It's My Life!
Hello my dear family!
It has been quite a while and I would love to hear updates on all your lives! And it just so happens that we have this great blog that is just perfect for that very purpose!
Now for what is happening in my life:
I have now finished my 3rd year at Waterloo and only have one more year and I will be done my undergrad degree, which is a crazy thought, because I clearly remember the end of Kaleo and really not looking forward to university and thinking how 4 years would be forever. But the time has flown by and been great. At times that schoolwork can be overwhelming but for the most part I really enjoy what I am learning. I have also been blessed with a wonderful group of friends at school that make everything much more fun but are also a great support when that is needed as well in my faith and just life in general.
This summer I am also studying for my LSAT (Law School Admission Test) to write that in the fall in order to get into Law School after my undergrad. Though I am also considering taking a year to do something else, liking volunteering abroad or doing a masters or really anything before going to law school, so if anyone has suggestions for that year, I would love to hear them.
As for the summer, I am working in Timmins, which is in Northern Ontario, with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) with their Aboriginal Neighbours program for 4 months. I have been up here for about 1 month now. They do advocacy with First Nations and I am helping out with that, wherever the help is needed. So far I have been focusing on clean water, food sustainability and mining, which are areas of such concern that First Nations, especially in the Far North are facing. I am enjoying it so far and learning a lot about these issues and about partnering with the First Nations people. It is a huge challenge seeing the impacts of the past actions of the church done in Christ’s name, in the form of residential schools and understanding how to show God’s love to people that have been so hurt in the past. God is teaching me how to seek justice in his strength, though I still have a long way to go in figuring that one out. You can check out the work that MCC does up here in Timmins and what I am helping with:
http://ontario.mcc.org/aboriginal
While I am here I’m living with the parents of one of my roommates from school, which really is a blessing, since they have kind of just adopted me as their daughter for the summer.
In another area of life, I am dating a great young man, named Jesse. We have been dating for about 6 months now and it is really wonderful. Right now we are pretty far apart for 4 months because he is down in Waterloo area, which is less than ideal, but it is still going really well. We met at university back in first year and have been friends since then and it was quite a process to say the least but finally in December we decided to start dating. God really had his hand on the timing throughout the whole situation. So the past six months have been a learning experience in that area but also a great blessing.
I think that is all for now.
I love you all and think of you often.
Be Blessed,
Catherine
It has been quite a while and I would love to hear updates on all your lives! And it just so happens that we have this great blog that is just perfect for that very purpose!
Now for what is happening in my life:
I have now finished my 3rd year at Waterloo and only have one more year and I will be done my undergrad degree, which is a crazy thought, because I clearly remember the end of Kaleo and really not looking forward to university and thinking how 4 years would be forever. But the time has flown by and been great. At times that schoolwork can be overwhelming but for the most part I really enjoy what I am learning. I have also been blessed with a wonderful group of friends at school that make everything much more fun but are also a great support when that is needed as well in my faith and just life in general.
This summer I am also studying for my LSAT (Law School Admission Test) to write that in the fall in order to get into Law School after my undergrad. Though I am also considering taking a year to do something else, liking volunteering abroad or doing a masters or really anything before going to law school, so if anyone has suggestions for that year, I would love to hear them.
As for the summer, I am working in Timmins, which is in Northern Ontario, with Mennonite Central Committee (MCC) with their Aboriginal Neighbours program for 4 months. I have been up here for about 1 month now. They do advocacy with First Nations and I am helping out with that, wherever the help is needed. So far I have been focusing on clean water, food sustainability and mining, which are areas of such concern that First Nations, especially in the Far North are facing. I am enjoying it so far and learning a lot about these issues and about partnering with the First Nations people. It is a huge challenge seeing the impacts of the past actions of the church done in Christ’s name, in the form of residential schools and understanding how to show God’s love to people that have been so hurt in the past. God is teaching me how to seek justice in his strength, though I still have a long way to go in figuring that one out. You can check out the work that MCC does up here in Timmins and what I am helping with:
http://ontario.mcc.org/aboriginal
While I am here I’m living with the parents of one of my roommates from school, which really is a blessing, since they have kind of just adopted me as their daughter for the summer.
In another area of life, I am dating a great young man, named Jesse. We have been dating for about 6 months now and it is really wonderful. Right now we are pretty far apart for 4 months because he is down in Waterloo area, which is less than ideal, but it is still going really well. We met at university back in first year and have been friends since then and it was quite a process to say the least but finally in December we decided to start dating. God really had his hand on the timing throughout the whole situation. So the past six months have been a learning experience in that area but also a great blessing.
I think that is all for now.
I love you all and think of you often.
Be Blessed,
Catherine
posted by Catherine at 6:12 PM
2 Comments:
Thanks for the update, Catherine! I hope we get to see you sometime this year and catch up some more. There is a K8 student who is doing an internship with International Justice Mission this summer. Have you checked out opportunities with them? Hope to see you soon.
awesome, thanks for the update!
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