A weekend in Flagstaff

LOTS of Snow!!
I spent the weekend up in Flagstaff, and YAY for a ton of snow! This was fun, but just wait until I can get the picture up here of Scout and I STANDING in this ginormous snow drift in the Duttons backyard. It makes me happy... especially since it's summer here (or FEELS like summer here... which is depressing since it's going to get something-like-30 degrees hotter still!)

Everything...

not being good enough

Student teaching

All-day when I can't get one or two subjects right

long days

planning

prep. time

spanish class

homework

reading

busy work

presentations and papers

does she teach us anything or just facilitate busy activities?

institute

is he really teaching? or just trying to show us how much he knows

chuch

not doing all that I need to and want to do

knowing hardly anyone

not being known by one person

am I doing everything for the right reasons or just going through the motions?

finances

body stuff

needing to see the doctor

words that are hard to say

feeling all alone in the world

worries that shouldn't be mine until years from now

hoping to learn through the experiences of those I love

always tired

exhaustion

running

needing to run

finding a job

graduating

trying to be "promising" enough for Rodel

feeling broken

Smaller Circles

My last post was titled "It's a Small World"... and sometimes it really feels really small.

I've moved to this big city, but it seems like my world has shrunk. The milage on my car would indicate that my world has gotten much larger- I drove 350 miles in two weeks down here, without going on a trip or anything! I don't have as many people in my life, and I don't go as many places. This is what my world includes right now:

1. Home (the New House)
2. The Blue House (Where I just moved from and visit occasionally)
3. Eisenhower Elementary School -more specifically room A4
4. ASU Art building -Where I have my spanish class. Also the computing commons.
5. Tempe Institute
6. Mesa Arizona Temple
7. Church -which is so new that it doesn't quite feel like it's widening my world-especially with going there only once a week
8. and recently added to this list on a more frequent basis is Terina & Brent's house.
9. Today I also went to the gym, and I want to make that a regular place in my week.

Probably part of what makes everything seem so small is that both of my roommates went to Hawaii last week and are gone until Tuesday morning, so it's just me in our big, new house. They'll be back soon though, so I'm glad. The other hard part is that I can NOT do the college kid schedule anymore. My mornings start early, some days I don't get home until pretty late, and I'm always tired! I'm usually feeling ready to wrap up the night by 8:00 lately (probably partly because I've been sick for the past week) or by 9:00, and all of the hanging out and such usually happens around that time or even later.

Here's to broadening circles, making friends, and being happy and productive in what I'm here to do.