Summer break!

So I've been home for about a week. It's been lovely to be home. You know what the best part of it has been? Sleeping in a room where I have a comfortable bed, and it's actually quiet when I decide to go to bed. Look, Wheaton is great. For the most part I love it. But sometimes people are downright rude to those around them. Almost every night there would be people playing music, talking loudly, all during quiet hours while people with morning classes are trying to sleep. But here, this is none of that!!!! People are quiet at bedtime! The light coming in through my window with the blinds open is less than the light coming through my blinds in my dorm room. I have my dog back! It's been awesome to have a furry companion once again. It's also so great to just be with and around my family. We have so much fun together.
In a few weeks I shall be leaving for England. I'm really excited and relatively nervous at the same time. But mostly excited. I am going to miss a few things this summer though. This will be the first time since I started going to Cornerstone that I will don't be attending.

Haha. I'm going to pause there and explain why the first part of this blog might be a little weird. I started this yesterday when I was trying to get through the first four parts of Downton Abbey so I could watch the fifth part with my family. Turns out it's hard to follow a movie and write. That first part took me such a long time! This time the only distraction I have is a warm and sleepy Vizsla. Distraction enough, I know. But I shall persevere!

Here's a picture of my warm sleepy Vizsla.

 So, I'm missing Cornerstone which I am pretty sad about because of course, Children 18:3 is going to be there, and a band I just recently got into called Eisley is also going to be there. Flatfoot 56 of course goes without saying. So that's going to be really hard for me. What's going to be even worse is missing Honey Rock. I have already made it up there once this year, but this will be the first summer I will not have been up there. All of my family is going to be up there for something. My brother is going to be a counselor!!! I'm so excited for him! My sister is doing the program 2:22 which I think will be great. My youngest will be in res camp again. So yeah. Really excited for all of them. Also kind of jealous. I know it's kind of like hmmmm, which would I rather do, go to England for six weeks or get up to Honey Rock for probably just a week? Really? You're still sad about not making it to Honey Rock? But Honey Rock has been a huge part of my life for well, forever. So I will be sad. I will also be sad to leave my friends and family behind for a good portion of my summer. Though I found out yesterday that my dad and my senior pastor are going to be visiting me while I'm in Oxford! I'm pretty excited about that.
Sometimes when I sit here and think about doing this program, I wonder if I'm crazy. The correct response being, "Duh Elizabeth. You haven't figured that out a long time ago?" And I have. Also, come on, you are going to ENGLAND!!!!! But I am really burned out on school right now. This has been a really, really hard year for me. Maybe I'll go into more of that with my next post, but for now just know, I'm sick of school. I'm tired of watching people glide through a get good grades and have lots of friends while I sit by myself in my room struggling just to keep my attention on the assigned readings. And now I'm sacrificing time out of my lovely break to take more classes? Only to go right back into my SENIOR YEAR OF COLLEGE!!! I'm a little apprehensive to say the least. But I also know God can get me through this. So for the time being I will once again shove all my fears at apprehensions at him and go find some Shakespeare to read. To try and get prepared for that whole taking summer classes thing. Yeah....