Long Week

So let me just say that this had been a really long week, but an awesome week. I said good by to my college group on Friday afternoon and met a group of energetic junior highers for the weekend. It's been a pretty non-stop weekend too. I had a little bit of a break during a city search that my group did yesterday. Another one of the city hosts also had a city search so she and I walked around the civic center and went to the mall to look around. I stopped by Hot Topic, but was a good girl and didn't buy anything. It just isn't the same unless I'm hanging out at the HT in Indy with my friends there.

A Flashback:
Sending last week's group off was really hard. It was amazing to me how quickly I formed bonds with that group. It was only a week, but they were a lot of fun and in some ways it was more like hanging out with friends than being at work. Thursday we went to the St. Vincent de Paul Dining Room to serve lunch for a few hours. We served over 800 meals. There were several people who went through the line multiple times, but overall we were able to serve quite a few people. We had a 15 minute break to eat our lunch and hang out with some of the people who were eating in the dining area. We left there and drove around for a bit looking for a place for some downtime between ministry sites. We found our way to the Palace of Fine Arts and walked around the pond, found a model, blah blah blah... =) It was a lot of fun roaming around the city (in a van) for about an hour with no real place to go.

Friday was their last day here, but they still had an activity in the morning. We did Meet a Need in the "Haight-Ashbury" district and they wanted me to go with them. Normally this would be some free time for me, but like I said, they wanted me to go, and being their last day, I wanted to hang out with them some more, so I did. We met some awesome people- including "Scottage Cheese" who told me about how he is homeless by choice, but that life on the streets is more about community and family than about being poor or destitute. It was a great experience, and I'm really glad I was able to be a part of it.

Sorry it took me so long to post again- I'm now back at my "normal" "temporary, permanent" housing so I'll have internet access and hopefully earlier nights than I did last week. Thanks again for all of your prayers and thoughts for me this week and always. For those of you who know about the decision I had to make last week, I accepted the position. There are still some unanswered questions, but I serve a God who provides and I know that this will be no exception.