feeling the flow

For most of the Community Development majors, you’re wrapping up your research right now and putting the final shine on your presentations (cept Renee…you’ll get there!). I feel relatively up to date and caught up now with everyone’s news, that is, assuming you’ve been faithful to the blog gods. Its really amazing to read the stories from all over the world and I realize that most of you aren’t bad writers…maybe we did learn something useful?. Aside from anecdotes and memoirs i pray that you all are wrapping things up well with your research contexts and things are actually coming together (at last for some). I want to encourage everyone from my soapbox for a moment (after all, you are reading my blog) to say that the end is near and that yes you can do it. If Kate can go without water for a week at a time, if Rachel can “stumble upon” a her keynote material for her research, if Christian can survive public transit in South Africa, if Pepper can ever get the stain out of his car…we’ll see pep. All of this to say that I can almost taste it for you. I’ll be attending Kate and Seth’s final presentations this Wed and Fri respectively and from what I’ve heard, I’m really excited.

On the other hand , I’m just getting started it seems (but this is by no means a pity post). I’ve had some breakthroughs this last week and I’m spending the weekend to sort out what exactly I have on my hands now and what to do with it (more on this when I know what I have). It appears I was destined to never make it to the comdev camp out or an assortment of other ‘members only’ events that I’ve missed in the fall for the last 4 years. ha. But I am excited to see you all when i get back. i’m planning on making sweet Covenant College one of my first stops (just can’t get enough of the place). And as Seth and I were talking about last weekend… We’ll need to have a Dominican comdev party when we’re all back, with you Renee, in the street– highlights including: Vitilla, hacky sack, card games, and Merengue music played at butt-jarring levels all while principally sitting in plastic chairs and complaining about the government–In the street. Thats all I’ve got for now. Ciao!
oh, and ‘Blessings’

-j