For us, normal is being awake until 2:30 am dyeing girls' hair. Normal is breaking up 18-year-old girls fighting...yes, physically hurting each other. Normal is bribing girls to go to a basketball game with ice cream. Normal is spending weeks planning and doing things for homecoming just for some trophy that says "Homecoming Cahmpion." And that's not even the good stuff.
This is our normal. This is our reality. And we love it!
We are two semi-normal gals living a life we never expected. So let's begin with how we got here.
Nicole:
Before becoming an RD, Nicole had aspirations of saving the world as a missionary for NET Ireland. Prior to that, she was a youth minister in Kansas City. After NET, Nicole's road led her back to her beloved Alma Mater. While excited to return to America, she never would have expected that Atchison would be her next stop. Or rather, pit stop. She never thought she would be back in small town Atch, and even cried as she was driving on to campus as she moved in. She's excited about the job, she just didn't think that this would be the place for her as a single, young woman.
Now, Nicole is as happy as a clam to be here and couldn't imagine doing anything else at this moment in life.
She's a great story teller and will often start her sentences off with "OMG, you'll never believe this..."
Clare:
My road to Atch is a lot more different from Nicole's. I graduated from a small university in South Florida and moved to a small town in Northern California after graduation. I worked for a private school for two years and decided that I would much rather work for a college, not high school. A job opened in Kansas and since I've never lived in the Mid-West I decided to apply. Got the job, moved my life, and am now on my third year doing something I love and living somewhere I don't. Atch is a challenge I'm willing to overlook because I love my job so much. At least for now...
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