4 month catchall

SO!

I went to Israel with an interfaith group from Syracuse University. It was AMAZING. Read more about it and see pictures at http://hendricks.syr.edu/jerusalem/journal.html AMAZING trip that I was blessed to be part of.

Came back and finished a crazy semester, my last full semester at SU. During this time I found out I received a Presidential Management Fellowship, which means I passed some test which means I think how the federal government wants me to think. I don't know if that's good or bad... so I was shuttling between DC and Syracuse for job fairs and interviews, and eventually I was offered a post with the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention in Atlanta, Georgia, in their Financial Management Office as a Policy Analyst... so I was good to go for a job! At the same time I found out that I received a Foreign Language Area Studies Grant (FLAS) from the Department of Education to study Spanish in Spain... why not?! So, with the semester yet to be finished and two summer courses yet to complete, I had another international trip scheduled and paid for, and an awesome job set up for me upon my return to the United States!

CRAZINESS. Two summer classes and a lot of parties, trips to Vermont, and good-byes later, I have officially parted from Syracuse University, where I have spent the majority of the past 9 years of my life. Sometimes I just have to not think too much about things like that, because otherwise I'll get depressed. I'm leaving AMAZING friends for new territory, and I trust God's plan but will miss so many people... I guess that's how life works.

So I'm actually writing this from Spain. It is my first day in the country, and I got to Madrid not knowing exactly how I would get to Granada or where I would stay tonight... mom wasn't too excited about that. God is so faithful, though, and everything went perfectly smoothly. I am sitting in a tiny bedroom on a tiny street in Granada, literally steps from my school. I take my placement test on Thursday and then it is off to Geneva, Switzerland for the weekend to visit friends. I'm so excited.

So the posts that will follow will be from sunny Spain or elsewhere somewhere on this continent or thereabouts! Gios les bendiga!