My Journey...

Hello All and thank you for stopping by.  Today, I have a rather long post to share with you, so grab a cup of coffee and come with me as I take you on a jouney.

As most of you know, I am currently seeking my Bachelor's Degree in Nursing.  I attend an all girls, christian school mainly because of the convenience of the classes.  So after an 8 week break (because I didn't need to take Statistics-I already suffered through that) the next class for me was Contemporary Spirituality.  I must admit, I was curious about this class for many reasons, like, is someone finally going to tell me what the difference between religion and spirituality was?!?!  So the first class was July 26th and from the moment my instructor spoke, I was already loving the class and we had not discussed one thing about Spirituality yet!!  So, as we each introduced ourselves giving her a picture of who we were and our religious background, a calmness came over me reassuring me, that I wasn't the only one who questioned religion.  Whew!  Thank God.  So, as the class came to a close, she politely let us know that she didn't always follow the syllabus and she gave us our first assignment:  Creatively Express Your Life's Journey.  Bong, yong, yong!  What?! Was my first thought.  As I drove home, I pondered over and over in my mind what/how I was going to make this happen. The next day, I was on the phone with 2 of my girlfriends saying, "OMG, I have know clue what to do, I have nothing to talk about, that I WANT to talk about." Saleem said, yes you do!  You can talk about the Navy and all of the traveling you have done.  Ok, yeah, I started thinking to myself, I can talk about that.  I like talking about the Navy anyway!  It was such a positive time in my life (But we will get to that later).  I wanted to be sure I was headed in the right direction, so I call my instructor to ask her if this approach was ok.  While she didn't say no, she told me the idea was to go from birth explaining how I became who I was.  Oh no!   OK, so I get to thinking, "what can I do to express and show me."  I then decide on a tri-fold foam board, with map paper in the background and then I would make a road with hills and valleys and talk about those times in my life.  I went through thousands of pictures trying to find the ones that spoke mostly to me about that time in my life.   This is what I came up with...