busy busy!

Whoa… I can’t believe how much has happened since I last wrote. I am DEFINITELY settled in now. My schedule is insanely busy, but good.

Here is a rundown of a typical week:
Monday: 9am Staff meeting
10am American staff meeting
11am Another random meeting
12pm set up for evening
630-11pm Older Youth Bible Study and Games (my favorite part of the week!)
Tuesday: 9-11am Prep Time (preparing lessons, games, etc.)
12-2:30pm Lunch Club at the High School- also really fun!
3-7pm Work at The Gate Art Centre (writing weekly emails, press releases, and next term’s brochure)
Wednesday: 11:30am Meet with my mentor Anne (She’s awesome. She and her husband just retired from working in Sudan.)
2-6pm Gate Art Centre again
8-10pm Bible Study with people my age
Thursday: 9-5 Class (I have two classes, the first one is on how to teach the Bible and the second one is about Youth Work)
Friday: 10am Youth Worker meeting
Afternoon free! Yay!
9:30pm-3am Living Water (We give out water bottles, hot chocolate, and hot tea to the students leaving the Student Union, which is like College Station’s Northgate. It’s really fun, but exhausting.)
Saturday: MUCH NEEDED FREE DAY!
Sunday: 10am Church, leading youth every other week
5pm Girl’s Night with Youth (once a month)

So, as you can see, I’m staying pretty busy. Any free time I get, I use to go grocery shopping, prepare lessons, hang out with people, etc, which explains why I haven’t updated my blog in over a month.

Right now, I really need prayer for my health. I’ve had a cold for about 2 weeks and now I’m getting a deep cough. I think I might try to go to the doctor tomorrow.

Also, you can pray for the youth group I’m working with. They are really amazing. The older youth are my favorite. We have 4 girls and about 15 boys. It was so cool to see the older girls reach out to the younger ones when we had Girl’s Night last Sunday.

This past weekend, I went to Bath with the other American girls. It was beautiful. We saw the old Roman baths, the Jane Austen Museum, the Bath Abbey and the Pulteney Bridge. Then, we had about 4 or 5 hours before our train left so we decided to walk up this huge hill to find a castle that we saw in the distance. We ended up walking for about 3 hours and never found it! It was a lovely walk though.

And for our half term break at the end of October, I’m going to Ireland!!! Jenifer, Jesslyn and I are going together. We are flying in to Dublin, then probably renting a car and driving east to Galway. I’m so excited. We’re spending two nights in Dublin and two nights in Galway.

Well, I think that is all of the updates I have for now. Thank you for your prayers. I’m looking forward to coming back to Texas in December!!!