Oops... Did I Forget to Blog?
Alright, so "Little Miss Blogger" didn't really materialize... I started this blog after Outtatown, which is now a year and a half ago, and I then moved to Winnipeg, where I had crappy internet access, homework (yuck!), and not a lot of drive to blog. Sorry!
Alright... so highlights from the past 15+ months!
Summer- work with special needs kids or kids with learning disabilities... love it....
September- move to Winnipeg with the crazy and awesome Sarah Froese, a fellow Site 2 girl... hilarity ensues... most of it involves me getting things thrown at me... and folk guitar.
October- Kelly gets employed. First day at Radioshack goes down in "Worst Day Ever History"... long story short... Kelly falls of bike, scrapes open leg, hobbles in late, bleeding. There are tears. Not exactly employee of the month material.
November- Sarah and I finally get around to having our housewarming party! It is the party to end all parties. Good friend Trent Snyder even comes in from Russell/Foxwarren for the occasion! Keith Tang was there.... were you?
December- Christmas season is hectic. I work like a madwoman at Radioshack. I make it home briefly for Christmas... a couple days home, and then I'm back to the madness. Gotta pay the rent! Outtatowners have a New Years' Party in the city... Derek, Trevor, Lauren, Emily.. who else... well, those guys for sure all flew in from out of province just becuase they love us! My good friend Eric Dick gets himself into a life-threatening bike accident out in Niagara, ON, and we all pray our hearts out.
January- God is good! And Eric Dick is a miracle. He defeats odds in favor of paralysis, brain damage, blindness, and especially death, and blows us all away with his recovery...
"Where, O death, is your victory? Where, O death, is your sting?"
Sarah and I can't take it anymore. We fly out to Ontario to visit Eric, encourage him, and for some good times. Highlights... taking Eric sledding, despite our best efforts to deter him, and Sarah mistaking Eric's raised arm for an invitation to throw an orange at him... which he is at this point unable to see well enough to catch, and it smacks him in the hand. Hilarity ensues.
February-My most awkward Valentine's Day EVER! I host Dan and Teagin's Valentine's Day date at my apartment... it wasn't that bad, it was pretty cute actually... but you probably have to be in a couple to appreciate cheesy, over-the-top gestures of love. Which, I was not. So, I did not. Oh and somewhere in here that "Marchin" guy started asking me out, which Sarah was nice enough to turn into a public spectacle for all our friends... love you too, Sarah!
March- We get some snowboarding done! I bring people out to Russell to board and highlights include free lift tickets and winning a giant, wall-mountable Kokanee beer bottle in a karaoke contest (kudos go out to Jeannette and Johanna). It now graces the sacred walls of the CMU women's rez.
April- hmmm... I know SOMETHING happened in April... what happened?
May- packed up, had our FAMOUS "House-cooling Party," featuring dj.exe, also known as my dear friend Skyler Jones. This party was frequented by such well-knowns as Keith Tang (he's my groupie), some very gifted RadioShack sales associates, my homegirl Sarah Bezan, many many SODers, Russellites, Dancin' Dee, and more. After that, we almost considered not leaving!
But, leave we did. Next day, I flew to Ontario, where I met up with my DARLING sister Rebecca for a week-long road-trip home. Highlights include such people as Darren Janzen, Krista Bender, Mark and Johanna (sorry, no last names for you!), another visit with Eric, whose improvement is AMAZING!, my adorable twin cousins (and Ben too), and my childhood best friend forever Tatiana Kaminski, out in Illinois. The Kaminskis were very sweet to let us stay with them in Iowa- we had a blast! Fun was had, and we even visited the stray grandmother out in Carman, MB!
June- monotony sets in. I am home for the summer. Summer 2005 goes a little something like this: I work 2 jobs- good ones though, I was blessed, squirrel away money for next year, work some more, then take on running the church's VBS with my lovely partner-in-crime Vanessa Jeske (you rock, girl!), since of course 2 jobs is not enough. But I was blessed richly by it.
This was my second summer working with kids with special needs, or developmental delays. I love it SO much. These kids are awesome and have SO much potential. They are beautiful children and they brighten my life.
This summer I took on for the first time working with special needs adults in an assisted living environment. These people live independent, adult lives, made possible by 24/7 staff. This allows their families to breathe and to live again, this allows them to grow and to adjust. It is not always a perfect scenerio, but I love the concept. But more about that later.
Then I packed myself up (again), and headed out cross-country to the west coast, and not just the west coast, but the land of the red, white and blue! That's right, I am now in Washington. I live and breathe in the communities and suburbs surrounding Seattle (which is a sweet city), and I am a youth ministry intern through Youth Unlimited. I work at Living Hope Christian Fellowship in Bothell, and spend time with kids, and it is awesome. And I am blessed.
You will hear much more on this later. But for now, be ye updated.
Labels: auto-biography, update
2:20 PM
Craig tells me you dont' really breathe in Seattle- the smog is terrible - I trust him - you should come home - Trip to Ontario and back with older, wiser and more beautiful sister = best part of Kelly's year - HANDS DOWN!
(wink wink)
-Becca top