Home From Awanita....

And it is kind of bittersweet.

Yeah many bad things happened, but the friendships I made will last a life time.


I am fortunate to have met everyone I did. They have helped me through the bad that have happened. I learn who I could trust and couldn't trust, and I learned that first impressions can be false impressions. My first impression of one girl however did not change, and to be quite honest if I never saw her again I'd be the happiest person ever!!!



I want to give a shout out to everyone of the summer staff.

Cassen




Tiffany


Kristen


Steven


Sydney


Noah


Jeanette


Black Zack


White Zack


Elizabeth


Katelyn


Grayson


Kasey


Brandon


Josh


Colby


and Josiah



You all have meant so much to me and I thank you so much for helping me when I couldn't quite take care of myself. You all are like family to me, and I will keep a piece of each of you in my heart!!!

I also would like to say thanks to all the volunteers that have come up. You all are awesome. If it wasn't for the camp allowing volunteers to come up I probably would be single right now. lol. I would post a picture of myself and Casey, but I haven't gotten one yet. He has two on his phone, but I have yet to take any.

This summer was not like last summer, but it was a different summer, and I'm grateful for the experience.

Just for future reference, if you ever go to Awanita and you want to go down the water slide, cross your feet so that you can avoid breaking your fibula bone like I did. Yes it ended up being a fracture and not a jammed ankle.

Whatever. I stuck it out working there, and it was well worth it. I'm not a quitter.

Anyways Just letting you know that I'm back and that I should be popping out blogs a lot more than I have been doing.

peace out

and like the watermelon rind says

Don't Forget To Be Awesome!!!


~Alicia~

I jammed my ankle

going down the water slide...

It hurts, but I'll live.


I love it when I tell them how I jammed it. I get asked either "Did you hit something going down it?", or "did you go down it the right way?"

I went down it like you should... except I forgot to cross my legs, and that causes all the pressure to go into your heel. I didn't do it so my right foot went a weird way once I hit the water.

Now I can't walk on it. I can barely move it, and it hurts when I make any sudden movements.

This summer has had one bad omen after the other for me.

Cracked my zune screen
So much unnecessary girl drama in our room
Steven singing the Helen Keller song...(Actually that's pretty hilarious!!!)
Having to work in the Kitchen ever other two weeks for two weeks when I specifically signed for ropes and grounds...
My breakdown last Sunday
my ankle
having my laundry come back damp the past few times.

I'm having fun don't get me wrong, but it is definitely not last year.

In good news, everyone got Sunday off. The camp that is there right now is leaving before breakfast, and it's only like 50 campers, so they gave us the whole day off!!!

I Was excited!!!

I've got to go. My mom is going to go pick up Eric, who every time I've been home has been really nice and generous...It's weird.

Oh and speaking of brothers. I want to give a shout out to my bro Cassen up at the camp. He is just so awesome, and I love him like a brother. He is all that and a bag of chips. He helped me get from the dining hall to Angie's van which was far away...For someone on a crutch. He gave me a piggy back ride. I was scared, but he was actually able to hold my weight, and he didn't falter. He's awesome!!!

Oh and BAMA'S COMING TOMORROW!!!!! WOOT! WOOT!


Peace out.

DFTBA
And pray for me the rest of the time I'm at camp.
I'll try and keep my blog posted when I get to come home.

So today's my day off.

I'm really excited about that!!!

This might have been one of the only times I would have been able to come home.

Oh muy goodness. It has been so stressfull so far, and it's only been a week!!!

I'm already bumping heads with one of the girls. Oh she is so annoying. She reminds me of Keri-ann, a girl that work there last year. I was this close from smacking her, so I was really glad she wasn't able to come this year (thankgoodness for age limits!!!). This new girl is Keri-ann all over again, and I don't think that I'll be able to restrain myself from smacking her if she ends up pushing the wrong button.

Other than that the other people are great. A few of them are whiney. Cassen's back this year, and I don't know what I'd do without him. He's my bro!!!

I am close friends with three girls this summer, so that is a change from last year. It's mostly new girls vs. vet girls. lol. I find it kind of funny.

I had to teach ropes course. My mind is too spastic to be teaching people. I remember to tell people things like a few days after I teach the stuff. It's bad. lol. I finally got my first group yesterday, so that made me happy. Last week I had to go through and sort of supervise the new people. It was weird for me.

I'm just hoping that the stress will pass with this big 500 camp coming Thursday.

And here I was looking so forward to going to Awanita, and I'm already wanting to leave whenever I get the chance.

It's probably because Matt and Bama aren't there. :( It makes me sad. But I'll have to make the most of the situation as much as I can. I have a few people there I can talk to, but nobody I can fully trust except Cassen now.

I dye a few streaks of blue in my hair. But it's fading really fast so pretty soon, I'll have blond, and I don't like blond. Next Walmart run we make, I'm getting purple, that way when it fades it doesn't look like a different color all together. People keep asking if it's green in my hair, but it's blue. haha

Well I'm gonna go rest up, or visit Kathryn. Whichever.

Peace out!!!

And so it goes.

