10/1/06

I should be writing a book review for my Multicultural Education class, but I’m procrastinating.  It just shows how much I feel like procrastinating that I’m writing here, where I haven’t written for months and months.  I don’t know why, except that I’ve just been busy with life, and the transition from youth minister to student to working student. =)

I’m now into my second semester of the school counseling program, and I’m still enjoying it.  Some of the classes are pretty challenging, which I like.  I’m enjoying being in a classroom environment again.  I’ve also begun working at a preschool (with 4 year olds) and at an afterschool program (with kindergarten through 5th graders).  As you may guess, I’m tired a lot of the time.  Those kids wear me out!

I’ve recently found that I really miss being at the church, and working with all of my youth and their families.  It hasn’t been an easy transition, and I’m really missing the aspect of community that I had with them.  I still keep up with everyone (if you could see my facebook, you would see that almost all of my friends are teenagers, because my youth are the ones who wanted me to join), but it isn’t the same.  Luckily, I was able to see a lot of people this weekend, so I’m feeling much better about it.  This weekend was family camping for the church, and a lot of families that I knew were going (as well as my grandparents).  So yesterday I drove up to North Carolina to see the house that my mom is building (it’s beautiful and hopefully will be finished by Christmas!) and then drove over to the campground where everyone was staying.  It was so great.  It felt so nice to be back with everyone.  Some of the families fed me dinner, and then I stuck around for singing around the campfire.  After being in the mountains, and being with so many old friends, I feel much better.

Ryan is working a double today, so you’d think that I would have taken advantage of that and gotten a lot of school work done, but so far, I’ve pretty much done nothing.  He’ll be home in the next hour or so, and I’m really kicking myself for not being done with everything.  I have a term paper due next month, and every weekend I tell myself that I’m going to start on the research for it, and every weekend I put it off.  (And here I am still writing here, even as I tell myself how stupid that is!). =) 

Okay….(deep sigh)…off to work.