First off, I found out last week that I will have the INCREDIBLE privilege of running as part of the Hope Express EXTREME Team this February! My amazing family and friends (and their family and friends too!) donated $1,300 to the Four Diamonds Fund/Hershey Medical Center/the fight against pediatric cancer - WOW! The donations and the notes that came along with them overwhelmed me with such feelings of happiness, pride, and appreciation. There is no way I could ever have taken up running to better the lives of children in the first place without this unconditional support. And thank goodness I have this support, because EIGHTEEN miles have my name written all over them (it was done with the same truck that makes the dotted yellow line in the middle of the road).
The second big set of news is that I am officially working at a paraprofessional in a Kindergarten classroom - woo! I have actually been there for over a month now and am really enjoying it. Having never worked in a Kindergarten classroom/spent an extended period of time working with this age, it has been a really eye-opening experience for me. Even in the few weeks I've been working there, it's been great to see how much the students have grown so far. Today, a student was getting upset, saying that he couldn't do the activity the class was doing. The teacher reminded him that a few weeks ago, there were a lot of things him and the other students didn't think they could do...and now they do them with ease. I had to laugh to myself, because it was like SNL was doing a parody of my life. It's so easy to forget how hard we've worked to get where we are. That's just one of the reasons I love this. It's awesome, they kept it honestly real...and it's very, very funny.
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