One more week of classes and one week of exams, then it's the long walk.
Her dear father and sister are traveling up--just like for her last graduation.
She received her acceptance to JET and is now awaiting the official placement for where she'll be leaving to when she departs the U.S. on August 3rd.
All's quiet on the Eastern Front, but God is changing her heart to remain satisfied in Him and not longing after what-could-be's.
She can't wait for this summer and catching up with friends and (as cheesy as it sounds) making memories with the people she loves before she leaves.
She has peace about leaving, but she's surely going to miss her comrade in arms.
As someone so... elegantly put it, this is "not her first rodeo". She's been down the rabbit hole before, and she's excited for the chance to explore and appreciate more fully things she had enjoyed before, as well as learning a great many more things. You can learn a lot of things from the flowers, you know.
And at the same time, her previous excursions had more or less an established termination point, and an understood life to return too and pick up again. From here on out, she's striking off down the same rabbit hole, sure, but she's also going to be passing through her fair share of looking glasses before she settles in a "home" again.
Who knows, maybe that home really will be the custom Crow's Nest book tower~
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A Full Deck
Wednesday, January 30, 2013
She's dealt herself quite the hand this semester, but she doesn't think she'd have it any other way:
Class: Japanese Language classes twice a week, Japanese Short Stories classes twice a week, Japanese Literature focusing on completing and deconstructing The Tale of Genji three times a week (all three classes so far requiring daily homework assignments to be completed and daily quizzes to be prepared for), and a nice Social Psychology lecture twice a week;
Work: The standard two weekday shifts and two every-other-weekend shifts at the WC Desk (~9hrs a week average), working twice a week at the Library in the Special Collections room (~6hrs a week), and volunteering two more times a week (~4hrs a week);
Ministry: Co-Leading Bible study on Tuesdays, leading a Discipleship partnership, attending the weekly services and events;
Life: preparing for the JET interview in the coming month, friends to not neglect, making sure to eat regularly (vegetables included!), trying to find to run so her lungs don't burst, sleeping for more than 6hrs a night for weeks straight...
This semester will truly be a testament for relying on Christ's strength and not her own (because she's already had to fight down the quitter in her more than a few times these past weeks).
Week Four mostly down. Only about 10ish to go until graduation.
Graduation.
And then an open world full of opportunities to take advantage of and paths to explore and holes to fall down and strange-yet-endearing people to meet....
I will make this feeling last.
Class: Japanese Language classes twice a week, Japanese Short Stories classes twice a week, Japanese Literature focusing on completing and deconstructing The Tale of Genji three times a week (all three classes so far requiring daily homework assignments to be completed and daily quizzes to be prepared for), and a nice Social Psychology lecture twice a week;
Work: The standard two weekday shifts and two every-other-weekend shifts at the WC Desk (~9hrs a week average), working twice a week at the Library in the Special Collections room (~6hrs a week), and volunteering two more times a week (~4hrs a week);
Ministry: Co-Leading Bible study on Tuesdays, leading a Discipleship partnership, attending the weekly services and events;
Life: preparing for the JET interview in the coming month, friends to not neglect, making sure to eat regularly (vegetables included!), trying to find to run so her lungs don't burst, sleeping for more than 6hrs a night for weeks straight...
This semester will truly be a testament for relying on Christ's strength and not her own (because she's already had to fight down the quitter in her more than a few times these past weeks).
Week Four mostly down. Only about 10ish to go until graduation.
Graduation.
And then an open world full of opportunities to take advantage of and paths to explore and holes to fall down and strange-yet-endearing people to meet....
I will make this feeling last.
Books With No Pictures
Thursday, September 8, 2011
And it's back to school already ("already" being relative, considering it's been over a month since her last post...)~
This would be the beginning of the end (or is it the end of the beginning?), as this is her Senior year; but since she has it in her head to take a Victory Lap once this year is over she doesn't have quite the sense of dread looming over her that she expected she would. It's actually quite liberating--only taking four classes, two of them focusing on China (a curious sort of land that grows divine teas), one a health psychology course (oh, ethics...) and of course a Japanese Language course. And while these classes of hers continue to increase in difficulty and challenge her to think critically, they leave her less and less time to pursue her love of the written word. Her poor books are going to be left alone for a while with no one to conjure the life and warmth out of them. She's had to trade in her stories of silver-tongued book binders and magical messengers of the King for ethnographies about *gasp* real people. She'd rather have the books without pictures~
But now that she and Val are quite tucked into their hobbit-hole of a room (complete with a low ceiling, folks), perhaps she'll be able to get ahead of things and sneak in a few chapters here and there ;3
(also: She can't wait for fall and the implications it brings!)
This would be the beginning of the end (or is it the end of the beginning?), as this is her Senior year; but since she has it in her head to take a Victory Lap once this year is over she doesn't have quite the sense of dread looming over her that she expected she would. It's actually quite liberating--only taking four classes, two of them focusing on China (a curious sort of land that grows divine teas), one a health psychology course (oh, ethics...) and of course a Japanese Language course. And while these classes of hers continue to increase in difficulty and challenge her to think critically, they leave her less and less time to pursue her love of the written word. Her poor books are going to be left alone for a while with no one to conjure the life and warmth out of them. She's had to trade in her stories of silver-tongued book binders and magical messengers of the King for ethnographies about *gasp* real people. She'd rather have the books without pictures~
But now that she and Val are quite tucked into their hobbit-hole of a room (complete with a low ceiling, folks), perhaps she'll be able to get ahead of things and sneak in a few chapters here and there ;3
(also: She can't wait for fall and the implications it brings!)
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