Camp, In Review,

Was wonderful. I was at Lake Ellen for three weeks. In contrast to two years ago, I was a counselor instead of an Area Director/Counselor. So much better! The first week I had 11-13 year olds, the second week I had 9-11 year olds, and the third week I had high schoolers. I had to adjust quite a bit, but each week brought its own challenges and joys. In those three weeks, two kids in my cabin recommitted themselves to Christ and two others prayed to receive Christ for the first time. It was thrilling to be working on the front lines encouraging kids to pursue God and righteousness and to be reconciled to Him. The staff were also amazing. If circumstances were different, I'd room with any of the guys that I worked with in a split second and whatever the non-creepy equivalent of close friendship is with girls would be the same. I'm really praying that God will make a way for me to be able to spare the time and money to be there for all summer next year.

Lake Ellen is probably my favorite place on earth. Nowhere else have I been so challenged to grow and seen God do such amazing things around me.

Sunset at Loon Lake


Derek Gladstone and Myself


Roughly the Trailblazers' team, from left, Derek,
Me, Joie, Rochelle, Andrew, and Sarah

Blogging Time!

I just caught up on reading all my friends' blogs. Okay, well, all of Megan's new posts. Apparently she's biking around doing sweet music stuff, which looks like fun. But you don't read my blog to hear about what my friends have blogged about. If you want to read Megan's blog go here. And you should. But anyways.

One of the things that I thought about in Zambia was about how many clothes I have, and that I should get rid of the ones that I don't wear, because someone else could probably use them. Over the last few days I went through my clothes and got rid of a bunch. I started with T-shirts. I discovered that when I hunted down every last one and counted them, I had over forty--Mildly disgusting to me. So I got ride of twenty of them or so, sweet! I also got rid of a bunch of other things, so now the only clothes that I have are ones that I'll actually wear, and I won't need a U-haul to get them down to Champaign in the fall.

One of the back speakers in my car blew out, which made me sad. I talked to Brian Spangler about it and he just happened to have speakers the right size and a receiver sitting in his basement that he wants to get rid of. Or did he just happen to have them? Hmmm. In any case, assuming that that works out, I will be one happy driver.

I read an article today on BBC talking about how the US needs to end its love affair with the car. Unfortunately, my love affair is just beginning :P.

That is the end of my random thoughts and a little bit about what I've been up to. Hope you enjoyed it.