orientation 2008

so i know that i haven't blogged in a while and that's my fault. some of you might know, but i decided to come to camp for the ENTIRE summer! crazy, i know. today is an off day and i'm currently sitting in san francisco bread company with some others hanging out and i thought that this would be a good time to update my blog because i know that my readers are getting anxious. here it goes:

on wednesday the 21st i went to memorial and stayed the night with ryan simpson because him, anne marie, sarah bett and i were waking up the next morning to drive up here to mt. ida. well we finally get to camp and its awkward because 95% of the people who are returners are people who worked last year and not the year before. i immediately am like uh....what am i getting myself into? well, we had a lifeline and it was soo much fun getting back into the swing of camp ozark. well, my co's name is garrett mcmullin and he's from state (like most of the kids are) and he was pretty cool. the first years in my cabin were pretty awesome. i was on chris eisenlohr's tribal comp team so that meant that i had to be extra crazy good on the field. we started off playing flickerball and that was pretty much hell on earth. seriously though, hell. well orientation was pretty tough. by wednesday i was so tired of seeing people my own age here and i was getting so pumped and ready for the kids. i knew that i needed to get through the week and the kids would finally be here. it was kinda funny because while doing all the tribal comp stuff and the swim meet and the ultimate solution, i feel like a lot of the guys underestimated me athletically, which is AWESOME. i must say that it was good surprising people with my athletically ability. maybe its because i'm fat and mexican and they don't expect someone who's fat and mexican and sassy? to be a pretty okay athlete. oh well, go caddo. caddo ended up losing the orientation session by about 2 1/2 people. they had a 34 second lead going into ultimate solution and they held it the entire time so there was nothing really that we could've done to cut at it. it was fun though. in the past week, i have had two of the most ridiculous worship services ever. there was one where a group of people gathered at central park to worship on our own and as we were worshiping, it was started to lighting. it was probably one of the most crazy, spiritual things to ever happen to me. then, it started to rain and we started to worship in the rain. if you've never done it, i HIGHLY recommend it. it was sooooo good to see God move. the second one being the worship service we had last night with a husband and wife from houston come in and do it for us. i forgot their names but they were awesome. so i'm in cabin 52 and i have 11 and 12 year olds. if you know anything about camp ozark you know that that's extremely weird! 1st session is a very young session so we don't have many older kids. the summit, which is for the oldest kids at camp, should have 15 and up but this session they have 13 year olds which is pretty ridiculous. my co is hunter ainsworth from state and joey decosta, blair's best friend from high school. i'm way pumped about these two guys and about our kids. we have eight campers and that's like four per person (joey is on lake crew so he will have limited time with them). so i'm way pumped about that. i'm coaching the next oldest kids so i'm excited!

bros and siss in christ, please please please be praying for energy and enthusiasm! i'm having a tough time finding encouragement. i don't have anyone here at camp that i was really close with back at texas so its been tough. so please be praying. if you could send me letters or packages or anything, that would be so greatly appreciated. i will put the address at the bottom. i, of course, am missing all of you back in austin. a small part of me wishes i could be in austin doing life with yall. i know i have to be here though. when you go through what i went through, you know that God has a plan and that it's perfect. because of this i'm trying not to let anything get me down and i'm going to be myself. if people don't like it, it's not my concern. i've been too concerned with how people view me and what they think of me. i won't let satan control that anymore. secondly, i'm going to start trusting Christ with more and more and more. i was a fool to think that he wouldn't provide for me and he did! he provided me with a job all summer and a great guy to sublease my room for the entire summer. i'm not at all worried about any problems happening in austin because i'm so concerned with my plan here.

i gotta go but know that i love yall a lot. be praying.

in Him,
hectee

hector garza
155 camp ozark drive
mount ida, arkansas 71957

summer 2008

so i know i haven't updated like I said I would but I finally have SUMMER 2008 figured out. I have sometime for my episode of brothers and sisters to load so i figured I do a quick update. I've decided to go back to Camp Ozark for the entire summer! OMG! WTF! I know! I still haven't found out about Michael yet but he said that tomorrow he should know whether or not he got the job. Please be praying that he will get the job so that huge financial burden would be lifted off of my shoulder. Honestly, I feel like God has definitely taken over the situation and I have nothing to fear. God will guide me through and and we both feel really good about the job. Michael should get the job. If he were to sublease, I would be in a really good place financially.

