I love it! I have so much fun when I’m out and about in the community, so I had a great week last week.

The weekend was definitely the busiest. On Saturday, I was the emcee for the John C. Lincoln Hospital Fall Festival. I hosted the event, introduced the acts, announced raffle winners, judged a costume contest, and performed…phew! I was at that event from 11:30 a.m. until 3:30 p.m., and then it was off to another appearance!

Later that evening, I spoke at Christ’s Church of the Valley, which is my home church. I did two services on Saturday evening, and then I was back on Sunday for two more. It was so great to speak at my church and get to joke around with my pastor. One minor problem, though… my sister was there with her husband and her baby, and some people thought the pastor said it was MY baby! So I’ve had a ton of people coming up to me at other events and telling me I have a really cute kid. I’ve been passing along the compliments to my sister, but just for the record, I am not married and I don’t have a child! I can see the rumors flying now… hehe!

Today I did an interview with a fellow journalism student from Arizona State University. I was glad to help her out, since last year I took the same class that she’s in now. I know from experience that it’s a killer class, so hopefully she can get one story out of the way. It was nice to just hang out at Starbucks and talk to another aspiring journalist like myself. I also did a little shopping before that… I’m starting to run out of outfits to wear to appearances. It’s kind of a bummer when outfits start repeating themselves in the event pictures on the Miss Arizona web site! I’m going to have to invest in clothes that I can mix and match.