I Feel Like a Kid

Of my four years in college, I spent three-and-a-half of them working for a news station in Seattle called KOMO. In addition, I spent more than two-and-a-half years working on-campus for the Student Union Board. STUB, as its called, has a budget of well over 100-thousand dollars and plans a few big on-campus events each year. This in addition to majoring in Political Science and minoring in Communications. Basically, I had an amazing time in college, but was busy ALL the time.

Enter the Summer of 2008. I finished school, quit my job, and headed out on a jet plane to three countries in the middle east (Israel, Egypt, and Jordan), traveled to several weddings across the country, volunteered at a camp in Canada, and will soon be going to my family's cabin at Priest Lake, Idaho. Bascially what I've learned through these experiences is: I feel like a kid again. I spent the summer jumping off cliffs and waterfalls. I spent the summer in deep conversation with people from around the world about faith, politics, and life. I went kayaking, read books, watched the Democratic National Convention. I followed in the footsteps of Jesus, watched 4th of July fireworks by boat, and slept in. This has been the most amazing summer of my life. I'm not sure what comes next. But I know this. It's going to be awesome! Here are a few of my favorite pictures. The first one is me overlooking the old city of Jerusalem, Israel. The second one is me in front of the famous Sphynx outside Cairo, Egypt. The third and fourth pictures are of my friends from SummerStaff at Malibu. The fifth and sixth pictures are of me sliding down a HUGE waterfall.