well, i admit, i have slacked on posting on this blog. i do have valid excuses though...first, i was in new orleans for a week with 25 high schoolers as a chaperone for our spring break mission trip. oh my gosh, you guys. it was such a great trip. to start with, the kids in our youth group are awesome, so it was easy traveling with them, and i enjoyed learning with them and from them. it was also really incredible being in that broken city for a week. it is such a soulful and beautiful place, but still so devastated from katrina. gosh, there were entire neighborhoods, both poor and middle class, which were still entirely abandoned. you could see the water line at about 12 feet, showing that the houses had been entirely under water for quite some time. it was really crazy, and broke my heart for the people who used to call that place home. not only were we able to do some cleaning and rebuilding projects, but we also had the opportunity to work at a spring break day camp with about 40 elementary school kids, which was pretty fun and definitely stretched me to the max of my patience at times. despite some pretty tough kids, and some pretty terrible leadership within the camp, the high schoolers and i managed to have a pretty wonderful time with those adorable kids. every single one of them was black, and more ghetto than i could ever dream of even pretending to be. it was awesome. i kind of wish i could go back. at the end of the week we also took a couple of days to just enjoy spring break in louisiana and took a swamp boat tour, which was like the best thing of my life...i even went to a crawfish boil and ate seafood willingly (totally out of character for me...) AND did the hard and disgusting work of cracking open all of those little guys before i ate them. and loved every second of it. if i was truly southern at heart before spending a week in louisiana, i am even more so now. honest to god, i think i should have been born down there, on the bayou...
also, i started grad school this week. 1 week under my belt, 9 more to go this quarter :) and i could not be happier. i love my classes, i love my professors, i love fuller...i even don;t really mind the hour and a half commute twice a week (i bought a blue tooth today, i know i know, so nerdy, but i have all the time in the world for catching up with people on the phone now, and better safe than sorry...so please. call me tuesdays and thursdays 5:30!am to 7:30, or 5:00-6:30 pm) but really. i think i waited just the right amount of time before heading back to school, where i truly get excited about going to class, i am on the edge of my seat the entire lecture, and then i can't wait to get home and do my reading! grad school is proving to be great like that, that you really get to study exactly what you want, with other people that are equally as excited as you about learning exactly that same thing. i am taking a gospels class (as part of the seminary theology core required for my degree, which is so interesting and great), cultural and ethnic issues in marital and family intervention, and child and family development. turns out that most of the cute guys in seminary are married, typical, but i will keep you posted on that front :) so, for now, i think that's it for my news. i really, really miss you girls.
love.
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