flying W and such.

today was a short day of work... since we had dinner at the flying w tonight, all we had to do was clean up lunch and then we were done. so i did that and then read some and napped on the couch... then i left for flying W and had fun! they actually needed four volunteers to help serve food, so jen, laura jane, whitney, and I served food. i dished out some applesauce and it was a good job cause the apple sauce is the only cold item on the tin plate so everyone loved me cause they could carry their plate without burning their hands off. but i do think i don't want to say the word applesauce for a very long time lol.

tomorrow is my day off... but like all days off here at summit, i have plenty to do!! i think i might go to the pool tomorrow before lunch then have lunch then sports time then dinner then worship then staff small group then my small group then lights out. wow that is a FULL DAY!! ahh.

i just found out today that i will be flying back into charlotte and not charleston so dad said we will prolly catch some P.F. Changs on the way home or something... yummy :) although working in the kitchen here has made me not hungry a lot. i don't remember what being hungry is like. i think i need to fast some.

oo and the first girl i met in the airport two years ago when i was first a student is HERE!! andrea is her name and she now goes to school in florida and was in a track meet at clemson if february!! can you believe it?? and how she is a student this session and staying to be on staff for the second half of the summer!! i was so excited to see her... a familiar face lol.

hoedown to the EXTREME.

so today was changeover day and this morning i was on towel duty with steph. we took ALL the towels to the coin laundromat and spent like sixty dollars doing laundry for three hours. it was nice though cause we had breaks while stuff was washing and drying. then this afternoon, i watched hairspray with laura jane, jess, and anna. then i got ready for the hoedown. i totally represented tonight... orange skirt, purple tank top, white shirt, and purple bandanna. yeah i did. it totally wasn't really "western wear" but i still got an honorable mention in the western costume contest... go figure. the square dancing was fun and the food was good. the girls served the boys dinner and gave them encouragement notes that we had written for them. and we had bottled root beer so i got to use my reefs to open some. it sprayed everywhere!! yazzie made dessert... which means it was five star dessert. literally. cause he works at the broadmoor.

we get students tomorrow to begin fourth session... two weeks and then its over :( i'm getting to the point where i'm almost ready to go home... but am going to bawl when i have to leave here.

prayers for energy tomorrow would be GREATLY appreciated :)

yay for day off! cept not really.

yesterday i worked in the morning and then around one i fell asleep on the couch in the staff lounge and woke up at six! slept through sports time. so today was my day off and i went out on the town with whitney, joy, steph, and paul. we went to banks, walmart, sonic, and the gas station... it was fun. then tonight we have choir, small group w/ pizza, and staff auction... i think i'm doing it this time with becky and steph. cookies maybe?

post number 30.

yesterday i got a lot done on websites... felt good to get things accomplished. i can't wait to get my new computer and my big screen back so i can really make things look good!!

we had the picnic yesterday and then mike haley spoke last night... heard he deserved a standing O. he always does! one of my favorite testimonies of God's persistence.

i get really sad thinking about leaving summit and the people here... really sad. but i am still excited about moving on and coming home. guess i'll just have to look forward to next year!!

heather honken coker came and brought kate perry with her... she looks JUST like her dad. i feel like i'm looking dr. clay right in the face. adorable!

today is turkey day! i don't know how we do thanksgiving dinner every two weeks! but we do. and it smells amazing.

i'm almost done with my book... i feel bad i haven't finished it yet. so i'm going to do that now.

time is flying!!

i can't believe it is halfway through third session... time is going WAY too fast! wednesday was a good day off... i slept late compared to the usual 5:30 and read by the pool. then lunch and my "evaluation" which didn't have much to do with my job at all. i just talked to pat about how small group is going and such. i wish i could get some constructive criticism from someone. i never seem to get any... then at 1 i hiked the punch bowls at glen eyrie with my staff small group. hence the pictures...

the water was soooo cold!!! it reminded me of both rock hopping in NC and the Dominican waterfalls. mix the two together and make everything steeper and that is the punch bowls. then the hours from 5 to midnight FLEW way too fast. i don't even remember what happened.

then yesterday was work from 6am to 1pm and then sports time at 2:15. followed by dinner and choir and small groups. we talked about How good do you have to be to be saved? What is the minimum requirement to be saved? and How does a person know for sure if they are saved? fun stuff.

today was work and then now. it is cooling down outside and starting to thunder... prolly going to rain. i might go to the mill tonight with laura jane which is new life church's college ministry. it is also ryan's birthday so i called him. and i got my financial aid statement for school which always makes me happy. i'm such a dork! i miss school.

