yep, it's been two full months since i've blogged. a lot has happened since then. the last time i wrote i was talking about a lot of the different things that were troubling my life at that moment. i'll try and update the rest of that here in this post.
shortly after my last post I, along with ali, cotton and nick brandt, took a trip to omaha for the college world series. our trip was cut way short when some stuff went down. i won't say what happened but just know that it was painful, embarrassing and disappointing. luckily God has used this situation to change someone's life for the better so i guess you could say that we're all glad that it happened. two days after i got back from omaha i was due to leave for camp. packing was frustrating and i figured i had forgotten something. i spent the night with odem and hipp in their apartment in dallas playing settlers of catan. the next day bailey drenner, ali and i were caravaning to camp. along the way, we stopped at a walmart and i randomly got my blood pressure checked. it was ridiculously high. needless to say i started freaking out. i called my mom in fear and explained to her the situation. i knew i needed to talk to april (camp nurse) when I got to camp about this.
camp started! third session i was put on the hill with 12 and mostly 13 year olds. they were mostly from louisiana and houston with the occasional dallas and waco thrown in there. these kids made me laugh. my co-counselor wasn't the best i ever had but he was okay, i guess. he was more concerned with tennessee younglife and sec football. whatever. this one kid from baton rouge or "jigga city," as he would refer to it, was one of the funniest kids to watch. on the last day of camp he flowed for me and it was awesome. i definitely want to get to baton rouge to try and hang out with them. they were awesome.
fourth session: without a doubt my favorite session. so much fun. so the session started with cabin assignments. i was paired up with michael johnson from texas. pretty much everyone was jealous of how awesome our cabin was going to be. and to my surprise, it was. we were the second oldest cabin (s-18) or s-frateen as it would be referred to as. we had so much fun in our cabin. we would be up until 2:30 in the morning dancing and laughing and hanging out with each other. we even let them raid/rave s-4. it was awesome. i was very sad to see these kids leave. needless to say, closing day 4th session was very sad. michael and i's babies were leaving. i still keep up with these kids more than any other cabin. i'm supposed to hang out with one of them tomorrow and another one wants me to go to this lil wayne concert but i don't know.
fifth session: eeeeek. this day started off horrible as i was pushed out of the summit, not allowed on the hill and forced to camp out in cabin 52. i was sad because everyone else was in the summit and i really wanted to be there. at least my co-counselor was awesome. i got to know him pretty well. heck, our kids weren't that bad. they were sort of soft but not that bad. my tribal competition team was amazing! they dominated every game by a ton. it was awesome coaching them. they were extremely coachable.
sixth session: paired up with jason cockerham and it was cool. our kids were rough, not bad but they had been through some rough stuff in their life. i can't even talk about it on here cause how bad it was. i hope that these kids enjoyed themselves and hopefully we taught them a thing or two about the Lord, personal hygiene and how to have fun!
that brings me to today! i just got home this past sunday and its friday night. i'm living in texas city now. i'll be living here in texas city for the next nine months. God has put ozone on my heart and its something that i want to start pursuing. i want to do ozone full-time in either memorial or dallas. for this to happen i'm going to need to start praying more and more everyday for God to give me discernment and wisdom on how i need to live my life for him and these kids. i willing and ready to sacrifice things in my life to be able to work for ozone. i want to do it. if ozone doesn't work out, i will still plan on going back to camp for the entire summer next summer most likely as top staff but would love to be a counselor 4th session so i could be with my kids again. but yeah, i know that i would need to change some things in my life before i started being an ozone leader. i need to talk to angela about this cause i haven't and if i want to get hired it's her that i need to talk with. please be PRAYING that my time here in texas city would be spent seeking the Lord, daily. so far i have been doing a horrible job at that so please pray for me and encourage me to do that more and more. i'm going to need it. if for some reason ozone doesn't work out, i want to move back to austin and try and start my life there. hopefully by then i would have saved enough money to live there for a couple of months without having a job. even if it's just a part-time job, that's where i want to be if i don't do ozone. all of my friends are there, matt will be there as will texas football. i'm really excited and i hope that ozone works out because i would love to be there with those boys. some of my favorite campers come from memorial so it would be awesome to get a chance to hang out with those kids every single day and get paid for it.
in conclusion i really want to start blogging at least twice a week while i'm down here in texas city just so i can keep up with my friends in austin and they can know how i'm doing down here. it's 1:06 in the morning and i'm getting pretty tired. i'll probably fall asleep watching summer heights high again. thanks and love.
