Round Here- by Hannah

I'm still in Berea...why did I stay here for the summer??
Life is so weird when you're in college and working with children. Last night I watched Kill Bill. Today, I'm watching the Lion King or Mary Poppins.
I miss Rachel! My room doesn't look empty, because I have expanded all over the room. I tell myself it's because I'm packing, but in reality I haven't even unpacked from this weekend. I'm so good at lying to myself.
Yesterday I went to lunch at the local Thai resteraunt with Booger, Jonas, Clay, and Josh. Then we watched Kill Bill 1, and the later we watched Kill Bill 2. Very cool movies. We also watched the video of all of us from Tuesday night. Apparantly, I like feet. Some of the highlights: Clay and Jesse contra dancing in the living room. Jonas lying on top of Clay's van, shirtless, no less, and then telling the story: "Once, there was a skunk in our backyard, but not anymore!!!!!" and then Josh going down the stairs on his back.
Tonight I plan on eating, cleaning, and watching the Olympics. It should be super cool, and hopefully relaxing and such. I'm leaving on Friday! My brother is coming to get me...and I get to be at home for a whole 9 days before I come back here, to my job in the Art Department for Freshmen Orientation. Then school starts on the 1st.
The best thing about this summer is how fast it has gone by.
P.S. our new dorm looks really cool. Colors and roll-y chairs.
The song stuck in my head: "Wonderwall" the Ryan Adams version
I don't believe that anybody feels the way I do about you now
And all the roads we have to walk are winding
And all the lights that lead us there are blinding
There are many things that I would like to say to you
But I don't know how...
And after all, you're my wonderwall...

What a combination! by rachel

Hahaha... Hannah and I posted at the same time... from different places on campus. Hannah.... I love you and I'll miss you. Thanks for a great summer. You will always be my gunpowder. :-D

to donnie by rachel

Once again, I am packing my stuff. Actually, it is already packed... now I wait. Hannah has already gone to work. Granted, I'll see her on Saturday, but for the rest of the month, we'll be apart. Tuesday night we all went to Jonas and Clay's apartment to say goodbye to Jesse and Bargo. A few key members of our circle of friends were missing (one of which went to bed at 9:30!!), but it was almost like old times. Lots of... applejuice... and bad music videos. There was the conversation between "Duck" and "Goose." And the moment when Josh ate all of Hannah's liquid ice things after smearing his mouth with lip gloss stuff. And the time Jonas climbed on top of the fun wagon. Watching the "sliding down the stairs on my stomach" competition was fun, too. Quoting Josh, "Oooh, it is even more fun backwards!" It still hasn't quite sunk in that I'm not gonna see these guys all the time in the fall. Jesse and Bargo are really gone. Leaving that apartment, giving that last hug, was so hard. Hey, at least I had Ricky while I did. The past year has been one of the best of my life.

Yesterday was my last day at work, too. My fellow counselors have made my summer the awesomeness that it was. (Yes, awesomeness is a word... at least, it is now. So there.) Sure, the kids helped, and the policeman helped a little too, but none of that would have happened without the awesome SFA daycamp staff. I'm just glad Moose Moose was a hit. :) We did have "Operation After Betty's" where an undisclosed group of people climbed onto the roof of a certain building on a certain college campus. Not that I know anything about that. :)

And Donnie. Donnie, I am sorry to say, is now deceased. Poor duck. I loved that little thing. Until he started pooping everywhere. So, here is to Donnie... and another great year.

