Hey guys, trying to upload another video and hopefully that works...the Internet connection isn't the fastest or most reliable. I'm typing this from my cabin, and I'll have to walk a couple minutes over to the dining hall area to pick up a wireless signal, so I don't know if the video I took will actually load. If it doesn't, there won't be a video at the end of this :P.

I have a few interesting stories from the beginning of camp so far. A lot of the folks who work here over the summer go to Oklahoma Central University, and one is an international student from South Korea named Seonghi Lee. My sister is her bathroom-mate (counselors share a separate bathroom with the adjacent cabin's counselor), so she found pretty quickly that I knew a LITTLE bit of Korean. She said my pronunciation was pretty good, so that's good to hear, haha. Also, when we were doing introductions, she shared that she was from Korea and that pronouncing English is hard, especially the word “beach.” Yeah, she's pretty much hilarious.

No one here knows how to play Euchre...except myself, my sisters, Rachel Veltkamp (the secretary, who grew up in my hometown), and another guy counselor who has family from Michigan. He and Rachel were pretty excited to play, so I've been playing quite a bit of that recently. It'd been so long...

The food here is, well, a lot. And on top of that, they give you a hefty evening snack. Now, I'm certainly not complaining, but I'm starting to watch what I eat. And it's ME watching what I eat, so that should tell you how obviously too much it is, haha. Fortunately, my bathroom-mate and his wife (the Buckeyes) are going to run in the mornings while our campers are at their electives, so I'm going to get in on that and hopefully actually get myself into shape here rather than blow up.

Spent all day yesterday—pretty much—training for lifeguarding. The regular lifeguard staff are off on weekends when conservatory students can use the pool, so if some of us conservatory counselors get trained, they can swim. That was definitely, well, a mix of interesting and incredibly boring. We watched a four hour long video about lifeguarding. But we also did a 300 yard swim, which was strenuous, and a few hours of training for different rescues—distressed swimmer, passive drowning victim, unconscious submerged, spinal, deep water spinal...it was a lot to get through. But apparently we did okay, so it looks like we'll get certified! Definitely a praise, because it's apparently a 32-hour course that we “did” in maybe a total of six hours. OH yes, and I got to do CPR on a dummy for the first time.

I've been having really good times with God lately, which is a huge praise. I'm looking forward to being tested this summer and just beginning to obey when God asks me to jump off what look like cliffs—breaking my habit of always being safe and secure. I can't wait to see what God does this summer! Please pray that I'll continue to pursue those times and that God will strengthen my faith as the campers come in that He can do great things even through me, lowly as I am.

That's all for now! If things worked out right, there should be a video below this. Otherwise...till next time, dear readers.