A Few Upcoming Adventures... Stay Tuned

Wow... so it's been nearly a month! I feel like such a hypocrite after coming home from helping my advisor with a workshop for highschoolers on blogging. As I was encouraging them to keep up on their writing (I think what I actually said was "you'll always feel like you'll have more time to write later and later never comes, so you'd better just get to writing") I was being a slacker myself. I have decided I will do better. These next few weeks will be crazy (all the more for more interesting posts I hope!) but if I don't make time now, how do I expect to make time later? 


But hey, I haven't been just sitting around doing nothing! 


I've spent quite a bit of time working on the different shows for the AAEA Awards Program this week. Monday after helping out at the above-mentioned workshop, I went over to Marilyn's to sort winning entries to scan and such. As we were going over one powerpoint I had almost finished, we got to talking about the timetable everything needed to be finished in, and that's when it clicked. In three weeks we will be in Albuquerque. ALBUQUERQUE. Among the leaders of the industry I'm headed into. Wow. Ok, this is becoming more real. It shall be my Westward Adventure! Stay tuned for more details...

In other news, Vacation Bible School is coming up next week. This'll be my first year as a grade-level teacher. Ever since I was too old for VBS (after I finished 6th grade- now we have a class for kids up to high school), I helped teach Music. I love the songs, even if sometimes they're a little long. Music is something I love, and I think it's a great way to connect with God and to teach lessons and verses. But right before the end of last semester, as I was realizing I was coming home for the summer, I felt the desire to do something more than what I had done in the past. I had no clue what that would be, but I knew it was a desire God had put on my heart. So I prayed He would show me what it was I was supposed to do, and that I would have the wisdom to recognize it. 

It wasn't too long after I had come home that Mom asked me if I would consider teaching a VBS class. Immediately, I felt like this was it. So here I am. This will definitely be an adventure too- only this one a little closer to home! :) Well, kind of. Our theme is Amazing Wonders Aviation, and we're going to travel the world and learn about our awesome God who is all-powerful in every way! All in two hours in a little country church in northwest Missouri. 

Recreation at...

Crafts at....

Music at...

Missions at...

Snacks at...

Bible Study at...

My sister has been working on decorations for our world-wide travels all day. I believe there is a paper volcano (with red tissue paper and sparkly pipe cleaner lava) and fabric Victoria Falls in the works, possibly a mountain and some coral too. 


In my spare time, I've just been hunting down scholarships and internships, working on my wall hanging and looking for decorating ideas. Soon, too soon, I'll be headed down to Columbia for another semester. By the end of next week the house I'm living in with a couple other girls will be ready, and though I'm excited to add some personal country-fied touches with my housemates it's a little bittersweet. Moving into a house (or rather a duplex... we are just college kids in the city, you know) is a lot different than moving into a dorm! I will enjoy not having the crazy dorm life, but I'm sure there will be other crazy things taking the place of dorm craziness.


Hmm... sounds like I have a lot of adventures coming up!