conflicting emotions

WRITTEN A COUPLE OF NIGHTS AGO:

They said it would happen and I didn’t believe them. Not for a minute. I was too surrounded by passion to get swept up in the stereotypical crash after the mountain top high. Don’t get me wrong, this week has still been phenomenal by my pre-City Year standards, but I definitely started to let things wear me down. It started Sunday night. I let petty high school gossiping get the best of me, it outright hurt my feelings. I originately typed a lot more about the subject, but I'll leave it at that.

This week was also rather stressful because I had quite a scare with Koda. I ended up taking her to the vet before work on Wednesday morning because she was obviously sick with bloody vomit (sorry…) Anyways. $114 later the vet chalked it up to the simple fact that something irritated her stomach. I stayed home with her the next day to keep an eye on her. She still wasn’t quite herself Thursday morning and I couldn’t bring myself to leave her alone for 11 hours, but by that evening she seemed pretty much back to her old self. And I got a much needed mental health day.

Earlier this week we were a bit bummed out at McAuliffe. There was a lot testing and lack of interaction and progress with the kids. But my team met with the principal to have all of our lunch clubs approved. So those are starting next week and we also get our tutees and mentees next Tuesday! This means two very detailed lesson plans by Monday morning… but it’s worth it! We also started our CPR training today and even though it was incredibly boring stuff on the computer we get to work with the dummies next week! I also figured out what I want to do for my Leadership Development Internship (this is a 4 hour block we have on Wednesday morning to participate in an internship or volunteer opportunity with any non-profit in San Antonio). I’m going to take Falkor to the State Hospital to work with an adolescent group there! I’m VERY EXCITED about this.

So I know that’s a lot. I’m sorry if I overwhelmed, but this week was rather overwhelming for me as well. It’s over tho and I can start the steady climb back to the top and beyond. Here are some really cool things that show just that:

The Young Heroes team gave their presentation to recruit us to help out next semester and be a Team Leader for the Young Heroes. I’m really excited about getting to work with their team. Young Heroes is a club that was started in City Year for middle schoolers. They give up 3 Saturdays a month to participate in service learning seminars and service projects. They complete 100 hours of service and earn the President’s Award for Service. I can’t wait to work with these inspiring kids!


There is a LiveGreen festival type thing tomorrow that’s being put on by CPS and Saturn (so of course our Saturn sponsored Civic Engagement team is required to help out). I was already interested in going to check it out so I’m going to get hours there by helping out for a bit. I’ll have to remember to post tomorrow about all the cool stuff I see.