Due to a recent move, being super busy, and being super lazy when I have had free time, and my internet being messed up since I moved a month and half ago, I haven't posted in a long time. So here's an update on the big stuff that's been going on. (I know no one cares, but I'm ending this sentence with a preposition purposefully, since it's not a paper.)
I just got back from Holly and Aaron's and Maddy's on Sunday. :) I went to spend the 4th weekend with them and it was a blast. So relaxing and Maddy is a doll! I really enjoyed getting to see them. We went to Ft. Worth to the Kimbell Art Museum, the Water Gardens and this yummy BBQ restaurant. Also I got to see DBU, which is a really nice campus. Then on the 4th they cooked out (the beef was excellent! from their cow) and in the evening we went and watched the fireworks in Lewisville. It was way hot that night, but the fireworks were good. It was sad to come back to the grind in Monroe after such a fun weekend.
I've probably said it before, but I'm officially burned out on school. If you don't like boring details, skip this paragraph. The spring semester ended well. Definitely a hard semester. The number of hours and the amount of work I was doing was more than I've ever done in my life, hence the lack of blogs. :) Right after the spring semester ended, I did a Psychopharmacology short course online. After that, I took a Cultural Diversity course for two weeks. I then had a week off in which I worked a lot and did my externship (what they call an internship in my program) with a Jr. High here. My externship site for that month was leading a group (class) about conflict resolution/anger management. That was really fun. I learned a ton more than the kids did, for sure. They were a lot of fun and hopefully they got something out of the class. Also, during all this time, I've been seeing clients one or two nights a week and on Thursday evenings I'm up there for 4 hours for supervision/meeting with clients. Now I've just started two classes Assessment and Theories of Counseling, along with supervision of course. I have a break from my externship briefly before school starts back, but then I'll be going to schools and meeting with kids individually, leading a group or two a week, and hopefully meeting with their families as well. This week as school has started, I've also started a new GA. It is in the Dept. of Continuing Education, which covers a lot of things, but it mainly runs classes and programs that are for people interested in classes for fun -- line dancing, learning to play the piano, or for people to become certified in something like taking a class to become a notary (?). I'll be doing adminstrative stuff for the most part. Really, really enjoy it so far. The people are great in this office. That will be a 20 hr. a week position. The summer II classes I'm in right now will be done at the beginning of Aug.
Which leads me to what I'm really excited about...the family reunion!!!! I've gotten the ok from my teachers to miss a little of class, so I should be able to be there for most of it. I'll get to Denver on Fri. and fly out on Tues. Yay!!!!! I cannot wait!
The next week after I get back, I'm going with Heather and Rachel to our friend Liz's wedding in Detroit (super excited about this too!!) and then we are going to Canada to see 3 or 4 friends we met in Korea. They are all back from teaching also. Hopefully we'll get to go to Niagra Falls.
The other thing that has happened recently was that I moved to a great place that is light and quiet and more expensive, but well worth the money. I'll have to write about that soon. But for now time for me to head home -- using the internet at work; it's DIDS day and the Dr. Pepper is calling.