Not Dead Yet
Aug. 7th, 2012 06:53 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
mari4212I'm a bit embarrassed at how long it's taken me to update. The last I posted was when I got my Not Prime Time assignment. Since there was a month's delay on that challenge and yet today is still the day they're doing author reveals, this feels more than a bit sad.
So what's been happening in the life of the Mari?
One is that I've been helping to plan and run Gateway youth programs this summer. Okay, the planning was happy and excited and called for doing things like playing games throughout the Olympics weeks with teams and countries and everything. Since we on average have one student showing up for afternoon programming, yeah, that really didn't happen so much. Le sigh.
I've also been helping to run an art group and helping the students sell their wares at the Farmer's Market. We were even planning on putting bracelets up on Etsy. And I was having the time of my life because the girls we were working with for art group? They are who I was in high school, the geeky girls who interact best with people at least ten years older than them. I spent those two hours a week working with them geeking out about everything under the sun.
Sadly, just when the business, which was supposed to be the focal point for this year and something we set up to continue next year, got started, we got the news that the program was being defunded. There won't be a next year with tutoring in the alternate high schools, or the art group, or JA classes. Even if I was hoping to be with a different program next year, that's still disappointing.
I've had an interview with another Americorps position, back down in Dayton, that I'm really hopeful about. I would be working in another school, this one a normal K-8, and only one neighborhood over from my own. There's a good bit of me dancing and hoping that I get it and get to work with young kids again. It was a major stretch for me working with teenagers, as I didn't get teenagers when I was one. See interacting best with people ten years older or ten years younger than myself.
Hmm,let's see. I know I'd mentioned on here that I was looking into seminary and the discernment process for ministry. Unfortunately, I was told no, or at least, told not right now. According to my friend, who pays a lot more attention to diocesan politics than I do, there seems to be a blanket ban right now on under-30 candidates for ordination in the diocese. I can kind of understand it, for years the previous bishop was pushing younger candidates, and there's just not enough jobs within the diocese for everyone currently at seminary from our diocese, so the diocese has been paying for students to go through seminary and then losing them to other dioceses.
So that knocked me for a bit of a loop in terms of future planning. Now I'm looking into pursuing an Education degree, because I have loved doing the tutoring and teaching work I've been doing this past year.
I'll have to post about my social life in the next update, it's been kind of new there as well. Frankly, the fact that I have one is kind of weird to me.
So what's been happening in the life of the Mari?
One is that I've been helping to plan and run Gateway youth programs this summer. Okay, the planning was happy and excited and called for doing things like playing games throughout the Olympics weeks with teams and countries and everything. Since we on average have one student showing up for afternoon programming, yeah, that really didn't happen so much. Le sigh.
I've also been helping to run an art group and helping the students sell their wares at the Farmer's Market. We were even planning on putting bracelets up on Etsy. And I was having the time of my life because the girls we were working with for art group? They are who I was in high school, the geeky girls who interact best with people at least ten years older than them. I spent those two hours a week working with them geeking out about everything under the sun.
Sadly, just when the business, which was supposed to be the focal point for this year and something we set up to continue next year, got started, we got the news that the program was being defunded. There won't be a next year with tutoring in the alternate high schools, or the art group, or JA classes. Even if I was hoping to be with a different program next year, that's still disappointing.
I've had an interview with another Americorps position, back down in Dayton, that I'm really hopeful about. I would be working in another school, this one a normal K-8, and only one neighborhood over from my own. There's a good bit of me dancing and hoping that I get it and get to work with young kids again. It was a major stretch for me working with teenagers, as I didn't get teenagers when I was one. See interacting best with people ten years older or ten years younger than myself.
Hmm,let's see. I know I'd mentioned on here that I was looking into seminary and the discernment process for ministry. Unfortunately, I was told no, or at least, told not right now. According to my friend, who pays a lot more attention to diocesan politics than I do, there seems to be a blanket ban right now on under-30 candidates for ordination in the diocese. I can kind of understand it, for years the previous bishop was pushing younger candidates, and there's just not enough jobs within the diocese for everyone currently at seminary from our diocese, so the diocese has been paying for students to go through seminary and then losing them to other dioceses.
So that knocked me for a bit of a loop in terms of future planning. Now I'm looking into pursuing an Education degree, because I have loved doing the tutoring and teaching work I've been doing this past year.
I'll have to post about my social life in the next update, it's been kind of new there as well. Frankly, the fact that I have one is kind of weird to me.