Missing Texas

I feel terrible for not posting the last two weeks of my internship - but I can assure you it was an intense two weeks. We wrapped up our site at Pleasant Mound and headed to our respective last weeks - some interns went to "Urban Camp" with the youth, while some stayed behind and ran "Adventure Week" with the youngins' from Oakcliff - one of PT's 9 sites. I was with the Adventure Week group. We had the opportunity to go on two field trips with the kids - a news station and the symphony. For the rest of the week, we spent our time presenting themed days to the kids, and tried our best to give them a great last week of camp. My favorite part was "Cupcake Wars" when the kids helped make cupcakes, and designed their own cupcake, similar to the Food Network show. For many of the interns at Adventure Week, it was very difficult to be around a different church site and different elementary kids, as well as a different team. Luckily, a couple of friends and I were able to meet with the group from Urban Camp and have a goodbye lunch with them before we left for home.

So, why am I deciding to catch up on my blog months later? I miss Texas. There are so many things I miss about this summer that I would give anything to be back right now. One of the interns said this - and I can't emphasize the truth in this one thought:

"The world should be more like PT."

The world really should be more like Project Transformation and the people in it. It's hard to be away from Project Transformation. It's hard to be away from our teams, our co-interns, the SMU campus, the church, and of course, the kids. The hardest thing about being away from PT, though, is not being surrounded by such good people every single day. It's hard to be in reality - that the world is not like PT. I had no idea how much it meant to be surrounded by such great faith throughout the summer until recently. Now that I'm back to school, I find it much harder to focus on the things that were important to me this summer. Somehow, I'm just realizing this - and I don't like it! I have decided that what I need is to make my life more like PT.

Pleasant Mound - just missing Josh! Man we're good looking.