Mood:  a-ok

Hello everyone,

Just wanted to let you know that I'll be gone for the next week or so on a service project with the Sisters of Notre Dame up in Dayton, OH.  We'll be working with the Hispanic population up there helping with Bible School.

I'll be with both of the vocation directors from the area.  That's going to be an interesting thing as I don't think I've stayed anywhere for a long period of time with them...It'll be a true test of my vocation to say the least.  I'm thinking about taking my roller skates.  That would be fun.  Hopefully there will be someplace flat that I can skate up there.

I had a job interview this past Tuesday.  I think it went well, but I'm not so sure I'd take it if it were offered to me.  The place was a daycare center for the children of the people who work for Toyota down here....the place was too big to be considered "homey".  That and the place is like out in the middle of nowhere.

I can't believe that my friend Renee will be leaving in a little bit to go on her year of service.  I'll miss her terribly.  She's been my partner in crime for the past couple of years.  I don't know anyone else who understands discernment of religious life like she does (who is near to my age).

The vocation director that I work with says she's going to talk with some of the Sisters from some of the other communities to see if there are any other candidates out there... I'm just wondering where my "peer" group is.  I can't go to the Intercommunity Discernment group because I've discerned that I want to be with the Sisters of Notre Dame...but I can't go to some of the things that the Sisters do because I'm not quite a Sister yet.  It's a little disheartening to be in between stages....EEK!  We'll see how God handles this one...not that I'm complaining...really, I'm not.