This is probably my last day to be able to use the computer, so I might as well make a blog before I go. It's the least I could do. lol

For some reason though, after this weekend I really don't want to go now. I'm just finally starting to appreciate what I have. The podcast just so happens to be something that I love doing. As much as I don't like doing research, (I never have but what can you do?) I like hanging out with the guys, and most importantly I get to talk about the one thing that I know a lot about, and it's something that makes me happy. It's also something I feel I can contribute to, and not feel out of place (well I'm the only girl so I'm sort of out of place, but I can roll with the big dawgs...I don't know why I said that).

Friday I went to my friend's Heather and Cassidy's joint 16th birthday party. I got the biggest surprise when I walked in the door. My friend Shannon whom I haven't seen since High School was there. It just so happened that Heather's brother was friends with her. Small world. hehe. But over all it was a fun party, and it was something to get my mind off of packing.

Packing! Oh fun...NOT!!! I hate packing. Along with packing, I am also having to clean my room, so that when I do pack I won't break my neck. lol. Those of you who have seen my room (Harrison, Clint, Kathryn, Will, etc.) knows that I have a hard time keeping it clean, and that it is pretty messy. Thy also know I hate cleaning it. So this weekend has been one of the best, and worst weekends of my life. lol.

Yesterday we recorded the podcast. It was the 26th show which means we've been going strong for half a year!!! So to celebrate we had a mini party, and with that I mean myself, Brandon, Tyler, Jason, Alan, and My brother. Yeah they made me play a football game on the xbox. I don't understand football, nor do I have the attention span to play it as a video game. By some strange luck, I got picked to play against my brother. He also has no clue about football, but he plays video games more than I do. I was expecting him to win, but by a chance of luck I beat him fourteen to Zero. Haha Something I can Beat Eric at!!! YAY!!! He gets pissy when he loses.

Brandon and I when we were not playing watch the IT Crowd. I got someone else to like the show. I like talking to Brandon. He's a cool guy, and I feel like I can trust him. I have trouble with trusting people, so I found it so strange to me that I was able to trust him so easily so quickly. I just like spending time with him. I think I'll miss him the most out of everybody. We are still going to write each other, so that's always good. I like getting letters more than I do emails or anything internet related. I just feel like it's more personal.

Anyway. I already wrote a lot, but I found this old writing I did. I never finished it, but I do want to share what I have.

Music inspires everyone of us. It's a way to express ourselves whether it be playing an instrument, dancing, singing, or even writing lyrics to a song. Music is all around us, but what would happen if music was banned? Would it really be that bad, or would this society go to ruin?

I was wanting to write an article using that, but I never got around to it. Personally I'd hate it and I'd probably go mental. lol. Music is my life, and I don't know where I would be without it.

Anyway.

I'm gonna go either take a quick nap before church, pack, or find some bands that are giving away free downloads. Man I love Bands like that!!!


Until August

Much love
DFTBA
~Alicia~

P.S. I will miss blogging. :(

So in nearly half a week...

...I'll be gone. I will go off for my second adventure as Summer Staff at Awanita Valley Christian Retreat Center.

I am hoping like I've said plenty of times before to make this go around a lot better than the last. Why you ask? Because last summer, I didn't act like myself.

I was a completely different person, and I didn't like who I was. I'm just hoping that they don't think that the way I acted last summer was who I am. This summer, I'm going to show them who I really am, and if they don't like it they can bite me...jk jk lol.

Anyways, I'm really excited...except for the packing part. I hate packing. That means I have to clean my room, so I can find everything. lol. I'm not very good at keeping my mind on one particular thing. I'm pretty sure you can tell by most of my blogs. lol.

Sunday was a very fun day. We, that is Kathryn, Will, Alex, Ryan, Abi, Allie, Tori, and myself went to Mellow Mushroom (I finally got to go!!!), Got to Shake hands with Clint Unicorn, as I posted in my last blog. Clint told me to post a blog that says just that and nothing else so I did. lol.
After pizza, we went to Coffee Underground. Allie, and Tori left after that, and the rest of us went to Falls park. That was an interesting trip. It was dark, and we ended up getting quite scarred. That's all I'm going to expand on that.

It was quite a hilarious night, and it was full of funny quotes. I wrote down what I could remember, but not enough to make into a post.

I have quite a bad memory.

Anyway. Thursday is the final Sunday School outing with our current Sunday school teachers Tony and Lisa. That makes me sad. I mean I've been used to them for the past few years. It will be really weird getting used to the new teachers.

Friday is my friends birthday party. It's at her house, and it's in walking distance so I don't have to worry about a ride!!! YES!!! It's hard for someone to go to a person party without a ride.

Saturday is my last recording of the podcast until August. It's also the half way through the year party for the podcast. lol. We've been going strong for 26 weeks!!! hopefully we'll go for much longer. Much much longer!!!

Sunday is church of course. It's graduation recognition service, so that means in orchestra we're playing...Pomp And Circumstance!!!! Whoop Whoop! lol. I don't have a part...unless Darian makes one.

Well I am listening to one of the best Trock bands out there...Actually the only one I know of. Chameleon Circuit!!!! They are awesome!!! Their cd comes out June 2nd and that sucks for me!!! I will have to wait till August to get it. :(

Well I've got to go.

Until next time

Much love
DFTBA!
~Alicia~