Old News For New Ears: New News For Old Friends

currently drinking: mint tea
currently listening to: waterdeep, jens lekman


Okay, so, I have new news. It actually seems a little old to me now, since I've been telling people over and over when they ask what I'm doing this summer.

I have officially applied to culinary school at the Art Institutes International in Kansas City. I have been up there-to the school-twice now and as far as I know, there is not going to be any problem getting accepted into it. Technically I have not been yet, but the last time I spoke with the admissions guy he used the phrase, "welcome to the family," as well as telling me, "congratulations," in an email.

So, yeah, for those who don't know already: a few weeks (a month?) ago I started looking at culinary school after getting an email advertisement about it. I read a lot about it on the website and became increasingly intrigued with the idea, especially when I found that one was in the Kansas City area, to where I was already looking at moving. After putting my name and info down to learn more about it, the school called me and I set up an appointment to go see them. It went on from there...

...I feel like it is a good move for me, for one reason, just because it means I am making some sort of "first step" on my "journey of a thousand miles," as they say, to move my life forward. I have been feeling like my time here in Bolivar has been approaching its end for a little while now, and this gives me a concrete direction to head in, and a purpose in leaving.
I also feel like it is something that I will enjoy learning and be able to really get into and pursue effectively, which is something that I have struggled with my whole life. So if you are going to be praying anytime, and think of me, pray that I will be able to keep my enthusiasm and desire for this when the difficulty and frustration begin to infiltrate my utopiastic (made-up word, but hopefully you can infer the meaning from the root) mindset.

Anyway, if all goes as I think it will, classes start on July 13, which is just over 6 weeks from now. I am looking at and hoping to move up to the area around the beginning of July, which means that I don't have much time to find a job and a place to live. I have been doing a little bit of looking so far, and plan on doing a lot more. It does make it more difficult being 2 hours away, however, which is another thing that can be prayed for, if you think of it.


So, on that note, I have composed a poem dedicated to my home of the past 5 1/3 years:

[O, Bolivar Town, I Have Loved You, But I Am Leaving You Now.]

I am leaving you, Bolivar, forever.
I am leaving you for good;
Though I am grateful for your shelter,
And thankful for your food.

Yet linger still I must,
But only inasmuch as
The permanence that belongs
To a cigarette's fallen ash:

Waiting to be taken
Away by the nearest wind.
I am hoping to find a new home soil,
Settling therein.