Another Tequila sunrise here in Jelloland- Hannah

Hi kids, I'm at work.
Rachel's leaving today!!! I am too, but just for the weekend. Rachel's gone for...the rest of the summer. Till the end of August. I only have a week left...thank God. I'm soooo ready to not be here anymore.
This week has been nice, since both of us are getting ready to leave. Rachel's been packing and our room looks sort of empty. Or half empty. Or half full, whichever way you look at it.
The Community school started back yesterday, so there are only about 3 kids in my class that are still here in the morning. 2 come at noon, and 4 at 2:30 when school gets out. I get to go meet the bus, that will be exciting.
Monday was work, then Rachel, Brent, Jonas, Clay and I watched one of the weirdest movies I've ever seen. It involved two men in a retirement home, one who believed he was Elvis, and one who believe he was John Kennedy. And there was a mummy that was sucking people's souls out of their major bodily orifices. Woooot.
Tuesday was my dad's birthday! and the night before Jesse left. We went to Clay and Jonas's house, and then there was a party. And I got to video tape a lot of stuff, which I have not yet seen. Jonas says it is highly entertaining. I bet it's really embarrassing too. Fun fun fun. I also attained a nice knot on my head, and a funny little red mark. And Jesse is gone, and that is sad. Very sad. And also, we are sad to announce that Donnie the duck has left was tragically killed earlier this week, by a dog. We toasted to you, Donnie, and all shared our favorite Donnie memories.
Yesterday I pretty much walked around in a daze...jelloland!
And today I'm leaving to go see my family in Kingsport...and my dad doesn't know I'm coming! I'm uber excited. So, peace out.
I'm going to miss you Rachel!!!!!!

Pasta Amore

Yes, that means "Pasta Love." It was on a menu at Madison Garden in the big city of Richmond. Go Madison Garden! Points to you for being...creative.
Let's start with Friday: Rachel's day was crazy with "like food fights and water slides" and Hannah's was pleasantly peaceful, as much as can be expected in any case.
We both got back to the hacienda around 5:00, and left again about 6:15, in the back of a cop/public safety car no less! One of our suite mates, Gandiimaa, was swelling like the blueberry girl in Willy Wonka and we accompanied her to the emergency room of the impressive Berea hospital. First the public safety lady started pulling away when we were trying to get in the car. That was scary. Then, when we finally got to the hospital, she couldn't decide where to park, so she just sat there in the road for a little while. Then some mullet sporting dude gave her the finger, and P.S. lady said she would just take a handicapped parking space ("Who's going to give me a ticket???") and in reality did nothing of the kind. She pulled into a straight up no parking zone. Gandiimaa got out of the car, and then we spent about 3 more minutes trying to get out of the back seat. The super smart woman couldn't figure out how to unlock her own car. Go figure.
THEN we get inside, to the ONE triage room in the entirity of the ER. They proceeded to ask some questions, while Gandiimaa continued swelling and started having a hard time breathing and swallowing. THEN we get sent to registration....
THIRTY MINUTES LATER registration was done, and we was mad!!!!!!!!!
Hannah went to find someone to complain to, and was instructed by a funky little nurse to "direct your comments through the ER Registration since the front desk is closed." Riiiiight.
Come to find out later, Gandiimaa sat back in the ER for twenty MORE minutes, alone and cold, until she actually saw someone. While she did not see anyone, she did hear the person sharing her little curtained area fall and hit their head.
Rachel got to go back after about an hour, and then we had the fire drill, which was not explained to anyone. Meanwhile, in the waiting room, Hannah was getting bored with a Good Housekeeping from 2 years ago, and for some strange reason, the TV stopped working when the fire alarm went off. The gossip from the registration desk was silacious though, let me tell ya.
When Gandiimaa was ready to go, peanut allergy knowledge intact, we called Public Safety to get our ride, and got the voice mail! How can that happen? We didn't think it was possible, but it sure is!!!!!!
We politely declined an offer for a ride from that silly public safety lady, and instead called SUPERWOMAN (Ashley), who took us to the fantastic Rite Aid, where we got Steroids for Gandiimaa and Ben and Jerry's for Hannah and Rachel.
We came back about 9, finally ate dinner, and watched the Miss Teen USA Pageant on some little cable channel. It was uber stimulating.
Saturday was much less eventful, but Brent traveled here from NC! We went to the big Richmond mall and read cards for "like an hour" (R.R.) in the Hallmark store. "Grrrrr, I don't talk like that" (Rachel R.) We went to see "I, Robot" which was less bad (haha) than we expected.
Then we had fun at Pizza Hut, making spectacles of ourselves. It's a miracle we didn't get kicked out, it really is.
Then we went to WalMart, and then we dyed Hannah's hair brown, which is illustrated in the picture below. Don't worry, it will only be around for "6-10 washes." Hannah wants comments! What do YOU think? Come on, you know you have an opinion, since I went and pointed it out to you. THANKS to Jesse the Mexican for not noticing!
Yesterday we had a picnic and watched 5 hours of television, Applebee's for dinner (yay tomatoes), then just happened to drop by Clay and Jonas's apartment right as they were about to send a giant orange monkey into orbit. Not really, they were just flying it off with helium balloons in order to shoot it down with a pellet gun! We just can't WAIT to see the next John Goodfriddle production, we really can't! We also can't wait to see their faces when they find out that we ARE the ones who put the monkey on their front porch to begin with. Sayeth Clay, "If the person who gave us this monkey drove by and saw it right now..." as it floated from their back porch. Also, Clay had a gun, and Hannah prayed that it would break, and it did. Can you believe that? Then he sucked. Helium. THE END.

