What's My College-Age Girl Doing??

Here are some things AdventureQueen is doing with her time since graduation:

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Ministry to young mothers - sometimes just showing up to help with dishes, dinner, laundry, etc.

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Visiting elderly neighbors

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Helping at home with shopping, taking the cat to the vet and other errands, painting the stairway (Yeah!), etc.

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Reading on topics such as 20th Century history and literature, anatomy, worldviews, logic, geography, law & economics, theology, grammar, poetry and citizenship and all of these on a weekly basis, albeit a little at a time.

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Working part time at her dad's business.

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She was invited and went to a church youth group (not her own, we don't have a "youth group" so to speak) to give her testimony and speak on purity. A second larger church wants her to come speak to their youth group after their assistant pastor heard her at a smaller cell group meeting.

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Volunteering at the library reading aloud to 8-13 year old children once a week. Today was her first day and the kids begged for more after three chapters. The book she chose was Toliver's Secret. She even implemented some narration techniques!

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She has an application in to go through the training classes at our local crisis pregnancy center in order to volunteer there where her grandmother is already a volunteer counselor.

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Another application is in at her favorite Christian outdoor adventure youth camp to be counselor this summer. The people who own this are her dear friends and have already asked her to be a counselor when she came of age, so she is really looking forward to this.

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Add to this three local Bible studies available each week and various evenings out to a movie or trip to the coffee shop with sisters, a cousin or friend and special trips into town with her favorite uncle and it spells F-U-L-L L-I-F-E.

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My purpose here is not to brag, but to show that life can be wonderful, full of learning and productive without college. It's not that we believe college is a wrong choice for everyone...we just want to show an example of other options.

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Update: I forgot to add Dance class twice a week (with a Christian dance studio) and she has just been hired to go work with a special needs child 1-2 times a week.