This Post Is About Arriving At RMMC

So here I sit, three days in, the clouds are dark, the waist is thin.

Not true.  It was pretty sunny today, which was nice, and I have probably gained a few pounds from Mary and Jill's wondrous cooking.  So I doing good am.

Alright, so I arrived here Sunday night after a three day drive.  I left Virginia on Friday morning and drove about 13.5ish hour drive to Illinois, a 9ish hour drive to Hesston, and an 8ish hour drive to camp.  All pretty uneventful.

So I pulled up, coming back for the first time in two years, and memories flooded the airways (or the brainwaves, I guess, since you don't really breath memories, therefore there is no reason for them to be in the airways).  The view is as stinking incredible as stinking always, your airways are the opposite of being flooded (this means that the air up here is thin, so there isn't as much air in the airways as normal (this means that you get tired walking up a few stairs (this means that you are high in elevation, approximately 9,620 feet))).  I am getting used to the air, slowly but surely, and I am also getting used to the dryness.  It is incredibly not humid here (11% humidity currently), compared to where I am used to, so I am drinking a lot of water, peeing a lot, and using a lot of chapstick.  It still gets down around freezing at nights here, so it can be pretty cold in the mornings and evenings.  There is still about 3 feet of ice on the creek at some spots:

Also a few snow banks in some spots, and Pike's Peak still has a fairly decent quantity of snow upon it (there was a couple here on Sunday night that said they hiked through knee-deep snow up above treeline that day):

So I am here making some plans with Na and Lle for next week and for some kids camps as well (Na and I are the summer program directors and Lle is full-time director, so planning is important).  I am starting to get very excited for when the camps start full-swing and the rest of the staff gets here.  There are seven of the summer staff here now, those of us doing first aid training and rock climbing training and planning stuff, but the rest will come this weekend.  Pumped!

In other news, we saw a stinking bear last night!  A black bear, just hanging out by the lodge.  Then running up the hill.  Cool stuff, man (or lady, I guess I shouldn't be gender-specific, so "Cool stuff, person).  Cool stuff.  But don't worry, they are afraid of humans and it was just a littler guy, we are completely safe. :)

That's it for the day.  Be awesome, be cool, be smart, be a tool.  A tool for the Lord, that is, not a tool as in a stupid person.  Hah, joke.
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God is good and I am super excited to be doing some ministry for Him this summer again.
Love you all!

This Post Is About This Summer

So, here I sit in Singers Glen, VA at my brother and sister-in-law's abode, thinking about what I am doing.  The truth is, I am not doing much at the moment, just listening to Phinehas' new single, Fleshkiller (free download if you join their mailing list, do it) and writing this blog.  I recently checked out Donald Miller's blog about the most viral videos of the week, and it was pretty funny.  So here I sat with not much else to do, so I figured I would update this since I believe it has been a month or two since my last update.
Here is what is going on now and what will be going on in a week.  Right now I am living at my brother and sister-in-law's house working at Red Front (the local grocery store) until the 23rd of May.  That is this coming Thursday, in case you didn't know.  Then I am headed off to the beautiful Rocky Mountain Mennonite Camp to work for the next couple of months.  I actually don't plan on working there, I will just do a bunch of hiking, running, and disc golf.  That is a lie, I will actually work.  I was out there two summers ago as a counselor and am heading back this year as the summer program director, which is a very new step for me.  I haven't really had a whole lot of experience in leadership stuff, but I now that it will be a very beneficial time for me.  Admittedly, I am quite nervous for the responsibility I will have, but it is exciting as well.  I have spent a couple mornings sitting with this nice view -

- doing a little bit of planning for some games and stuff.  I do need to get back on that, of course.  I will try and update this semi-regularly when I am there, and also plan on trying out that video-a-day thing again while I am there to document some of the awesomeness.  I kind of stopped doing it after the one month extravaganza that I had earlier this year. So we shall see.
I am also watching a lot of hockey, which is stinking sweet.  I am Octopi-ing Hockeytown with Gustav Nyquist currently.  LGRW.  Unfortunately, I honestly do not have too much faith in them getting through this round with the Blackhawks, hopefully they will, though.  Also, the playoff beard is coming along quite nicely, I must say.  Haha, joke.

Anyway, I am enjoying my bit of free time at the beginning of summer reading books, hanging out with Kendra, and not doing much.  My goal was to run a lot, but out here it isn't very safe to run which means that I need to drive into town to the college and run there, which takes a lot more time and effort than I would like, so I have only run a couple times since school has been out.  Shucks.
Anyway, that is my life, I guess.  For what it is worth.
In other news, one of my friends is hanging out in Uganda doing some work at an orphanage there with a ton of kids.  It's definitely a good fit for her and I am glad she is following God and His calling for her.  She just got there a couple days ago and is getting adjusted and stuff, but it is good stuff.  I look up to people who can follow God's calling like that, and I pray that I can do the same, and that I can put in the time required for me to be able to follow God's call.
I love people, and you are people, so I love you.  Unless you are a really smart dog or a dolphin or something, then I may still love you.  On that note, I read The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, which was amazingly strange.  Dolphins are nuts.

Here is a fun gif about a fun soccer game, I think.

And this is what happens when you photoshop a motorcycle out of something.  Haha.