year 2008 recap

so I wanted to do a recap of the year 2008. i love blogging and i love recaps.

so the new year started off in probably the lamest of ways (according to most people). when the clock struck 12:00 AM 2008, I was sitting at home watch LOST. yep, watching LOST. I didn't really feel like doing much for the new year. The majority of my friends were in Costa Rica and I don't remember where Cotton was. Oh well, it wasn't bad. Before we went back to school a group of my friends decided to take a one-day camping trip in Bastrop which was tons of fun. That's where I first found out about Chad and Carly (teehee). Went back to school to finding out that my volleyball team would be no more because of lame drama involving some of the players on the first team and the presidents of the club. Oh well. I was initially bummed because I wouldn't be able to play and I wouldn't get the exercise but I was happy that I could finally start going to bible study at the Alamo on tuesday nights with Brett and Vince. Classes that semester was okay; they were not too difficult. It was at Kari's going away party that I told Sarah Johnson that I was maybe thinking about going back to camp that summer if I found someone to sublease my room. I had not told anyone else because I thought the chances of that were slim to nil. I did not have a job at Westwood locked up but I still wasn't freaking out. So the Saturday after my Intercultural final, I drove home to Texas City to spend Mother's Day with my family and to hang out for about a week and a half. That Mother's Day is when I got the text from Amanda asking me if anyone in my house needed a sublease. Long story short, this guy ended up subleasing my room and I got to go to camp ALL SUMMER LONG!

At camp, orientation was interesting. I was the awkward returner that no one knew because I wasn't there the year before. First session I got paired up with two of the coolest guys ever in cabin 52 which were eleven year olds. Second session I was in cabin 54 with some of the craziest kids ever. that session was a struggle for me. I had a cold for a few days and my kids were crazy. they made those two weeks the longest two weeks ever. i demanded that i be put on SWAT third session. i think i would've been with kids that session but I needed a break. SWAT was just that, a break. not from hard work but from kids. i loved the SWAT team and had a good time but it was hard work. getting up super early and going to sleep way late. needless to say, i was very excited when i left for day off between third and fourth session. they tried to keep us there as long as they could and we finally got out. what made me even more excited was the fact that i got put in the summit with high school freshman. awesome. these kids were studs. even more awesome was when i was in the SAME cabin for fifth session with even awesomer kids. they rocked. sixth session i was with yale (awesome) and that was a pretty long week as well. i didn't think it would end. but it did and i was sad. time flew by way to fast. on closing day sixth session it was crazy because we had to close camp and it was hilarious getting the blobs out and breaking down a lot of stuff. we finally finished so we celebrated with dinner, a quick blob session and discounted stuff from the store. the night got even more exciting when we all went to sam's to watch michael phelps win i think his fourth and fifth medals. that next day was surreal. i couldn't believe it was over. i was one of the last to leave because ryan didn't wake up until late. it was so weird seeing everyone leave and leaving the place i had been for the past three months knowing that i didn't think i was going to be there. this was truly one of the greatest things to ever happen in my life. as we left we drove by the waterfront, fieldhouse and the ball fields and I knew that a life-long relationship with Camp Ozark had begun. I told myself that that would not be the last time I came to camp. I drove home with ryan and it was a lot of fun. My parents (who I missed SO much) picked me up and we went straight to bravos with the rest of the family! Yay!

School started and I decided that I wanted to get back into BYX. A big part of me getting back into BYX was because of the coolest freshman dudes I had met that past summer at camp. I knew who I wanted and I wasn't going to stop until I got him (i did) but not without some "convincing." But that's a story for another time. So BYX was going great and it was time for volleyball to start. The team was way different than the year's past and I was unsure if I wanted to continue because the chemistry wasn't there. Eventually, the team blew away my expectations and we started to come together as a team. I try my hardest to have that senior leadership with all of the youngins but it's tough because we know I struggle with encouragement. Texas/ou weekend was the most fun out of the four years I've gone. Maybe because I was 21 and/or maybe because we BTHO #1 ou. Oh yeah, I also had to take two classes at ACC. They were gay but I ended up with a C in both of them cause I did some serious slacking. Oh well.

And then I got sick...oh well. Don't really feel like talking about it. If you wanna know more you can just scroll on down and read about it. It sucked and I hated it but I needed something to get me back on track with the Lord. He's awesome and I'm a screw-up. Together, we rock. Apart, I suck. Finished finals off the best way I could and came home for over a month. Went to phoenix and had an AMAZING TIME! That kinda brings me to today. I'm going back to Austin tomorrow for my last and final semester at Texas. wow. how things have gone so fast. i hate it. i don't want to grow up. i want to be eighteen forever. oh well. I hope you enjoyed this recap, I have to go pick up my little brother.

thanks, peace and love.
hectee