After a week of craziness, I thought, what the heck, I will just take some pictures of my room. It's as good as any indication of how I am doing, or what I am doing this week. My polished bedside table was windexed just last night as I tried to flip my room/brain/body into gear for second semester. The candle, is one of my attempts to read with a presence of intention and calm. My notebook is for late night list-making--which has been a lot lately with the transition back to Boston (many To-Do's that get pushed way far back in the brain only to pop back to the front of my mind when I am so close to falling asleep in a nice warm bed) I was sick of looking at neon pink post-it notes on my pretty table, so I have demoted my journal to notebook status.
Earlier in the week Jess Burke kindly emailed a parent email list serve in the neighborhood nearby about my babysitting services and need for cash flow. Ask and you shall receive- I had over 30 requests on email and phone. While a blessing, my head was lost with the deluge of readings for school and the sorting of babysitting requests. So far I have made it to 3 interviews for jobs- all went well and babysat for Jess Burke on Friday night. Of course, I crashed on a chair within minutes and was drooling by the time they got home.
This picture is from this afternoon as well. As you can see, these binders were all filled with papers which are now all over my room. Dad and Nick printed them in Omaha and I packed them in my suitcases to Boston. I have 3 weeks to read this, plus assignments, but unfortunately it breaks my heart to say that many of the readings have been changed- and so alas, my attempt to get free printing from pops backfired a bit. I now have a shelf dedicated to "Internship Search" and one for "French". The house has been super quiet, with my roommates gone.
I had to do it. Yup, Harvard lanyard. I am just that excited.
Swimming. My swimsuit is like an old faithful companion. My bag greets me each morning when I open my closet door. Practice last week was hard and unforgiving as to be expected for being out of the water for so long. It was rewarding though to swim in my lane with teammates Patti and Jessica. They are kind and encouraging, and even paid me a complement. This is tremendous progress. Sadly, I missed practice Saturday and tonight which I have had to smile and let go-- a theme I am going to work on in 2010. I need to give myself more credit. Taking it easy on myself is hard to do, but it is necessary. I keep worrying instead of doing. Tomorrow I will swim, and it will be great.
I am the team leader for our group in class. The class was divided into NGOs and we got Doctors Without Borders. This will come into play during the crisis scenario/simulation in April wherein we will be asked to respond in a national forest with the other NGOs. For now we are briefing materials and preparing assignments such as Rapid Health Assessments, Water/Sanitation Assessments etc.
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