A New Beginning

This is my first of MANY blogs. I am about to embark one of the greatest experiences of my life, and that's right up there with my most-incredible four years of college. As of June 28th, I have accepted to be the Community and Faith Relations Coordinator for Habitat for Humanity in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania for a year of service. I am unbelievably excited for this year to start and to be involved in such a great project! To give a little background on how it began I'll take you back a few years.

In March of 2008, I and seven other lovely women from the College of Mount St. Joseph took a very long car-ride to Charleston, South Carolina for our Spring Break. This wasn't your average spring break trip though for a bunch of college students. We were working with Habitat for Humanity with the Collegiate Challenge. We hammered, we lifted, we cut wood, we climbed on ladders, and much more. We spent a week of our lives to work together to help give a family a home.

In March of 2009, I and 19 other students from the same school set out for just the same mission. We took a much longer drive to Miami, Florida. We painted indoors and outdoors and worked on landscaping for two different homes, so that another family could have a home.

The impact that this kind of service-work does for someone else is so incredible, I had decided that I wanted more of it. In May of 2010 I graduated from that College unsure of what I was going to do with my degree. This, then, is the best time to spend a year of my life, rather than just one week, to carry out that same mission.

On June 28th, I had one of the most important phone-calls of my life. I said the word yes. I agreed to take on this incredible position. Being the Community and Faith Relations Coordinator, I will be writing a lot of e-mails, handing out news letters, making presentations, being a part of honoring the families with their new homes and working with the Collegiate Challenge groups.

I've grown to really love taking on challenges. This means I'm REALLY going to love this coming year. I'll be moving in to my own place for the first time, in a place I've never been, and cooking. Yes, cooking. I agree, that's the really scary one. Last summer when I was 1/2 living on my own my easiest access to making food was the microwave down the hallway in the dorm building. Therefore I had a whole lot of frozen dinners. I'm not going to get away with that for the next year of my life. I really need to start learning how to make real food, and that means buying real food too.

I'll be taking on a big task next week to get a start on this and will update then. In the mean time, wish me luck and I'll keep you posted,

Thanks for reading!