Today I'm actually excited and feel more ready.
Though i reached why I feel was breaking point and just broke down from exhaustion and being sick and everything in between. It was good to break down though and get everything out.
I now feel more ready and as excited as I was when I got my acceptance letter in January and made the decision to go this summer.
Time to regain some of my strength. More later.
Though Wes and Leslie told me I had a great smile and they loved it - that made my heart smile.
Friday, May 30, 2008
other blog and May 27th, 2008
Sorry for the confusion my other blog got messed up somehow. I'm still trying to figure out what went wrong.
So here is my posting from May 27, 2008 :
I left Oregon today, off to El Paso, TX for training camp. Sarah and Matt took me to the airport and it was really nice of them to do so. Though it was sad saying goodbye to the both of them- I’m really going to miss them this summer as well as all of my wonderful friends.
I’m reaching a point of excitement…as most of you know I wasn’t excited. I was more like yeah I’m going but I’m trying not to expect anything and with that absence of expectation, I lost excitement and more thought of this trip as an experience or rather an adventure that I had no idea where it was going to take me. I am most nervous for customs and doing the traveling into the country. I have already done training in that area through a class I had to take but I’m still somewhat nervous about that.
Though I’m ready for this adventure, I’m not wishing away any of my time, I’m living in the now and enjoying the present. I did hear myself actually saying I didn’t want to leave Oregon OUT LOUD!! I really hope for my trip that I can live in the now and to my full capacity and be the most help and most effective possible.
Well over and out…I’m on the plane and skittles are flying everywhere from a crazy group of highschoolers.
So here is my posting from May 27, 2008 :
I left Oregon today, off to El Paso, TX for training camp. Sarah and Matt took me to the airport and it was really nice of them to do so. Though it was sad saying goodbye to the both of them- I’m really going to miss them this summer as well as all of my wonderful friends.
I’m reaching a point of excitement…as most of you know I wasn’t excited. I was more like yeah I’m going but I’m trying not to expect anything and with that absence of expectation, I lost excitement and more thought of this trip as an experience or rather an adventure that I had no idea where it was going to take me. I am most nervous for customs and doing the traveling into the country. I have already done training in that area through a class I had to take but I’m still somewhat nervous about that.
Though I’m ready for this adventure, I’m not wishing away any of my time, I’m living in the now and enjoying the present. I did hear myself actually saying I didn’t want to leave Oregon OUT LOUD!! I really hope for my trip that I can live in the now and to my full capacity and be the most help and most effective possible.
Well over and out…I’m on the plane and skittles are flying everywhere from a crazy group of highschoolers.
May 29, 2008
May 29, 2008
Today was really fun and eye opening. We have been doing these workshop/lectures on our top 5 strengths (a test we had to take previous to coming to training); mine are positivity, achiever, connectedness, includer, and belief. I learned a lot more about them today from others who I have strengths in common with and struggles regarding that particular characteristic. For instance that positivity can be annoying and taken as sarcasm or joking (specially when sarcasm is something you use quite a bit) when that really isn’t your intention. Belief is something I didn’t necessarily know what it was but when I found out I was like OH THAT’S ME!! Belief is when you know what you believe and you live your life by that and when you don’t you feel really guilty and I totally was like yeah…but I try to stay open minded when others present there ideas whereas others that I talked to said that they had a hard time doing such.
As a group, my group is Wesley, Leslie, Lindsey, and Catherine –they are all really sweet and fun people by the way, I think this summer will be a really great one in that sense. I honestly don’t sense any problems- I know there will be frustrations and issues but I think we can tackle them. Anyways, so as a group today we went over our different strengths and how we think each of our different strengths could help us out. We also talked about something I wasn’t that familiar with birth order – which was interesting how that played into our different characteristics. We definitely work really well together and I think that it will be interesting to see all our strengths at work on the field.
We have been split into a little bit bigger groups called I think life groups, in which we do our ropes course and other activities, we’re with the groups Canada and Trinidad & Tribago. The ropes course was so fun today, I think also because I got to be in the center of the action and it was really great being able to work together and not get frustrated and all be patient with one another. Which has been a great quality of even our small little Guatemala team, we have a lot of patience with one another. Which I hope that God will continue to bless us with this summer.
Tessa came today and that was wonderful to get to see her for the first time in a very long time. Tessa is a fellow Portland First Church of the Nazarene-er, who began to work for some relating ministry teams. She explained to us some of the groups we will be working with and she has been to Guatemala, so many of the mannerisms and just wonderful things that I will share with you as and if I experience them in the country. Also talked with us about door-to-door evangelism, which to be honest and I was with her- I just don’t know that that something I feel comfortable with, it’s really invasive and I’m not that type of person – everything will be an experience.
So I’m needing to go to bed-there is probably much, much more I could write- but it’s really late and I have to wake up at 7:30 AM. I think I will be going to the doctor tomorrow though, please try and keep that in your prayers in you can. They’ve –so Catherine and some new friends here- have found white pus in my throat and my glands on my right side are really swollen. So I just hopefully need some medicine.
Also pray that God will keep my heart open to the things He is doing and I will allow Him to guide my life.
Love you all.
Kaitlin
Today was really fun and eye opening. We have been doing these workshop/lectures on our top 5 strengths (a test we had to take previous to coming to training); mine are positivity, achiever, connectedness, includer, and belief. I learned a lot more about them today from others who I have strengths in common with and struggles regarding that particular characteristic. For instance that positivity can be annoying and taken as sarcasm or joking (specially when sarcasm is something you use quite a bit) when that really isn’t your intention. Belief is something I didn’t necessarily know what it was but when I found out I was like OH THAT’S ME!! Belief is when you know what you believe and you live your life by that and when you don’t you feel really guilty and I totally was like yeah…but I try to stay open minded when others present there ideas whereas others that I talked to said that they had a hard time doing such.
As a group, my group is Wesley, Leslie, Lindsey, and Catherine –they are all really sweet and fun people by the way, I think this summer will be a really great one in that sense. I honestly don’t sense any problems- I know there will be frustrations and issues but I think we can tackle them. Anyways, so as a group today we went over our different strengths and how we think each of our different strengths could help us out. We also talked about something I wasn’t that familiar with birth order – which was interesting how that played into our different characteristics. We definitely work really well together and I think that it will be interesting to see all our strengths at work on the field.
We have been split into a little bit bigger groups called I think life groups, in which we do our ropes course and other activities, we’re with the groups Canada and Trinidad & Tribago. The ropes course was so fun today, I think also because I got to be in the center of the action and it was really great being able to work together and not get frustrated and all be patient with one another. Which has been a great quality of even our small little Guatemala team, we have a lot of patience with one another. Which I hope that God will continue to bless us with this summer.
Tessa came today and that was wonderful to get to see her for the first time in a very long time. Tessa is a fellow Portland First Church of the Nazarene-er, who began to work for some relating ministry teams. She explained to us some of the groups we will be working with and she has been to Guatemala, so many of the mannerisms and just wonderful things that I will share with you as and if I experience them in the country. Also talked with us about door-to-door evangelism, which to be honest and I was with her- I just don’t know that that something I feel comfortable with, it’s really invasive and I’m not that type of person – everything will be an experience.
So I’m needing to go to bed-there is probably much, much more I could write- but it’s really late and I have to wake up at 7:30 AM. I think I will be going to the doctor tomorrow though, please try and keep that in your prayers in you can. They’ve –so Catherine and some new friends here- have found white pus in my throat and my glands on my right side are really swollen. So I just hopefully need some medicine.
Also pray that God will keep my heart open to the things He is doing and I will allow Him to guide my life.
Love you all.
Kaitlin
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