It's been awhile...

Wow, it has been a long time since the last blog! It feels like I wrote it a year ago! Not really…but actually it feels like forever. Anyway, the past week has been crazy busy! School is still just starting up and there are a lot of new activities and commitments on my plate.

 For starters, I got asked to be a bible study leader in my dorm! Say what!?!? My initial reaction was complete shock and feeling overwhelmed. I was not expecting to be chosen to lead a bible study and I was perfectly fine with that! Now I had to completely change my mindset and figure out whether or not this is something I wanted to do. It took me awhile to process the news and I really struggled with what I should do but my roommate and my sister were super helpful and encouraging! Literally my sister sent me the sweetest text that not only reassured me but made me appreciate her in a whole new way. The first bible study happened last week and it was so much fun! There were 10 girls (more than I was expecting) and they were all super great! I am really excited to see what this year holds for my bible study.

 Not only am I leading a bible study but I also found a job off campus! Since the first day I moved to school, the idea of finding a job has consumed my mind! Last year I thought I had lined up a job for this semester but because of my financial aid they couldn’t offer me the job. I still don’t really understand what the deal was but whatever! I was driving from place to place filling out several applications and I managed to get 2 interviews. I was really excited because I wasn’t sure if I would be able to actually land a job or not. I had an interview at the YMCA in the early childhood center and another interview at a Montessori school near my school. I ended up accepting the job at the Montessori school and have worked there 2 times already! I work every morning Monday-Friday from 7:30-9:45. I definitely keep myself busy with workouts, work, class, choir and on campus clubs and activities! I don’t really know how I am going to survive the whole semester! I already decided there is way too much homework and my roommate and I joke about dropping out of school and just working full time!

Although I manage to stay busy, sleep and down time are two very important things to me! However, at night I will sacrifice sleep to stay up reading a book, especially if it is really good!! I also make sure to get to bed by a decent hour so I am not dead in the morning. Usually I am not very good at this. I love reading and once I start a book I never want to stop. So I will read for a really long time and then it takes me forever to fall asleep and then I wake up and feel exhausted and need like 10 cups of coffee to survive. Literally I just need to learn to turn off the light and shut my eyes!! Last night I managed to actually do this! I was in bed by 10:00 and I think the lights went off by 10:20. Next thing I know, I was waking up to my roommate’s voice! She had left the room and I figured I would still be awake by the time she came back but I guess I was so tired that I fell asleep real quick! 

One of my favorite things; a good read and coffee :)

To end this blog I want to share a quote that I think most people can relate to. Our lives are so focused around being the best and comparing ourselves to others. We are so busy focusing on what we aren't instead of what we are. 

So true. 

Find the good in yourself and don't let anyone tell you that you don't have value or worth. Don't get so caught up in the world that you forget to value the great qualities you do have. We aren't perfect and we never will be. But a midst the craziness of life try and find who you are and be confident in that .