papers, photo shoots, and end of BBBS

School is almost over, I can't believe it. I'm almost done being a freshman in college!

I spent tonight working on papers. I have 2 due tomorrow: one for sociology and one for biblical world view, each about 2 pages long. I sort of liked the sociology paper--not writing it, but the idea behind it. We looked at whether women who have their first child at a younger age (say, 18) make less, in general, than women who have their first child at an older age (35). (There does seem to be a trend that indicates that that's true.)

I'm also polishing up a speech I may have to give tomorrow. It's possibly my favorite assignment at Bluffton so far because we got to choose a topic we care about. I chose to talk about being a foster parent. I'm not sure why that cause is really important to me, but I wholeheartedly believe in recruiting more capable, loving foster parents. There are so many children in need of safe, stable, nurturing homes, and we need more people to provide this for them.

The speech is sort of an evolution of the speech I gave on Monday, so it wasn't terribly hard to write this one. It was mostly improving and adding onto what I had already.

This morning I did a photo shoot for the admissions office! About 5 other students and I posed for pictures in a tiny classroom, pretending to listen to 2 different professors lecture. It was fun, though we had to sit unnaturally close to each other! We'll see if any of the pictures I was in make it into any promotional materials. That would be exciting!

The other big thing about today was that it was my last Big Brothers Big Sisters session of the school year. We played kickball as a group instead of doing much actual schoolwork. It was kind of sad to say goodbye. I don't know if I'm going to be with the same child next year. I think I will try to continue to mentor, though. This is the next best thing to being a foster parent, since I'm only 19 and everything!

I would encourage everyone to look into being a foster parent or a Big Brother/Sister. Visit beafosterparent.org and bbbs.org to find out more about helping children in need!