So…

Shall we start by stating the obvious…I haven’t updated in a looong time. Sorry to anyone who actually reads this and is concerned! Ha. But much to your surprise (and mine as well) there are actually things to update on. So let’s begin with where I left off after my last post.

Oh, but first…some have questioned where my blog title has come from…answer: it’s a couple lines of a poem I wrote last summer. So there you go!

Apparently I updated the day before my birthday this year, so happy birthday was said to me and I turned 22 on Valentine’s Day…how exciting. As I recall we had a dinner for HOOT where the boys cooked for the gals and it was rather tasty, and they also sang to me. Good birthday! And then I think I had a test the next day.

The rest of February came and went and then on to March!

March was an exciting month:) GERMANY! This was my first overseas trip and hopefully not the last. The flight over was a little rough for me (no air vents on the plane…it was toasty) and the motion sickness didn’t help. I felt bad, but never actually got sick. Needless to say I was glad to get back on the ground! The week spent in Berlin was absolutely amazing! What a wonderful time of fellowship with Team Berlin. Such a great group of people, their love for the Lord was so evident! We went to encourage them, but I found myself being much more encouraged by them. I didn’t feel like we did enough. I was able to lead a couple songs during their Sunday service and then again during AWANA’s that night, and this was the first time I played my guitar in front on a lot of people! It went well despite my lack of adequate preparation. We spent the rest of the week sight-seeing and ministering…did I mention how great is was? Really, I want to go back!! We even landed a free stay in Brussels, Belgium after our flight got delayed in Berlin causing us to miss our connecting flight to Chicago. It all ended up working out great and I for one am glad that we were able to take in the sights in Belgium as well! Plus the beds were much comfier than those in our hostel:)

Then of course I came back to a few days of jet-lag and sickness, school, and work. It was hard to get back in the routine of things, but I managed and am still plugging along as you read this.

Only one week of classes, and a week of finals and then I’m finished with finals FOREVER! (unless I go to grad school at some point…) I officially move from taking tests and completing countless assignments to giving them and grading them.

Once finals are over this semester I’ll head home and start working full-time again for CB Richard Ellis|Bradley. I’m thrilled to see my co-workers again and to get paid for working hard Unfortunately I can’t really start looking for a permanent teaching job until I graduate this December.

Which brings me to my latest bit of news, I finally found out where I’ll be student teaching next semester: Tecumseh Junior High. I’ll be in an 8th grade classroom and I am very excited; partly because I’m almost finished with school, and partly because I am thrilled to finally be teaching!

After that I am hoping to find a job in the Lafayette area…we’ll see how things work out. If I’ve learned anything during my time here at Purdue (or shall I say during my time as a disciple of Christ), is that making plans on my own is never a wise decision. I’m best to follow God’s leading and rejoice in whatever circumstance He puts me in! Then I’m reminded of a favorite verse of mine: “many are the plans in a man’s heart, but it is the Lord’s purpose that prevails” (Proverbs 19:21) Ah, makes me smile just thinking about that verse and that no matter how uncertain I feel the future is, that I have an amazing peace through God’s promises! I can’t wait to see how his plan unfolds in my life