Unfortunately, I think I'm now an adult

Today, I woke up after a full night's rest, but my body doesn't seem to believe that. My hands and arms are week and shaky, and it takes nearly all the strength in them to move my 2 pound laptop.  Not all days are like this, though, and sometimes I wake up hours before my alarm with so much energy that my to-do list gets to die a swift death that day.  I just never know which kind of day it will be until it shows up.  So, today, with the recent release of Finding Dory back in the states (it's not in Brazil yet), I channeled my inner little blue fish to "just keep swimming".  I made it to work to teach.  I got here 30 minutes after the students arrive, but I got here (and I originally designed it so that I wouldn't normally take students until then anyways, in case I ran into trouble getting all the computer units up and going--which has already happened twice, so it was a good plan). This week, I'm working with the older groups to finish a lesson I had o

So I guess normally the title phrase would have the word Diamonds, but I've never actually had any of those in my life.  But as a military brat, there's always a chance that baby's first word will actually be an acronym, and even though my life is no longer that of a child (*insert semi sad face because taxes...grrrr) or of a military affiliate, there are still a lot of important acronyms in it. Obviously, YASC is a popular one. I added into my autocorrect ages ago because of how often I use it. And during my experience with YASC, I've learned another acronym. ABCD (Asset Based Community Developement) is a model implemented around the world by Episcopal Relief and Development  and encouraged to be the primary option for community development programs involving YASCers as well.  Part of our training and preparation for our missions this year included training on ABCD.  There are several mentions of it on blogs of other YASCers whose placement heavily includes ABCD.

Hello there, everyone! I'm sorry that the title is a little bit click-bait-y (where articles on social media use titles that nearly force you to open them to read more, even for really simple things). It is both true and also misleading, but I'm not actually going to directly continue to answer the obvious questions that you might be thinking right away. This is, in part, because the answer required a bit of set up to explain, and, primarily, because I really don't have too many ways to try and keep you interested except to try things like this and hold the resolve until the end. But I will tell you right now, I'll also be putting stuff at the end just so you can't immediately skip down to get an easy answer.  *insert evil laugh here* mwahahahaha Back in the middle of May I was in the midst of my health struggle, but had been asked to attend the Global Episcopal Mission Network (GEMN) conference held in Ponce, Puerto Rico.  I had accepted many weeks prior, before