The Last Week

This week has been totally chaotic. We had the Conference for work last week, which went really well but was insanely stressful. I have been moving at a snail's pace ever since then just trying to recover. The last thing I need is to show up in Alaska sick and totally drained.

All my course work for the semester is done, and I just have a few more small paperwork things to do at work before I can offically seal everything up at the office for the summer.

I got a card yesterday from a good friend of mine, actually it was a birthday card, just a bit belated. It was actually really good to read it this week, she wrote about how she hoped I was settling into Mankato, and making this place my home, even if its only for a short while, and that she hoped I was meeting people that would become close to me. The timing of this card was actually perfect. I thought about it, and this place really has become more of a home to me than I ever would have expected. There are people here that mean so much to me, and saying good-bye to them is going to be really difficult. Though, there is comfort in the fact that in a few months I get to come back to the people at school, at chuch, and at work that make my life so enriching while I am here.

This is going to be a busy week full of saying farewell to alot of people who have meant so much to me this year and have made Minnesota so dear to me.

Starting this morning... I'm off to church. Only 4 more days in Mankato.