I finally made it to the hotel in downtown Houston after circling the place a couple times because I kept missing the entrance and the dag gum one way streets. The minute I walked into the hotel I began to meet other 2007 Houston corps members and I have been trying my hardest to remember all their names. So far I am doing a pretty good job I think. Most everyone is very excited to be here and are fairly outgoing.
During my registration process I found out that tomorrow I will have a interview tomorrow at 3:00 PM with the principal from Robert E. Lee High School for a math teacher position. I am a bit nervous because they told us to prepare a long time for this interview and I haven't really prepared at all. BUT I have been through interviews before so I am hoping this experience helps and I can just charm them. I also have faith that if this is where God wants to place me he will. What is kinda neat is that the school is in an area I am familiar with and I just went to a coffee shop there last night and really liked it and was hoping that I would find something like that near me when I moved. This school is also very close to the church I now go to in Houston. I do plan on going to a different church within the community I live in but I was hoping I could also go to the evening service on Sundays at my current church. It seems to me that this school location would work pretty well for me.
So at the dinner tonight we had to wear a nice shirt and tie. I am not too bad at tying a tie but sometimes I have trouble and I thought I would just look around online to see if they had anything that could help. I found this really good site that has a step-by-step tutorial on how to tie a full windsor knot. It was pretty funny because it was literally step-by-step. Check it out if you want to know what I mean. How to tie a tie (Full Windsor)
At dinner I met a guy named Omar who graduated from Yale and he made me feel much better about not doing any of the pre-institute stuff. He just graduated this past Monday and he has also not started to write any of the reflection papers they wanted us to write. My roommate Micah has completed all the pre-institute material and it kinda worried me a bit at first. I was told by my transition team leader that I should not stress over it. So I'm not going to!
I met some really cool people today! God blessed me with a strong Christian roommate! I took a trip back to Jill's apartment, whom I have been staying with the last couple of nights, because I forgot my suit which I will need for my interview tomorrow. My new friends Stephanie and Abby kept me company on this trip and we talked alot about my Christian faith because Stephanie is agnostic and was very interested in knowing what I believed about many different things. I think it is amazing how God has put these people in my life to let me share my faith too. I have never felt comfortable with it before but over the past year I have become much more comfortable in my faith and being able to share with people. Another cool thing about Stephanie is that she is in a very similar boat as me because she has just started a relationship with her boyfriend a month ago so we can talk about how crazy we both are for starting these relationships right before we leave for at least 2 years. I am excited to share with her about my relationship with Danielle because it will be another opportunity for me to share how God has blessed my life.
So I was really proud of how well my mom, Danielle, and I had packed my car for my trip down. Literally you could not fit anything else in the car after I got in the drivers seat. I could see perfectly out my side mirrors and semi-perfectly through my rear view mirror. When I got to Houston on Tuesday night I asked Jill to take pictures of how sweet of a job we did. So we took pictures of each side of the inside of my car and then we opened the trunk and took a picture. Well then we needed to close the trunk but it didn't close right away. So we moved a couple things around and out of the way so it could close. It never did, even after taking every single thing out of my trunk. Apparently I broke it when I overstuffed it and forced it shut. Who would have thunk. The latch was not locking because it was not far enough down to hit the bar that made it latch. So I took it to a mechanic this morning at 7AM to have them fix it. They fix it and I go to pick it up and pay and the bill is $0.00. I asked the guy why and he told me it was because he wasn't sure how long it would last because they just adjusted it slightly. So needless to say I am not going to open my trunk until I know everything that I put in there is coming out just in case it breaks again.
Well breakfast is at 6:30 AM tomorrow and it is 10 till midnight. So I am going to be finished with this post. I hope I can continue to post about my soon to be crazy life in the future!
Peace,
MO
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3 comments:
Hey Mike, glad to hear you made it and things seem to be going well so far. Looking forward to hearing more, and how the interview went. Take care.
I´m exstatic that you found you were blessed with a Christian roommate! And that they 'fixed' your car for free. That is awesome! That's awesome that your friend also just started a relationship and I hope your interview went well! <3
It wasn't a coffee place, it was bubble tea! By the way, Emily and I are starting a girls bible study and we're meeting there tomorrow night with some girls to discuss it and figure out what we wanna do. Maybe we'll play some games that were in that back room.
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