School started about a month ago, and I've been so busy I haven't had time to post. It says my last post was on July 1st, which means I have to back clear up and talk about my trip to Mexico. It was AMAZING! I went to a Children's Home called La Casa De La Esperanza. It's so awesome! I encourage everyone to visit this place at least once in their life. I'm thinking I'm going to be a frequent visitor, though, as frequent as I can be. I fell in love with a girl named Claudia, and I am now sponsoring her. That means I contribute an amount of money every month to go toward her care, and as part of that, I also get to write her letters and send her birthday and Christmas presents. It's really amazing. I'm hoping she will be able to write me back, although I haven't asked the director of the home about that yet, so I'm not completely sure. I'm going to send him a message on facebook today and ask. I want to ask about writing me letters and I also want to ask about an acceptable Christmas present. They don't get Christmas presents, they give them to people in their community. I think this is great, but I would also like to send her something for Christmas. I'm thinking a Grinnell Tigers hoodie with her name on the back of it and a Build-A-Bear!!! I think she'd love it!! Anyway, I've been really excited about that. And now school has started. I'm in Student Council, FCA, and marching band. I really love FCA, and Mr Jorth is my chemistry teacher, and he also directs FCA. It's really cool how much you learn about the life of a teacher just by what activities they sponsor in school. I didn't have time to do debate this year, because I'm working at both Fly High and Taco Johns, and I'm starting to get a lot of hours at both of them, so I stay really busy. Life is good. Sometimes stressful, but it's still good. I had my gall bladder removed last week. It was a pretty effortless procedure, on my part anyway, and everything went fine. It was outpatient, which was nice. I'm still kind of recovering, which is discouraging. I'm ready to be back to normal already :D Oh well. I'll get there. In the mean time, I'm thinking about starting another blog. Not sure what I'm gonna call it yet, but it's going to be a writing blog. My whole life I've aspired to be a writer, on the side of whatever other profession I pick up. So I'm thinking that if I start a blog, and get some ideas flowing, maybe I can actually write a book at some point. That would be really cool!! I'm at the library and my sisters are bothering me to go home, so I'll try to do another post soon. I'll post the URL to my other blog once I start it.
More later,
~KYlee
