on a rainy morning.

So it's about 8:15 in the morning over here... the skies are grey and it's raining. It's all really pretty though and sounds incredible. It's early enough where everything is pretty quiet and all I really hear right now is the sound of my typing and the rain falling down a little harder.. then gets a bit softer... it keeps switching back and forth. It's nice.

So my week of work was interesting. I did alright. I still felt pretty clueless but not as uncomfortable, so I guess that's a good thing. I'm leaving for training today for 10 days in Raleigh/Durham, North Carolina. I'm kind of excited to see a new state, get trained, and learn some new skills that would be very helpful in this line of work. It's a week of training in a hotel.. where I get CPR/First Aid certified, learn deescalation techniques, problem solving skills, and how to restrain and get out of restraints and anything else these kids will throw my way. The second part of training is called Hard Skills Training, where I spend 4 days at a camp down in NC, learning the everyday routine of camp and all that fun stuff. Everyone has told me that it's good that I got to experience camp for two weeks because I go to training with real scenarios to ask questions about and get feedback on. So that's good I guess, though these past two weeks weren't the best.. but that's okay. I'm learning.

Enough of work though.. I like to keep that at work and not think about it. So my 2 days off were fun. I got off Thursday night, so had a full 2 days off, Friday and Saturday. Both days were a lot of fun! I told my roomies that I wanted to be active on my days off instead of just sitting around the house watching Netflixs. My goodness... we were very active! Hah but so much fun at the same time.

So I decided Friday would be my fake birthday-day since I was working on my actual birthday. So I just had to make it amazing! Friday started off with a 6 mile run through the streets of Wakefield. I got a little lost, but that's expected since I turn on random streets. Good thing I keep my phone on me and can use google maps to find my way back hah. So the 6 miles were fun. Then I went rock climbing! Which was amazing by the way. I went to an indoor rock climbing gym with 2 other roommates. Gosh that shit is hard to do, especially little me who never uses her upper body for anything! But I made it to the top each time I climbed up... which was about 4 times? I think that's about right. My arms felt like jelly at the end of it all but I can't wait to climb again. Afterwards a bunch of us went out to the local Mews Tavern and had some fun there, playing cards and having a grand ole time. Yay for Friday Funday.

Sattuurdayy we went to Jamestown, a little island off the coast, connected by a bridge, and went into the ocean. The boys cliff jumped. I wanteddd to jump too! But I couldn't bring myself to jump from that height, so I can't say I cliff jumped. I would say I just hopped into the water from a rocky edge. It wasn't a cliff hah. And we swammmm to this little rocky spot. Man I can't swim for very long. Damn upper body that I never use for anything. Oh well. That was fun. We just hung out the entire day, walking around the rocks and relaxing. Good times were had. I saw Inception! Strange movie, but good at the same time.

So that's the weekend in a nutshell. A lot of fun. Glad it waited until today to rain or else my 2 days off would not have been as fun and active. I miss everyone at home and hope it has been an amazing few weeks there! I've been taking pictures and stuff but have been lazy about putting them on the computer. I'll get to that today though so you all can see where I've been these past few weeks.

Oh and short side note. I'm going to Harrryyy Pottter World in October! hahah so excited about that.. I'm such a nerd but cannottt wait.

Alright that is all. Ciao!