From Fall Block to the Future.

FALL BLOCK IS OVER.

CAUSE FOR CELEBRATION? I THINK YES.

Of course, it's been over for a week now. The celebration was actually six days ago, when we had Christmas at The Hollow. My housemates gifted me with LOT of Justin Bieber. 

I didn't come home til Tuesday because I wanted to take advantage of taunting my non-senior-education majors who still had to take finals. That, and I knew I still had some presents coming my way....

YES.

It's nice to finally be home where I can STOP. My body has GLADLY taken the 9-10 hours of sleep I'm giving it every night. It's also nice to spend quality time with the people here. I got to spend Wednesday nursing my friend of 14 years who has only been married for a week and a half and was diagnosed with a life-threatening clot disorder two days ago. Yeah, that's scary.

Yesterday was spent looking at the future because I had time to do it. I talked with a woman from the program in China that I'm interested in and they are ready for me to fill out the application. Hm. I also sifted through mounds of international teaching opportunities from a missions conference two years ago. Hmmmm. Since I've really started this process, an enormous amount of fear has pressed in against the excitement I first felt. How homesick will I get? What will I miss out on back in the states? Can I live somewhere that different for longer than a couple months? What if Vinny HATES the place we go? Last night I argued with God about it and went to bed in a huff (even though I knew that He will end up being right no matter how much I protest). Ever since I was a child, my dream has been do whatever God told me to do (no really, you can find it in my ten-year-old journal. I was that child.) So I suppose the next few months will be an interesting molding process where He makes me pliable to whatever He does have planned. And I'll admit, I'm a little afraid of that too.