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Full Speed Ahead / 06.17.08, 10:24 AM
Life has been at full speed. I feel like every time I sit down to write about life (whether in my journal, newletters, e-mails, or occasionally here) I have to start by saying “Life has been at full speed.” Yesterday evening I finished up the coursework for the Mission Year courses I took through Eastern University this year under the professor-ship of the honorable Chris Lahr. :) It was Urban Issues I & II and I’ll get cross-cultural credit that will transfer back to my home college, Northwestern College, in Orange City, IA. I still have a year of college to finish up this fall. What I think about that is a whole other blog… I’m mainly looking forward to it though because I’ll (we’ll) be getting married in October and getting to spend our last year of college together. After living a year in community with 4 other girls, I’m looking forward to keeping house with one male. I’m guessing it will have about the same amount of drama. ;)
But back to life at full speed HERE and NOW. I finished my Justice Project, which was about fitness disparities especially here in North Lawndale and the things that places in the community (including Lawndale Christian Fitness Center, where I work) are doing about it. It was tough to write as it was to be 10-12 pages, but it was broken up into 3 sections, which really helped. I did enjoy writing it, it just stressed me out a bit. I should do something to celebrate tonight. :) I really want to post excerpts of the paper here at some point in the future.
We have less than 2 months left of this Mission Year thing, actually. I want to make the most of it. Take full advantage of it. This will be the quickest summer of my life probably. We still have our service sites to go to through the end of July and we’re hanging out with neighbors every Saturday and any other moments we get the chance, and Mission Year has different activities going on for us, like later this week all of the Mission Year teams and cities will be converging on Atlanta and we’ll be having an Urban Festival. I’m excited. Then at the end of June we’re going to a retreat with other volunteer corps to help us reflect upon our year. So time is going fast and I’m beginning to reflect on this year in a more wholistic way, now that most of the whole year is gone. It’s starting to get sad though… I’m looking forward to getting married this fall and I’m going to be going back to college and all of that, but this year is informing all of my life – probably everything I’ll ever do has been greatly affected by this year. That’s exciting.
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