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Songs of the Day:
I Want to Dance With Somebody by Whitney Houston
Ladies Choice from the soundtrack to Hairspray

Something to Write About

I know that I haven't been writing too much in here, but is partially because I haven't felt like there have been huge happenings that have required writing about. But I was thinking today and some things came to mind.

1. Deaf church. I've been going there for the majority of my internship, about 2 months I guess, and there are definite things I like about it. The people for instance. The majority of the church members are in their 70s and are really awesome. = ). I've been staying for the service and soon afterwards I jet off to be at the church my parents attend, but last Sunday I decided to just stay at the Deaf church for a while. It was such a good decision. I got to talking with these 3 older guys who had all gone to school together (the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf) growing up and they were teasing each other and talking about how they won the football championships in 1950. It was so much fun. One of the best conversations I've had. I walked away from it smiling and feeling really good.

2. Mountains. Earlier in the semester I went to Maryland to visit my friend Michelle (and Jeff came from Goshen to meet us there). I was there over the weekend and on Sunday we went to church. The pastor was talking about mountains. How you work so hard to move a mountain. Try to find ways over it and under it and around it. And sometimes nothing works. But during those times, maybe you need to work with the mountain. Maybe that mountain will be a blessing to you. You'll mine it and find diamonds. So just take a second and talk to the mountain, learn from it.
Personally? I've had some mountains. I've got some mountains in my life right now and I've been fighting with them, yelling at them, crying, but nothing seems to work. And I have a picture in my head of me sitting at the base of a mountain, cross-legged, staring at this mountain. An exercise in patience and trust. And I don't have a great success story for you...yet. Just wanted to let you know that I'm on the journey. = )

That is all. lol

Just 2 weeks

Just 2 weeks then I am Goshen bound. Headed for G-town. So soon.

Song of the Day: Grace of My Life by Brian Littrell

Time flies (Alleluia)

That's all I can say. It's been almost two whole weeks since I've posted and it seems like they have flown past me. I was just telling my dad the other day that it feels like I'm chasing time. I'm not even racing it. Time is way ahead of me and I'm chasing it, trying to keep up. But I'm already so tired. And starting to wonder why I started running in the first place.

This past week has been crazy. The two colleges that I work with primarily have both been on break. Good that it's the same week I guess, but that has meant sparse work for me. I spent one day at the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf here in the area. I went to Lancaster one day and observed in a high school there. Spent some time with friends in Lancaster that I hadn't seen in forever. That was good. I never knew how relaxing it is to lie on a trampoline with a cat on a warm day. I think the best part was that I had a few seconds to breathe. My friends were busy and I busied myself with slacklining and trampoline jumping. I think that's the reason my ribs hurt, but *shrug* it was a pretty fair trade.

I have only 2 or 3 weeks left (thankfully) and will soon be headed back to Goshen. I'm looking forward to it more than I probably should, but life is full of "shoulds" and I try to ignore at least some of them. (I don't usually succeed.) Anyway, I miss you all. Will try to remember to write again sooner this time. Bye.

The Valley Song - Jars of Clay

Until

Song of the day: Sin Wagon by The Dixie Chicks

Hello All.
I've been thinking about starting all my posts with songs, but I have forgotten up until now. I may go back and edit in the songs I wanted to add, but we'll see if I'm dedicated enough for that.

This week I went into the Pennsylvania School for the Deaf and it was great. The people who work there are SO nice and I don't think I realized before now quite how much I like being around kids. Something (inside me?) feels like it's changing. Not quite a clear sentence, but that's about all I got right now.

New goals. I completely forgot to write them in my journals for the 5th week. Sign production: apparently I am not crisp sometimes. I should work on producing my signs clearly. and #2 More connections: theatre, PSD, possibly to visits with Ruth, etc.

Well, that's about all I can think of right now. Except that it's already March 5th. I only have 1 more month. I don't know how I'm going to get everything done. Somehow...

Thanks for reading!

Yo-Yo Ma

No real reason for the post title except Yo-Yo Ma was on Arthur today and I watched it with the little girl my mom babysits. Not a bad show. Brought back memories and then I had the theme song stuck in my head all day. = )

This past weekend was a conference at Swarthmore College and it was pretty great. I especially liked watching the cartographer and learning about sign language in many different cultures. Something that will definitely stick in my head was the presentation on British Sign Language. The Deaf man who presented used BSL and he had an interpreter saying the message in English and then there was an ASL interpreter using her English interpretation to provide the message in ASL! It was a little like telephone and confusing to watch two people signing at the same time, but WAY COOL! = )

It unfortunately meant I did not get much rest this weekend though so I'm gonna rush off to bed. Thanks for reading!