Day 16- Reflecting Time

Day 16- A Picture of You From Last Year, and How Have You Changed?

This is a picture taken of me last Christmas.

How have I changed in the last year? That's a tough question to answer. Well, my hair is different now! I think I have definitely learned a lot more about myself as a person, and also the type of person I want to be. Lately, I've been getting back into community service type work, and I realized how happy that makes me. If only I could find someone rich to marry so that I didn't have to work... I could volunteer everyday then!

I think I was also challenged a lot more during my Senior Year of college. I had to learn to survive college without my BFF and meal pal, Susan! I still had Amy to keep me sane though! Plus, missing Susan helped me become better friends with Nikki, Taylor, and Jessie... the start of a wonderful "moms" relationship. I survived a lot of ORL staff drama. I'm use to drama, but this past year's drama seemed extra special, and I guess since I'm older, extra annoying. I dealt with some incidents in the building that I never thought I would have to deal with. More "Tools in the Toolbox" as my old HD, Cover, would say.

In the fall, I fell in love with 3rd Grade at Guy K. Stump Elementary School - my practicum placement! I worked next to some of the most amazing teachers and students! Gosh, LOVE THEM! So going to miss that school! In the spring, I faced what it was like to be out of the classroom for the first time in over a year (IT WAS AWFUL!). I've probably never been so depressed as I was this past spring semester. My IDLS classes were awful, pointless, and kind of hard. My GPA took a hit (well... a hit for me- I still made the Dean's List this past semester & was well above the GPA mark for graduating with Honors). It just sucked, and I basically hated my life until the wonderful date of April 1, 2011 came around!!!...

So on April 1, 2011, an event happened that was 3 years in the making... My police ride-along!!! This was the one thing other than graduation that Taylor and I had to look forward to this past semester. I was like a kid on Christmas the morning on April 1st, and I just couldn't wait for 9pm to arrive! And when it did, it was EPIC. Possibly, the best night of my life! I couldn't believe I had never done a police ride-along before that! More to come on that tomorrow...