Cari Jennings
Relationship Status
Single
Highschool
Oakland High School
College
Carson-Newman College
Interests
God, though i'm much more than interested in Him, playing music, listening to music, singing, reading, swimming, cooking, medicine, politics, sharing my beliefs with others, God's Word - The Bible, anything coffee flavored, school, Grey's Anatomy, Law and Order:SVU (weird, i know), children, missions, international studies, Belle Aire Baptist Church, Catholics
Favorite Music
Mat Kearney, The Gabe Dixon Band, Regina Spektor, Ben Folds, Rufus Wainwright, The Killers, The Beatles, Chris Tomlin, The David Crowder Band, Sarah McLachlan, Jack Johnson, Jason Mraz, Ben Harper, Tom Petty, Hootie and the Blowfish, Keane, Elton John, Billy Joel, Weezer, Fallout Boy, Dashboard Confessional, Michael Buble, The Who, Three Dog Night, The Goo Goo Dolls, James Blunt, Collective Soul, James Taylor, Simon and Garfunkel, Jim Croce, The Postal Service, Ray Lamontagne, Amos Lee, The All American Rejects, Switchfoot, Lenny Kravitz, Aerosmith, Blind Melon, Coldplay, The Eagles, Kanye West, Jet, Iron and Wine, Radiohead, Fleetwood Mac, Chris Rice, Fernando Ortega, Bob Marley, Relient K, Marvin Gaye, Norah Jones, Jars of Clay, and many, many others...
Favorite Movies
The Butterfly Effect, A Lot Like Love, Darkness, The Producers, Schindler's List, Frailty, Frequency, The Pianist, Tommy Boy, A Time to Kill, Just Cause, The Little Mermaid, Beauty and the Beast, Keeping the Faith, Meet the Fockers, There's Something About Mary, I Am David, The Color Purple, Life Is Beautiful, Braveheart, The Patriot, Signs, The Passion of the Christ, (Mel Gibson can do no wrong), The Village, The Sixth Sense, Pay It Forward, Spiderman, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jennings Family Home Movies, The Sound of Music, The Omen, Prophecy, Napoleon Dynamite, Kung Pow:Enter the Fist, Blacksheep, Moulin Rouge, Dirty Dancing, Bring It On, Saving Private Ryan, We Were Soldiers, and about a million others....
Favorite Books
The Bible, the Little House on the Prairie series, Ethan Frome, Great Expectations, Intensity, Carrie, Rose Madder, The Giver, 1984, A Painted House, A Walk Across America, Angela's Ashes, Mere Christianity, The Lion.the Witch.and the Wardrobe, The Screwtape Letters, Where the Red Fern Grows, Fahrenheit 451, and at least a billion others...
so i guess it's settled.
May 02 2006
i am officially going to Africa.
i just finished watching the movie Hotel Rwanda. OMGAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH....
talk about your emotional rollercoasters. i was screaming at the tv, yelling for the rebels to kill the Hutus...
so....this is the story..(yeah, this is gonna be an extra long entry...)
in Rwanda, there are 2 types of Rwandans, Hutus, and Tutsis. There is no real difference between the two. The Belgian colonists that came there picked out the Rwandans with the fairest skin and the thinnest noses, and that sort of petty thing, and like, interbreeded and intermarried. they then made these more "desirable" people the rulers over the others. and some took on too much power or became tyrants. so eventually, the Hutus grew to hate them. so in 1994, unrest came to a head. the Hutus decided to form an army and begin a campaign of ethnic cleansing when the Rwandan president, (Hutu) Juvenal Habyarimana's plane was shot down over a Kigali airport. Almost immediately after, a newly formed militia, called the Interahamwe, were gathered to slaughter all Tutsis and those who tried to protect them. through the use of propaganda, many were coerced into following them, and were even given incentives such as food and land. Over 1,000,000 people were killed, for no reason. and the UN did not intervene. wow. what on earth? i can't imagine such a thing. there was a part in the movie where Paul Rusesabagina and one of his workers, Gregoire, were driving on of the hotel's van back to the hotel, and they began hitting all of these speed bumps. so Paul got out, and i'll finish this later because i gotta go. be back later.---
