It’s a little less than a month from no more school for the rest of my life. It’s been six long, hard, fun, boring, exciting, stressful, and on and on, years since I began my college career.
Thinking back to freshman year of college, I remember thinking how I knew so much. And I realize now how I knew so little. Freshman year wasn’t as much of a fresh start as I would have liked it to be since I wasn’t attending the college of my dreams. Then again, I didn’t have a college of my dreams. But I was so undecided with choosing a major that I guess anywhere would have been fine. I still sorta wish that I could have started college at a totally foreign place, maybe even different state. Or even started at a junior college. There was too much pressure for me to go to SMU. Well, the past is the past.
Now I’m at the point where I begin the next phase of life. I have no job leads, my life is sorta being turned upside down in a way since there’ll be some additions to the family soon, a new home for my dad, and another big change in where I’ll be living. I don’t really have a form of stability in the next few months ahead of me and I can tell it’s bugging me. Not only do I not care about anything at school right now, I’m thinking more and more about how difficult it will be out there without any job leads.
In more positive news about the coming months, I will be celebrating multiple times with my family and friends after graduation in Dallas and Houston. Hopefully making a little money to earn back since I’ve been spending too much, I’ll save enough for the big road trip in July! Road trip you ask? Yeah, here’s the small details:
About the 6th or 7th day of July, maybe earlier, Jonathan and I will be leaving from Houston or San Antonio to head west. The initial plan is to drive through New Mexico, Arizona, California, Nevada, back to Cali, up through Oregon, Washington and then to Vancouver, back down through Idaho and Montana down through Colorado and possibly through Kansas and Oklahoma but maybe not those last two states. We hope to take exactly three weeks to make this trip. I’m mostly excited to travel to the Grand Canyon, Northern California, Vancouver and Montana. Obviously Colorado will be a great place! We haven’t detailed the trip yet but hopefully I’ll get on that really soon.
The last week of June I’ll be going to another fabulous UM ARMY camp helping with the programs staff of Rebecca and Brion! We were the same team at college camp last year and I think we had great chemistry even though there were a few rough spots. This camp hopefully will be even better than last because we’ll be more organized. Then in August is the big UM ARMY 25 year bash thrown at the AstroArena (or whatever the call it now…). Performers include Wayne Kerr, Chris Tomlin, and Matt Neely!! That is going to be a heck of a party if you ask me! Maybe I can get a hookup from Chris or Wayne to let me help them out and get some experience.
And speaking of Wayne, if you don’t know who he is, you’re missing out on a truly wonderful music minister. His website link is just to your right, go click it and join us at his CD kickoff party. I wish I could throw the UCF the same thing this summer… maybe I’ll make a surprise visit next fall and line up our band from this year to play some of the tunes. My understanding of why there’s such a hitch in the whole CD project is because of concern about selling 300 CDs to get all the money back. I’m confident that we can make our money back. Just give me the money to make the CD!