Summer updates

Hey WesHos!
Not too much has happened over the summer since Student Forum. Student Forum was lots of fun. I drove up to D.C. with Emily and we met up with Kara. We met students from campus ministries from all over, went on immersion field trips, went to two workshops, and were put into small groups. I really liked my small group; we all got along really well. I picked the Education in America immersion trip because I want to be a Spanish teacher. It was pretty interesting. We had one person come talk to us about the budget and another person talk to us about No Child Left Behind. I felt bad for her, though, because nobody agreed with her views on No Child. We also saw a video on rural South Carolina schools. The two workshops I did were Sharing your Faith and Exploring Children's Ministries. My favorite was the Children's Ministries one. We hung out with some students from Tennessee and Virginian we had met, and the night before we left some of us took the Metro to go see some of the monuments.
On Sunday, I found out a spot had opened up for me to go on ASP (the Appalachia Service Project, if you don't know) with my church. I had really wanted to go, so I was really happy when I found out I was going after all. And this was a week before the trip. I'm just about all packed up, and three days before I have to be! Saturday afternoon we pack up the vans, and Sunday at 7am we're heading off to Logan County, West Virginia. I'm really excited and hoping my group gets to work on a roof again this year :) I'll update the blog about it when I get back. Later!