Man this week has been crazy. I have no idea where all the time has gone, but it also felt like this week was a thousand years long. This week we learned so much. During class on Wednesday, we learned about online marketing with Sarafima and wow that was incredibly helpful. The marketing and outreach team met up with her and found more tips and tricks to implement as we quickly start down our path for VP2. I loved seeing all the engagement from my teammates this week, along with diving into my own pieces of the pie. My goal after meeting with Sarafima was to create a landing page for the project, and I am so pleased to say that it is almost done after hours of work. But I absolutely adored learning how to use WordPress even more. It has been a huge challenge that I have learned so much from, all the website building I’m doing this quarter makes me feel accomplished and as if I have finally started the quarter. I’m so close to finishing this website page though. I wish I had managed to get it all done this week as we’re heading into another hectic week, but I will keep chugging along. Here’s a link to the page.
It’s been a journey y’all. (Also if you’re just reading this to comment, feel free to stop here. I’m going to talk about something that’s been on my mind this week and doesn’t necessarily relate to class. It also contains some triggering ideas to people.)
So, this week was a lot harder than most weeks. This week carries a lot of different emotions and memories with it. This week holds my mother’s birthday, one of my best friend’s birthdays, and one day that is both my sister’s birthday and the day a very close friend committed suicide. I can’t lie and say “I wasn’t affected,” I was. This week hurts. I managed to push through and give life my all, I even managed to push my pain away until the weekend. But it was hard, it was difficult. Normally, it’s a day that I grab some friends and go spend quality time outside with them. But this year, I was all alone. I’m not living with anyone at the moment and so I was left inside my head. This week takes a lot out of me. But it takes more in the weeks after it, when I’m tailed by ideas of failure and losing people I care about. I have a job to do in the coming weeks, but I’m not always sure how to explain and ask for grace during this time. So, instead, I’ll just push through and continue doing the work that is needed of me.