sarah in real life

Yes, the title of this post is a play off of the movie title "Dan in Real Life." However, Dane Cook is not my brother nor do me and a sibling have a common love interest!

Speaking of interest, my life has definitely taken a interesting change in the last 2 weeks! After 2 weeks of not-so-much-going-on, I started my first job as a real adult. I've been in training as a family case manager for 2 weeks now and I can't believe it has only been that long! It seems as if I have been there for a month already. Training is definitely exhausting as I am in "class" basically for 7.5 hours a day learning about....everything really. Thankfully this past week was a lot of review of topics I studied in my last couple of semesters. It was helpful to go over them all again though, especially in this new context.

If you know me or are around me I can fill in any details of my world at work so I won't bother including them here. But I can say that everything is just happening so fast! I've a graduate for aabout a month now (wow..that was the first time I realized it was a month ago!) and it just feels so strange. Life comes at ya fast I guess. And right now it is all in a period of transition...trying to find my place at home, work, and church. It's especially different at church because I'm really the only on my age there. There are a couple of others but they won't be around much this summer and still have a little bit of school left. I have really enjoyed being in my sister's life group (my life group??) but am wondering if it's the right place to be. I don't want them to feel like they aren't having their "own thing" anymore or move in on the security and cohesiveness already existing in the group.

Anyways, just some things I'll just have to work through I guess. Looking forward to it!

i wish i had a time machine

I wish I had a time machine. Why? Because one year ago today I was in Peru. Peru, South America that is... not the Peru in Indiana. And I cannot believe it was a year ago. I miss it so much! As exciting as this summer will be in transition, I have a feeling it will be a very difficult one as well. I spent most of May 2007 in Peru and then June-August in New Orleans. It sound silly, but I forget what summer is supposed to be like here! I can't stop thinking about my Peruvian friends, including Katie who practically is Peruvian anyways. What are they doing? How can I be praying for them? Are they well? Are they walking with the Lord? So many questions left unanswered. It's hard to be away because Peru felt so much like home. I was not home-sick (sadly, a familiar thing when at college at times) and was definitely not ready to go back to American soil when our plane tickets said we had to. I made a Peruvian-dinner for my family the other night and it was the first time I ate it with people who were not in Peru with me. Again, this seems silly I know but it really hit me. Life is moving fast and I'm told it only picks up speed from here. In some ways, that is great, in others....utterly terrifying.

When it comes to the "anniversary" of when I got to New Orleans, I'm sure those months will be just as difficult. I haven't seen most of them since, even though I regularly keep in touch with most of them. They were my family for 10 weeks and I miss them dearly. Thankfully I'll see some of them at Sarah's wedding in July, but it will be different.

I know these were parts of my life I have to remember fondly, look to for the lessons I learned and more or less move on. I'm fine with change for the most part. I just don't like leaving people behind.