Bootcamp, eh?

so, yes. it's been quite awhile since i last posted. i understand this. but i've been pretty busy. and i don't actually have a computer at my house with which to post. i have to use my parents. yes. i'm making excuses...but they are good ones, right?

anyway, bootcamp has been insane. we've had such fun getting to know each other, and getting to know more about ourselves and the God that we follow. I feel like my mind is gonna explode with everything i've been learning... but somehow it never does. maybe someday it will. :P

I don't even know where to begin on this whole bootcamp thing...i guess i'll just tell about some of the activities we've been doing. from the start we've been "training" for a 5k. i put training in quotes, bcuz i wasn't very good and i didn't train much, only because every time i would run i would end up hurting my knee! so i decided it wasn't worth it to injure myself permanently....just to run a 5k. i decided that i would run as much of the 5k as i could, then just walk it. and it was totally fine. i ended up running about 3/4 of a mile...and i was proud of myself for that. i got to walk it with my friend Tu and also my friend Jeff. it was a lot of fun. Tu is a refugee from Burma that i've befriended from working at language lab. She's so incredibly smart. we finished the race strong, we sprinted for the last like 100 yards. :)

Me and Tu finishing the race. :)

Then this weekend (yesterday)we did this ropes course, team building thing. It was a lot of fun. we played some games to promote trust and such with the other bootcampers. It was crazy fun. then we did this rock climbing wall and i hated that. haha it was really hard on my knee [more excuses i know!] so i couldn't get very far... and i was a bit mad at myself. but my mom and Katie helped me get over it. ha. but, all 3 of my siblings made it to the top of the wall and i was so proud of them! they were amazing!

then we did the zipline. that was a lot of fun, and i remember being excited because it's the first time i've ever been able to give in to that urge to jump from high places without killing myself or seriously injuring myself. haha. it was a lot of fun.

yeah, i look so casual standing up there. but it was really high and i was kinda scared. but then i was like, the only way i'm getting down from here is to jump... so i went all out and JUMPED from that platform. i had just been telling Becca (the girl in the green shirt that is in charge) about my random urges to jump sometimes, so when she unclipped me from the tower and i was only clipped to the zipline, she was like "don't go anywhere Katelyn." haha i was like, i wont!! she said "just keep holding on to the ladder."so i did. haha it was a lot of fun and i'm glad i did it. but yeah, so there are the things i've done in the last couple weeks. it's been fun and it's been crazy... but it's been good. :)

All the time, God is good. God is good all the time, because that is His Nature. Wow!

~Katelyn