a weekend of happenings

Lots has been happening this weekend!
Yesterday I awoke early to go to a job fair, which, after spending an hour filling out the application, doing a skills assessment test (lots of math & logic stuff), and answering what the word "teamwork" means to me (thanks to all Tim's classes & our Periwinkle initiatives, that was pretty easy!), I found out that the place was hiring for the fall not the summer. So, once again, I told myself "never assume" and went on my way.
On my way to Cambridge, that is. Yep, after taking the wrong exit and finding myself in the middle of downtown Kitchener (a neighbouring city en-route), I somehow manuevered my way through the traffic to the School of Architecture open-house thing! Through the afternoon I managed to hook up with some girls and by the end of it, we were house hunting together. I'm not sure if anything's going to work out as a group or with any of the townhouses we looked at, but we'll see! I know, it sounds really crazy b/c usually you know your housemates really well before deciding to live together, but this was the only chance to meet people before classes started, and I guess it's how to do it since there isn't a residence. Now I'm really excited to be able to say that I'm an engineering student, b/c the Architecture program has just joined the Faculty of Engineering at the University of Waterloo!!! Okay, most of you probably won't understand my excitement, but Waterloo's the place to go for Engineering, and I've always had a great admiration for anyone who's smart enough to get into Engineering, so that's where all my excitement's coming from :)
But that's not all that happened this weekend. All morning and afternoon today I was at the pool, recertifying my Red Cross swimming instructor and my lifeguard qualifications. I was pretty worried about it, but don't you find that God has a way of turning our greatest fears into some of the greatest blessings, as He smiles and says, "My dear child, don't you worry about a thing; I've got it all under control!"
Ahhh... a beautiful thunderstorm has just rolled in, to fill the night's silence with deep mysterious rumblings, and the gentle patterings of rain on the parched ground.
This evening I was greeted at the door by a fine young man carrying a bouquet of wild flowers! Yes, the five-year-old boy from across the street had come around to ask if I could come out to play. How can you resist such an offer? So after a bit I joined Daniel, with his big missing-teeth grin and smiling eyes, along with two of his sisters and one of his brothers, and we swang on the swing, we climbed their tree, we told stories, and all the time we took a hundred photos on my digital camera! Sometimes the simplest things can be the best.