Long overdue...

I guess it is long past my turn to up date this thing! This past spring was so busy for me and things have just begun to slow down now. I tell the girls on my tennis team that I don't want to hear excuses from them, but here I go anyways, giving excuses!

I finished my 4th season as the head coach of the Bethany girls tennis team at the end of May. We had a good season and I am really excited about the future of the program. My varsity team had 1 junior, 4 sophomores, and 2 freshman this spring. I am so excited about returning everyone next spring. We finished the season 9-9, even with all of our inexperience. This group is going to be my next sectional winning team!

I finished my classes at Goshen College at the end of April and since then have taken one more class through Indiana University's education at a distance program. I have one last class to take this summer to fill in my missing credits. It is amazing to look at the my to-do list from a year and a half ago and know that I only have one more class plus student teaching to complete. It has been a crazy year, but I am really excited about the upcoming changes.

At this point there are a lot of details up in the air. I have applied for an open teaching position for next year and have found a few other openings at local schools I plan to apply for as well. The question will be if a school will be willing to give me a job, even though I won't be fully licensed until December. I am crossing my fingers and hoping to get lucky. If for some reason it doesn't work out though I will do my student teaching with Brent at Bethany this fall and look for a second semester job.

School ended a few weeks ago. It is always strange to be at the school in the summer without all of the students around. I directed a science day camp last week for kids in grades K-5. This is my 3rd summer running the program and I added some teaching responsibilities as well, just for more practice. This week is another set of camps that I am in charge of as well. The Bethany boys tennis coach and I are running a tennis camp in the morning for middle school students and I am overseeing other camps throughout the rest of the day. After this week things will slow down a lot!

Seth and I are also excited about seeing Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat tonight at the Round Barn Theater in Warsaw. Grandpa and Martha were nice enough to offer us their tickets since they are out of town and Grandpa is recovering from surjery. I know we will enjoy the show tonight.

Well, that is a marathon catchup. I am excited about the rest of the summer. I have projects to work on around the house and of course Rebekah's upcoming wedding in August. I will also continue to pray and trust that details will begin to fall into place for next year. I don't handle uncertaintly well, so this is strecthing for me.

Sarah