On behalf of Amanda B, whom I didn't know read my blogs, this post is dedicated to!

Dear Amanda (and all my other readers, hehe)

I arrived safely

on U.S. soil, after many

many hours of waiting in airports, making myself sleep deprived I fell asleep in my own room (which looks different then when I left it) the night of my arrival, which felt nice. The week after my arrival, flew by so quickly. My contact (Gigie) in the Philippines was here in the USA taking a worship school so she came and visited me for a week. We ran around everywhere visiting people, places and things! I had an awesome tie dye party and yes, just in case the question was in your mind, we did have punch that had sherbet!

This past week has been spent hanging out with family and friends. I got to see my baby cousin for the first time since she was born! Bowling is now a favorite pastime of mine! Also, I did beat my brother, not once, but twice at Monopoly!

I do have another adventure in mind, I leave on Monday for Spain. I am following my very good friend's footsteps in becoming an Au Pair (a nanny). Unfortunately, Caroline has been back from Spain for some time now, since I before I left for the Philippines actually. But, she is my inspiration to this next step in my life! I will be living with a young family in Madrid, there is one child in the family who is two years old. This is not a job, but, is a culture exchange, so, again in my life, I will

not be making a profit, but, I will not be loosing this time. The family has found a free Spanish class for immigrants to take. So, hopefully, I will improve my Spanish.

Of course, the excitement is almost bubbling over, Spain will be an experience I've never had the privilege of knowing yet. Even though I don't have any plans (as of right now) to be helping little children hanging out on the streets with no shoes, that doesn't mean I still can't minister. My ministry just might look a little different.

My stay will be for three months, so not too long, not too short, just right! I will continue blogging, I can't promise a blog each week, but, when I have something significant and important to say, I will surely write about it.

If you have been to Madrid or Spain before, and have any suggestions of things/places I should go to, just shoot an email my way! If you want to see more pictures, I will load the to Facebook!

As always thanks for reading my blog, even though I might not know you do read it! I appreciate it!

Love,

Maggie