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Summer Has My Heart

It took less than a week to realize where I want to be.

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Summer a time for college students to take a break from school and enjoy a couple of months off whether you're laying on a beach somewhere or interning somewhere trying to figure your life out. Every year is different and each experience is new. I took this summer to try out something new and fell completely in love. Camp Woodward is a place to further your skills in your chosen passion, make lifelong connections and to take a week or six off from the world and really experience life without the distractions.

This camp was a refuge for me when I was struggling with what I wanted out of life. It sounds crazy that just by working in the middle of Amish Country, Pennsylvania, I started to figure out what I value in life and made decisions for how I wanted my life to look in ten years. Connections were formed with incredible people and memories were made that I will cherish forever. Having been In Pennsylvania for a month, it was yet again time for a change in scenery, My best friend and I took that beach trip to Florida, yet again I was thrown into a world different than my own and it just confirmed what I had figured out at Woodward, the goal for me is to be on the East Coast one day, having a new adventure every single day and just living life to the fullest with the wonderful people the good lord has blessed my life with.

That one week in Florida told me that even on the rainy days the future is bright and full of surprises. On the way home from this trip and the realization hitting that I was on my way back home to start school back up, I had this twinge of sadness and disappoint. I was pressing pause on my future and the life I wanted for awhile to come back to my current one. After the initial depression stage of leaving wore off I remembered all the wonderful things that had occurred to me this summer. I was overly blessed this summer with everything that happened and I had nothing to be upset over.

The next two years will be filled with blessings until I get to start up my new adventure where ever I may be. I still had a journey to finish at home before I could begin a new one and I can only imagine what that journey has in store. This summer was one for the books and not because of what I did and where I went, but because I figured out who I am and what I want next. That is the greatest journey of all and I can't wait to take the first step in it.

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