so, after a year of not really doing much other than messing around and having fun i have decided to do something a little more productive. although it does feel a little like i'm doing a two-step as my plan to move forward with my education includes moving back to jamestown and going to valley city state again (only for a year or so). my plan is to finish up a few classes and retake others to get my grade point average up and then start applying for graduate programs. i hope to end up with some sort of advanced degree. (maybe in environmental communication?) of course, i will keep you posted on the details of all of this as they unfold.
at the moment i'm still not sure when this will all happen. as it stands, i've re-applied for the temporary position that i held at charism's camp mccormick last summer. this year the focus is going to be on gardening and without knowing that i submitted a list of gardening project ideas with my application. since i held the position last year, because of my interests (gardening, environmentalism, food justice), coupled with my future plans give me lots of hope that i will be hired back. (lets hope so because how awesome will that look on my grad school apps?) if that happens i plan to move in august. if, for some reason, i do not get re-hired i'm not sure when i'll move, but it will probably be sooner than later.
anyone who really knows me understands what a difficult decision this has been for me...not because i've spent a lot of time talking about it, but because they know how i feel about living there. don't get me wrong, there are many things about jamestown that i adore (mostly people that live there) but there seem to be a disproportionate amount of things about the place that i find despicable. needless to say, i'm going in with the attitude that this is a means to an end...not my end.
