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August 17th, 2005 | Comments (2) | Trackbacks (0) |

The summer is coming to a close.

Tomorrow is my last official day of the greatest summer internship ever, as well as my last day in West Des Moines. I head back up to Luther on Friday after and quick morning stop in Ames to visit Laina. I’ve probably said, “I can’t believe how fast this summer went!” at the end of every summer since I was thirteen, but this summer seriously went by extra quick. I still vividly remember a very akward phone conversation I had with Molly, one of the other interns, in mid-May. She was telling me when I needed to be in the office, but we didn’t know one another, so it was quite akward.

It’s been a while since I really wrote anything that had to do with my life. I spent the first week of August at the Lake of the Ozarks with a ton of Jr. High students for a camp called Surge that Valley Church does. It was a blast, and it was great to get to know the younger kids in the ministry that I hadn’t even met because I have been doing Sr. High stuff all summer. Two days after we got back from Surge, we headed back to Parmelee, South Dakota. We had gift baskets for every house in the town (between 80-100) and we got to see most of the kids again. In the 36 hours that we were gone for the trip, 16 was spend driving and only 4 was spent in the town… but it was awesome. The instant William saw me, he started sprinting toward me. I love that boy.

The day after Return to Rosebud, I took a group of students to the Iowa State Fair to see Switchfoot perform, with Sleeping at Last as the opening act. Not many people there even knew of Sleeping at Last, but I have been a pretty big fan for about a year. I got to meet the guys, and they signed a poster for me. Switchfoot was good, too. I think their new album will be sweet.

Speaking of new albums, Matt Wertz has a new EP coming out on September 7. It’s called Today & Tomorrow, and it will have five songs, three of which are new and two reworked old ones. You can hear the new version of “I’m Sorry, Mary” on Matt’s myspace.

This has been a very A.D.D. post. My bad.