the last post of 24

In duty to Mandy I am blogging for the last time while being 24 years old.

In thinking back over the year, here are some events... in no particular order

1. first professional job interview

2. hired on with a school district

3. graduated with a Master's degree in Speech Language Pathology

4. traveled to Hong Kong and Vietnam

5. lost a camera

6. bought a camera

7. phone in constant state of illness

8. learning faith

9. in friend's wedding

10. Thanksgiving in Germantown

11. survived multiple floods in my apartment

12. have learned a lot about articulation and language therapy

13. becoming more directionally-awesome

14. gained 2 beautiful nieces, Annette and Anya

15. internship at a convalescent home and learned a lot

16. love my grace group more and more

17. Passed the PRAXIS

18. bought a real couch

19. am learning not to procrastinate

20. ate snake

21. developing a passion for Augmentative and Alternative Communication

22. am learning more and more about trusting and obeying God

23. hiked Mount Baldy

24. gained so much joy from working with 2 year olds at church

25. thankful for 'the one and only super awesome Mandy' being roommate/friend for 7 years!