i'll fly away.

hello again.

i have decided that with the completion of my sophomore year and a return home for the summer, that i would start a new blog and destroy the ole lj. its lot like i really wrote in it anyways. so time is windling down. all my exams are over. my pictures are down. my desk consists of jumbled papers, my monitor, and oz. and yet it hasnt quite sunken in yet. mainly because i dont really wanna go home. yes, in some respects i miss my family, but that will quickly fade. and i definitely miss my bed. i wont miss the classes part cause my summer includes working and taking physics at a tech school, among other things. so when you get rid of all that, its pointless to leave this fine city of rock hill. from here, i will miss my roommates, my friends, my job and coworkers, my church and house church. unlike last summer, i feel like i've finally made a home here, and though i'm leaving, it will all carry on without me. thats the saddest part of all. i will miss things by leaving. but theres no doubt that i will be back to visit.

so anyways, back to my summer plans. i was a little bit bummed. ok, pretty bitter about it all. especially when i heard news of the cool missions trips and awesome foreign countries my friends will be experiencing this summer. but now i am so excited about so many things. me and jake are working together to form a "lowcountry house church." haha, which i'm sure will knock the surrounding area off its socks. mrs. kimberly wallace! (i mean white) will be around all summer with the same plans and shortly will become my new best friend:) those two things in itself would make it all worthwhile, but i'm also going to ruf summer conference in beautiful flordia next week (i cant wait!), salkehatchie for another year, taking a trip to canada with the family, and i'm sure there will be plenty of roadtrips to rock hill and simpsonville (gotta visit patches) haha. its gonna be off the charts!

now to describe the past year...mixed emotions, highs and lows, tears and laughter, awesome new friends, growing, andgone by really fast. that pretty much sums it up. i guess just like any other year. there were some tragedies...loss of loved ones and dying friendships. but we've all come back from it, and i know that i'm not bitter anymore. i realize now that it was suppose to be short-lived, and if its meant to be, we'll find our way back. i've gotten to know so many cool people in the process: like dave, maggie, brooke, jake, catherine, and keith. and God used his mighty hand to place me in a suite with some of the most amazing girls i've ever met! i couldnt have asked for more wonderful/inspirational friends.

well, this has been a really long and sappy first blog. my apologizes. i will try to keep this thing updated throughout the summer to let you guys (those few that will actually read) how school/work/house church is going. you guys take care.