May-June Updates

Alright, so I haven't updated the blog in a while because honestly I forgot I had a blog.

Nick and I have been busy with work and stuff. We are both looking forward to going on vacation this week. We leave on Wednesday to Puerto Rico for a week. Our friends, Tim and Ashleigh will be joining us there. It will be their first time visit to the island. I'll be sure to post pictures and stories when I come back. I'm not taking my laptop, it'll be a true vacation!

I'll be pretty busy through the summer. I'll be helping coordinate a leadership class, like the one I'm doing, for teens. The class will meet every Monday until August when they graduate. I get to experience everything I did with my adult leadership class but through the eyes of teens. We had retreat last Wednesday and Thursday and it was great. I got to do a high ropes course. I only did one element because really the anticipation of it was almost too much for me to handle and I couldn't go through it again.

(Not me in the picture)

This exercise required us to climb up a 35 foot pole where we would stand on an attached pole that we would have to walk on to get to the next pole. Once we touched the end pole then we had to walk back to the middle, face the group and then lean back and fall. Of course, there's a belay team below that's controlling the ropes so that you fall gradually. The hardest part was letting go of the first pole to start walking. Once I started walking I was fine, it's mind over matter! I did say "oh, sh*t" a lot while I was up there. I forgot that I was with the teen class and I should be setting the example. Steve, the ropes guy, had to tell me to watch my mouth...oops! Here I am high fiving Steve after it was all over.
The week after we come back from vacation, I start teaching Sociology at the community college here in town. I'm looking forward to that but I am very nervous too. So far there are 15 students registered for my class and hopefully they're a talkative bunch. It's a 3 1/2 hour class and I just can't imagine lecturing for that long. I'm pretty sure I won't keep them that long.

Also, marathon training officially started yesterday...although I didn't go because it was raining. I joined a running group to train for the Disney Marathon in January. Usually training is only 4-5 months but since there are more fall marathons they have the January people start with the October-November people to save money and time I think. So it will be a long 7 months and I'm hoping my mind is as strong as my body and able to handle the long training season.

I'll have tons of stuff to share over the summer so I should have more frequent updates on the blog.