So let's get started!
When I last posted it was the night before our first theatre show, which went off without a hitch last Saturday night. We had a pretty good crowd and I think people really enjoyed the show. I was a tad bit disappointed that I didn't get to work the sound or light board (Sacred Heart and Wake Forest had their own people to do it), but that's OK, I'll be "working it" plenty in the next few weeks. ;)
Sunday I went to fellowship at the Unitarian Universalist with my Aunt Patti again, which was quite interesting.....I had a great time being her stand in mentor to a 7th grader named Ellis who was absolutely adorable, but I really didn't get much out of the service. At. ALL. I honestly was more spiritually fulfilled driving around later on that gorgeous Sunday afternoon listening to old choir hymns on the public radio station being reminded of what an incredible and inspirational person my grandmother Atkinson was and soaking in how blessed I am to be here in Winston-Salem with the opportunities that I've been given. I may start exploring new churches, which can be kind of intimidating when you go by yourself but I think I may need to find a different spiritual "home" while I'm up here....
Monday it was back to work at SECCA and we had our first staff meeting, which went really well. It's kind of hard to say what else I did last week because a lot of it is a blur but here are some things that I know I worked on:
1. My blog! It's finally up and running on our SECCA blog! Check it out! http://seccablog.wordpress.com/
2. My questionnaire for the gallery. After much editing, passing around for review, more editing, and a "good job" from the executive director, my very own personally designed questionnaire is printed, cut, and in the gallery! Now, if we can just get people to fill it out....
3. Info about our upcoming exhibits (Oscar Munoz and American Gothic)
4. Lots of other stuff that I can't remember right now...
***Also this week I took care of the dreaded UGA Masters of Public Administration grad school application that was really not as bad as I had thought it would be. I kind of had a mini-freak out on Sunday night when I realized that the deadline for assistantship consideration was February 1st, but Nick helped calm me down, my mama was awesome and helped me edit papers, and I knocked it out in about 3 days and sent it off on Thursday morning. Boom. I don't ideally want to go straight to grad school right after finishing my undergrad, but at least this way I (hopefully) will have the option. I need to look around to see if there are other programs that I really feel led to, but at 75 bucks a pop for applications I think it's going to take some pretty serious convincing. They'd better have some fancy dancy brochures if they want any mo' of my money right now....
After a long week of work, I got to enjoy some much needed FAMILY/BF/FRIEND TIME! WHOO!
Thursday night I got to see my cousin Steph who was home to pick out a business suit for one of her classes, although I know this was just her excuse for coming back to see me :). I went over to her house on Thursday night for a great dinner with her and her parents and we had a really good time talking about how awesome our entire family is and how many good memories we had together. It was really nice to see her, but I was exhausted and had to go home and finish packing for my trip to GEORGIA!
I got everything that I needed together, but also ended up having a nice (long) talk with my Aunt Deanna before heading upstairs to make a "Home" playlist, at which point it was 2 AM! After getting some rest and knocking out the rest of my Friday, I headed down to Atlanta to see my wonderful boyfriend Nick! It had been about 3 weeks since we saw each other which, as he pointed out when I was so teary about leaving at the beginning of my internship, is what we're pretty much used to doing as a long distance couple. That's one of the advantages of this whole internship/relationship balance: we're used to being apart for a while, although somehow being 2 states away instead of having the option of driving down to Atlanta if I needed to makes a bigggggg difference and I still miss him a lottttt.
After checking in at the Phi Kap house and catching up with everyone, we walked to dinner at Golden Buddha in Atlanta (walk = lovely, food= so so). After that we had a nice movie/margarita night and hung out with some of his Phi Kap fraternity brothers, their girlfriends/fiances, and other friends. It was really nice to be back in Atlanta to see everyone and of course one in particular. ;)
After a Saturday brunch at the new WaHo (that Nick is super proud of, and I'll admit the bouncy waiting couch is tons of fun) with "Other Nick" and his gf Kati, it was time for me to head out to D'ville to see my incredible family! My sister Mel just made her middle school tennis team and we spent lots of time that afternoon playing together with my dad and our exchange sister Airi while Mama was the "ball girl" and walked laps. :) We had a fantastic dinner of steak and mashed potatoes (my favorite!) with my other sister Maribel and her bf Stephen and then played one of our fav family games: Uno Attack! It was a nice evening, but it was also kind of hard realizing that I had to leave the next day. I didn't fell like I really got to spend a lot of time with my sister Maribel, which was really difficult but I was thankful to have been able to see her anyway. :)
Sunday we all went to church together, which was really, really nice and then we got to go swimming (one of our favorite Montgomery pass-times) at the Y! We stopped at Fox's pizza (Mel's fav) on the way home to get the GIANT Big Daddy pizza (complete with neon box accents and square pieces) so that we could have a picnic (or as Maribel used to call it when she was little a "nic nic") outside on our porch. It was lovely to be soaking up the sun, spending time with some of my most cherished people, visit with my pets, and enjoy the splendor of the day. We even planted a new tree that should be blooming in the not-so-far-away spring. :) After a lovely weekend, it was finally time to pack back up and head back to Winston, which was bittersweet but also a lot easier than the last time I left because I know that I'll be back soon. The drive really isn't that bad and I'm so thankful that I can come back and visit everyone. If I didn't get to see you this time through Georgia, hopefully next time I'm in town we can meet up and you're definitely welcome to come visit me up here too!
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