Hope Road

Mi Vida Loca

Things have been so, “This is my life, and I’m graduating soon, and that’s about all I can say” around here lately… it’ll change soon. But not yet!

I’m a little overwhelmed… Last week I turned in a project that needed 30 small group activities… or so I thought. Come to find out, I actually needed 180. So I’m 150 activities behind. I need to get it done by Thursday (my professor was gracious about giving me an extension). I also have an oral final tomorrow, which I’m nervous about because I hate verbal communication under pressure. I have a final meeting on Tuesday night that I have to get some things ready for, another big final on Wednesday morning, and a final presentation on Thursday morning. Oh, did I mention that I also have to babysit Monday and Wednesday? And I’m sick with a cold and a very sore throat.

Near the entrance to our building there’s a bulletin board, and right now there’s a news clipping about the famine in Haiti. Every time I come in or go out, I see the headline that says “Haiti’s poor resort to dirt as food.” I don’t know, somehow that seems to put all of my difficulties in perspective.

I’m going home after graduation, which isn’t what I really wanted to do, but I need to for financial reasons. I just think it’ll be kind of anticlimactic, but it’s okay. I’ll be traveling some this summer and going to New Attitude, and I’m so excited about that.

This is disjointed, but I wanted to send out the update since it’s doubtful I’ll be writing much this week - unless I just do it as a stress reliever, which is what I’m doing now, and then it’s never really much. I appreciate your prayers, I really do. Six days… I would be counting down but I don’t want to because as much as I want all this stress to be over, I don’t want to say goodbye.

Tags: college, finals, graduation, stress