The first half of my summer :)

Oh boy ... where do I start?!

First off, I miss you ALL terribly and I hope you are having amazing summers! This blog is so great and I'm so happy I can hear about your lives :D

My summer has been interesting so far. I started working in New York just about a week after I came home, so I jumped straight into a busy schedule! I'm working about 35 hours a week so it's very tiring, but I love it because I love NY :) And I really like the organization I'm working for! It's called Goddard Riverside Community Center -- it's a HUGE social services organization that has like over 30 programs helping people of literally every age group. They do a lot with low-income families, homeless, mental illness, elderly, kids, teens .... here's there website -- it describes the organization better than I can myself! www.goddard.org -- I'm working in the development office, so I'm helping out with basically anything they need me to do, but also helping with special events and fundraising things -- so it's not exactly what I want to do in the future, but it's for sure helping me see what working in a non-profit would be like, and there are also a ton of social workers that work there so it's been cool to see what they do.

Other than that, I've just been hanging out with friends/family, having fun, watching fireworks ... summer stuff :) I'm also in a Bible study at my church with the young adults and I think it's gunna be really good so I'm excited for that. I also went to Maine to visit my sister this past week -- it was just me and my mom -- it was so fun! Such beautiful scenery up there, it was so sad to leave!! And oh MY gosh ... the men in Maine .... let me tell you. They are MEN! Holy cannoli, there are some strong, scruffy, manly men in that state!! Soooo I say we all move up there when we graduate ;)

Anywaaaay, back to business!

Praises:

- My job!

- My mom is doing GREAT!! So proud of her :)

Requests:

- Patience with my family -- for some reason it's been really hard to live at home! I love them, but I'm starting to get really annoyed with them easily and I don't like it! Also it's been hard for me to live under my dad's rules again...just so different than college.

- I started drinking again -- Idk if all of you knew this (?) probably most of you did, but I made a decision a while ago not to drink for a lot of reasons, but I've been thinking about it for a while, and I feel as though a lot of things have changed since I made that decision. So long story short, I started drinking again, but it's now really confusing knowing my boundaries especially with my school friends. So pray that I would be able to still be a good witness and that I would glorify God with how I approach this new thing in my life!

Anywho, this is getting super long, so I'll stop now! Can't wait to see you girls, and can't believe summer is going soooooo fast!! Love you allllll <3

-Tasha