Class has started up again and although I feared my education classes would be boring, they're actually quite fun, where else but in my Foundations of Middle Grades class can thirteen other students and I sit in a circle and discuss our middle school memories and hardships (think group therapy)? Also, I'm in a Young Adult Literature class where we talk about books like The Hobbit and my professor switches from her native American accent to a Irish accent to a British accent in a matter of minutes as she discusses her latest book going into publishing. I guarantee that class is better than any of the classes you're taking.
Last week, clubs started back up, another great experience in my life. I was voted Vice President for Missions Alive and I pray that all goes well as we hang out with homeless people and build houses and visit cool widows.
Backyard tutoring also started up this past week. It is a ministry I absolutely love as I spend my days playing and laughing with children. It is a fantastic remembrance that there are still good things in the world that are worth fighting for. This weekend the tutors went on retreat and we had definite adventures. Life is always great when people share the same love and passion for helping out a neighborhood.
Nothing compares to cooking dinner, having bonfires, worshipping God in both English and Spanish, sleeping under the stars with roommates and skinny dipping at midnight.
And so my friends, that has been my life in a nutshell lately: school is good, yet hard; I wish I could see my friends more, but life is made worthwhile by amazing moments that make you glad that God decided to not let an astroid destroy the earth.
