Training starts EIGHT weeks from today!!
For my own sake, I need to say that again...I leave in two months! To make it feel even shorter, I will be in Phoenix for two weeks, Colorado for three weeks, then home again for three more weeks. CRAZY! In the past few weeks, I have started packing up my room leaving only clothes for the summer and for Turkey. All of my books, clothes, important paperwork...everything is being boxed up. At the same time, my sister is moving into my room. Yes, I have known I was going overseas since October, but now it finally feels real.
As I was packing and sorting paperwork a few days ago, I handed my mom my Blockbuster card and some other membership cards and she looked at me and said, "Oh ya, you are going out of the country in a few months." Oh man...it's getting closer! To top it off, Teach Overseas continues sending emails about paperwork and support raising and travel and training and packing and I am thoroughly enjoying every moment.
I look back on the process of preparing to go overseas and I just have to laugh. While preparing and fundraising, I was also interning and working then student teaching as you know. In the past eight months or so, my body has been doing some funky things - yet another manifestation of stress in my life. As I look back, though, it was never overwhelming. It was never too much. I knew just enough about going overseas that I was not overwhelmed and focused solely on that, and in the times where student teaching was at its most intense time, fundraising and preparing for moving overseas were pretty much at a stand still. WOW! God is SO good!
One final note of praise: I am at $9518.99 THANK YOU to my many supporters!! Your support is such an incredible encouragement. :-) Only $4481.01 to go. (Note: I adjusted my overall goal by $1000 because in going to Turkey, my plane ticket dropped by that much.)
Have a wonderful, God-centered day!
No comments:
Post a Comment