Mentoring Update
Today was a great day! I traveled to Bend today for a training and a Mentor/Mentee Match Ceremony. You may remember me talking about the mentor program I was going to be a part of? The young man (I won’t name him here) I was telling you about is about 6 1/2 weeks into his program and we finally got to get together for a matching ceremony to officially begin our mentor/metee relationship. He looked great and seemed so proud of himself for what he has accomplished already. I am very proud of him too, and I told him so.
I have been looking forward to this for a long time. It was a great feeling to hear him talking about his school, and his future plans with hope. I will do my best to live up to his expectations of me, he has already lived up to mine.
The hardest part about today was getting up at 4:00 in the morning to get ready for a 3 1/2 hour drive to central Oregon. I gave myself about an hour of extra time because I wasn’t sure how bad the pass would be. It turns out the pass was just fine and it only took 2 1/2 hours to get there.
For pictures and movies of the event, look here.
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Jeff just wanted to thank you for all you are doing for our son. We have always thought alot of you, You are an amazing guy and i hope that our friendship becomes stronger.
Thanks, Kathy. I hope so too, you guys are great, and I am so honored to be able to do this for you and for him. I’m trying to be careful not to mention his name here to protect his privacy. I hope that what I have written so far has been ok. I asked him about the pictures and he said it was ok to put them here.