My unexpected expertises

I've abandoned this blog for a while for a few reasons: I left Ireland and life got more routine and less picturesque; I still have to journal every single night for my youth ministry practicum and really don't feel like repeating or transposing it here; I have no internet access most of the time.

In the meanwhile, here is a short list of things I have unexpectedly become an expert in since you last heard from me on this blog:
- Pulling 120 lbs of luggage through an airport with the slight touch of one finger.
- Getting away with harmless illegal offenses
- Faking jet lag because I'm bored
- Driving 500 miles with my co-director
- Dealing with someone having seizures
- Stripping wet insulation from flooded crawlspaces
- Identifying a stroke victim
- Teaching Old Testament history at an eighth grade level in three days
- Curing everything from a snapped ACL, homesickness, to an acute phobia of all insects using only Vitamin C
- Teaching church history from Creation to Martin Luther at a second grade level at 4 AM


As you can see camp prep, training, and the first few weeks have been wild. Brittany Tull and I were trained to lead the other 11 college age staff at Lutheran Hills, I re-certed in lifeguarding, we led a week of site training, then got our first week of camp flooded out. We spent that time helping clean up the new local lake that was the town of Trevlac, then geared up for our first actual week of camp curing which a 77 year old pastor with a history of heart trouble had in incident which required us to call an ambulance to camp for the first time in 12 years. I took over his confirmation class and so on, while the next week we had piles of leg injuries for me to deal with. I think I could be awarded an honorary medical doctorate after this summer. The third week brought the youngest kids with massive amounts of homesickness and strange phobias which again sometimes required my (literal) 24 hour attention.
Next week is a combo of high school and reading camp which means we're really running two camps at once. Party! It's stressful, but that forces me to rely on God since I am quite unable to do it on my own. I could use lots of prayer if you all don't mind even for some unmentioned things.

Perhaps I'll summarize the last half of the summer in August then this thing will get back to being a real blog again.
Cheers!