with my church friends and people who love Jesus as much as me and whenever I come back to school it is always very hard to re-acclimate myself to the people and their unchristian ways.  I am always very out of my element whenever I come back to school.  I am pretty good at acclimating myself, however it's still not my favorite.  School makes me feel very out of my element because of the students.