Coffee in Colorado

Lately, I've been enjoying coffee shops; both the atmosphere and the drinks. Yesterday I went to a place called Babb's Coffee House.

Here are some pictures:











I found a coffee place online called Agia Sophia. The building looks so cute and the reviews are good. Can't wait!

How it began...

I was asked by some family members to keep a blog of my preparation and experiences of my journey to Colorado Springs, Colorado in the summer of 2011.

This January (2011), I applied for several internships at an organization in Colorado Springs called Focus on the Family. I'd been keeping my eye out for internships at this company for the last few years, because one of the branches of FOTF (Plugged In Online) inspired me to pursue a career in media and sparked my interest in analyzing film, pop culture, and how it relates to us. It was a major part of shaping me as a teenager and a young adult. I have wanted an internship at this organization since I was about 15 and it has been a goal that I've always had in the back of my mind, one that seemed unattainable at times.

In February, I went through several telephone interviews with different FOTF representatives and employees. I sent in work examples and a background check. As some internships I'd applied for were filled, I began to lose hope that I would get an internship at FOTF. I reminded myself that it was a large organization. Lots of other students had probably applied. I tried not to get my hopes up.

But a fairly new FOTF magazine and website called "Thriving Family", a parenting magazine from a Christian standpoint, offered me the internship, which I accepted. It's good to know that all my time spent tinkering with video, audio, HTML, CSS (cascading style sheets), social media, and YouTube actually helped land me something important.

So how do I feel about this? I got a good feeling that this will be a life changing experience. But as someone who likes to have a plan, it has been difficult to not know where I'm going to live, what my host family will be like, how I will pay for different expenses (it's an unpaid internship), and other worries. I'll just try to remember that God has taken care of me my whole life and he's not going to stop now.