My employment in America has officially come to an end. The school year was over about a month ago and my last week of camp was a week ago, and everyone made my last day a memorable one! I've been running this camp for the last 3 summers and its really evolved into an awesome summer experience for these kids. I walked into camp on my last day, and this is what I was greeted with!
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| I dressed up as Hannah Montana during the morning meeting one week, so this is what one kid drew on the poster. |
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| This girl has been my Chemistry student, Physics student and camp counselor. She's awesome! |
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| I went over to the rec center and my bosses had a cake and a little party for me. They're so good to me! |
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| This is the front entrance of camp. I'm sure the parents loved playing limbo all day. |
I have planned a few trips to see some special people before I leave for 10 months. My first trip was to Houston and it was so much fun! I went on Monday and stayed with the Hendersons for a few days. They adopted Ruthie exactly 2 years ago on Tuesday so we went to Moody Gardens and celebrated. My mom also asked Ginny if she'd take a few pictures of my while I was down visiting, so our trip to Galveston turned into a photo shoot.
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| We went on an adventure the first day I was there to get Ginny a cover for her camera and we were testing it out underwater. It was pretty awesome! Ginny posted several more on her blog http://www.4uruthie.blogspot.com/. You should definitely check them out! |
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| This is at the Rainforest in front of a cool door. |
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Sam had to tickle me to get a genuine smile. :)
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I was able to spend some time with some old college friends. I had dinner with Dustin one night, dinner with Michelle (my roommate from my freshman year). We still joke about how I taught her how to use a hand-held can-opener, start a load of laundry and make a bed. She'd be lost without me!
Another major highlight of my Houston trip was skydiving! I absolutely loved it! We went to Skydive Spaceland just outside of Houston. I went with my old college neighbor Al and a few of his friends. The weather wasn't great and it delayed out dive by about 9 hours. It was a lot of waiting, but completely worth it! I made some great new friends in the process! As soon as I upload the video, I'll share it. Here are a few pictures that the cameraman captured. I definitely plan on going back every year!
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| This is the whole group! They were a fun bunch to jump with. |
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| This is right before we jumped...14000 feet! |
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| I definitely had the coolest instructor. He said next time we wont do the video and do some stunts in the air. Apparently thats not really allowed when you jump tandem. |
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| I wasn't warned on how hard the pull was when the shoot opened. I pretty much went straight back up almost kicking myself in the face. |
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Great capture of the excited I had after the dive! Totally doing this again and again and again...
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Sadly, I had to come back to Dallas after such an awesome time in Houston, but it was good to see my Dallas family again. I will definitely miss my Houstonians while I'm overseas! Next trip: Chicago.
