Hi!
Wow a lot has happened since the last time I posted. On October 29th, Hurricane Sandy hit us. Thankfully we only lost power for two days and were without cable, internet, and home phone services for five days. It could have been so much worse for us. Poor New Jersey and New York got really slammed. Yesterday, a little snow storm came and it snowed in New Jersey and New York. Like they haven't been through enough. People are still without power in some of those areas. I might be going with alma mater to help out in New Jersey on Saturday. I have to find out if I will be approved to go.
My job has been giving me some stress. With the hurricane, it meant that I couldn't work for most of the week, which really, really sucks. My one client cancelled one of their sessions this week, so my pay check is going to be very low. I have huge student loans to pay off, and starting this month I have to pay loans #2. Needless to say, they are very high and money is really tight. I wish I had a full-time job with paid time off. I interviewed for a full-time position on Friday, but haven't heard back yet. I don't think I'm going to get it because I don't have enough experience- they ask for at least one year. It also sounded like they were doing okay without the Bachelor's level Mental Health Worker. I do still like working for Indian Creek, but I am going to have to get another part-time job to do on the weekends. I wish I didn't have to, but oh well. I interviewed with Banana Republic, but they never got back to me.
I am still looking for full-time positions, but I can see most companies point- I have had three months worth of professional experience post- grad. I forget if I wrote in the last post, but I was offered a job at Melmark, but decided not to take it. It was 33 miles each way, I had to pay tolls. They wanted me to work during snow storms, and the clients were really low-functioning, and sorry to sound like a snob but I didn't go to college to be hit and have to take people to the bathroom. I may be an idiot for turning down a full-time job, but hopefully I will find one that is right, or maybe can make it work with Indian Creek.
I'm still looking at grad schools, but I won't get into that right now. I just have a lot going on. Hopefully it will die down soon. I am probably going to try going to another church. I don't feel at home at the current one I have been attending. I had been attending a Bible study, which I really enjoyed, and then it all of a sudden abruptly ended. I still don't understand. The young people who attend that church also tend to be very judgmental and mostly all the same. Most young people that attend go to MontCo (the local community college) or have attended MontCo and *love* living in Montgomeryville/ Hatfield, or whatever, and are all white and Republican. I lean more Democrat, do not want to live in the Philadelphia suburbs with all middle-class,White people my whole life, and do not feel that a lot of the people who attend this church are that intelligent. There I said it. It's mean, I know, but it's how I feel. Not everyone I have encountered is like that, but I feel that most I have met are.
I don't expect to go to church and constantly have deep, intellectual conversations, or expect people to be liberal, especially in a Protestant church in America, but I do want a church where I can meet different kinds of people, not just white, 20-somethings, who go to MontCo and believe that men are more superior to women. I literally sat at a diner after church on Sunday near a guy from the church talking to another girl, basically saying how men and women are "so different" and women are "so much more emotional" than men. That is not true. Man or Woman, Black or White, young or old, Disabled or Able-bodied- we are all the same to God. He loves us all. Needless to say, I am starting my church search, once again. Alone. I can do it. I did it in Denmark and if I can do it there, I can do it here.
~Jenna