you know you're at summit when... part two

you know you're at summit when six people go out for coffee and talk about emotionalism in the church for HOURS. it was a good and heated conversation... i think we all were agreeing, but just not listening well enough or articulating well enough so it seemed we were not all agreeing. this can be frustrating but it is fun that we can all be friends no matter what dumb things we say lol.

i'm back on morning kitchen and i think i like it better cause i have the whole day after noon to chill with students or watch sermons online.

we watched zorro last night before coffee and i had a text convo with taylor, evan, and allison all at the same time. i miss them!!

we made one of my favorite lunches today... cornbread and chilli. but not normal chili. the best chilli ever. i'm so winning the next chilli cook-off.

we have sports time in ten minutes. tonight is small group and i think i'm going to make them cookies.

i talked to kathryn today :)

and i'm excited that i get to go home... just not yet.

changeover day

so today was pretty good. started off with cleaning the hotel from 8 to noon when we had lunch. cleaning for four hours is cake compared to opening so it wasn't that big of a deal to me. then at one i went shopping with laura jane, shannon, and mish in Denver!! there are so many more mountains there!!! and a really great mall... reminded me a lot of the mall of georgia... same layout, different decorations. anyway, i got some sweet tea and waffle fries with polynesian sauce from chicfila. it was QUITE the big deal. i also bought some clothes cause i didn't bring enough "nice" clothes with me. mostly tops. but i did get and ORANGE skirt. yes clemson orange.

tonight we went to 36 acres again and had gumbo and rum cake. and a bonfire with lots of smores and singing.

tomorrow is STUDENTS! and there is a kid from easley coming... but he's homeschooled so we'll see how it all works out :)

i'm going to be leading my own small group cause it is going to be a full session (180+ students) and i have FIVE girls!! ahh memorizing names is not my strong point but i'm getting better.

pics from the professionals

since i'm not good at taking pics all the time... here are some i'm in. more at HERE.

this is session 1 graduation... choir singing. i'm in the back right.
russell counting the girls off for speed volleyball... i'm guessing i was number five... don't ask.
me and becky!! i'm pretty sure kirk took this one and not rowan.

it was a good day off

so yesterday(tuesday) was my day off and i woke up early. go figure... i had a one on one with a girl in my small group at breakfast and then i watched the last newspring service which was AMAZING and i looved the decemberadio song they played about being dangerous. then i went out by the pool and read some more of my book. then lunch. then sports time when i played volleyball for hours. then dinner.

then when we got back... we realized we had two girls staff meetings... one at 8 and one at 11. this seemed a little strange to us. i mean, why not just have one? so we had the meeting at 8 and talked about the feminar(which had gone really well... thanks for the prayers) then we just sat around and had fun with the students till 11. i started noticing that the staff guys were really dressed up compared to usual… and i figured something was fishy. then we went to the meeting and it was Judson and Dustin asking us how the guys were doing. What do they need to do better? What are they doing well? Etc. so then after we gave our little report, they said they had another surprise for us in the lobby. So we all walk down to the lobby and all the guys were dressed nicely and playing music and they had SOO MANY good desserts laid out on the front desk that they had made themselves. So they said thanks for being such great women of God and good examples to us blahblah and then gave us food. And waited on us hand and foot till it was time for lights out. It was soo sweet.

One thing i figured out though is that my future guy sure has a lot to live up too. Even though this gesture was really sweet, i kept thinking to myself that it was really for the other girls on staff that i compare myself to all the time. And that only one or two of the guys had come up with the idea so we can’t give the rest of them too much credit. There i go being all analytical and cynical when all the guys were trying to do was make us feel better… or fatten us up with sugar… either one.

Anyway. Then today(Wednesday) i got way too much sleep this morning. I slept till 11:50 and then went in to work at noon. I made hummingbird cake and salsa. We had fajitas for dinner. I kept having to explain that there are not actual hummingbirds in the cake. And i got my first battle wound… burned my arm on the cake pan. Then we filmed our new kitchen video after dinner in which we are all superheroes.

Choir was at 8 and i discovered what my pet peeve is. Finally. It is when people are talking when they shouldn’t be. Such as during choir practice. Calloway would have never let us talk as much as we talk during practice and it makes us so unproductive! I find myself saying SHH which only annoys me more that i have to say anything since i’m the youngest and everyone else should know better.

The last small group meeting was tonight and we had pizza. And diet dr. pepper. Which spewed all over me when i opened it. It was quite comical. After small groups, we had the staff auction again. I didn’t do it this time… but it was funny nevertheless. Nightwatch went for over 1000 dollars. Who said teens don’t have any money? And why do people want to stay up all night after being sleep deprived for two weeks?

So that was my story. Tomorrow should be fun. We have a huge picnic in the park so hopefully i’ll get some more volleyball in tomorrow.

