I'm now realizing how long ago December really was...So maybe I should write or something. :P Spring semester was a long one. I came to many realizations and have learned a lot of things. I have also made many new friends since December, for which I am grateful for.
In December I will be leaving Logan to live in Salt Lake, where I will be doing my student teaching and interning for music therapy. Not at the same time. I am capable of not completely over booking myself. Some days. The fact that I will be leaving Logan is a sad one but also a happy one. I have loved living here. I love the small town atmosphere, adore the people here, and almost everything about it. I have made memories here that I will never forget. I am glad, though, to be moving in a new direction. It's weird to say, but I feel like I was supposed to be in Logan for the amount of time I've been here, and now I feel as though I have finished (or nearly finished) what I needed to accomplish here. There are great adventures waiting for me elsewhere, and I am thrilled to experience them. I'll also be thrilled to be close to my family members again. I feel like I've missed a lot being away, and it saddens me when I miss big events like baby blessings, weddings, and mission farewells/homecomings, and it makes me sad to even miss the small things, like monthly birthday parties, where I can spend time with my grandparents and cousins. So, as you can see, I am torn but glad all at once. I am also glad to meet new friends. It will be scary, but exciting all at once.
I have also been really thinking of what I will be doing as a professional. I finally had the opportunity to re-take a class this semester for my music therapy degree, and to take a couple of those last few courses, and they honestly overwhelmed me. It made me ponder the reasons I had initially felt that it was important for me to be in that program, and why I am now also an education major. A lot of what I've been leaning toward is working in the schools, mainly as a teacher, maybe an advisor/administrator over the music program of a school, and/or an advocate working to push for funding to keep the arts in the schools in our country. As I have been watching the education world fall apart around me due to budget cuts and removal of the wrong programs and the promotion of others that are not necessarily educational or helpful to our students in any way, it has frustrated me to no end. So much so, that I have wanted to begin research on how to change this and to make a change. I hope that I can be an effective advocate for change.
I have recently gotten a new calling in my stake - I'm now the stake music chairman. AKA, my old calling on steroids. I am slightly overwhelmed, but at the same time have a lot of ideas and am really excited to begin putting them into action. I hope that I can do the things that Heavenly Father would have me do concerning our stake - to help them and myself grow. That's what it's all about, isn't it? To continually grow?
That is all for now. I will try and be better at keeping you all updated...the few of you who follow this, that is. I'll try and fill in details when I can as well. Have a wonderful day!
