There's just something about interpersonal relationships.
These days I feel respected as part of a team in the Communications and Marketing Department at the American Heart Association's Framingham office. It's something that I've truly been lacking in the professional realm since I returned from Japan.
And as the date gets closer I feel that the "planning team" (as I call it) and the ambassadors for this year's student exchange to Akiruno have created a network of dependable relationships and established a positive attitude. It is with the efforts of many that this whole program comes together so seemingly effortless. I am thrilled to be a part of this process and look forward to new life experiences.
I also just joined up with John Hubbard's Cube 3 softball team. Though I did not perform to the best of my ability by any means, it was awesome to get outside and do something different and meet some great people that I get to play a summer's worth of fun co-ed softball with. It's totally worth the 40min drive - though we're eventually going to have to convince everyone to hang out and grab a beer or something to eat afterward.
I can't help but mention my reunion of a birthday that I celebrated last week. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect way to spend my evening than catching up with some of my favorite people in the world and hearing all the wonderful things that are going on in our adult atmospheres. New jobs, real jobs, engagements, weddings, houses, business trips, non-business traveling - it's just amazing how fast life changes when you live in a vacuum consumed with working and trying to get ahead in the rat race. I truly have surrounded myself with some of the kindest souls ever to exist. Plus, they're bright, funny and ambitious.
Sometimes I lose myself in unimportant things and I have to remember to appreciate what I do have.
And Karena, thanks for continuing to call even when I don't call back, even when I hang up because I want to watch TV with my mom, and especially since you have to prod to get things out of me that I think you must already know through ESP.
And as the date gets closer I feel that the "planning team" (as I call it) and the ambassadors for this year's student exchange to Akiruno have created a network of dependable relationships and established a positive attitude. It is with the efforts of many that this whole program comes together so seemingly effortless. I am thrilled to be a part of this process and look forward to new life experiences.
I also just joined up with John Hubbard's Cube 3 softball team. Though I did not perform to the best of my ability by any means, it was awesome to get outside and do something different and meet some great people that I get to play a summer's worth of fun co-ed softball with. It's totally worth the 40min drive - though we're eventually going to have to convince everyone to hang out and grab a beer or something to eat afterward.
I can't help but mention my reunion of a birthday that I celebrated last week. I couldn't have asked for a more perfect way to spend my evening than catching up with some of my favorite people in the world and hearing all the wonderful things that are going on in our adult atmospheres. New jobs, real jobs, engagements, weddings, houses, business trips, non-business traveling - it's just amazing how fast life changes when you live in a vacuum consumed with working and trying to get ahead in the rat race. I truly have surrounded myself with some of the kindest souls ever to exist. Plus, they're bright, funny and ambitious.
Sometimes I lose myself in unimportant things and I have to remember to appreciate what I do have.
And Karena, thanks for continuing to call even when I don't call back, even when I hang up because I want to watch TV with my mom, and especially since you have to prod to get things out of me that I think you must already know through ESP.