What a day!

Well it has been quite a day. I met this morning with my faculty advisor for our annual check in and he is also the internship director. He said that as long as I'm willing to go anywhere for CPE there is always a spot available somewhere in Western Canada if I don't get into Calgary or Vancouver. Then this afternoon I had my teleconference with Vancouver. I was told then that they had received 34 applications for the six, maybe seven spots they have available this summer. I had a really good interview and at the end the supervisor asked me to send him my availability for meeting with him next week and so we have arranged a meeting for Monday morning - good sign! Then just after finalizing that meeting by email I received an email from the CPE site in Calgary asking for a teleconference interview on Thursday. I'm really excited now! I am anxious to know where I'll be this summer but I am feeling more confident that I will get into CPE somewhere and that is a huge relief. It's been quite the roller coaster of a day!

The Waiting Game

I'm in this point in my program where it's all about waiting. I have submitted my CPE applications to both Vancouver and Calgary, have contacted them to ensure they received all the pieces (they did) and now am waiting. I have an interview with Vancouver tomorrow over a teleconference. Calgary is still accepting applications apparently even though their deadline was February 15. That works well for me because I'll hopefully hear back from Vancouver before Calgary and Vancouver is my first choice. I have to get into a summer CPE program in order to be able to do internship next year. I have another internship meeting on Thursday to find out the final list of sites and submit my first, second and third choices which the internship director will look at, consult with the sites and the faculty and make the big match which will be announced the third week of March. So right now I have no idea what my life will look like after May 1 when I finish the internship retreat (if I get into CPE that is, here's hoping!). If for some reason I don't get into CPE in Calgary or Vancouver then my life has to take a completely different turn and I have to try to get into a year long CPE program somewhere, find a part time job and do internship the year after next. I really really really don't want that to happen!
School continues to motor along. This semester is flying by. I fly home for reading week on Friday for a week away from snow, yay! I'm looking forward to spending time with family and friends, sharing stories and pictures from my Peru trip and catching up on their lives. And of course I'm going on the traditional reading week trip. Monday and Tuesday of next week Kat and I will head up the sunshine coast for two days and one night of relaxation. I can't wait!
I'm starting to wonder if the snow will ever leave Saskatoon. I'm not sure I remember what it looks like without snow. We got about another 10-15 centimetres on Friday just to reassure everyone that winter was still around. Of course the 3 feet of snow we already had was doing a good enough job of that!
Oh well, two months from now I'll be packing up my suite and heading off to wherever I go next on this wild adventure!

Back in 'toon town

Well life continues here in Saskatoon. It's so cold here! Friday I woke up to a windchill warning, -42 with the windchill, lovely! School continues to happen. I've submitted my CPE application to Calgary and Vancouver and have submitted my internship application to the director of internship. Now it's just a waiting game. CPE (clinical pastoral education) is a chaplaincy program that is full time May - July this summer. Internship will start sometime between August 1 and September 1 and go for 9-12 months. I'm hoping to get into CPE in Vancouver but I have to get in somewhere because I have to have it before I can go on internship. So right now it's a big waiting game, a bit stressful for a control freak like me! Time is starting to fly by. Three weeks from this weekend I'll be back in Vancouver for reading week, I can't wait to see green again. The winter is really starting to get to me here.
Last night I went to the Barenaked Ladies concert, it was awesome. They have so much fun on stage you can't help but to enjoy the concert. Their music is so awesome as well.
I'm really getting frustrated with the atmosphere at school. The first couple of weeks it seemed to have improved from the end of last semester but the dark cloud over the seminary has returned and everyone is sucked into being angry and nasty to each other. I'm just tired of dealing with those kind of attitudes. I also don't appreciate being the brunt of people's grumpiness because I happen to be there. Oh well, I have lots of fun with my friends and have found a few friends outside of the seminary community that help me keep my sanity.

More pictures - not Peru this time though

Thought you might like to see a picture of me at the seminary. This is Sebastian and I at his first birthday party last weekend. We hang out every Wednesday morning while his parents are in class. It was taken by one of the other seminary kids at the party which would be why it's a little low! Happy Monday everyone!

More Peru Pics

I've posted a few more Peru pics here. The first one is my all time favourite. Enjoy and leave comments here!

Peru Pictures 2

This is a shot taken by another person on the trip of the group below looking at themselves in the screen of my camera.

Peru Pictures

Ok this is the third try posting pictures. Here are three more pictures from my trip. The people of Peru are beautiful especially the children so you'll see that I have lots of pictures of children. The pictures here are the three female students on the trip on our girls night out, the little sister of the boys in the three below holding a ducking she had chased around the yard to catch and some friends Dawn made outside of a restaurant in a small town.