Welcome to the blog. Did you know "blog" is actually taken from the phrase weB LOG? I just heard that. These are the kinds of life-altering factoids you will imbibe from this web log. So thank you for logging onto this portion of the web.
I have spent the summer in Alaska with friends and family, which was a difficult decision to make considering my parents have moved to Indiana. However, it has been confirmed increasingly on a daily basis that this was indeed the right choice, as friends come along side to encourage and help out in so many ways. I have already had at least three families share vehicles and homes with me since I got here in May. I could not make it without the support of these people in my life, and "thank you" just doesn't seem to quite suffice.
I will be returning to Missouri in the fall for one more semester of school. I will be studying linguistics, learning how to take a language in oral form, analyze it, make an alphabet for it and turn it into something the people of that language can read and write- something they could not previously do. We will be going to Oklahoma for six weeks to study the Cherokee language in order to put the techniques we are learning into practice. It's going to be tough, but I'm looking forward to it.
So that's what lies ahead on the yellow brick road. Thank you to all for your continued support and for thinking of me.
Here are some visual highlights of the summer so far....
The joys of babysitting... props to the 8 year-old, and his accomplice, the 9 iron.
Public Boardgaming Society (P.B.S.)
(click for the official myspace page)
"Quaint...yet revolutionary"
Got friends? Got the boardgaming itch? Why not go public?
Here we are, 11 of us playing Cranium in the grocery store coffee lounge area. The fever is spreading, the idea is simple.
Take your boardgaming public- you have no idea how amazing this can be. You'll make a passerby smile, you'll get strangers involved, you'll make memories that last a life time... join the society!
Aaah, space camp! Nothing better than hanging out with 34 astronauts -to-be... and what an age range, 10-15 (see left for visual explanation) Victor and Ruslan, meet Carson! For the past 3 summers I have been a counselor at the local science center's summer space camp-it's as great as it sounds!
Our area was hit pretty hard by a forest fire in the Caribou Hills, where over 60,000 square miles was destroyed including summer cabins and other property. This is the sky about an hour up the road from the fire. Pretty apocalyptic.
Three studs posing in the next Pac Sun ad. This is what happens on high school retreats... (where are all the high schoolers???)
