Summer in Review

With less than 2 days left of summer, I figured it would be nice to go back and review the things I've actually done this summer so I feel like I've accomplished something, or at least had fun. Plus it'll give me an easy way to explain my summer to anyone who asks me while I'm online.

May:

May began with my last final which was horrible, and then a week of chilling at Rice before graduation. I worked and played a lot of D&D and other games with my MOB friends who were still there. The morning of graduation began with my bass clarinet, BC3, disappearing from the band hall. I had to use another bass clarinet for the commencement concert and later found out that Chuck had taken BC3 and 2 other instruments that were needed for the concert to the shop for summer repairs. Oops.

I got back to Austin about a day before leaving again for Austin Trek, a leadership retreat/ mission trip that actually took place in New Braunfels. I met a ton of awesome people there who were involved in Campus Crusade at their colleges all over the country, with some people from as far as Washington, Ohio, and Kentucky. We went rafting, wakeboarding, and also evangelized at Zilker Park for a day.

The last 2 weeks of May were mostly spent job-hunting, which was very unsuccessful. I filled out about 15 job applications for a variety of different places, and got no offers at all. This seach continued into June, but I gave up about half way through June after I realized my chances of finding a job with only 2 months left of summer were next to nothing.

June:

June was probably the best month of summer for a few reasons. It began with a camping trip with some high school friends near the Rockport beach where we build massive sand castles, got terrible sun burns, and got owned by some jellies. I also got to see Reagan for a bit. I promised him that if I was ever in Rockport (yeah right!) I would say hi, and strangely enough it was actually one of the places I went to.

Immediately after getting back from the camping trip I got in Corey's car and travelled up to Arlington to meet up with Bobby and Kyle to begin our trip to Omaha to watch the College World Series. Bobby's house was freaking huge, and his parents were awesome and gave us tasty food. College students love free food. College students especially love free tasty food. The college world series was kinda depressing once we actually got there, witnessing Rice get killed by Fresno State and then barely lose to LSU. Even though the games sucked, the experience made it totally worth it.

About a week later I got to see the same group of people, plus many more, at Patrick and Gillian's wedding in Houston. All of the cool MOB people were there, along with a few uncool ones, just kidding, and we had an awesome time. I spent the night at Nathan's apartment, and we had a LAN party and ate pizza. Classic.

July:

July began with my only summer job, working in a factory with Franklin and Kameron for 2 days putting stickers on many, many boxes. Afterwards, we spent another two days just hanging out at Andy's house with lots of people for the 4th. I'm glad that I was at least able to spend a lot of time hanging out with a handful of high school friends at Monday Night Soccer and these other spontaneous gatherings.

July ended with a week of band camp, where I spent 7 hours a day teaching band newbs how to be good musicians, or in some cases, how to make any noise at all on their instruments. The saxophones made me want to shove a flute down my throat. They were so obnoxious.

August:

August so far has been mostly family vacation and getting ready for Rice. We went to Port Aransas for about 4 days and just hung out at the beach, enjoying the sun and eating out for almost every meal at the local restaurants. Then we went to Corpus to check out the Texas State Aquarium, then San Antonio for a day at Fiesta Texas. I also got to see Helen and Anna while I was in SA, which was pretty awesome. Then we finished it up with a day at Schlitterbahn.

Tomorrow I'll probably look into the future and throw up some goals for the upcoming semester.