YES!!!!

Institute, Week Six and a Half  J

Ooooomg!! We have s-u-c-h a countdown going on right now it’s not even funny!! Only two more full days left this week, then final evaluations and then, at last, graduation. This week breezes by like nobody’s business. The great thing is that all we had to do pretty much during the week was proctor the EOCs for the kids (translation: just be another warm body in the room and make sure the kids don’t cheat or fall asleep), and go to the last few Framework sessions. Piece of cake. It flew by so fast that we were at graduation day before we even knew it.

I’m not really sure what I was expecting, honestly. Graduation was really informal, but it was also really FUN. Each group did presentations to their leaders, which was hilarious. This was the best part of everything, hands down. It was so nice to see everybody (those remaining, anyway) truly be able to relax and let their hair down, be themselves and have a great time. No worries about work due. No lingering thoughts about something you may have forgotten to complete or submit or email in, no work products and no more write-ups. Just having FUN. And it was great. We laughed and enjoyed ourselves, and it was great. It was a perfectly fitting way to end all the stress and craziness we’ve been going through for the past month and a half. All that stress just melted away and we became ourselves again, encouraged, empowered and now finally trained and ready to go out and help change the world.

WE MADE IT!!!!