6 days 8 hours 13 minutes left of this job. One week.

It's real now. I'm really really going to miss this city, but I am now ready to go. Very ready to return home to friends and family.

19 days 5 hours and 17 minutes until the end of this job.

It has yet to totally sink in, but I am starting to feel slight pangs of... something. I will truly miss all the kids I have come to know this year. It has been the relationships I have developed with a small few that have really been the driving force of this year. If it were not for those teens, I would not have stayed or lasted the entire year. They made me stronger, they made me a success.

Oh wow

30 days, 4 hours, 17 minutes. Time is flying!

I recently ran a small girls' retreat here at the church. It went fairly well, but I have started to discover how strict I tend to get when I feel that I am getting attitude. Six months ago I would not have survived the weekend. Now I have turned into a slight New Yorker that does not want to be messed with. I really am becoming a whole new person. I cut off about 12" of hair recently and have gained some sort of metaphorical freedom with that. Interesting...