Whew!

What a crazy week! The last weeks of my summer have been and will be filled with work and physical therapy observation. Work is the same old thing, but I'm loving my PT observation. I hate that so many opportunities came up so late in the summer and I'm killing myself to get lots of hours in, but I'm still grateful for them none-the-less. It only proves that this is what I want to spend my life doing, Lord willing. We'll see how it goes. One day at a time.

Although I had some fun last weekend. 7 of us from Raleigh went to visit our good ol' friend, Mike, in Concord for the weekend. We had good times. We ate some delicious enchiladas upon our arrival, went and frolicked around Carowinds for a day, crashed after being super tired, went crazy when Baird and Aaron visited for a few hours, went to a huge church, took a million pictures, hung around the pool, and drove home. Mmm, it was a lovely weekend, indeed.

I also got to hang out with my dear friend Laina this week. We went to Paint Your Own and painted things. I painted something for the room and Laina helped the girls she babysits. It's always wonderful to catch up with her. We go all the way back to 8th grade and still manage to find time to get together every now and then.

Did I mention the fact that I have the greatest friends on the universe? Well, I do.

I cannot believe I only have two weeks before I move back to Greenville! I'm pumped about our new place and my amazing roommates and my 15 or so other friends who are all practically my neighbors! It's going to be a fun year. I hate how I'm cramming everything and everyone in before that time, but I guess that's just how it ended up working. I think that's part of Satan's tactic, keeping us so busy that we loose sight of Christ. He's really good at that, too. How often do we sit down from our crazy lives and just stop and think with no distractions? Not often enough. I'm so busy I haven't made time to sit down in the Word consistently by any means. For instance today, I opened at Starbucks, did 5 hours of PT observation, went to the mall, and basically crashed until I realized wow, it's 10pm...I've been sleeping all afternoon. I'm still so filled from the blessings I saw at camp that my faith is no where near lost, it's just often shoved to the back of my mind. I think I need to work on that.

I'm ready for a fresh start of the semester. Not the school part so much, but at least this is the point where it gets interesting--lots of classes I will enjoy, the fellowship of FCA, ultimate frisbee at the bottom of the hill, mornings of coffee and a bible study with the roomies, getting to hang out with my wonderful Young Life girls and my fabulous fellow leaders, and all sorts of fun weekends and trips. It's gonna be a good one...I can't wait!

:)