Core Classes finished!

As of Thursday, I am done with my classes! Now I'm gearing up to start studying for my comprehensive exam which I'll be taking in November. Sweet! :)

So if you have tips for memorizing insane amounts of information or care to send care packages...let me know! :)

My internship starts in about 2 weeks, which will be fabulous, I'm sure. I'm excited...and am hoping that it provides me with a little more insight as to what I want to do "when I grow up".

And to those who never watched Veronica Mars, it's a fabulous show. It's my new addiction after a long hard day! :)Another show I can't believe only lasted 3 seasons.

It's FINALLY here!

It's official. I have one week left of my core classes before I finish my master's degree. I have to do an internship, which I'll get into momentarily, but I'm done with my classes! Wohooo!!!

I have a classmate who has become a friend of mine and we are studying together for the comprehensive exam that we'll have to take in November. There is an 85% fail rate, which is a bit scary!, but we're starting early to hopefully nip it the first time we take it! I sure do hope so!

Ok, so I've been applying for internships and I was torn between being a parole officer for a local court or intern with NCIS. Now, for those of you who know me, I have always wanted to work for the FBI or NCIS or other government agency like that. And because I wanted it so badly I was willing to postpone graduating until next April (and if you also know me, I'm soooo ready to be done with school that that is saying a lot!). Anyway, I was supposed to find out around the 22nd of July if I was accepted to NCIS. Paperwork was needing to be turned in by the 7th of August. I wrote them to check up and they said they'd let me know shortly. Well, my time limit came and went so I had to make a decision....I could postpone graduating for a semester and still not get accepted into NCIS or accept the PO position and be done.

Well, I decided to accept the PO position. I'm still really excited about it; but Monday (the next working day!) I got word that NCIS accepted my application. I was so excited to get the positive acceptance but so bummed that I wouldn't be able to do it. After talking to the Head of the FP department at the university and speaking with the intern specialist at NCIS I had to admit defeat and let the internship with NCIS go. However, I'm still just so happy that I got accepted. Although I won't be able to do the internship, I almost didn't apply, and I'm so glad I did...because even though I couldn't do it, I got accepted.

Anyway, I know things work out for a reason, and I'm looking for that reason....Anyway, just wanted to pass on that bit of excitement....

Farsi and Spanish

So, obvious to all, I'm really bad at updating these things. So I'm going to quickly update.

So I wrote my list of 30 before 30 and I'm so excited that I'm actually working on it! To help me accomplish this, I meet one day a week with my neighbor doing a language exchange. She teaches me Farsi and I teach her English. It's fun and so nice to be able to help her as she's lived here for a few years but doesn't like it very much because she can't really communicate.

And on another night of the week I've been meeting with another friend of mine also doing a language exchange with Spanish and English. It's so fun because we've combined doing dinner and we have a theme for each time. The first time we did Colombian and the second time we did Italian. It's fun combining cooking (so I'm not just doing Chicken for V!) with of course eating that delicious food and practicing my Spanish and her English which we both love!

It's a nice fit!!!

Goals and To Do lists

So the other day I found a list of things that I had wanted to accomplish in my life. I wrote it awhile ago and then forgot about it. (Pretty important stuff then, right???) Well I just was looking through it and I was amazed and how some things had completely changed, meaning, I really didn't have a desire to do pursue that anymore, how some things I had accomplished without even remembering they were on the list, and comparing to what my list would be today.

Just reflecting here, but it's interesting how I still want to do and accomplish certain things but how much I've changed in the last 2+ years. Basically, I'm so thankful that was a bit "older" when getting married because I have changed so much, I've been able to mark off a lot on my "to-do" list, and still find someone as amazing as I did.

At times those singles days seem a hundred years ago but during those times I never really appreciated it! I'm sure tons feel the same way, but I just am glad that I didn't get married at 18 as planned in my "life plan" that I wrote when I was 12. While some did and are married that young and have happy lives, that wasn't for me. And to quote my aunt "it's not right, it's not wrong, it's just different, and that's ok."