1 and 2. (sorry not sorry) I haven't had much time at home yet! I went camping the first weekend of summer with a few of our friends at the cabin that we have all been to before... which was a ton of fun! and then the next night I saw my favorite band FUN. in Charlottesville! It was the best concert that I've been to, they were so great! And then on Tuesday, my friends Jared Iscrupe from Charlotte/ECU NC, Madison Lewis from Mt Airy NC, and Josh Leslie (who you know).. (all summer staff friends) all came over and spent the night. In the morning, we left for Syracuse New York! We stayed with our friend Emily who just graduated from Syracuse for two nights and got to catch up with her and a few of our other friends who we'd met the summer before at Saranac. We then left Friday morning for Rochester NY and spent 3 nights there. In Rochester we painted things at Color Me Mine, celebrated our friend Megan's 22nd birthday, hung out with a TON of hipsters, went to the Rochester YL leader end of the year picnic (weird but cool!) hung out with Megan McEacharn a lot, went to Niagara Falls and got our ponchos very soaked! (but don't worry I kept my hair dry), ate a Rochester Garbage Plate (disgusting) sat on a $25 Goodwill couch in the middle of a parking lot for 3 hours while playing music, hung out at the Erie Canal and Lake Ontario, went to Watkins Glen, NY (a really awesome gorge/waterfall/canyon) check out the Facebook photos! and probably spent 30 hours in a car total. I was so blessed to see as many people as I did and had some awesome conversations. The YL Rochester and Syracuse communities is quite unlike any other and it was very interesting/refreshing/awesome to be immersed in it for a few days. A huge thanks be to God for keeping us safe and healthy for the whole trip, we did a lot of things on whim and a lot could have gone wrong... but didn't! Midnight Coyote (my car) did a fantastic job, we couldn't have asked for a better trip!
3. I luckily did get to spend a good amount of time with the Lord on my trip, although it's nice to have a lot of time to myself again starting tomorrow. being in community is awesome, but I know being in solitude with the Lord can be even more renewing, so I pray that this time I have (10 days) before my birthday :D and when I got back to JMU to start OPAing is productive, restful, and rejuivating in the Lord, His Word, and His creation! I pray that the Lord prepares my heart for the work that He has me doing when I go back to JMU.I know it will be a hard community to live in at times with the other OPAs, but such a purposeful one. I pray that I never lose sight of His mission and what He has called me to do. I want to pray for good, meaningful time with my family while I'm at home, as well as keep pursuing Skyline Girls even more so now that I'm at home and away from them.
4. Lights by Ellie Goulding!
you won't be able to not dance if you turn this on.... try it!
You all are so inspiring to me. The work that the Lord has done in your summers so far is so encouraging and amazing! I am SO excited for the rest of your summers! Granted I haven't started waking up at 6:30 am yet... (haha!) but don't worry in 10 days I will... yay for early mornings! We might as well all load up in Matt's car (needs a name) and drive to the school... I wish!
I love all of you very much.
Afia
and PS I got a haircut too but I actually cut off 15.7 inches but I'm not sure if you can tell I can't really
but really we need to name Matt's car
ReplyDeleteYO MAJOR HAIRCUT!!! Looks great~ no TBG for you next week.. already used two
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