Tornadoes and more tornadoes

We're getting down to the nitty gritty. This morning, I continued to call youth pastors for housing and get donations for the youth pastors. Then, this afternoon we went through the programming meeting. It was awesome! We got to watch the videos they made and they were so good! I'm working with such talented people! I'm so excited for what's to come this summer. I'm excited for next Friday when we hit the road. It will be so great! I cant wait for that first night of camp! The students are going to flip out. 

The first official camp starts Sunday. I'm not in charge of it but its here where I'm living so I get to go to all of the main sessions. I'm excited about this because I will actually get to see each session and how everything fits together. I won't have to worry about that when I'm on the road. I think it will help me with my job too because I will get to answer questions about what's going on.

Monday, I get my shirts that I have to wear all week. I'm so excited about it! It's becoming more real to me. I got my first name tag today. It's awesome! I'm an official CIY Event Staff! 

Tonight has been an interesting night. First, I got to go to dinner with my customer service partner. It was great! We went to Hackett's Hot Wings! So good! We had such a great conversation! It was awesome! Then we came back to the dorm and hung out because a bad storm was coming. The sirens started going off. Let me tell you. The people I am with are not from here. The people here have no idea what to do when the sirens go off. It was kinda funny to me. They were asking me questions like "can you hear a tornado coming." Well ya but I had to stop myself from saying stuff like that. I was teaching the girls something new. They were freaking out. They had no idea what to do if a tornado would actually hit. As the sirens were going off, I told the girls to grab their pillows before they went down stairs. That is an obvious thing for me to do. They were like why? Are we going to sleep down there? They had no idea that you are suppose to use your pillow to cover your head. It's like this. If I was in Florida and a hurricane was coming, I would had no idea what to do. I would probably freak out too. But a girl on ES is from Florida and she thinks they're no big deal just like this situation. I got another perspective during this experience. It was cool to get that perspective too.

Tonight after that, the girls in my team went through our goals for ourselves so that we can keep each other accountable. It was awesome to hear our goals and what I can do to help my teammates. One girls goals were so similar to mine that it will be easier for me to keep her accountable but the other I will have to work at and it will be cool! 

If you haven't noticed already, I can hardly contain my excitement for this summer. I know that I will have struggles and that I will get stressed or one of my teammates will but it will be one of the best summers of my life.

       My awesome name tag!!!!!

        Hiding in the storm shelter!!!!