HELLOOOOO!  yes, in order to properly understand what I am saying you must add the "ooooo" at the end.  Anyway, I have not updated in over a year.  I noticed this a couple months ago but brushed off the thought of updating with a quick "well, it's already been too long, what's the point?" However, I have decided to simply pick up as if nothing had happened and no time had passed.  Okay? okay.  I mean all that has happened anyway is I finished my junior year of college, I went to Port Huron for the summer, and then I went to the Dominican Republic for four months.  Basically the best experience of my life, there was a strange paradox between making me so thankful for the body that God has given me to walk with in the States and an ever-growing desire that became full-fledged deep ache to live overseas.  So, now you meet me here on the brink of entering into my last semester at Bethel and then a summer full of Europe, Spanish study, and community college classes which will then become grad school in September.  "Michaela?!?! Grad school?!!?" you gasp, but indeed it is so - MSW here I come!!

In case missing the last year of my life has left you anxious, angry, or down-right heartbroken, here are a few pictures (in no particular order) to get you caught right back up!

Some work I have done!!! Enjoy!!!