But here's the thing. Claudio does not like BYU. BYU is a great school, don't get me wrong, but the environment is totally different. At BYU, your classmates are your competition which is a stark contast to BYUH where your classmates help you more. I wouldn't know, I wasn't studying there, but Claudio sure did not like it at all!
Meanwhile, over late spring and early summer, I was accepted to 3 graduate programs. This was so exciting for me! As soon as I was accepted to the University of Amsterdam, I was amazed and tried my hardest to get there. But then, after a few weeks of planning, I decided that it was right for me. Meanwhile Claudio was figuring out what he wanted to do.
More or less, we moved back to Hawaii at the end of August. We weren't (okay, I wasn't) happy about it, but it was really was was best for us. I love being here, we were just really worried about employment.
I might as well stop writing blog posts about what the future holds, because it never works out. We've been blessed in so many ways, but that doesn't mean it was our plan to be where we are today.
It's now been about 3 months here in Hawaii. I was offered a job as a full-time female housing coordinator which I absolutely love. I supervise one hale (house in hawaiian, basically dormitory) with 4 residential advisors who are part-time workers and students, and then another 200 female students which we serve. I absolutely love being a "hale mom" as we're called. I get to serve so many girls, counsel them, get to know them, hear their successes and failures, plan activities, etc. It's a blast and I love every minute of it. I'm not sure the reasoning behind it, but the housing administration office has now pulled me in to their office to work in HR half of the time. I started on that this week, and I enjoy it so far. As you'll read onto later, I've considered the HR field and so this will be perfect experience for me.
Claudio is studying and working part time and will finish in April.
Upon graduation, I guess that means we'll need to make a plan of where to go and what to do.......... crap. We have too many options. We both want to go to graduate school, and there's some really great programs ... but do we want to now? Or do we want to wait a few years to have the work experience and then attend? Gosh, we are in a current state of confusion.
