Okay, so I may be one of the worst bloggers ever... a lot has happened in the past few months. :) Let me fill you in:
1. I completed my student teaching experience. It was really hard and overwhelming sometimes, but I like the students I was working with (in general) and my cooperating teacher was great. I learned a lot, and I'm very grateful for the chance to teach there.
2. I graduated from North Park University. A bittersweet day to be sure, but very exciting too. My official degree is a Bachelor of Arts in English: Creative Writing, and a Secondary Education Certificate. Woohoo!
3. I moved back home (for a short time) and started working at the church I grew up with as the part-time, temporary admin for the Blue Valley site. That has been an amazing blessing. My then-fiancé got the job as the youth pastor for the Blue Valley site, and then the site pastor called me and asked if I was interested in being their admin for the summer. My job is to help with the transition from the previous admin to a different full-time admin, and to be kind of a go-for (running bulletins and offering, picking up this or that, filling out this form, ordering that book, etc.) It's actually a lot of fun. :)
4. Oh, and I got married! ;) Almost two weeks ago, Drew and I got married at Lakewood Middle School. Why in a middle school you ask? Well, because it's the place that our church (Hillcrest Blue Valley, the aforementioned site) has been meeting for the past several years. It's the church where Drew is now the youth pastor, and where we will be attending for as long as God calls us here. So we though, what they hey? Let's do it! It turned out way better than even I had thought: we had an amazing group of people to help us set up, and over 200 people came to help us celebrate on the 16th. We had a blast! Then Drew and I left for a week up in Maine, where we saw some moose, went camping and hiking in Acadia National Park, rode on a sailboat, saw a lumberjack show, walked around downtown Portland, played on the beach, and basically had a fantastic time.
5. Now we're settling into our new apartment, getting back into the swing of things. We love our apartment and it was a blessing to find, but it lacks storage space, so we're having to get very creative with finding places to put all our stuff. We're back working at church, and VBS at Blue Valley starts in a little over a week. I'm still looking for a job for the fall, though I do have a substitute position if nothing else comes through.
Now that school is over and the wedding is over and I have a little more free time (for now, ha!) I'm going to try to start writing this blog again. I know this is the 3rd or 4th time I've tried to pick it up since leaving Costa Rica, but I really like blogging, and I need to keep writing.
Well, that's all for now. Be back soon!
