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According to one of my students last year, I told my Bible class that I hate people and I love shoes. While this is a true statement, I was a little surprised I admitted it to children. [...]
Tomorrow marks my eight month anniversary. Eight months ago my life changed forever. I have had lots of landmark moments in my life, and this one isn't the most significant though it is the one most people are very interested in.[...]
When I first stepped on the plane to Germany thirteen months ago, I was terrified, but I safely made it to the other side of the Atlantic without backing out. I was pretty terrified when I was loaded onto the ambulance eight months ago, too, but I didn't have a choice to turn around. Getting metaphorical cold feet couldn't change anything - I needed emergency surgery.[...]
One of my Bible college roommates dropped out - er - transferred to nursing school and became a rockstar medical professional. When I was in REHAB, she offered to come stay with me the first few days I was out on my own in the real world. Rather than have her there in the summer when I had time to make a few mistakes in my schedule, I asked her to stay with me for the first few days of school. Cat wasn't able to get here for the opening ceremonies, but she's been with me since Thursday and will fly back to Tacoma on Wednesday morning. I've been so blessed to have a personal nurse helping me out with going to the Apoteke to get prescriptions, to practice my therapies during the day, and to laugh with me about old jokes and new experiences. [...]
Today was the first day of classes at BFA which means I had a total of sixteen minutes with my two periods of students. I was so incredibly happy to be in a classroom again though. This first day was vastly different than last year, of course, and I've got a lot of work ahead of me.[...]
