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A True Legacy (Posted Aug 29 2005) Joann Chang - Friend from Neapolitan Accountability Group, Harvest and Real World Julie - she was a dear friend of mine when we went to college at UCSD. We hit it off right away. I don't know how it happened, but it happened fast and naturally. It seemed as if I only said to hi to her and had casual conversations with her a couple times and next thing you know, I'm over at her house sleeping over. She spilled her guts out to me that nite. Such an honest girl. That's what I loved about her. Cuz I felt I could tell her anything. So our friendship naturally grew. I remember going to her apt all the time, working out with her at our other friend's gyms, going out to eat, and laughing a lot whole lot. In college, julie and my friend mary ann were especially into myers briggs. We studied all the combination of letters and knew who would be our guy match. I think we clicked so well because we were both enfps.... but julie was much more of a dreamer than me. Julie was there for me. Through different family dramas, to boy drama, to just when I was really down. She was there to lsiten to me and process out loud with me. She was was always encouraging about my spiritual gifts... my love for sharing the gospel. She had different nicknames for me.. jojo, jo, jojobear. I will always remember the way she would say jo in her sweet, gentle voice. We would worship together and she would tell me often... "jo, let's dance." she had a cute way of dancing. With her hands behind her back while she swayed side to side. Or with her hands to her side with a big grin on her face. Her laugh was great... it was with much joy. She would slap my butt all the time.... she even did a makeover on me just for fun. The most memorable times was when she would come over either to my house in the bay or in sd and we'd just lie on my bed and just talk about stuff. We just could talk about anything. I would often go to her cupertino house and do the same.. and we'd just talk and be so honest and open. It'd crack us up. When we both moved back to the bay after school...we were so happy we had one another. Cuz we were experiencing post-college depression. Julie didn't know what to do - nursing, teaching, ministry, you know all her different ideas. And I was at home figuring out my life too. But even after college when I moved to LA and she stayed in the bay... we'd always go get boba at fantasia and catch up. I'd run errands with her. We'd go get nu ro mein together. Or just chill at each other's houses. I remember I had to always give her directions to my house even though she had just come over the week before. She was not good with directions. But I loved her anyways. We were prayer buddies in college... we met together with 2 other girls. All of us bonded. We called ourselves the neopolitans.... it's strange cuz there were 4 of us.. but there are only 3 flavors in neopolitan ice-cream. I guess it's cuz each of us liked a different flavor. I remember Julie and I would often pray for our families. I even tried her mom's cooking. I saw julie in action as a sister/cousin. Julie was such a charm. To be honest, I envied her a lot. She was beautiful, loved God, was fun, and was so attractive. She had so many guys chasing after her or interested in her all the time. Even though we had our ups and downs in our friendship, she was always julie. Ireplaceable julie... a girl that I could talk to about stuff in a way that I couldn't talk to others about. She had a generous, caring, honest heart. Although Julie is no longer on earth, she has left a true legacy. She made an influence to many people.... I'm so grateful that she was able to experience true intimacy in christ, and have that joy that many of us still seek for. I will always remember you, julie-wooly.
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