This past Tuesday marked the three weeks left point of our project. AAHHH! Part of me feels like we just got here, and part of me feels like I’ve been here forever. I can’t imagine NOT knowing the people here, and not being with them every day! Leaving is going to be rough. I already told Tyler to expect me crying pretty much all the way to Baltimore. He’s ok with it…I think. No just kidding, I should be ok. Maybe.
I was under the impression that I recently wrote a new entry, but I guess it’s been 9 days; sorry! I seriously forget to write, and when I do write I feel like I’ve just done it recently, so I apologize for the long breaks in between entries. Seriously, we have been SO busy here! Project time is so unreal. Actually, this whole environment is unreal. Where else do you live, hang out with, evangelize with, and have fun with all Christians? It’s so amazing. The other night I hung out in one of the guys apartments and we just talked about a whole bunch of stuff, like our high schools, how parents affect their children for better or worse, etc. etc. It was a super deep conversation that came out of nowhere, and it was awesome!
Ohhh and I played piano for our worship time for the first time last Wednesday, and again this Wednesday! I was just thinking you know, God has given me this talent, and I need to use it. So I played two songs last week, and one this week. I was really nervous because I’ve never played while people have sung along before, but it ended up being ok. It was actually pretty cool–once I started, God completely took my nerves away, and I was actually able to sing along as well as play! I don’t think I’m playing next week, but I probably will for our last Family Night, which is the week after next. Sad 
So my birthday was on Friday, and it was such a happy day! I took off work, and three other girls didn’t work either, so we went to this place called the Bayside Skillet for breakfast. They are famous for their crepes, and I got dutch apple crepes. They were DELICIOUS! And the restaurant is so cute–everything is pink pretty much, and we got to sit outside and look at the bay. Then we drove to Salisbury, which is 30 minutes away, and went to Target! I don’t know why we haven’t gone there before. I’ve been dying from lack of actual civilization, and we got to go to Target, Old Navy, Ross, and went to the Dollar Tree to get presents for our Christmas in July party, which was Friday night. It was a white elephant exchange, so I bought some random stuff. Did you know they sell bubble wands that blow bubbles in the shape of Spiderman’s head? I didn’t either.
We didn’t have outreach on Saturday until that night, so I went to Assateague with 5 other girls and it was glorious. The weather was PERFECT–about 80 degrees, sunny, and slightly windy. So it was warm enough to feel great, but cool enough to not be miserable! I don’t know how I’m going to adjust to South Carolina weather again. I may possibly die of heat stroke when I get home! But our day at Assateague was sooo wonderful. It was great to just rest and be together without having to worry about anything. Saturday night was our outreach. There’s a guy who travels around showing a surf video about Bethany Hamilton, the girl whose arm got bitten off by a shark about 5 years ago. She’s a Christian, and she and her family made a documentary of her experience and how it has created so many opportunities for her to share her faith with people. We went around on the Boardwalk and handed out fliers to it before it started, then we went and watched the movie. They set it up in the parking lot of Atlantic Methodist, and it played on a 30 x 30 screen. The turnout wasn’t huge, but it was alot bigger than I expected. And we got to meet these two awesome Swedish girls who are au pairs! They just came over here 4 weeks ago and are here until next July. We didn’t get to share the Gospel with them, but Lauren and I found them on the beach on Sunday and got to talk to them some more. They were leaving to go out of town, but I hope we can get to see them again before we leave.
This week at work has been pretty good. I feel like I’m finally getting to know the people I work with, which is great, but stinks because I leave in 3 weeks. I food ran on Monday and Tuesday, and expedited yesterday, and food ran again today. It was SO busy today! When we got to work at 11 it was already busy, and it just kept getting worse as the day went on. But hopefully I made some good money! We’ve invited about 8 of our co-workers to the cookout we are having this Saturday, but most of them have to work or are out of town, so I don’t really know if anyone will come, but I hope they do. We are having a cookout for the co-workers of everyone on project. We got hotdogs and hamburgers, and we’re making desserts and side dishes too, and having the cookout in the parking lot of First Presbyterian. It’s our outreach event for Saturday, but I’m not really sure how it’s going to be outreach, but I guess we will see. So please be praying that some of my co-workers come, and if not mine, that other people will! We want to have as many as we can.
In other news…..on Tuesday night about 10 of us saw Harry Potter at midnight! We got to Salisbury about 10:30, so we just hung out in the theater until it started. The movie wasn’t the best Harry Potter that I’ve seen, but it wasn’t bad. It was fun just to hang out together. And I’m so glad there were other Harry Potter dorks like me who wanted to see it at midnight!
Tonight is Women’s Time from 6:30 to 8, and then reflection time from 8-10. I love Thursday nights. They are always so relaxing, and while I didn’t really like reflection time at the beginning of the summer, I’m really enjoying it now. Last week I got to listen to a sermon online, and journal like 4 pages front and back. It was so nice to spend some uninterrupted and peaceful time with Jesus.
I will really, really try to update more often this week, or the next few weeks! I hope it won’t be another week or two before I blog again, but if it is…I apologize in advance.
