One Year, Many Changes

Well, it's been a very long year since I've updated this blog. It's also been a very eventful year. I've graduated. Hours ago I accepted a position in Ashland, KS as a high school English teacher. I'm newly single.

I feel like an onion. The comfortable, but crusty, outer layer has been peeled off of me (and let's be honest, sometimes it feels like it was ripped), and I'm fresh and shiny for what God has for me. And OH! What an appropriate metaphor. Like a freshly peeled onion, the results often cause some tears. But I'm trusting.

Here is my future land of residence.

It truly is beautiful. I'm looking forward to rolling hills and miles and miles of open space. And I better be, because let me tell you. That's all I'm going to get! The closest Wal-Mart is an hour away, so forget about any sort of upper level stores! I'm going to learn how to live like a real person.

I'm going to admit something to you all. I was pretty apprehensive when I rolled into that town. With a population less than half the size of the student BODY at my student teaching school, it was quite different right away. And as I looked at the town, I could quite literally FEEL that difference. Everyone knew everyone else. You walk to Main Street and school and everywhere else. You walk into the main little diner in town and the one waitress knows your name. I watched every single person who actually drove a car onto Main Street just leave the car running and pop into the shops. No one stops or locks their cars/houses/businesses, etc.

This is their WebSite homepage. Can you see how easily it would lure me in? Rolling hills, beautiful red dirt, picture-perfect blue sky. Breathtaking. I looked for this view on my drive into the town, but I didn't see anything that looked like this. This must be a different highway than the one I drove in on.

As you can imagine out in the Country, regular cell phone service does not work too well. So this brings my post full circle. I'm starting this blog up again and I am determined to keep it going. Since switching cell phone providers will be annoying and also because I really hate talking on the phone (sorry for those of you who love it!), I won't really feel like giving people updates on the phone. This blog will be the best way for those of you who want to keep tabs on me to do so. What is MB up to? What does daily life look like in small-town Kansas? Visit her constantly-updated (let's hope) blog to find out!

I'll do my best to keep the updates current, constant, and candid. Look at that alliteration! I am going to ROCK the socks off those kids with my mad English skills.

Anyway, keep yourself update on what's going on and come visit my blog often. Hopefully it will be illuminating for you.