Life

I have been in Florida for 10 months.

I leave for my LDS mission in 9 months. If I ever get these braces out. Before the mission age change, they were slated to be out June or July of 2014. Which was going to be fine. Now its not.

My life is a wee bit crazy.

Between now and my Mission I have to finish my LAST CLASS AT WA! I am so flippen excited you don't even know. I hate having the baggage of a silly class in one the my least favorable subjects: Science. Although, the class is astronomy which is my favorite subject in the realm of science.

I need to finish my time as a Leadership Coach at Williamsburg Intermediate. Im going to be 100% honest cause this is *my* blog and nobody else reads it. I have a love/hate relationship with the job. It takes tons of time. concentration. and it doesn't pay well for the amount of time spent doing work. But I absolutely love the 4 hours of class time I have each week. If only that was all I had to do... :P Grading on the other hand? Oh dont get me started. And wow. Parents can be pushy!! But again. I do it for the kids.


After that, I leave to St. George. I plan to do some kind of adventuring there with Tim and maybe Julia and Tali. But planning is so not my strong suit. Remind me of that after my mission when I am looking for an eternal companion.

I will then work for two weeks as an Elevation Trail Guide. So. Excited. :)

*right* after that its off to a week of backpacking. So so so excited. James cant escape this time! Him and I havent had a decent conversation in a very long time. I'm hoping to steal him for a couple of hours during that week. Just to talk and discuss things very near my heart that I cant even discuss with my best friends. Or parents for that matter. This stuff is reserved for my mentor.

Ill return home for two weeks. Ill have been gone for a month. I am praying that those two weeks will be bliss. With movie nights and beach days included.

Because after two weeks Ill be flying to Wyoming for a month. To go on a NOLS Mountaineering course for 16 y/o and up. I'm excited. So excited. But not sure what to expect.

Ill be on a plane or maybe a train to Virginia near the end of August. College will begin.

Ill see my family for Thanksgiving and be home in time for Christmas. To open my mission call.

Sometime in early 2014, I will board a flight to an LDS Missionary Training Center somewhere in the world.

Two years later I will return home to... something I cannot predict. Probably a lot of change. A different world. A slightly altered family. Friends who had forgotten me except for a few small memories here and there. And I will proceed onward to make a life for myself.

Life.

Its unexpected. Crazy. Beautiful. Fun. Rewarding. Exceptionable. Its worth living.