I think i’ve figured out what i want for my birthday.

dry hands

so yesterday was amazing. i got up around 10. laid out by the pool and read my book. then went to work at two to make turkey dinner. and last night i saw kung fu panda... amazingly funny movie! and then we had sonic on the way home.

today was not quite as good. got up around 10 again. watched elevation service which was good. and then work at noon. and i've been on my feet for six straight hours. ugh. but its ok because tonight is feminar and small groups again. please pray for me cause i'm talking in the feminar again :)

tomorrow is tuesday and it is my day off. i am having breakfast with a girl in my small group in the morning. please please pray my day off is filled with perfect weather! cause i want to lay by the pool again. and go to sports time so i can play speed volleyball some more.

random morning post

so many things to do this morning. i actually got up for breakfast cause i had a one on one with a girl in my small group. i'm also going to class this morning cause hugh hewitt is here today. everytime he comes it is like a celebrity is here and doc freaks out. also, an author that is a pretty big deal is coming today... don't remember her name but i'll let you know.

i also have a laundry list of items to do including laundry. writing letters :) and reading a book: Suprised by Joy by C.S. Lewis. it is kind of an early autobiography that talks about why he converted from atheism to Christianity. It is pretty good so far. I like his humor... he said he thinks one of the reasons he is scared of ants is because he has the fear of a society ruled by a woman haha.

so now i'm going to sit in the classroom. i might post later today... just depends.

really hyper day

yesterday was my day off and so i slept till eleven and then got up, had lunch, moseyed around, went to the pool, and then to laurajane's house. whitney tried to play pingpong with me, but its just not the same. i have decided we really need a pingpong table at summit. it would be such a bonding experience for both students and staff. one day when i make a lot of money i will donate a table to summit. maybe i'll just use my salary from this summer. i mean, who needs money when you have a meal plan?

anyway. then we went to target and i got bright pink nail polish. my favorite color. and some girls went on a shopping spreee... don't worry dad. i didn't by any clothes :) not yet anyway. i think i saw some outlets by focus on the family....

wow what an ADD post.

so then last night i went to bed at like 12:30 and woke up at like 3:30 and couldn't sleep. then i slept some more and got up with the sun (aka 6am) when i didn't have to be at work till noon. craazy i know. what was strange is that i usually don't talk in the morning unless spoken too. but today i was sooo full of energy all day! even now. i'm typing crazy fast lol. so i helped morning kitchen cause they were so behind cause they had new people and then i poured up the sweet tea for lunch and they drank it all. then we made parmesan chicken and rice pilaf and veggies. and we got to go to sports time cause most of the work was in the oven. i made the apple bran cake which was delish.

sports time was two hours of speed volleyball. first time this session i have really been able to get to know some students. i did ok today with the volleyball thing. played back left. then we came back to serve dinner and it was good.

tonight was staff small groups and then student small groups. now i'm in the lobby hanging out with the staff and they are all crazy i've decided. but that is ok.

so its been a while...

sorry. a lot happened this weekend!! thursday night was testimony night and a few staff and students gave their testimonies. then doc gave his and God moved!!! three students decided they want Christ in their lives for real and told doc they meant business :D

then friday was graduation... always bittersweet. the staff choir rocked it and the staff video was hilarious. doc gave his speech on "what is right with america" and once again mentioned SC as one of the nation's most generous states. then we had ice cream afterwards. then come all the pictures... sooo many! i put all of mine on facebook. i'm going to miss my girls from session 1!!! love you girls :)

saturday was changeover... aka clean like madmen. my main job was scrubbing every inch of the steamtables in the dining room... they were gross! but they are not anymore. then we had free time till 5. i did laundry for the second time this summer lol. i was low on clean clothing... and i made cookies for the staff. brad tried to help... he really tried but the blender doesn't work so well without a blade. so at 5 we all went to chipotle for dinner and packed out the restaurant (it was ok but i like moes better) and then putt putt... which was sooo funny. i won out of out little group of four woohoo! then some of us went to the movies. some saw indiana jones... but since i haven't seen any of the first three, i saw ironman. i actually liked it. it wasn't realistic... but what do you expect? when we came out of the theater, the people i was with were talking about how they really didn't like it so i felt weird saying i did like it. but anyway, then van 2 went to sonic and i got a lemonberry slush. YUM.

when we got back to the hotel, i put notes on my new small group girls' notebooks and then went to sleep. now it is sunday and new students are getting here!! oo and i am now on afternoon kitchen. turns out they switch you back and forth from morning to evening. so now i get to sleep in!! or wake up and go to lectures. but i don't get to go to as many sports times. but its ok because i am so excited about the people i'm working with. and i don't think it is quite as much work as morning kitchen. we're making lasagna tonight.