Everything will be different

When I left school I was living with the roommates (and in the same room) I had lived with for the past year and a half. Taylor and I go even further back to 243 and the Ranch in Ireland while Reno-lad came in later. This past semester, I recovered from a mild surgery to remove hardware from the previous incursion into my bone marrow by saws and that bit of trouble with my leg set me back as far as engaging in sports, intramurals and generally chasing people. The combination of this and the lack of free time I had due to the enormously overwhelming amount of schoolwork I did all the time really kept me from getting into the wing as much as I have in the past. With a group of 15 freshmen, 15 sophomores (a number new to the wing) and my aforementioned roomies and myself as the only upperclassmen, it was not a recipe for solid connections. This was tough because I have really enjoyed wing life in the past and this semester just got harder and harder as it went on. But like I say, it's all changing. My leg is healed and I have only the two classes in JTerm before I run off to Ireland so we'll see how much it can change in those long, cold, sleepy (yet crazy) weeks of January. I'm hopeful.
In the meantime, my future is being decided for me by one Mark Radloff who will tell me on Wednesday whether or not I have a job as camp director this coming summer. If I do, things will flow smoothly to a summer I still have lots of worries about, but the process of getting there will be much easier than the alternative. If I don't get the job, things get more confusing. Seeing how I'll be on the other side of the Pond, the job hunt will be considerably harder and I have therefore already applied with YouthWorks. The weird thing is that if I get director, it will have been a lot of effort spent in a lengthy application that will just get thrown out, but I don't consider it wasted. I really liked YouthWorks' approach to the application process and it told me a good number of things about them (Hmm I thought they were trying to figure out about me) ;-) I think that if I don't work with them this summer, I'll try them out in the future.

But right now I'm at this point where I have spent my Christmas break reading, relaxing, meeting up with friends from school and camp and getting a lot of much needed sleep. Granted my annual Lord of the Rings readthrough is not as far along as usual. I'm only just finishing up a stew of Herbs and Stewed Rabbit when I should be in the Last Debate or somewhere hundreds of pages on. I have spent my time staying current with the news and following some debates and articles on the relationships between Christians and Muslims which I think could come in handy for next semester. I've also been rereading the Pursuit of God which really helps me put into perspective all the crazy things that I do inside my own head in relation to my walk with God. It challenges and scares me at time, but I know it points at what I want. In the end though, I really am in the same place I was when I left the familiar new world of Fall 07 at TU and am now at the brink of a lot of big new changes: prospects of the job/practicum for the summer, new connections on the wing, and the address change to Galway. This will be very different very soon and I'm glad to report that all possible outcomes seem like a good way to go for me. Pray that that is true and that God's will be done with all the new changes coming for me. I'll let you know what happens.

Switching from Xanga

Like the way Blogger does things, specifically how it's affiliated with Google. Therefore, this is the new place: the continuation of my old Xanga blog