Yet Another Weekend...

...And my guy isn't here.  Getting over an awful cold, staying busy and sliding my way back into the Goshen culture has a much different feeling to it when my partner in crime isn't around.  My boyfriend, David, has been gone for 13 days now and it feels like 5 months.  How is this possible?  The time that I am spending this semester is going to be one of those soul searching, long awaiting, when will you be back for me kind of semesters.....ok, maybe not that dramatic.  It will have some of that, but it will have more independent, focus on school and discover a different part of life kind of semester too.

I think that so many times people get caught in relationships and forget who they are.  I can't say that I have forgotten but I can say that I'm not sure if I remember how it feels to not have someone around all the time (to either talk to via phone or in person).  Now, really, I don't have either.  I rarely get to talk to him through email and (the obvious) I don't get to see him in person.  So different!  Africa has stolen him away and I am here having my own experience.

Currently I am focusing on my second part of my major: interpreting.  From now on I will be interpreting chapel, classes, a play; learning about what it takes to become certified; taking a deeper look into Deaf culture and Deaf literature and after all this tutoring.  I am beginning to put my heart and soul into this and I suppose, if any semester, this is the best one for my guy to be gone.

I am scared out of my mind to become a supposed "interpreter" but I am also getting excited.  This adventure is one nothing like anything I have experienced and I'm ready to begin putting on my interpreting shoes.  It's weird that I have kept this blog for so long and to see my progress, goals and different ideas throughout college is such a crazy thing to look back on.  I hope that ya'll stay with me!  Interpreting is just going to get that much crazier!