With that being said, I will be at camp all summer. Please please please be praying that I would seek God when I feel tired or fatigued. I need to find strength and enthusiasm in Him. I know that I will be better prepared spiritually and mentally. Physically speaking, I know what's expected of me so I know what's in the near future. I'm not too sure what we will be doing as far as orientation goes but all I know is that we will most likely be doing ultimate solution and the swim meet. It changes every other year from the swim meet and the track meet. I would much rather do the swim meet. To be honest, I did have some trouble with the ultimate solution track. I didn't think that it was that hard but for some reason when I did it, I lost my breath. I think it was the adrenaline that got to me which caused me to become light headed. I should probably practice it before I go. I think cleats will better help me. If I can't use Austin's then I will borrow some from Ryan hopefully. I just really want to be the best that I can while at camp. I want to be very intentional with everyone there and I would like to make lots of new friends. I can't wait to be there!

Hopefully, I post every off day that I have and let you know how each session went. I got to remember to do this. I probably will only have five or six posts this summer, one for every session and then orientation. Please be praying for my time there! I love you all. Also, tell everyone you know that I will be there. Not very many people read my blog for crazy reasons. You can forward my blog or just tell them where I am and that I need prayer. Love yall!

i can't sleep

its 4:23 in the AM and i cannot sleep. some crazy things have been happening this past week. i'll tell you the story in hopes that i'm extremely tired when i'm finished with it. soooooo for the past month or so camp ozark has been heavy on my heart. i can't stop thinking about that place. i didn't know when i left whether or not i would be able to make it back to that lovely little establishment six miles west of mount ida, arkansas. feeling it so heavy on the heart, i finally let someone know how i was feeling. I told sarah johnson last wednesday that i would like to go back to camp this summer. she said that i should go! i told her that there was no way that i could go back to camp without someone subleasing my room. i told her that i'd pray about it and i asked her if she would too. so i casually prayed about it but knew that it wouldn't happen. it was soo late in may that i figured no one would need a sublease. on sunday, amanda neugebauer texted me and asked if anyone in my house needed a sublease for the summer. she said that one of her friends was interviewing for a job at the capitol with the governor and he needed a place to stay if he got the job. i told her my situation and was extremely giddy. right then and there, at bonnies in houston, i decided that if this guy subleased my room, i'd make my way back to camp ozark for the ENTIRE summer. so, i called pendley and asked her what i needed to do. she told me that i needed to email or call steven and let him know. i wanted to be sure of the sublease before anything happened.

well michael interviewed on Monday with the governor. we messaged each other back and forth on facebook and he told me that the interview went well. he told me that he would know by the end of the week whether or not he got the job. i emailed steven on monday night and told him my situation. i was afraid that i would have this guy subleasing my room and not getting hired back. steven didn't call me until wednesday morning. he actually woke me up. he talked to me and told me that they were actually good on guys but that he would love if i were to come up there and work. i was so excited! that was one hurdle that i needed to jump in order to obtain my goal of working at camp. the past two days have been crazy because i want to know whether or not michael got the job. i realized that two people would receive such huge blessings in this. michael would get a great job and i would have the chance to go back to the place i had so much fun. with that being said, i need to tell myself that if this doesn't work out, that's okay. it wasn't in God's plan for me to be back in mt. ida. i just feel like all of this wouldn't have happened for no reason though. there's a little part of me that is telling me that this is going to happen and then there is a bigger part of me telling me that i'm crazy to think this will happen. i want God to show up, i want him to prove me wrong. I started to think about going back even if he doesn't sublease my room. could I afford that? if i did that, i would need to accept that other loan money to even things out. that's something that i would have to think about. i just want to be at camp all summer. i guess if i really wanted to be there, i would do whatever it takes to get there.

If you're reading this, its probably friday morning or friday afternoon and by now, i probably know whether or not Michael got the job. i may or may not go to camp if he doesn't get the job. i want to find out if its going to be worth it. the thing is, i have a job at camp; i don't have a job in austin. yeah, i'll probably make around 2000 but almost 900 of that will go to rent and bills for this summer. if you could pray for my situation, that'd be great. i'll let you know everything that happens!

