"Hold on to your horses!!" Kendra has actually posted again!!
Yes...I am here. I have been absent due to an enormous amount of things happening in my life. I am not yet above water, but instead of being in the deepest, blackest abyss in the Atlantic Ocean, I am a few feet from the surface...so still drowning, but there is light up there!
Most of my life this summer has been dedicated to my internship. The learning curve has truly been like climbing Mt. Everest. I am creating an eLearning course for new employee orientation, and it has been painful...not that I haven't liked it...oddly, I have really loved it...but there is so much to learn and do that I feel like I'm in a perpetual finals week. I guess that it means a lot if I'm still loving what I'm doing under that kind of stress. I was once worried that I was going into the wrong master's program, but I guess this experience has confirmed that I am on the right course. (Funny that....I know that the Lord was prompting me to go into this program even though I knew very little about it. Truly He is all-knowing!)
I have also been trying to develop friendships in my new ward...and dating some (crazy that!). I could definitely keep living here in Lehi...but I found out today what the next leg of my life's race looks like, and Lehi is not a part of it. But before I get to that, I have to say that I have truly loved living with my brother and his family this summer. I will have a hard time leaving my nieces and nephew. There is something inexplicably wonderful about having them joyfully yell out my name when I come home from work. They have grown so much these last 3 months...and I don't want to miss a moment. Well, I know I will be lonely without them!
So...I am now preparing for the next leg of my race. My internship will end on August 15th, and I will be returning to Logan, to finish my last semester of grad school. At least, that's the current plan. The team I am on now are hoping to get another full-time employee sometime this Fall or Winter, but it hasn't gone through all the red tape. So, they have decided to extend my employment...not as an intern but as a part-time instructional designer. I will be working from a distance and going to school (good thing most of my classes are at night!). I will then apply for the full-time job when it comes open. That may make finishing a bit hairy...but it would be totally worth it to delay graduation to go back and work for this team.
Life is so precarious! I never know what's going to happen next. :) I guess that's the fun of it, no?
5 comments:
Congratulations, Kendra, on your employment. That is always nice when you can be working from a distance and yet getting other things accomplished as well.
Hope you make it to the top of the ocean soon enough! =)
Oh Kendra, so that is how it is going to work. So will school be part time too? Or will you push to graduate in December still? Wow. But it will happen, right? Keep holding on, you will reach the surface. I am sending you some Gilly Weed so you can make it through.
Sounds like you're gonna be just as busy once school starts. Just keep your Thursday evenings free.
You guys are awesome! Thanks! I am doing a bit better this week...but Thad, I think you're right, I am going to be super busy this Fall. It will only last for 3 1/2 months, right? I figure I can do anything for that amount of time and still survive. :) We'll see.
WOW...well good luck!! You will be amazing as always!
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