7 Days...

I sincerely can't believe it's been a week since I posted last!! And I have SOOO much to share with you all! Alright, to begin with, time is just FLYING by! Every day the kids and I play a game where no one looks at the clock and we guess what time it is. We're almost ALWAYS 2 hours off. Normally it's noon or eleven, and it feels like 9 or 10. Craziness!! On the other hand, I only have 5 more days of work. Part of me is excited to be done watching the kids, it truly is exhausting, but another part of me is really sad to be leaving them. They've been my "summer life" for 3 years, and now it's over. Strange. I made them a scrapbook and I'm planning on giving it to them next Thursday. :c)

Next, college is sneaking up on me so quickly! We leave Dodgeville next Friday around 3 in the afternoon. I think I'm mostly packed...I had to leave a BUNCH of the books I wanted to take here, because I have 17 books for school this semester. 17. I'm not even taking any literature classes! It's so crazy. My clothes are packed, and most of my "college necessities" are packed too. It shall be grand!

Speaking of college, my roommate and I have been talking almost every night. Turns out her siblings are the same age as mine, her parents are approximately the same age as mine, she has almost all the same interests, and she's just as insanely random as I am!! It's pretty awesome.

As far as the rest of my time in Dodgeville goes, I have 2 more "spurts" of business. Sunday I have church and then I'm doing a special community choir all afternoon where we get together to learn some songs and then perform around 5 p.m. Then next Friday at noon I'm going out to lunch with my friend Tyler, saying goodbye to my friend Drisana, making sure I'm packed and heading out!

Finally, I've been reading Purpose Driven Life for my devotions lately. It's a 40 day devotional, and I started it exactly 40 days before we've been planning on leaving. Thus, I'm on day 33. Rick Warren really is an amazing author, and while there are times when I feel as if he is just blathering on, some of the stuff really sticks. For instance, tonight the quote was "Those who stand in the spotlight often end up blind". I couldn't help but think of all the people in the media today who are blinded and oblivious, not only to the way they present themselves on tv/radio or in the paper, but to what is really going on in our world. It makes me sad.

Anyway...Until Next Time!!!