A new semester is here!

So its been a while since my last post, mainly due to the fact that camp has kept me so ridiculously busy, and then moving and such... The second half of camp was amazing! Ian came down over 4th of July weekend, and for my birthday, and we had a dandy time eating sushi, watching movies, going to the amazing Watson Lake, and attending a world famous rodeo, where you could purchase bras with diamond studs in the straps for only $150... seriously, who buys a bra at a rodeo... Anyway, camp was pretty incredible, and I have so many stories. Perhaps eventually they will get posted here, or transformed in my fiction writing class and posted on my creative blog. Or you could ask me... just a thought.:)

The past two weeks have been nuts though. There was Jess and Reuben's wedding, followed by the last week of camp, filled with goodbyes and moving to a different house for three days so they could get the loft ready for Jess and Reuben to move in when they got back from their honeymoon, me being on paintball, my first week out of the store all summer, and hanging out in Chandler with Katrina and seeing They Met in L.A. in concert, then being taken to the airport by Ashley the next day, where we had a lovely what if we died conversation, and then I went through crazy security two days after the whole terrorist catching no liquids on the plane bit, and got held up by the wire rim in my cowboy hat. I arrived at Denver that Saturday afternoon safe and sound to be greeted by my family, visited Ian's family and it was fantastic to see them, by the way! Sunday was church and Monday was a dentist appointment and massage appointment, Tuesday was a doctor's appointment then moving back for school. I've been slowly unpacking in the new apartment (If you can, stop by and say hi!) and this weekend was seeing Ian for the first time in a month and a half, as well as celebrating Ian and I's two year anniversary, with an amazing dinner at Pachamama's and hanging out and watching movies, and moving him into his apartment and studio.

And classes have started. I'm actually super excited about my classes. I've got intro to fiction writing, Whitman and Dickinson (upper level english, AND american lit requirement in one!) history of Christianity with "crocodile Bob," who is absolutely amazing, and my dad took the class with him and loved, and Harry Potter's Library, which will be a lot of reading and work, but will be so much fun! And my last big news is I started copy editing for the Collegian, which I'm loving! Yay for fun people to work with! At any rate, I'm super excited about the semester. I hope everyone had a great summer, and didn't die for lack of Anna-blogging... your resuscitation is here!

the end... for now.

UCYC so far

So, camp has been crazy but so much fun. The first week was "staff training" which is a nice way of saying that we learn games to use at camp, then do work projects that full time staff doesn't have a chance to do during the year. So, little Anna, who doesn't usually do manual labor (but does have some nice guns... lol!) got to spend a lot of the week mulching and moving brush. I got dirty, sweaty, and had an all around good time bonding with the other summer staff, who are all absolutely amazing! We also got to do some of the activities, like the rock wall, leap of faith, fun stuff like that, and off site as well. Which brings me to fun story of the summer number one. When we went off site, I decided that I wanted to try mountain biking, which I've never done before. I ended up near the back, so I could go slower. But I ended up biffing it withing the first five minutes... yay for accidents with blood! My bike got messed up, but Jenn was amazing, and helped me out, stuck with me, gave me tips, and I did much better, with one exception: I fell again on the first bump of the whoopdeedoos. So everyone was far ahead, and Jenn and Alesia decided to stop, but I thought, hey, I'm on a roll, I'll keep going. Two seconds later, I hear Jarred yelling my name, and he comes chasing after me. Apparently, I missed a turn, so now Jarred is my mountain biking hero. I could have ended up lost all alone (McMurray, Weston, and Roxanna also missed the same turn, and were gone for a couple hours). And I have some sweet scars on my left arm, that I will proudly display for anyone that asks! :D

Camps, obviously have started. I've had so much fun, and I discovered that I really enjoy hanging out with little kids. They are adorable, and love you to pieces! Two weeks ago, we had middle school camp, which was completely different than kids camps. But my initiative group, with Ashley and Aisha, was Parkway, with awesome counselors and everything, and it turns out that Jenny, one of the interns, is actually on the soccer team at MCC, and goes to UCC, and we've seen each other before... so crazy! AND, the senior minister is Trent Renner, from good old O-Town... small world! But they were an amazing group, I'm going to miss them so much! As well as so many different kids from the camps... *sigh* But computer time is short... I'll try to write more as I get the chance!