Even when you're not watching, time treads on
Sometimes life feels like a trip to a theme park... at any point, you could be on a breathtaking ride having the experience of a lifetime, the next you're standing around waiting, not exactly sure what's next... sometime's it's hot, other times you're soaking wet and feeling chilly... you bump into people you know, or there are streches when you're separated from your group... and at any point you could just give up & go home, or else stick it out for the full day's adventure.
I feel like my life has been in a constant state of flux, & I've finally begun to understand that, & enjoy every phase that I pass through. It's been fantastic to be living on Mission Hill with some friends and be able to focus on things that had to be pushed aside while I was an RA... you know, little things like working out, playing the piano, writing, reading, keeping up with friends... oh yeah, & sleeping like a normal human being :P Don't get me wrong, I'm immensely grateful for the RA experience & have grown so much as a result of it. It's just nice to have a slightly more relaxed and balanced lifestyle after a year of always feeling overwhelmed, slightly behind schedule, and never quite knowing how things were going to pan out once I reached (& sometimes overextended) deadlines.
I started co-op this last week at GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. in Norwood, MA. It's been great so far, & I can tell that I'm going to learn a ton & be exposed to a broad variety of subfields within environmental & geocivil engineering. I'm so grateful for God's faithfulness in providing me with such an awesome job & for guiding my steps... who knew I would be here a year ago? For a while I was pursuing a possible co-op opportunity in Barcelona, but that never got past the possibility stage... mostly due to a lack of communication on behalf of the potential employer. It would have been awesome, but I guess it wasn't God's timing, and thankfully I didn't let myself get too excited about it. I will definitely have to make plans to visit & bring mi bellisima novia!
On that note, tomorrow I'm flying out to CO to visit Meredith at her CCC staff training!! It's been about a month and a half (i.e. entirely too long!) since I last saw her, so I'm soooo psyched! I never imagined that having a girlfriend could be such a huge blessing & that it would be so much fun to pour out all the romantical love inside me--& wouldn't you say I have a pretty overactive imagination?!
I feel like my life has been in a constant state of flux, & I've finally begun to understand that, & enjoy every phase that I pass through. It's been fantastic to be living on Mission Hill with some friends and be able to focus on things that had to be pushed aside while I was an RA... you know, little things like working out, playing the piano, writing, reading, keeping up with friends... oh yeah, & sleeping like a normal human being :P Don't get me wrong, I'm immensely grateful for the RA experience & have grown so much as a result of it. It's just nice to have a slightly more relaxed and balanced lifestyle after a year of always feeling overwhelmed, slightly behind schedule, and never quite knowing how things were going to pan out once I reached (& sometimes overextended) deadlines.
I started co-op this last week at GZA GeoEnvironmental, Inc. in Norwood, MA. It's been great so far, & I can tell that I'm going to learn a ton & be exposed to a broad variety of subfields within environmental & geocivil engineering. I'm so grateful for God's faithfulness in providing me with such an awesome job & for guiding my steps... who knew I would be here a year ago? For a while I was pursuing a possible co-op opportunity in Barcelona, but that never got past the possibility stage... mostly due to a lack of communication on behalf of the potential employer. It would have been awesome, but I guess it wasn't God's timing, and thankfully I didn't let myself get too excited about it. I will definitely have to make plans to visit & bring mi bellisima novia!
On that note, tomorrow I'm flying out to CO to visit Meredith at her CCC staff training!! It's been about a month and a half (i.e. entirely too long!) since I last saw her, so I'm soooo psyched! I never imagined that having a girlfriend could be such a huge blessing & that it would be so much fun to pour out all the romantical love inside me--& wouldn't you say I have a pretty overactive imagination?!