Tuesday, March 14

Yesterday I had my midpoint evaluation at work. Lately I've been feeling so much more job satisfaction and feeling like I'm actually helping out a lot more than before..it comes with time and more responsibility though, for sure. I met with Kristen early in the morning just to go over a little bit about what we would mention in the meeting. I have more than just one person that I do work for around the office, so I've been doing more than just work for her, but work for about 4 other people, too! I get to see a lot of how the office works in its individual teams but also how it all fits together, too. I have a very cool place in the hierarchy of things...doing administrative stuff, but also PR reports and stuff with Kristen.

I'd love to keep in touch with Easter Seals while I'm back at Dordt next year and see if they would be able to formulate a job possibility...if their budget allows...for when I graduate. That would be completely IDEAL! Then I'd be able to work in Chicago after graduation!!!!! AAAAAH exciting.
okay, back to reality now. After the midpoint evaluation (which was excellent) we had our final neighborhood/neighbourhood visit to Chinatown. Without our leader, we just walked around, took random pictures, ate at the chinese bakery, and walked around in the wind and cold for about an hour. We have to squeeze all of our information into a short 8-minute presentation in a few weeks, so we'll have to meet a few times for that later on.

It was a while before Pam came home, so I went running at the Solheim Center (Moody Bible Institute gave us a good deal on passes to their rec center). I can't believe HOW BORING it is to run on a treadmill by this time of year! my goodness. I could only stand a mile on the blasted thing before I HAD to get off and run around their afterthough of a "track" around the gym. It's pretty sad, but the air moves around me so I don't sweat a lot and the scenery changes more than a treadmill...plus I had a soccer player to chase the whole time, which kept me motivated :) :)

Pammikins made spagetti for supper-- tres bien, and then I dinked around on the computer all night doing homework and various forms of communication and filing music. My song of the day today was a good one to dance to. I'm truly trying to get the wave thing I can do with my arms to go throughout my whole body. It's quite a task for a dutch white girl like me...but since I'm apparently so goal oriented (according to Values and Vocations class) I will achieve this goal!