SACC

To SACC:

Please know Miss Jande will really miss all of you. You all made it a joy and you taught me how to just be young again. Ya'll showed me how children are smart and intelligent. Please remember to always try and learn something new are you getting older. Anything from knitting to sign language to whatever you want. Whatever you decide to learn, please let me know.

Kayla, good luck next season with hockey. Let me know who the season is going. Cole, Karlie, Raven and all the new 6ht graders; please don't forget how amazingly awesome and cool all of you already are to me and many other people. Middle school is fun, but please remember to make wise choices. Raven and Karlie, remember you are the only people who can understand each other and will always be there for each other. Cole I will miss your smile. Lacey, be the best big sister to Courtney. I know you can will be an amazing example. Jalyn you are such an intellegent young lady and I know you will grow up to do something amazing. Cyrus and Wesley, continue to learn ASL. You two have such passion and natural ability. Wynter, Wynter, Wynter. I will miss you so much. Please know that no matter what you are always welcome to contact me. I will miss seeing you everyday and miss talking with you.

All of you, remember these two things:

1. May I please.... (look at the person in the eye)
2. FLABBY PARTS

peace, love and applesauce

1 more week

So I only have one more week til I leave. Thus far the Lord has faithful to take care of my. He has gotten me my passport with visa. He has allowed me to find out about my most severe allergies before I get to Switzerland. He has giving me a wonderfully supportive (even if they are sad to see me go) family in the states and an amazing family in Switzerland. This is the first time I have almost moved, where I was not running away from something or someplace, but rather running to a new adventure. For those of you wanting to contact me directly, my email address is jande.jackson@gmail.com.

I will miss Spring Hill-Franklin-Brentwood area a great deal. I was going to try and leave little goodbye messages to different groups of people each day, but I missed yesterday. To day will be two messages.

peace, love and applesauce

4 DAYS!

Okay, so I know Jande is freaking out a little, and I know I am a lot! But, I am so excited I'm about to leave and all the friends I'm going to make (hopefully). I'm not thinking about the places or people I'm leaving, it makes it way too sad. And a year really isn't that long. Everyone knows I love them and will miss them, but, I was built to travel and go new places, if I'm somewhere too long I get bored. Moving is good for me, and I think this year will be good for me! I'm just so happy Jande will be less than 4 hours away from me!!! -Catherine

13 days

First of all today marks my parents 25th year of marriage and also my father 55th birthday. Yes, my mom wanted to make sure he never forgot their anniversary (haha).

So, I only have 13 days and things are getting a little scary. I think many people think I want to leave American because I don't like it. The truth is, I love America, especially Franklin-Brentwood-Spring Hill area. Every time I leave a place lately, I think, "This could to my last time with here." I am so bad about leaving places I don't really want to leave.

In the past I have had to just rip away from places like bandage from a hairy arm, quickly and permanently. Leaving is so painful; I feel if I do it a little at a time, it will hurt too much. My personality type of one where I allow places (and the people in those places) to have a part of me. Everywhere holds a special place in my heart and when I leave each place I leave a part of me behind. I have always heard it said, "When you date someone, you give them a little piece of your heart. I just realized something tonight, I have been dating places rather than people. I have giving my heart to places, like ClearView, Union, and Pine Cove. And now as I prepare to leave Spring Hill/Franklin/Brentwood, I realize I have new loves; BBDC, SACC, Kairos, and BBC.

I know I have not don't a great job in the past with separating the people from the places. Usually when I leave a place, I tend to leave the people behind. Unless the people come with me, I have lost contact with them. I really don't want it to be the same with this transition. I feel it is important to live and learn. While I know I may not have create strong relationships with people at some of those places mentions earlier, I still want to keep ya'll in my life. Thanks why I created this blog. I want everyone to know they can keep up with me here and please keep me posted on your life.

Please look for more in the very near future. I will have good bye messages to my places.

peace, love and applesauce