Recap

So once again time has gotten away from me, and I now find myself at school and still with so much goodness to share from the summer, so I'm just going to try to do a brief recap of the main events of the last few weeks of camp.

Remember my last entry was titled Week 5, Part 1? Well Part 2 was going to be titled Adventures With the Code Inspector. Oh yeah. Here's the story in a nutshell: One day the code inspector just drove up to my worksite, and I saw his car and immediately started freaking out in the inside. Fortunately it took him a minute to get out of the car, which gave me a minute to send one of my campers down the street to Emily's worksite to have her call Joe and tell him to get his butt over there, because I realized too late that I had given Antavius my phone to play with and he hadn't given it back yet. So dear, sweet Brennan ran down the street to find Emily while I went and talked to the code man, whose name turned out to be Garret. He was ok for having such a jerk job, but he gave us tickets for working without permits (Permits cost over a hundred bucks each. We try to slip by without them whenever possible). Fortunately Joe showed up about halfway through the discussion so I didn't have to deal with that part. Garret the Code Inspector then proceeded to get back in his car and roll through all 5 of the worksites we had in that community, writing tickets at each of them. Lucky for us Joe is a beast, so by lunch the next day we had all of the permits we needed to continue working as normal, and that was the end of that.

The only other major event I can think of is the middle of Week 7, when my grandma died that Tuesday night. We knew she probably wouldn't make it through the summer and went up to Connecticut in May to say goodbye, but being at Teameffort I had sort of forgotten, so it still hit me really hard when she did die. The roughest part was still having to get up Wednesday morning and be a camp counselor and having to pretend I was fine and to be happy for the campers when all I really wanted was to be alone. It was very hard, and I'm grateful that Joe and Caitlin were very supportive and allowed me to occasionally slip away when we were back and camp and just sit by myself and be sad. The craziest part of the whole thing though was that my campers still thought I was freakin awesome. They called themselves Team Megan, and at the end of the week my two groups from that week collaborated to buy me a little angel figurine, which is now sitting on the desk in front of me. I was completely blown away by God's goodness in that situation, that even though I felt so disengaged from my campers that week they still had an amazing week, and that God doesn't need me to even be paying attention to work through me in their lives, that He needs me so little and yet still blesses me to have this relationship with them. God is so good.

So that was the end of camp. It was very hard to say goodbye, both to Sweet T and the rest of the staff. I didn't have much time to be sad though, because as soon as I got home I turned around and left again to go to Puerto Rico with the rest of the Teameffort staff from all the different camps. It was an amazing experience. Puerto Rico is the most beautiful place I've ever been in my life. I took almost 300 pictures, most of which I hope to get up on Facebook very soon. We did some food distribution in down town Ponce, went cliff diving in the jungle, and generally just rested. It was fantastic, and got me caught up enough on sleep that I could stay up till 2:30 the night I got back and finish packing for school with the help of my wonderful friends Kate and Lydia. I moved in yesterday, orientation week began today, and my roommate should be here in about an hour. This place is so beautiful, and I'm incredibly excited for all the adventures to come!