what's new, oh, just everything

hello world. it's me again. i was in the letter writing mood, so just about every single person at k2 got a letter. i spent the week at my grandma's which was fun. she only lives a mile away from me. i visited my great great aunt marge stevens in the assisted living facility, my great grandma in the rehab facility after her knee replacement. oh yeah, it was fun business. my family is not typical and this week i have just been wishing for the typical all american family. if there is one thing that i learned at kamp this year it was that your experiences shape you, so i guess i'm thankful for it. i'm almost done with my first month of victor's crown. i don't have anything to say...just watching cheap reality shows that no decent human being should watch...i can't believe they make money off of them. the bachelorette (Spelling?), ridiculous...but yet i watched it

i am so excited!

i have been so bored lately without the constant activity of kamp. today i went to a financial responsibility course, am i boring or what? so in order to turn this negative situation into a positive situation (funniest skit of my life!) and decided to do one of my favorite things, which is making lists, about all the things i am excited about.
1.) wipeout - best show EVER! they find the biggest goofballs in america, the type that make us all embaressed to say we hail from the US. then they make them do a ridiculously amusing obstacle course
2.) drivers ed - believe it or not, after the ungodly boring class that i was forced to take for nine hours i will actually be learning how to drive from someone who has real experience in teaching people how to drive. i really don't like driving because it makes me anxious, and super stressed. i am pretty stoked about getting more confident.
3.) figuring out how to raise the money for kamp - again it comes to that time when i need to earn a large amount of money. it is sometimes amusing to look at what i am will to do just to go
4.) doing amazingly stupid things for not reason - nuf' said
that's pretty much what was on my mind. i am still thinking about kamp a lot, i think i have more severe withdrawl than everyone else...

Kanankuk in Pictures

Me on the the faith pole, God gave me crap knees, and my knee gave out at the top, i got sweet scratches down my legs to prove i did it

my spectacular cabin

Vero helped me do my hair for galactica and we put a beach ball under it

Kabin 7 on the night of Hoedown Showdown, my hair stayed down for a good hour before I put it in a ponytail, i was really proud.

how lucky am i?

i have only had the most, i don't even know what it is, day ever. it started out with me, obviously. i slept through my alarm, which is pretty much near to impossible since the volume on the alarm is only like 8 quatrillion times louder than the loudest alarm in the state. so i didn't get up till 10:00ish. then i went to my church's garage sale. i pretty much just held whatever my mom told me to hold and/or threw at me. i saw one of my youth ministers, and he used to work at kanakuk, and was so stoked that i was back just so he could talk to me about it. no one from around here goes to kamp because they all go to camp tekawitha (techawita, teckawithha???), LAME-O! anyway, he came back after working at kanakuk and made this camp teckawitha thing, but it is so not as good as kanakuk. anyway, then i went home, joy. and i had a lovely nap, joy. then i got up, put on my black dress that i really hate, and my black shoes i really like, and drove to gardner, which is in kansas. i went to my great grandpa's funeral. i knew that he was back in the hospital before i left for kamp. my dad kept me updated and on the thursday before i went home, my dad told me how awesome he was doing. he was doing really well up until he died on friday. it really wasn't real for me until i went to the funeral today. as much as i'm going to miss him, i'm really happy that he gets to be back in heaven with my great grandma. he really was one of kind. he was 97 years 11 months and 9 days old when he passed. he loved his wife and treated her like every man should treat his wife. to him, my great grandma was the greatest gift God could have ever given him, and he let her know that every day. he was really committed to Christ, and loved Him with a passion. i know for sure that he is in heaven. when i was at kamp my counselors told me, God wouldn't take him until i was ready. although i might not have thought so, i know now that i am ready, and have learned a lot from the life of my great-grandpa. i cant even express how thankful i am that God blessed me with my great-grandpa for all these 15 years of my life. how lucky am i? really, really lucky!

It's only been two days?!

I cannot believe it has only been two days since i got home from kamp! i am insanely bored because i am so used to doing something every single second of every single day. these are the days when i especially wish that there was a k-life close to my house! so far, since getting home from kamp, i have managed to do the following.
1.) get sick with a nasty cold (thank you lizzy!)
2.) do 15 pages in my victors crown book (that way i get it done BEFORE i go to kamp next year)
3.) work on my technology summer credit (blah)
4.) sleep, alot
i have recently come to the decision that i should be able to stay at kamp all summer next year. i don't care how it happens, but it is happening. somehow, every year kamp gets better and better, but at the same time faster and faster! i can't wait till i'm old enough to do a job like meredith's, or ashley's, brooke's, or just be a counselor. i guess till then i'm stuck paying my own way to kamp and going for only two weeks. now that i have managed to thuroughly depress the world, i think i will return to watching this ridiculous movie with my brother. he has such weird taste in entertainment.

Kamp was here, and now it's gone...

So I worked all year to raise the money to go to kamp, and it seems like I was there only three days and here I am again, ready to start back up and go at it again. This was only like the fastest term of my life! I 'll breaker' down for ya.
KOMO 7 IS LEGIT!
Megan and Madison were in my cabin again. Wouldn't be kamp without them. Katie was there also, so this is our 3rd year together. There was Allison, who shared my extreme dislike of all dairy related products. There was Alynna, who got sun burned and became my tomato twin. Gracie, Lizzay, Vero, and of course, Kailey. My counselors were Laura and Christine. Other totally sweet people I got to meet were Brooke and Ducky who ran all around. The K-wet guys, who taught me how to wakeboard. Ashley Robbins, who did an amazing job explaining the "guidelines" of kamp. Joe White, the name says it all. Adam Donyes, who is a really good speaker, and obviously very passionate about what he does. Meredith, who ran cabin checks,leads dancing at K-life and parties, and never ceases to make me laugh. Laura, our UC, who got stuck in a laundry bag last night, joined us for breakfast almost every morning and for devos almost every nigh, Whitney, our kitchi. Mckall White (did I even remotely spell that right?) and Brett Buckner, the amazing kickapoo princi. I just realized that I met a whole lot more people than I thought.
I had sooo much fun, that it would litterally take me 14 days to explain the 13 days that I was at kamp. So here are some highlights.
1.) learning to wakeboard
2.) Laughing till my stomach hurts at least twice a day
3.) Pterodactyl, RAWR!
4.) Reading the stories written in the bathroom stalls
5.) Showing everyone my super sweet Spiderman jump
6.) Cheez- ballin' it up for karnival, somehow I got stuck in the easy dance
7.) Dominating the Kiowas in like every competition
8.) Having rude table conversation
9.) PARTAYS!
10.) Skits, and k-life
Pretty much anything that happens at kamp is a highlight.
Quotes of the term as decided by komo 7
1.) "pterodactly, rawr!" ~Megan
2.) "Girlfrand!" ~Christine
3.) "Let's turn that negative situation, into a positive situation" ~Rocky Road Youth Group Troupe
4.) "These aren't rules, they are more like guidelines, except not" ~Ashley
I'll get some pictures up, but I gotta go unpack before any wild animal start attacking my trunk. Anything that can make it home from kamp deserves to be washed.
Be fun, colorful, and full of kamp spirit!
Libby