I'm not packed yet.

- I'm ready to come home. I've had a great summer but right now it seems just about a week too long. I've got to get up in about 7 hours to wake up 65 fifteen year old boys at 6:30AM to have them clean thier filthy bunks and pack enough things to last them the five days we're going to spend in Maine camping in tents. These are the very same boys who take twenty minutes to find their shoes so they can go to dinner. Anybody envy my job right now?

- Its been fun, it has, but right now I'm just tired of adventuring. I've seen all I need to see here and I miss home. I miss my bed with its feather pillows and comforter. I miss having free time every now and then. I miss my family. I miss my friends and being around people my age without feeling like I should be helping out somewhere instead of socializing. I've made incredible friends here, but it just feels like a day off every week or so isn't nearly enough time for me to hang with them like I'd like to. Those precious breaks are all too short. In other words I miss not being responsible for children all day every day and I won't take the freedom I have in my day to day college life for granted anymore.

- I got a look at my final paycheck today and it was depressing how much less it seemed than the work I've put in over the last 2 months. I know its not about the paycheck. If it had been I wouldn't have come out in the first place and the payment I've recieved in life enrichment has been priceless, but that doesn't make this sudden wave of homesickness any easier. The end is in sight and it seems so close but so far away at the same time. I just have to get over the mole hills like tomorrow morning and the trip home and before I know it I'll be back home.

- Oh home.

Sensory Overload is my Life

- This summers flown. The days sometimes feel like weeks but at the same time weeks feel like days. I've grown a lot of this summer. It probably won't be too much of a noticeable change to most of the people in my life but to me, its definantly been monumental. I was looking for an adventure when I came here and that's exactly what I've gotten. I've taken myself so far outside of my box that I'm not even sure where my box is anymore.

- I'm real curious to see what it will be like when I get back. It feels like by living in New England, even if just for summer, that I've gone to completely a different world; one that I feel that I've become somewhat familiar with through all my traveling on days off and out of camp trips. I miss Colorado. A lot. Some days more than others but at the same time I love it here and there are times I wish I could just spend the rest of my life traveling to places I've never been before with the friends I've made here.

- Tomorrow I leave for a 24.6 mile, 20 hour long hike over 10 mountains aka Insanity, and then shortly after that I'll leave for a week long tourism trip with the kids to either Maine or Canada. One week of regular activities after that and I'm home ready for school to start. Its fun but it all seems so passing. I'm just trying to live it up while I can. Life is good.