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so i just recently got offered a job to take care of an autistic child. his name's adam, and he's absolutely wonderful. i thought autistic kids are very difficult to deal with, but this kid is really something else. he'll listen to you, and he knows how to communicate his feelings fairly well (even if not verbally). i enjoyed spending 5 hours with him on wednesday...we went horseback riding, kayaking at newport aquatics center, swimming, and helped him identify things (we played with this set of flash cards that have images of objects and their spelling...he had a really hard time recognizing things). it was quite a tiring day, yet very fulfilling. it made me realize how lucky i really am.

the jumpstart interview went fairly well yesterday, too. i kinda breezed through the interview, i don't know why...answers to her somewhat difficult questions/scenarios just came running out of my mouth. hehe. i hope i get that job, too. i think helping unfortunate kids is also another fulfilling task. these kinds of things help you realize that life should not be taken for granted, and that whatever you have should be enough to make you happy, 'cause a lot of kids out there probably don't have that.

so that's that. as you can see, i've been busy for the past couple of weeks, working on job applications and going through interviews, dealing with school stuff and registering for classes, running around in irvine trying to take care of things, and dealing with the new apartment. *sigh* so many things in so little time!