First of all, Happy Mothers Day to all the mothers out there! I am so blessed to have an amazing mother and grandmothers! :)
Second, I have some updates on Nicaragua! I have a date! I am going to be there by the 28th of August for training at the Nehemiah Center. So, I'm planning on leaving from Grand Rapids on the 26th of August!!!! I considered staying through Christmas, but decided that I will be coming back on the 23rd of December, after Tesoros de Dios(the school where I'll be working) closes for the holidays. I am super excited to finally have dates! It was a little uncertain for a while whether I'd actually be leaving in August or the middle of September. For the first 3 weeks that I'm there, I will be in language school with other Americans, which will be really good for me. This is mostly due to the fact that the director at Tesoros de Dios will be gone, and because of Nicaraguan holidays, so there won't be much school going on in those 3 weeks. I start working at Tesoros de Dios on the 20th of September, and will continue through the 23rd of December. It sounds like I will be working both as a special needs assistant, and a therapy assistant part of the time. I'm really excited, because they have equine therapy there (horses)! I loved watching Megan go horseback riding when she was younger, so I'm really glad for this opportunity!!
Thirdly, I only have 2.5 weeks left of high school...eeeeek! I'm really excited, yet scared. I have dreamed of this ever since I was a freshman, and now that it's almost here, I can honestly say that I'm scared to death. It's an end to a chapter that I truly enjoyed. I had so many hard times, but a ton of great times as well. I had so many great opportunities, and will be sad to see some of them go, such as leading Bible Study and being on Yearbook. I hope that these opportunities will be able to continue while I'm at Kuyper. Oh yeah...by the way...I'm going to Kuyper!!!!! I'm super excited about it, as I truly believe that this is where God wants me to be. I'm going to be in the Cross Cultural Studies program, as well as the Business Administration minor, in hopes of eventually starting my own Christian organization that ministers to special needs kids in third world countries. I'm really excited about where God has led me, even though it was to a totally different place than where I thought! So that's where my life is at right now, and I'm in a very happy place! :) :)
"Oh, Your love is a symphony, all around me, running through me. Oh, Your love is a melody, underneath me, running to me. Oh, Your love is a song. " -Switchfoot (Your Love is a Song)
