My Juggling Career: Stage 2

Now where was I? Oh yes. January. Another stressful month for me.

The week I got back to Boone, I found out the president of the Transfer Student Organization had stepped down and that for the second time in a year we were president-less. All of the officers knew going into this this semester that this might happen. However we waited until the last possible moment to figure things out. Since we had known for almost a month that this might happen, I figured at some point we would have tried to make a contingency plan. That was never done and we didn't have a backup plan. Yet another part of my life made stressful for no reason. In result of this lack of plans the officers came up with a plan to split presidential duties between two people. Myself and one other person were both graduating the end of this semester and yet we both chose to take on this responsibility.

Going into this semester I had fewer things to do than last semester. I wasn't a EL coordinator like in the Fall. I had finished counseling and I was in a better place. I felt as if I could add being one of TSO's presidents to my list of things to do. It was stressful in beginning because me and the other president had literally no idea what we were doing. There was no manual and we weren't be trained by our predecessor. We made things up as we went along. We made it work for the most part. Kind of.

It was the end of January that I was absent from a week of my classes because of a family emergency. And just as soon as I had gotten back to a good place - I was suddenly back where I was last summer. However this time I had a better support system and contingency plan. Counseling had taught me better coping skills. And after going through months of a friend-breakup, I had learnt what real friendships should be like (or what they shouldn't be like).

This was the beginning of Stage 2 of my juggling career. Harder challenges. Better coping skills to deal with the world around me. Since January I've managed to stay afloat with my education and various activities of involvement. The mental stress still gets to me occasionally. But not as badly.

This past year I've had a lot of practice juggling. In result I feel as if I might have a career as a professional juggler. Wish me good luck.