Towson Tiger :)

Received my acceptance letter from Towson today :) exciting! Occupational Therapy MS here I come!

First day of my last year :)

First day of my senior year of high school today :) the day went very well and was a lot of fun. The new 7th graders coming in made me laugh and smile. While they were being sorted they were soo nervous but were excited by all the games and even came up and talked to me about choir :) I have many new teachers but all very exciting. A lot of long term work already and projects and essays due next month yay :P but all of the teachers wanted to get to know us and try not to give a lot of hard work. Day two tomorrow and I'm hoping with it being the first real full day of school everything goes well :) I'm definitely going to need strength and patience this year :)

Change in the Wind

As senior year approaches and I complete my last year of high school, I decided to change things up a bit.

16 miles later...

Yesterday my family decided to take a bike ride up at NCR trail in monkton. It is a 40 mile old rail-road trail from here to PA. Originally we figured 5 miles up and 5 miles back would be plenty. Knowing my family that never happens, we ended up going 8 miles one way and then 8 back, with a 30min snack and creek walk break. While the biking felt good during my legs hurt this morning and stairs are fun. The trail was beautiful, and had many different places to take a break or go down the river in a tube. If you get a chance it is a fun family or friend activity :)

Oh and while we were on our creek walk I decided to go sit on a rock out in the water. While climbing up the rock I found a pair of plaid boxers and maroon sports shorts :P I hope somebody didn't loose those recently lol.

Time for Goodbye :(

Today was the last day of camp and a dinner banquet for all the kids and their families :) We played human bowling and messy eggs (crack eggs on your leaders head, either hard-boiled or raw), and even had pool Olympics - all before the rain broke out! Watching the kids participate in belly flop, diving, cannon ball, and whirlpool contests as well as animal races was such a highlight in my day. I got very close to many of the kids in my group as well as many other kids. The one little boy Peter always wanted me to come and clap his hands together with mine and do all the dances and hand-motions to the songs right with me. He was always smiling and laughing and liked to pretend he was sleeping on the bus just to tease you :P I will miss the kids soo much and was sad to see them leave :( I had to go before the banquet and the kids wanted us to stay soo bad; not letting go and then giving hugs and wanting to see us again. I love you guys <3 Special needs children are so very wonderful, and I'm excited to hopefully be working with them for the rest of my life.

Special Needs Camp :)

For the past two days I have had the opportunity to be a camp counselor at a special needs camp with Grace Fellowship Church and Capernaum Life ministries. The kids are full of joy and laughter and love to interact with all of the counselors. Some of them go to school together, others attend church together, and some are just meeting for the first time. Watching the joy on their faces as they get ready for camp has to be one of my favorite things :) Waking up early and hearing "miss miriam!! What are we gunna do today", the best feeling in the world. They may be disabled in some ways, however they have soo much joy in their hearts and do not care what others think of them or how they look :) They love each other.

Today was day two: County Fair Day :) Once we sang our songs and ate all of our crazy and somewhat gross food it was time to go to the farm (where we play games, eat  lunch, and get in the pool). Our games for the day were fair games: duck pond, milk bottle toss, frisbee toss, and of course a pie smash and a dunking booth (these were for the leaders specifically). You get your tickets by playing the games, once you have five tickets your camper gets to choose to dunk you or pie you in the face :P Of course my camper decided to do both...whooooo and dunk me 3 times :) The water was freezing, but it felt good in the hot sun. Oh i almost forgot the hay ride, a classic county fair fun event. Just a small taste of my week with 12 wonderful ( and many more in other colors) campers in my blue group :)

See ya'll tomorrow :)

First Day of Summer

First day of summer and it's beautiful outside :) Full week of relaxing, settling in to summer and getting to hangout with some friends before the craziness begins. Got my final report card today, 3.96 GPA and graduated with Suma (highest) Honors :) Not to shabby.