Time to Catch Up

Hi there! It's Christina. I wanted to check in since it has been a while. There hasn't been too much going on lately, but I will share the goings-on.

I recently started tutoring at one of the local elementary schools and so far it has been a lot of fun. A few friends kept telling me to do it while I have the time but I thought I would not be good at it. I never did much with children since I was always the child. At first I wanted to help out at the animal shelter but after I got one good inhalation of the kennel I decided to go a different route. Talk about horrific! I am not much of a dog person but I helped out with the dog adoptions last Sunday. That was fine until about the second hour when there was so much dog hair in my nose that I could hardly breathe. Not to mention how bad I stunk afterwards. Needless to say, I am not a dog person. They are good from far away but I will never own one. They smell, they are dirty and honestly if I am going to put that much effort into another living creature, I'll just have a child! It was nice helping though.

Volunteering at the school is so far lots of fun. It's great watching the children understand what you are saying and do the work. One of the students already hugged me when I left and that was worth it already! They can be so sweet. Walking into the elementary school made me excited for having a child of my own one day. Glad I'm getting practice now because it is clear it has been a long time since I have done elementary school math! Yikes! Zach heard how much fun I was having so he will probably volunteer there too. He'll be good at it.

Aside from helping at the school, I have started taking more aerobic and yoga classes at the gym lately. I have learned I am severely out of shape despite all the exercise I have been doing lately. In addition, I also confirmed how coordination is not my forte. I couldn't quite do the hands and legs motions at the same time. Practice makes perfect and I intend on it.

I have also started a class in enterprise risk. It sounds as awful as it is. Interesting - yes; complex - yes! I still have 5 weeks to go of this. Glad I don't have work right now.

That is about it for now. Zach is busy in school and is in lab about 6 days out of the week. He is really enjoying it. At least we know he picked the right major!