Day 1.

I am thinking about documenting my summer on here in a more regular way than I usually blog about my life. I journal a lot. I write a lot. I like doing it, but the idea of blogging about my life daily or weekly in a public way has always kind of freaked me out. On the other hand, I am working for a Church this summer, and I have a lot of people who are supporting me on this journey financially, prayerfully, emotionally, and other ______lly ways too. The thought of them knowing specifically what I am doing, who I am working with, what I am struggling with, where I am doing well, my fears, my joys, my life, this excites me. It makes me feel a little less alone. And if I can tell them about it through written words, it will sound better, more eloquent, and probably just make a lot more sense. So I'll try it out. See how it goes.

My hope is that by making myself more vulnerable I will, in the long run actually make myself less vulnerable. Explanation: It scares me to write about myself on this blog. I am afraid people will actually read it. I am afraid I will sound dumb. I am afraid people will see how dumb I sound. To me, all that makes me feel vulnerable. My hope is that these things will happen, people will read it, people will see what I have to say (dumb and all), and they will pray for me, talk to me, encourage me, point me in the right direction when I am off, and when I have them backing me in all of those ways I will actually be stronger, not weaker, not vulnerable. Hope that made some sense.

Here it goes.

I am working with Hope Chapel in Greensboro this summer. There are five of us interns. We are all living with different families from the church. Erin and I (the two girls) are living with this awesome family called the Weatherlys. They have three kids, but only one of them hasn't left for college yet. They also have two Golden Retrievers (who I LOVE). We moved in yesterday. We get this cute little room in their rockin basement. Love the closet space and the really nice shower.

This morning we helped set up for the worship service and tore down afterwards. Patrick (intern) and I are doing our concentration this summer in what they are calling "Project Hope." It is an already existing mission within the church to engage the city of Greensboro both spiritually and socially. We had a meeting after church where the team got us up to speed on what they have been doing and planing on doing recently (more later).

All of us interns (Erin, Griffin, Matt, Patrick, and I) got dinner together tonight. They are all awesome. We're all very different from what I can tell, but good different. I can learn a lot from these people. That kind of different.

We are leaving for Boone tomorrow morning for a three day orientation.

I have a Urinary Track Infection. It hurts. It's kind of put me in a funk. Things irritate me more easily when I am not feeling great. I am on medicine and hopefully it should start clearing up soon. I don't want to be a downer. I want to be happy and fun.