August, oh August.....

August is going to be so stressful!!!!!!!!!!  I've always looked forward to summer camp, but this year I have 3 girls that equal pain and torture in ten and eleven year old forms.  One is super slow and has a mind of her own like you wouldn't believe.  The other two tag-team and manipulate like they've been trained by the FBI or something, it's almost impressive.  I cant hate on them though, because one of them told me once that I'm her favourite counselor.... cue the 'awwww!!!'s.  This will take up my first week of August.  I'm counseling with a university student I don't know - I get to meet with her on Thursday.  I have to go through the devotions and 2 other guides we've been given.  I have to finish getting together things for my girls.  Gahh.

AWSI will take up my second week in August, and will be easy apparently.  Not much sweat there.

NLS, however, will be the death of me.  It's two weeks long, all day every day 10 - 4:30.  I've been training in preparation for the physical standards.  Well, actually....  I've been thinking about how I should be training.  Hey, it's the thought that counts right? :-P

All in all, I have 9 days off at the end of August to do what I was born to do in the summer - read :-D

I took standard first aid a few weekends ago, and it was probably the most fun I've ever had in a lifeguarding course.  The people were great, and we were pretty comfortable around each other after only 2 days!  We had a lot of fun :-)  but two days straight of simulations and classroom time were dreadful in their own respect.  It got boring, and tedious having to do the same rescue procedure over and over. and over. and over again.  But I'm a pro now :-P  If you're injury prone, keep me around I guess.

My awesome teacher from SFA got us all to volunteer at the upcoming lifeguarding competition in our city!  I'm so incredibly excited, I get to be an injured or drowning person in the pool for the competitors to save all day :-)  Plus, volunteering in such an event looks REALLY good on a resume :-D  It's one of August's perks :-)

I just got back from CREATION FEST on Sunday! :-D  It was so much fun, but it was definitely lacking something, obviously because it wasn't at the gorge.  Oh, well!  There were still amazing bands and speakers, and I had a lot of fun with the people that went.  For once in my life, I have a flip-flop tan.  I got to meet Toby Mac's drummer!!!!!!!!!  He came up to me and my two friends when we were walking to a concert and introduced himself, it was amazing :-D  And I went in a mosh pit for the first time in my life :-D (Yes, yes I KNOW it wasn't an actual mosh pit Keenan... 'It's not a mosh pit!!!!  Mosh pits are violent, that was just a group of people jumping up and down together!!!' )  I went in for Toby Mac and Skillet, which were the best performances I've seen from either group.  On the hottest day, my youth group started a water fight among ourselves, but it ended with 4 other sites involved.... and ended with what had been a pretty big mud puddle turning into a massive one that blocked the entire path.  Whoops.  But it was so worth it!!!  After we were done, we went around giving free hugs.  Because being soaked makes free hugs so much better to give :-P  And I touched a snake!!!!!  It was just a garter snake, but it was so cool.  It felt like jelly!!!  I'll add more stories and some photos tomorrow when I have more time :-)  My throat is killing me still from screaming my face off at the Skillet concert.... but it was so worth it.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ&ob=av2n