Heyyyyy Blog,
I am back with another update on how my time as a Raleigh Fellow has been!!
I have to say this month started on a major high as we celebrated our girl, Meg’s bday🤩 in Alexandria, VA as a pit stop before the TFI National Conference in D.C. (there was even a limo involved)!!
The D.C. trip was a little bit of a roller coaster, but for the purposes of not turning this blog into a book, I will focus on the positives which included an insane dance party, roaming D.C. together, seeing my bestie girl, Maddie, who is doing the Greensboro Fellows program, watching Cheaper by the Dozen 2, and creating space to process hard things that came up with one another🫶🏼. This retreat was also the month that we decided we were going to brush our teeth together every morning and night at retreats and it’s where snuggle-puddles were created. We were also nominated as the “golden retrievers of the conference”, and I’m not sure if it was the hiding under the tables while grabbing people’s ankles or the pitch-perfect riff-off that gave us that title🧐.
I also had the chance to take some of the Fellows to my happy place, Chapel THRILL, to meet some of my college friends and watch UNC beat Duke for Homecoming in an incredible double-overtime win, literally a heart attack of a game🐏. Ugh, it was truly such a nostalgic experience that made my heart super happy!!! (GTHD)
Then we did a quick turnaround two weekends later as we headed back to the lake house for the Jason Young Retreat, which was much needed and so sweet as it had been 2.5ish months since we had been there, and this time we were actually friends. I really connected with Jason’s teaching and enjoyed learning from him. A couple of noteworthy takeaways for me were the idea of holding vs. carrying our problems and how we are not meant to carry them and the red-tape activity in which we were able to view one another’s brokenness, SO POWERFUL. Super grateful for Jason as well as Mary and the wisdom that they shared so beautifully with us!
To close out, we had two super fun celebratory moments. The first was Bunner’s bday celebration at the nifty Boxcar where we played Guitar Hero, Just Dance, and partook in the air hockey tournament. BUTTT, what has to take the cake for this month is Linda May’s engagement, THE FELLOWS ARE ENGAGED!!!!💍
Key Moments: Meg’s Bday in Alexandria, D.C. Trip, Ashley’s very pink 29th bday💖, UNC Homecoming win vs Duke, Linda May’s engagement, field trip for Just Leadership (got to see Meg’s work🐴), Jason Young Retreat, Bunner bday celebration at Boxcar, Canes game, the start of Secret Santa 🎅🏼
Peace and Love,
Girl Hunter 💕🤠✨🪩