and here i am, a better person
i don't know if i'm actually a better person, but i feel different. i learned a lot about myself (cheesy as it sounds) and i really grew a lot this summer.
i wasn't actually in kentucky for most of it. my crew divided its time between virginia, kentucky, tennessee and north carolina. we worked on the trails, clearing debris, lopping overgrowth and maintaining drainage ditches. we also built steps on trails (it was very LIT camp service) and built huge rock retaining walls. it was really hard work, i don't think i've ever sweated as much as i did, but it felt good. it was roaringly hot and humid, and people got snappish and grumpy (and very VERY smelly), but we really accomplished a lot.
too much happened! i don't know how to sort it out and talk about it. it's all too complicated and close. i'll have to wait and write about different aspects during different entries.
i'm feeling pretty overwhelmed right now to be honest. i've been gone for five weeks and i come back, half deaf from an ear infection, and i have emails about my extended essay and the SAT and my senior portrait and i'm going out of town next weekend to see emily and my vassar application in on my dining room table and it's all just freaking me out.
i wasn't actually in kentucky for most of it. my crew divided its time between virginia, kentucky, tennessee and north carolina. we worked on the trails, clearing debris, lopping overgrowth and maintaining drainage ditches. we also built steps on trails (it was very LIT camp service) and built huge rock retaining walls. it was really hard work, i don't think i've ever sweated as much as i did, but it felt good. it was roaringly hot and humid, and people got snappish and grumpy (and very VERY smelly), but we really accomplished a lot.
too much happened! i don't know how to sort it out and talk about it. it's all too complicated and close. i'll have to wait and write about different aspects during different entries.
i'm feeling pretty overwhelmed right now to be honest. i've been gone for five weeks and i come back, half deaf from an ear infection, and i have emails about my extended essay and the SAT and my senior portrait and i'm going out of town next weekend to see emily and my vassar application in on my dining room table and it's all just freaking me out.