Sweet sweet SUMMERtime!

Oh Praise Him! David Crowder definately has that one right! I am very happy to be done with my first semester of summer school. I did okay on all of my exams and got the GPA I needed to keep my scholarship, which is really all I want now. I could not have done it without the prayers and encouragement from all my friends. It was really cool to be able to see the work God has done in my faith throughout the semester. Now I am jobless and heading into the summer. I am not sure if I need to get a job or not. Well, it's not really that I'm not sure whether I need a job, it's whether I can find one that is convenient enough for me over the summer. I am actually having two vacations this summer and I have made up my mind that I am not going to miss any of either one because of work or any other obligations. Thanks to God I don't have summer school, which I am absolutely ecstatic about. A lot of the girls in my class group ended up having to take summer school, (and ALL of the people in nursing school are smart, so that should give you a hint of how hard school was!). I am so grateful that I not only do not have to take classes this summer but I also keep my scholarship! My roommate also has God on her side because she also got to keep her scholarship and all, which is something that me and many others were praying for. God is so faithful. It is great during these times when I can say that he is faithful, but I need to remember that it does not change his goodness, because He is good ALL the time, despite the trivial things of my life.

But school is boring and I really don't want to talk about that for the rest of the summer, I just needed to let the world know my happiness! :)

The Friday after school was out, I went with the highschoolers to help out with MORP, which is Victory's alternative to the high schools' proms. It went very good. I wasn't really sure what I was going to wear or how I was going to fix my hair, but I went over to Rach's house and the girls, (Rach, Tabi, and Tina), were awesome and helped me get ready. Then we made the unfortunate mistake of thinking that Cafe Americain was on Jone's Creek and Coursey when in fact it is now on Jefferson! HA! We arrived at a 'fashionably late' ;) fourty-five minutes late. But it was okay because we got there, ate, took pictures, and seperated into teams.

I was on team one, with the Johnsons from Kidzone and all the girls I mentioned earlier as the team leaders. (I think the leaders were more enthusiastic about the contest than the kids! haha) We first went to the Johnson's house (not the kidzone pastors, the other Johnsons), where we hung out long enough to take pictures and change our clothes. Kirby and Jen then told us the rules and we ran out to the vans and drove to skate galaxy, where the kids had to skate around how ever many times or whatever. Tiara, on team 1, found the secret hidden points, which helped out our team. We then drove around to different mailboxes throughout the city, finding various points for our team. We got then early, so we went to the laser tag place and rescheduled an earlier time. We were sitting around waiting for Jen and Kirby to get there to tell them about that when Tiara picked up a piece of paper on a table and discovered yet another point bonus! :) We couldn't keep the points because it wasn't fair because the other team hadn't been there yet, but it was still funny that she managed to find both hidden points! We made it back to the Johnson's first, so we did well on the first challenge. After this I went and played volleyball and got incredibly sweaty and tired because there were only two people on each team. Me and Goat were on one team and Andrew and Tori on the other. Me and Goat were doing really good, but we got tired, which was when the other team started keeping score, so we didn't have a really good score! haha But I stuck around and kept playing so I could make the other team quit, which means they lose I win! :) I went upstairs and crashed on a bean bag and watched Avatar with the high schoolers, but I didn't get to see the end because Kirby came up to tell us to head to our next challenge. At this challenge, someone had to jump into a swimming pool and the first team to find a bag with a barbie in it got the most points. Then, we had to build a boat, and the team that had the boat that floated the fastest across the pool won more points. We lost both! AH! Not cool at all, but we figured we could make a comeback with the last challenge. This was a scavenger hunt on the church grounds. We kept our team running and we ended up finishing wayyyyy before the other team, but it turns out we were so far behind it didn't matter and we lost anyways! Wooo there were not some happy people, and I can't say that I was too happy about it either, but I got over it. I'm too competitive sometimes. :) The point of it was to have fun and I did have an absolute blast! I love hanging out with the youth, they are great to be around.

Tomorrow I am going to go with Tiffany and her friends to Kaplan to celebrate her birthday with her family, which I am very excited about! Roadtrip!!!!!!! I will have to update on that soon!