Time is sure flying! Our third group of the summer arrives sometime this afternoon, which means our free weekend is officially over. Karissa, Laura, Maryann, Ben, Jack, and I went to town this morning/afternoon for groceries and just to shop.
I still feel so tired from this past weekend; I'm not sure I'm ready for another group yet. I feel like we're all constantly in transition. The groups stay for two weeks and by the end of the second week when you feel like you're finally connecting with people and getting to know them and can really relax and have fun...they up and leave and you have to start over with another group. It gets extremely exhausting.
One thing I must say is that I'm so thankful for our group of interns (Just so you know the names for future reference: Ben, Dan, Jack, Josh, Alicia, Sarah, Laura, Maryann, and Karissa). While we constantly have large groups of students coming and going every two weeks it's so nice to have a core group of friends that stays the same (for now--let's not think about the end of the summer and everyone parting ways!). I really love our wacky intern group; such different people with very different personalities! It sure keeps things interesting! My favorite thing, though, is being surrounded by a steady group of friends who all love God deeply and make an effort to support each other as brothers and sisters in Christ. Not that we never get on each others' nerves or that we always get along perfectly (lol!), but I think we all feel free to be ourselves around each other.
Here are a few photos from the past two weeks:
One of my favorite activities with the groups (partly because I don't have to film it--lol!) is the Sunday night campfire and worship time. That's intern Josh playing the guitar, and interns Sarah, Laura, Karissa, and Alicia are the four girls sitting in the back to his right.
I still feel so tired from this past weekend; I'm not sure I'm ready for another group yet. I feel like we're all constantly in transition. The groups stay for two weeks and by the end of the second week when you feel like you're finally connecting with people and getting to know them and can really relax and have fun...they up and leave and you have to start over with another group. It gets extremely exhausting.
One thing I must say is that I'm so thankful for our group of interns (Just so you know the names for future reference: Ben, Dan, Jack, Josh, Alicia, Sarah, Laura, Maryann, and Karissa). While we constantly have large groups of students coming and going every two weeks it's so nice to have a core group of friends that stays the same (for now--let's not think about the end of the summer and everyone parting ways!). I really love our wacky intern group; such different people with very different personalities! It sure keeps things interesting! My favorite thing, though, is being surrounded by a steady group of friends who all love God deeply and make an effort to support each other as brothers and sisters in Christ. Not that we never get on each others' nerves or that we always get along perfectly (lol!), but I think we all feel free to be ourselves around each other.
Here are a few photos from the past two weeks:
One of my favorite activities with the groups (partly because I don't have to film it--lol!) is the Sunday night campfire and worship time. That's intern Josh playing the guitar, and interns Sarah, Laura, Karissa, and Alicia are the four girls sitting in the back to his right.
One of the students in the last group with a little girl at the women's sports site:
Construction spent one afternoon siesta sitting on a hill overlooking the valley and sharing their testimonies about what God has been doing in their lives. Intern Dan is the guy sitting directly to the right of the guy in the light blue shirt and intern Jack is the guy furthest to the right:
On one of our off-weekends we interns headed up the mountains and spent a few hours relaxing at a waterfall. Check out the scale of this one; did you notice the two people in the water on the right?
We found a "natural Jaccuzzi" in a hollowed-out spot in one of the little waterfalls. This is Alicia on the left and Sarah on the right.
Me and Karissa:
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