hello july!!!

Ahh! So how can I describe what I've been up to this summer? Well, my summer started about two weeks before I left Sweden for the States. I was able to go to Krakow, Poland for a few days and then ended up missing a flight and having to spend the night on a 4 hour train and the day in the Warsaw airport. Let's just say that was an adventure. I also had a chance to visit Visby on the island of Gotland (it's Swedish and Jan has ancestors from there), which was my FAVORITE relaxation spot.


For those of you who went to New York in January - my luggage made the round trip adventure. It is definitely time to throw it out (the large piece has a smashed wheel, no more extendable handle, and a hole in the bottom, the smaller large piece has multiple small burn? holes and a smashed wheel, but the rolling duffle only has a small tear that I will be able to fix).


I arrived in NC on the 11th of June and went home for a wonderful meal of pot roast with carrots and potatoes. I definitely missed having access to a crock pot while I was gone. Then I went out for ice cream in celebration of a friend's birthday. That weekend was crazy with my sister's baccalaureate and graduation and lunch with some friends (including Daniela!!).


The next weekend was even crazier, as it was my sister's graduation party. She didn't want anything to do with the party and the ladies on my dad's side of the family are kind of crazy, so my mom and I had our hands full. Overall, it was a great time and I really enjoyed seeing my grandparents, my grandmother was my best pen pal while I was overseas.


The weekend after that was also very busy (I'm finding most of my free time is during the week) with another fundraiser for our ASP mission trip to Johnson County, Tennessee. We had a yard sale and pancake breakfast and managed to raise over $3,000. I made brownies and cookies (the cookies were from scratch and I'll make them next year, so everyone can experience my mom's delicious recipe) and worked at the yard sale.


Preparing for ASP has kept me busy in other ways, too. I designed our t-shirts and have been trying to use my experience to help the first year volunteers (I've been participating since 2003 and 5/8 of our 4 teams are new this year).


This week has been great, since I've been to Chapel Hill twice! I went yesterday with Emilyn (she's a rising first year and you'll see her around a lot next year) and Daniela. We had lunch at [B]Skis and managed to score free coffee at the Health Sciences Library café. Today Daniela and I went back to Chapel Hill (so I could pay my deposit and just to chill) and it was nice. Thankfully it hasn't been super humid, so I have enjoyed being outdoors.


That's basically my recent life in a nutshell. I'll be working on the 15th in Chapel Hill and then go on ASP the next week. My dad finally has a week vacation at the very beginning of August, so we'll hopefully be going to Pittsburgh to visit my grandparents. After that I'll be working at Caribou more frequently and moving in ASAP!!

I absolutely cannot wait for the semester to start (once it does, I know I'll be bummed about papers and studying), but mostly I just want to get back to Chapel Hill and dive right into the Wesley events. People, it's going to be a great year!


-Krysta


Peace.