summer 2008

so I still don't have a job for the summer. I will probably wake up on Saturday morning and go try and talk to Brody. I'm going to turn in my application and try and persuade him to hire me. I will tell him that I'm experienced and that I could be a headguard and that I wouldn't do anything wrong and that I'm a good guard. I need a job. Even if I start in June, that would be fine. I'd work my butt off the entire summer. If not, I don't know what I'm going to do. I told Sarah Johnson yesterday that if I could find someone to sublease my room, I'd go to camp all summer. The chances of that happening are slim to none but I would love it if that were to happen. I wouldn't have to worry about paying rent or anything and I'd be saving around $1000. If I were to go to camp, I'd probably make somewhere around $2000. That on top of my $2000 scholarship from Oneok would be around $4000, which would be good to start off. I should be getting a lot more financial aid then the past years which will help me out a lot. Depending on how much scholarship I get, that will determine how much loan I need to take out. I'm just scared that I will miss out on stuff that I shouldn't. For example, last summer. It was a complete waste. I wish I would've subleased my room and gone to camp the entire summer. I could've subleased it to pretty much anyone. I was in the house for the majority of the summer by myself so it really wouldn't have mattered who stayed there. Of course, I was dumb and didn't think of it. I could've went home and worked for the pool, no, probably not. Stupid.

I don't want to spend this summer as depressed as last summer. That's what I'm so scared about. Its stuff like that that make me feel depressed.

i'm gonna watch true life now. thanks computer for being awesome and taking up my life now.

honey and milk

okay, I'm officially obsessed with missy higgins and the song "warm whispers." every time I listen to this song, I feel like I get a slice of love. This is definitely a love song to the max and that makes my heart feel warm inside. if you don't listen to her, please start to.

i'm about to go "dominate" an advertising final

staying gold

so I just found out that I have to take a final tomorrow afternoon in advertising. My professor can't find my extra credit and so I have to take the final in order to get an A. I wish I would've just done the other extra credit and this wouldn't have been a problem at all. Oh well, it will be alright. I'm currently at flight path trying to study but its not really working. I have to look over eighteen pages of notes to study for my final. I hope that its not hard and that he copies old questions from both of the tests. I could seriously study here for the next hour and a half and I would probably be set on the first half of the test.

In other news: I still don't have a job for the summer! Yay! I was planning on going up to westwood either today or yesterday but it didn't happen. Tomorrow, I will print out the app and hopefully go up there on Thursday. I would like to work there. I could go home and stay there until I needed to come back up and work.

I'm looking forward to this summer. Cotton and I are about to get a lot closer. Especially if we work at Westwood together. Its going to be ridiculous but fun. I can't believe that they have 16 lifeguards already hired. Where did these kids come from?

I have not been getting into the word much but the Lord is definitely moving in my life especially this last week and a half. He has taken some stuff that I've been dealing with and put it out of my life. Now, its up to me to see how long I can trust Him and seek Him. As long as I'm constantly pursuing Him, He won't let me stumble. praise it!



Currently obsessed with that song. I saw it on this TV show called Brothers and Sisters which I want to start watching, it looks good. It comes on on Sundays at 8. If it stays on during the summer, it will definitely be one of my summer activities!

miles away

so sorry I haven't posted in such a while. this past week of school has been heck and I had a lot of assignments and tests and papers to turn in. I didn't sleep much this past week but that's okay. i was so glad when the week was finally over. on friday, I came home from DG lunch and decided that I needed to sleep but it didn't really happen. I went to mess around at pease park with some friends and then went to watch brett rogers vs. will todd at enfield. brett won but it was because will todd is horrible at basketball. we had big leadership which was sobfest 2008. we sent off the seniors. crazy. afterwards, a big group of people came back to the alamo to watch the rockets LOSE. ahh, so crazy. i thought this was our year. we tried to play risk after that but it was not happening. on saturday, we signed up to play in the ignite volleyball tournament. little did I know what I'd be getting myself into. i almost got into a fight with cotton and i'm currently not talking to eli because he was a big d to me. we ended up forfeiting because we would've had to stay out there a while but we were ready to go. they didn't have any water or food out there which was ridiculous. after that we went to the roustabout dance show which was pretty cool. went to the ditch afterwards. awesome.

i still on the hunt for a summer a)job and b)song. i'm going to go up to westwood tomorrow to turn my application in and hopefully talk to brody about working and about how much i would love to work at westwood again. as far as summer song goes, i have a few nominees but we'll see after finals and everything what song I choose. i'm officially done with junior year next saturday. I may or may not have to take four finals. two for sure. i could find out right now if i have to take one but i'm going to hold out because i'm nervous and I hate looking at grades. right now, it looks like i'm going to have 1 a and four b's. i could've easily had three a's and two b's. if only i would've done better on the quizzes in intercultural and theories of persusion. who knows, maybe i can crank out an A in intercultural if i make a 100 on my final. i am obsessed with this song though...


it's all those nights by dear juliet. i know, they are kinda emo slash no one over the age of 17 probably listens to them but i really like it. don't judge me. or do it

i'm going downstairs.