Sorry I haven't blogged in a while!

I feel like sometimes I get SO busy, all I want to do is plop on my bed and check things really quick and go to bed.

Okay.. so I've learned a little about high schoolers so far. One.. they aren't all at the same maturity level as my sister is (which is what I was expecting) and two.. there are some that I enjoy hanging out with. The girls that are at my site, are a little immature in some ways, but LOVE learning about the culture and are always excited to learn more and be involved which is SO awesome. I'm glad that I've found some of the high schoolers that I can really relate to and actually hang out with, because then I feel like I'm doing my job and being involved, which isn't how I felt with the last outreach group.

Thursday night we went to Dinner in the community at one of our volleyball girls' houses, Tita. She is about 10 and is the sweetest thing you will ever meet, and so is her mom and her twin brother Tito. They make my heart melt with how cute they are! They live in a cement shack, and it was hard to fit even the four of us in there to eat. But her mom made a fabulous meal, and we enjoyed playing with some of the neighborhood kids that kept walking by and talking to us. I even played some hopscotch with some of them, and don't worry I have a video of it :)

Friday, was the last day of the week and I was completely exhausted. I think most of it was just from emotionally actually having students this outreach, and they are a lot to keep up with but it's good for me! Jess got her ipod jack thing fixed, and we rocked out and released some of our negative energy singing High School Musical, ahh it was wonderful! Then after dinner we had a campfire worship time, which was very freeing and nice just to sing with voices and acoustically. We also had a time of prayer, and I felt like God really allowed me to pray as I've always wanted to pray, without the feeling of not saying the right things or looking stupid if I said something. I just prayed it out. I think he's been teaching me that these few couple weeks, to just pray to my heart's content.. kinda like the saying.. dance like no one's watching.. pray like you've never prayed before. It's nice!

Saturday was the excursion day, and then dinner and shopping in town. Mackalah and I got to go on the excursion of white water rafting. Now those of you who know me pretty well, know that adventure sometimes really isn't my thing. I'm freaked out by heights, and if something is dangerous, I just don't even try to attempt it. So going on this trip was kind of a big step. I was lucky enough to be in a boat with another intern, Andrea, and her boyfriend, who made it SO fun. Andrea is a great girl who i'm getting to know better and better, and all the pictures we took were so great. All in all, the rafting was awesome and made my heart race a few times! Our tour guide was funny and adventurous which made it more dangerous, but made it more fu at the same time. For shopping, we divided into groups. It made me feel good when I had a line of students wanting to me in "my group". But we had to evenly distribute everyone, so I only ended up with three, but they were 3 of my favorites so it made it okay :) I had AJ, Darrian, and his girlfriend Paige. Paige is so cute, she reminds me SO much of my sister it's weird. That's why I've really latched onto her this past week or just in the past couple of days we have gotten pretty close, and I love every minute of it.

Today, was the prayer walk, and then church in the afternoon. The prayer walk went well, and we even sang "How he loves us" overlooking Jarabacoa which always makes you feel good :) In church this afternoon an American spoke, and he was SO good. He talked all about "what you are filling your pot with", and it was based on Joseph in the Bible. He can speak some Spanish, but he was African-American and very energetic, so his Dominican wife translated and they were such a great team.

Some prayer for me:

I am confused about my plans after Student Teaching or even just the rest of the summer, so clarity for that.

Being able to keep my heart open

Patience (still)

Missing my family while they get to vacation without me... which I know was my decision.. but still!

Thanks to all who are reading this, and I love hearing what you think and how you are following it.. so keep it comin! :)