The summer has officially ended. Come Monday, I head back to Biola University to complete my 3rd semester of college. I feel like I just left that place. I feel like I just packed up my belongings, unpacked them into my home, and now I have to repack them again. What's funny, is I feel like I have not been there in a long long time. I feel like I've been away a while. I have.
Come Monday, the summer is going to feel like it never existed. It's a like a vacation. You leave your house and when you return to your house, life goes on uninterrupted, unstilted, like your vacation never happened. I feel like, come Monday, I am going to arrive at school, conversate with my Biola friends and feel like last school year is continuing perfectly uninterrupted.
Here's the thing: I don't want it to feel that way. This summer has been arguably the best summer of my life, either because I haven't had anything exciting happen in all my summers, or because the 2010 summer was just that good. I would argue for the latter. Seriously, Hume Lake is one unique place. Even though I have been going up there for my entire life, every single experience, something new comes about, something different arises, a learning opportunity presents itself. This summer, I wasn't only up there for one week, I was up there for 11 and a half. That's overwhelming in itself. I honestly can not believe so much experiences can be packed into such a short time, but, ironically, so many memories were made that I can not pinpoint any specific one, which definitely sounds weird. Let me explain: if you said "hey, what was one cool thing that happened in the last week of camp?" I would stammer and say "Uhh, let me think, umm.... I honestly don't know, I can't think of any one thing because there are too many cool things that STRAIGHT UP WENT DOWN!" Here is where I would pause, I would think. I may be the only one who is like this, but if I sat down and really thought about all the things that happened this summer, I probably could come up with a pretty good list. However, right now, I'm putting myself on the spot, and can't really put my entire summer experience into a few words.
We'll see how it goes.
A few posts ago (http://emliv.blogspot.com/2010/07/honest.htm - July 23), I talked about relationships and, well, I'll just let you read it again:
I've noticed Hume fuels a sense of sped up, hyper speed relationships. Relationships are built incredibly fast at the beginning of the summer. All of a sudden, "good" friends are made. By the end of the summer, all these "good" friends of yours who you feel like you've known "forever" have really only been your friends for 3 months or so. Maybe it's just me, I'm sorry I have have stuck "you" into this situation. All I know is this: I fall into what I just described. I honestly feel like I have already developed a number of solid relationships with the staff up here at Hume Lake. Here's what I don't know: am I deceiving myself? I have solid friendships that I've had with people for five plus years, how in the world can I describe a friendship I've made in less than 3 months with the same word (solid) as these "veteran" relationships? I don't have a clue, and I don't have an answer. Maybe it's fine. Maybe these relationships really are solid, maybe they're not. Either way, I know this: I like a lot the people up here and plan on keeping in touch. We'll see what happens.
This paragraph is still true. Now that summer is over, I honestly feel like I have established a number of relationships that I will be continuing, possibly "forever" or whatever that word means. Hume would not have been the same without the people I met, conversed with, and said goodbye to. First of all, my department. The Hume Lake media team was the PERFECT crew to work with. Every individual I directly worked with was just that, an individual. Everybody brought new, original ideas to the table and we all built off each other like a phat bigger-or-better scavenger hunt. Not only did we work well together, we had a good time together and became friends, imagine that? It was straight up an absolutely awesome working with the summer staffers and the full timers. It was pleasure working with each and every one of you, especially all of you who read this. Seriously, I'll never forget the REAL Hume Lake Yacht Club.
Now, there are many other people who I'd like to mention, but we'll see how that goes. My roommates were straight up legit. Even though we were only all awake at the same time in the room probably five times, it was super good time. They were good guys and I'm glad I could put my stuff in the same room as them and we could be completely knocked out without acknowledging each other every night of the summer. Those guys are pro.
Now, I greatly appreciate every single person I had a conversation with. I don't care if it was one sentence or enough to fill a novel. I seriously am so grateful that everybody I talked with took the time, whether short or long, to talk with me. I enjoyed every second of it. I know it sounds simple, but I don't want to overlook it. If these people didn't exist, I would not have talked to a solitary person the entire summer, so saying this reigns importance.
And then I'd like to thank the people I had meaningful conversation with. Meaningful conversation is so great, whether swapping jokes, talking about Christianity, or simply being overwhelmed by the massive amount of stars in the sky. You know who you are. Seriously. I enjoyed sharing stories, I enjoyed sharing our lives. I'm going to be honest right now, I don't know what to write right now. I'm having a hard time putting my thoughts into text for you to read. There is just too much... Let's just put it this way, I hope I have more conversations with the people I had conversations with.
I believe that pretty much covers everybody. I guess I could throw this in there: I am extremely appreciative to all the people I did not talk to. All those people worked just as hard or harder than I did, they all had jobs to perform, and based upon the success of the summer, they all did their job. I can't start thinking about the amount of responsibility every one person individually has. It's incredible.
So now that does cover everybody. This summer has been mind-boggling. Straight up krill. Seriously. It went down in the history books. In fact, open up the most popular 2011 history book that all the public school are buying and on page 433, there is a blurb on Hume Lake Summer 2010. Not even kidding.
So, in all that, I am excited for the coming school year. I believe it will be a good one. In fact, I'll say this, I'm PUMPED!!
So good day, people of the internet. Have a great rest of your day, whether it's noon, 5 pm, 11 pm, or 2 in the morning. Utilize your time.
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