Prayers please

Yesterday I had my phone interview with ICTC. It went pretty well, I think. Eep! Although I was Highly Inarticulate for the first question, trying to explain concisely why I want to do ICTC. How do you sum something like that up? Hm... I hope they don't hold that against me! There were lots of fun things about the interview, though. I got to talk about Bea a lot, in particular about the Soy Latte Incident and about how through my friendship with her God has grown me in how I do friendships. I also got to talk about Tina and bonding through chem and bio studying as an example of teaching/working together. We got to talk about Eric, too, and how something I'm learning is to open myself up and communicate more. We talked about Camp Kesem and the challenges that I faced as a counselor there. I talked about my girls at Eastside Prep and how we feed off each other's excitement for our science project (the girls were *adorable* in their special nitrile gloves... they were so tickled that they got to wear them!) and how they inspire me. I brought up this book that I read recently called Inside Mrs. B's Classroom: Hope, Courage and Learning on Chicago's South Side, by Leslie Baldacci. Incredible, this book... it made me cry at points and at others I felt nauseated, but after everything my heart was praising God that there are people like her to fight for these kids. Through my tears and shock at some of the anecdotes she relates, I was encouraged. So hard, sooo hard, but praise God that he made me a fighter.

I need everybody's prayers. Please be in prayer that God's will be done here. That I be encouraged and that God use the rest of my time here to prepare me for whatever happens next year. We find out around March 22nd and then we need to let them know within a week of our decision. Thank you so much, everybody, for your support. I am so blessed to have such wonderful friends. =)