Hannah's new hair! 

Drama, drama, drama by Hannah

Since Rachel did her own little independent blog, I shall proceed to do so as well. I will most certainly leave out our adventures of last night, as we need to include those at a later time, because they're insane.
I was just going to write about some great kid moments from this week. Oh and my moments of the week too, haha.
It started on Tuesday, because I was half asleep all day Monday. If I talked to you on Monday, I'm sorry, I probably don't remember anything you said or who you were, so remind me if you think about it. Today would be good for me. On Tuesday, I had a Willy Wonka moment- my coworker told me to put Dawn dishsoap in the dishwasher at work since we didn't have anything else to put in, and when I went back in there 45 minutes later, the whole kitchen was a a foot deep in bubbles!!! It was seriously magical.
On Wednesday, I was at work, on the playground with this adorable little red headed kid on my lap. She's one of my favorites, lots of personality, etc. So she's sitting on my lap, and I feel something funny...I look down, and sweeet little four year old Emma is licking my arm! And laughing!!!
On Thursday night, while talking on the phone to Treloar, I got the fingers of my right hand stuck in the table out on our balcony. OUCH. Thank God I'm left handed, that's all I can say ;) No worries, all of my fingers are still attached. But it was quite an adventure. Almost equal to the bumblebee flying in my window freshman year!!
Yesterday at work during "rest time" we were watching "Chicken Run" (Or "Chicken Rug" as Emma called it) and Aleigha (Emma's twin) yelled out, to Emma, who was running around, "Park it, sister!" And I laughed. A lot.
Yesterday evening was drama filled, and we shall relate that to you later.

SFA run away! by rachel

So, I have 3 days left with campers... and I am so excited! It really has been a good summer... lots of crazy happenings... going to mexico and back.... heck, going to west virginia and back... all very fun. :) Right now, Han and I just got back from a dinner date at the apartment of some co-workers of mine... it even has a store front door and a hallway in the bathroom. Pat sleeps in Ryan's closet. Pretty cool. We introduced everyone to the wonderful game of Moose Moose and ate lots of spaghetti (thanks Ryan) and salad with cut up tomatoes (thanks Pat). Summer is almost over. It feels like it just began, really. And as all seasons go... things have not gone according to my plan. Which is good, because God's plan is so much cooler. I have learned so much about myself and about my relationship with God this summer, and most of it through very strange ways. Whatever works, I suppose. I move out of here in about a week and go home for a while. Poor Hannah-Bean will be here for a while longer. Anyway... no more reminiscing. I must prepare for the car wash tomorrow. Muhahahahaha!