Hey guys. Just thought I'd make sure I know everything I need to know for the end of the quarter coming up. I'm still planing on being in the class all year, so I won't give my report until the end. I'm registered for winter already. Just to update you, this quarter I:

- have been studying energy and working on healing techniques. I am taking a weekly class at the Belmont school for Energy Awareness and Healing. I will graduate in February and recieve a certificate for it. We have things we're supposed to practice on ourselves every day as homework that I strive to do. It can be a real struggle for me, as some one who has always had a hard time getting myself to even do daily meditation. It's been really powerful though, and I see the effect it's having in my life. I completed a Healer's Training workshop with David Elliot, the author of 'The Reluctant Healer'. It was very amazing.

- am still studying a lot about health, diet, and the body. I'm planning on doing a whole system cleanse that takes a total of 3 months. I'm also seeing a chiroprator who will be doing a nutritional analysis on me. I saw an oriental medicine woman and recieved my first acupuncture treatment. I've changed my diet and am working on learning to cook for health, and what foods are good for what. I've been saving all the hand outs I find and recieve on nutrition and health and am going to go through them and compile them into a binder to use in the future when helping clients with their health and wellness.

- have been working as an adolescent counselor. Very challenging and it is helping me fine tune my counseling skills. I've also saved all the mental health related hand outs and info I've compiled over the years that I plan to organize and make part of a therapy binder I'm planning on creating before the year is up. I have left the group therapy I was part of in Olympia for 2 1/2 years, and am looking into new kinds to be part of and explore.

- have been working on community and music and dance as healing tools, being part of an underground music community here in Portland. I'm helping put together a series of intentioned music events this winter in Eugene. The first one is this Sat 11/19! I've also been helping people set up and tear down for their events and participating in workshops offered. I did a Kundalini dance workshop taught by the inventor of this particular method who is from Australia. It was incredible and really helped me clear out some stuck energies in my body and better understand how to use dance for healing instead of just entertainment.

End of this quarter on through to next quarter I plan to continue with all of the above as well as:
- start attending free classes at this place called The Herb Shoppe that gives lectures on natural medicine and herb uses and such. I'm going to start attending a Buddhist center to have more of a community to help me practice self and guided meditation and listen to the lectures.
- I plan to start doing yoga, tai chi, or something of that manner to get more in touch with my body. I will also be completing 6 sessions with a personal trainer who will help me develop a work out program for myself that will best suit my needs.
- start working on my "senior project" which is a series of binders I will make (some mentioned above) for use in my futre endeavors.
- interview different people who have started and maintained their own business, and possibly attend some business and financial classes. I'm going to invest some money in something non-risk oriented. Spring quarter, I hope to draw up some sort of business/ future goals plan for myself.
- I may be getting this 2nd job at a gift and sexual education shop for women that offers classes and lectures on various topics and would require me to gain a lot of knowledge about women's health and sexual liberation. I'll know in the next 2 weeks whether I got the job or not.

I'm sure there's more, but that's it for now. Please keep me posted on anything you may need from me. I know I'm never in class, but I'm still part of it. I joined the mailing lists and the program pages so I can check in on what people are up to more. I want to attend some classes to. I'll see what my schedule is like for that. Hope all is well with you!

Michele De La Cruz
www.tribe.net/MicheleDLC