Summer Time

Summer is finally here! Spring 2010 was an eventful semester and boy am I tired! I enjoy the feeling of accomplishment as much as the next person, but I am definitely looking forward to a change of pace.

Some of my accomplishments this Spring include...

1) completing my second semester of graduate school (4.0!)
2) landing a job at the Aquarena Center as a Nature Interpreter
3) finding a church that I love (Oakwood Baptist in New Braunfels)
4) attending a weekly Bible study
5) being initiated into Kappa Delta Pi Honor Society
6) representing the College of Health Professions in the House of Graduate Representatives (student government)
7) being elected President of San Marcos Student Reading Council
 
Like I said earlier, I'm definitely looking forward to taking a break from academia. I love school, but every now and then it's nice to not have to worry about homework. Besides working at the Aquarena Center, I plan to do A LOT of reading. In addition to starting some books that have now sadly been in my possession for a year now without so much as having read one page, I would also like to review some of my textbooks from college, particularly my sociology books. There are many correlations between the information I learned as an undergraduate sociology minor and what I am now learning about human development as a graduate education major. The common thread between everything that interests me seems to pertain to the core of the human being, why we are the way we are, and what we can do to positively effect change in the creation and development of human life and existence.

I'm looking forward to thinking and growing in new ways this summer. :-)