This is an image from staff training, way back in the early days of the summer. I am backblipping on September Tenth. I am completely overwhelmed by how much has happened since my last blip, and I don't quite know where to begin.
The summer was really something.
I worked at camp as a counselor/media assistant, a job that was created for me, quite literally, as it didn't exist until I applied, and also in the sense that it's exactly where I wanted to be. Counseling was wonderful and challenging and so rewarding. I had wanted to be a counselor since the fourth grade. I've done that now. It feels so nice to have a childhood dream literally come true. Media was also wonderful and challenging and so rewarding. Being able to use my passion for photography at the place that I love more than anything was such a blessing.
However, to be completely honest, it was the most challenging summer for me. I realized, finally, just how introverted I truly am. Being the quiet one of the counselors in a group full of outgoing girls with huge personalities was lonely. Relationships were difficult. But God placed people in my life that made it okay. I'm so grateful for the new friendships that I have made and the growth that I experienced.
God is calling me, now, to something else. It's bittersweet, but I know that this was my last summer at camp. Next summer I will begin to photograph weddings - and I am so nervous and excited. Who knows where else God will take me? For now, I'm at school in Chicago. I just transferred and I really enjoy it here.
For the past two years, as much as I tried not to, I felt that I was at a standstill. Everything was temporary. Now I feel that, every day, I am becoming more and more the person that I have always been meant to grow into.
I'll be backblipping a lot. I'll try to share more, less vaguely.
I hope that, like mine, your summer was full of creating and learning and growing and living.
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