I must say it has been one busy and long summer for both Elaine and I. Elaine is less than two days away from starting her student teaching and I am less than a week away from starting my senior year at UofL. I remember sophomore years staying up until the wee hours of the morning talking to Elaine about how it seems like forever until graduation and real jobs. Now were both wondering where all that time has gone and we're asking the big question, what next? What we do know for sure is that we are getting married on June 22, 2013 and we will be gone the following week for a honey moon but after that we have no idea what we are doing, besides being MARRIED!! It's exactly 313 days away.
This semester I will be doing music therapy clinical work at Norton Audubon Hospital in Louisville. I have been waiting for this clinical every since I started at UofL only because I have always thought I wanted to do medical music therapy. A normal clinical placement at UofL lasts one semester but this clinical will last the entire year which will run me up until I start my internship. I am hoping that after this year I will have a better understanding of what populations I want to serve.
Elaine will be starting her student teaching at Cedar Hall Community School in Evansville, teaching a class full of 30 fifth graders. Sometime I think I am more excited than her about her student teaching. Today she had to explain to me that it was more of a nervous excited feeling. I have to admit I would probably be really nervous myself if I was going to be standing up in front of a class full of 30 fifth graders. As much as she likes to doubt herself I know for a FACT that she is going to be a great teacher and she is going to have some very lucky students. For more detail about her student teaching check out her blog "Teaching to learn and learning to teach".
While Elaine and I were both very busy this summer we made the time to spend some time with each other and with our AWESOME friends. As many people know I have been slowly starting a photography business and this summer Elaine was the greatest help a photographer could ask for, I like to tell her that she is my mean assistant that constantly tells people to sit up straight and to smile. We have taken senior pictures, family pictures, maternity pictures, and this coming weekend we will be shooting our first wedding.
Last week we did maternity pictures for my cousin Nick and his wife Kaitlyn. Growing up Nick was like the brother I never had and many can testify that when the two of us were together someone was bound to get hurt and that someone wasn't either of us. In May he married the love of his life and now in less than a month we will be welcoming Ms. Norah Jane Cherry into the family. I am more than excited for both of them and I know that they are going to be great parents.
Now that I jumped all around and rambled I would like to close with a thought that I learned this past weekend while attending church at Greenville Christian with Elaine. I am constantly questioning the journey that God has planned for me and I spend a lot of time trying to take detours and living a life that I hope to live and not a life that God has planned for me to live. I tend to allow others to pull me down and more importantly I allow myself to pull me down. This week I pray that I will start the journey that God has planned for me and pray that I will take the time to listen and trust the God that loves me more that I can imagine.
"MY CHAINS ARE GONE AND GOD WILL SET ME FREE"
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