Day 17: Learning

In order to get to the university my boss teaches at yesterday, I had to climb a big hill from the train stop.  For those of you familiar with KU's campus, it is necessary to climb a ginormous hill everyday, so I really started to miss KU.  I really miss school in general though.  I miss learning.  I miss reading.  I miss writing.  I miss stretching myself. I was always one to connect with my professors and even used to hang out with one of my english professors at his house sometimes to talk about books.  It was awesome.

While it's not quite the same as going to school, I'm trying to make the most of my job and learn as much as I can there, since it's the learning environment I have at my disposal right now.  And actually, there's quite a bit to learn there.  I'm learning not only about architecture, but about scheduling, accounting, translating and starting to get into marketing.

I've also started listening to TED talks.  I know I'm a bit behind in this fad, but I'm really enjoying it!

And I'm also really enjoying learning through my Bible study, listening to sermons from Beggars Table back in KC, and reading books John and Brandi loan me.

In the end, it's all about doing what you can, with what you have, where you are, and I'm sure trying to embrace that.

...but I do still think that someday I'll end up back in school :-)

So this is a photo of the cute little French bakery I stopped at on my way home from work today to buy a GIANT macaroon.  It was delicious and totally worth waiting in line.  I was gonna try to take a photo of the macaroon for y'all, but once again, I was overtaken by my hunger and devoured it before I realized what I had done.