These are from our church YSA trip with all of our friends to NYC on Dec. 16. It was so fun and we got to see the brooklyn bridge, ride the subway, visit 3 churches, see ground zero, see the tree at rockefeller center and tons of other stuff. It was tiring...but we made some fun memories. Plus, it was at the height of the holiday season!
Then on Dec. 22 Bethie graduated from Penn State. It was a glorious day for all.:)
Christmas was pleasant as we spent time visiting lots of friends and family, and then rang in the new year with some of dad's amazing food. I also went to my friend Becky's house for a church party on New Years Eve (pic below). We had fun drinking sparkling grape juice and lots of good food. As usual, i overdid it by eating WAY too much and not really listening to my body when it told me, "Stop eating. You're full." But I tried to catch myself halfway through the holiday season and managed somehow to only gain 3 pounds...which isn't good but isn't entirely bad either. Well, back on the sadle. I resumed Weight Watchers and have been doing pretty good.
I started J-Term on Jan. 9th...which at Messiah is one class for three weeks. I'm taking a Children's Literature class from 8-12 everyday. It's WAY more work than I anticipated, but i love it. My prof is excellent and I'm actually enjoying learning about all of the things about children's literature. It's like going to preschool everyday....and who doesn't love that? Today our group presented our final project. We transformed the room into a barn and literally brought in bales of hay from a local farmers market. It was a total nightmare to clean up, but everyone loved it and our prof was so impressed that it was worth it. We had to basically teach the three hour class by doing activities, powerpoints, presentations, etc... As you can imagine it was so much work, but we're so glad we're done and now can just sit back and enjoy the other groups presentations.
Among many other things going on in my life I managed to finish a lot of my missionary application... Now all i have to do is go through interviews and send it in..... then i find out where i'm going!!!! Crazy crazy thought. It will be a BIG blog the day i find out where i'm going.
So...what's new with everyone?
I started J-Term on Jan. 9th...which at Messiah is one class for three weeks. I'm taking a Children's Literature class from 8-12 everyday. It's WAY more work than I anticipated, but i love it. My prof is excellent and I'm actually enjoying learning about all of the things about children's literature. It's like going to preschool everyday....and who doesn't love that? Today our group presented our final project. We transformed the room into a barn and literally brought in bales of hay from a local farmers market. It was a total nightmare to clean up, but everyone loved it and our prof was so impressed that it was worth it. We had to basically teach the three hour class by doing activities, powerpoints, presentations, etc... As you can imagine it was so much work, but we're so glad we're done and now can just sit back and enjoy the other groups presentations.
Among many other things going on in my life I managed to finish a lot of my missionary application... Now all i have to do is go through interviews and send it in..... then i find out where i'm going!!!! Crazy crazy thought. It will be a BIG blog the day i find out where i'm going.
So...what's new with everyone?
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Great pictures!!
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