Unemployed

As of 11:15 tonight, after I hung up my apron and picked up my check, I was officially unemployed! Three jobs this summer was really trying on me, cleaning houses and church at the wee hours of the morning, teaching summer school 8 hours a day, and then working all nights and weekends at Cold Stone!  When I walked out of work tonight I wanted to jump and skip and laugh and dance, just to get the full effect of freedom until I head back to school on Sunday. 

It has been a LONG summer. I had all of these goals and plans for the summer, to get back into awesome shape, get better at the guitar, have some better quiet time, spend a lot of time with my family, and get enough money together to buy a car.  I began the summer with my parents telling me that I would not be going back to college for about  a year, and that college as far as financially, was all up to me now.  From there I clicked into work mode, and have been there ever since. I got into 3 car accidents this summer, which cost me a lot. I worked OVER 70 hours every week, some days were 14 hour days.  I worked out on breaks and in the mornings, until I realized that, that was using up all of the energy that I needed on my long days.  I did get to play a little guitar :) I was blessed to hear from Biola last week, and was given a no interest loan, so I am going back!  And I had a few wonderful days of my family and quiet time with God, but for some reason I do not feel as accomplished as I was shooting for.  But thats okay :) 

     Overall, I am so thankful and feel so incredibly blessed that God provided all that work for me, exhausting as it was.  I made some amazing friends, and had the coolest students this summer!  One of them came into Cold Stone tonight to tell me that he passed the English test, and now he is in the new kindergarten class.  We worked so diligently this summer on his English, since his primary language is Spanish, and I am so thrilled that he passed! 

     So I now have one more day before I head back to school :) I will post more about summer, and my family, and things later, on a night that is not so late :)

 

Above is my summer class (minus about 5) after their first day of kindergarten, 1st grade, and 2nd grade.