Long Overdue Update

Dear Walker Clan,
After being introduced to the Walker blog by my late grandpa, Howard Walker, I thought I would take a couple moments to let everyone in on how I've been.

I guess it's important to start from a little while ago. I met some of you at great grandma's funeral many years ago; heavens forbid, I hardly remember anything to tell you the truth-other than some faces here and there. I got older, of course, just getting by and living like a normal teenager. However, a few years ago grandpa and I started discussing the future and God's plans for me. We started with the near future and moved on until I was even his age looking back at life. For me, this was an awesome experience because this was the first time I really started to get to know who my grandpa was. Grandpa told me I would do great things; of course, I look back at our conversations and wonder just how he could have known. It was a relationship in my life I needed; Grandpa gave me a way to express who I was and who I was to become. As graduation came closer, we talked more and more. We knew after all his ups and downs that there was no time like the present to start really getting to know one another. For me, I felt like he got to know who I am; this was really important to me because I felt as if he cared so much for me. He was also my way back to God and back to understanding me.

As time went by, time can closer to making a decision for college. I went through it with him and over and over in my own mind. He helped me make peace with my decision (he knew what I wanted, though I was still struggling with my decision). However, in the end Germany was my answer. After making me decision, he generously gave me a gift to help me pay for school, which I was having a hard time really understanding what paying for school myself would mean. I was reluctant, but grandpa taught me about being patient and learning to accept gifts from others-which before I would always turn down. Grandpa got me to where I am today. He has helped me get here. For me, again, it is where I think I fit in the most. I feel most at home here and though I have some hard times, I know this is where I am suppose to be and that God had used my grandpa to help me realize this.

By the way, I study social sciences (sociology, political science, mass communications, and economics).

Moving on to the more immediate future-
It is almost the end of my second year-I will graduate JUNE 4, 2010- and I will start an internship really soon. This summer I was accepted for an internship at a medical/cosmetics supply company in Shanghai, China for 2 months. I am officially under the marketing dept. but I have the opportunity to try out several other fields in the first weeks to see what I like. I am extremely excited, even though tomorrow I have to travel 2 hours by train to get to the nearest consulate to pick up my visa. I will be able to live in a furnished apartment paid for by the company and have helped with anything I need should anything come up.
My exams will begin in 2 weeks and next semester will be here before I know it. Then my thesis will be due, I will graduate, and then the beginning.

That is me in a nutshell. Hopefully I will keep up and write something every now and then to update everyone on how life is going.

Trevor