Heres ai bei tempi. Here's to the good times.

       Ciao! I hope y'all are doing well. Things are moving fast here. Last weekend I attended the RYLA leadership camp in New Braunfels. RYLA is the rotary clubs youth leadership program for juniors in high school and a couple people (2-4) from each school are asked to attend. It was crazy! The team leaders were seniors that had attended the previous year. They were a lot of fun and liked to sing/ yell crazy songs at random and punish people for weird offenses, like talking to someone from your school, by making you do embarrassing things.The first night I was sure I'd wandered into a mental institution.
      We played a lot of fun games and had several guest speakers. One guest speaker was a motivational speaker that taught us about traits that make up the best leader (such as wisdom) and how we could apply these in our life. It was educational and she had us pick one trait we would all work on. Another speaker was a Wounded Warrior that came to tell us about how the program helped his family, especially his brother who's also a wounded warrior, and about his tour. This lead to us doing a service project where we wrote letters to the soldiers and made bracelets. For most of the weekend we played different leadership games that had a message behind each one. All were a blast to participate in and gave me something to think about afterwards. Then we had an 80's dance and the next day it was time to drive home with my friends. I'm so thankful for the rotary club for inviting me and allowing me to have this wonderful experience!

Stopping at the Pit Stop on the way there with Sam.

Clearly we're in a magical place.

Is it still a war wound if it's self inflicted?

Road trip back!

      Big announcement! My application is almost finished! Eeep! I went to the doctor the other day so they could check that I'm neither dying nor overly psychotic. As soon as I get that form back from the doctor,on Monday, I can turn in my application. Are you ready for more exciting news?! I GOT A JOB! Woohoo!! I now work the front counter at Chick Fil' A. I've been going through training all week and start on Monday. I'm both excited and nervous to start. Finally, I'd like to thank all my recent donations, thanks y'all I couldn't do it without you! ARRIVEDERCI!

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