Tweet I took this quote from a friend.. Don’t ask yourself what the world needs. ask yourself what makes you come alive, and go do that, because what the world needs is people who have come alive. -Howard Thurman I read it today and realized that this is my current dilemma. I have not quite yet figured out what makes me come alive. I do know that I felt the most alive while I was in Africa and that teaching does not always make me feel super alive. So this is my prayer and pursuit. That I will find that passion that truly makes me come alive..and that I will…

Tweet After today, I am convinced I have a loose screw somewhere. I decided to run a 10K this morning. First 10k race I have ever run, although surely not my last! However, this was not your normal 10k. No, this race was mostly through the jungle. And I am not talking path through the jungle, I am talking rocky, twisty, vine-covered jungle. At one point, I grabbed a branch two seconds before my head would have gone smashing into it. and it has been raining so much here that it was slippery. But boy was it a fun race! and it ended pretty well too! So here’s out the…

Tweet I spent part of the day Saturday at a resort for training for this YEAH program I am the advisor for. I got to bring my 8 students with me and Anna, the third grade teacher came along as well. My students did excellent. I was SO proud of them! They had some really really good ideas for how to improve the health and fitness in our school. And they got pretty excited about the project. Not to mention they fed us some amazing food and gave us some really good information. It was one of the first days I can say I truly am starting to love my…

Tweet I have wanted to run one for awhile. I started training before I left for Saipan, but sorta fell off the course in the midst of moving and settling in here. But I have been running almost everyday and have gotten to the point where I can run 4 miles easily and ran 6 the other day. So I found a training program and started yesterday! I don’t necessarily have a specific race in mind, but there are half marathons every other weekend here so it shouldn’t be a problem to find one to run when I am finished with the training. I plan on doing one in early…

Tweet Never a dull moment in my life-even when I move to the other side of the world on a small island, I can always find plenty to do! So I have been named supervisor for a project called YEAH-Youth Engaging in Advancing Health. I will be in charge of my school in promoting healthy activity and eating. The project is being funded by the Public School System and I am pretty excited about it. I have gathered myself a little team of 10 5th and 6th graders to help me and we will be working all year on this. First order of business, I get to go to training!…