Quick synopsis of an action packed week on the campus of Patrick Henry College as a summer intern.

Last weekend I journeyed home for a weekend of fun with the peeps and the family. I watched The Pacifier with the family (love that movie... particularly the parrall parking job) and saw Twelth Night with the Freesen peeps at Blackfriar's. It was fantastic! I cannot count how many times I have seen that particular shakespeare show, but the actors at the ASC never fail to put a new twist on the fun. Sitting on stage certainly helped, besides two of my favorite ASC players, Greg and Alyssa, graced the stage. They never fail to amuse me...Greg as a french dude was quite the sight. To add to that, John Harrell as Malvolio in yellow cross-gartered stockings and a ridiculas grin provided laughter aplenty. Oh the joys of home!

I arrived back on campus Sunday evening and stopped in to witness the PHC teen camp counselors introducing themselves to the Moot Court and Drama campers... they are certainly a talented bunch! Although ONE *ahem* of them took my parking spot which forced me to have a nice little chat with Security.

Monday I was back on the job for an action-packed week as we compiled the final details of GenJ camp together. "To-do" lists have become by best-est of friends this past week in order to keep track of all the little things that needed to be done. A recent accomplishment of mine at work is answering phones... It took me forever to get up the courage to answer phones when I worked at the courthouse. Thankfully at GenJ the people I talk to are so much nicer then the mad angry parent's and felons that I talked to at the courthouse. ;) lol. It isn't nearly as confusing either and I don't have to worry about sending someone to jail accidentally if I say the wrong thing.

The highlight of my week was my trip to DC on Thursday. Will Estrada, the director of GenJ and HSLDA's lobbying branch, Federal Relations, invited me to go into DC with him and Amy Lynne (she started a week after I did and is hired on full-time). We met with a new Congressman from Lousiana, attended a conference on Privacy at the Heritage Foundation (they provided amazing "refreshments" aka lunch), met with one of Senator Vitter's aids, and attended at "VAT" meeting which stands for Values Action Team, a group composed of conservative interest groups (Eagle Forum, Concerned Women of America, Southern Baptist Conv, Prision fellowship, etc) and members of congress. A congresswomen from Michigan spoke briefly and GenJ actually worked on her campaign in 2006! My role the entire time was the shadow of sorts, following them around and observing Washington politics firsthand as we lobbied for homeschool specific legislation.

Friday of this week was insane, crazy, and all around chaos. Lists, packets, t-shirts, emails, phone calls, flight schedules, MONEY (fake), nametags...you get the point. We (Kaitlyn and myself) suggested in jest that Joel order Pizza since we had to work late and he actually took us up on it! :) It was good. :P I got off work in time to watch the closing scene from the Drama camp's Twelth Night. Of what I saw, it was very nicely done considering they only had a week to put it all together! Next the teen campers had their traditional skits which were cheesy, lame, and sometimes funny. lol. Honestly, they did phenominal considering they had such an insane week.

So today has arrived. SATURDAY! Tomorrow around 90 campers arrive and I get to do who knows what. I am meeting them at the airport and being an official "greeter" or whatever. :D This afernoon we're going to the appartment of a girl who just graduated from PHC, Kaylin, to eat brownies and have fun. Then Aubrey (current roommate) and myself are playing frisbee and going to another person's house for dinner. free food...

OK. That's all! Toodles folks. have a happy weekend!

On Monday I arrived and moved in and met the roommate. Her name is Aubrey and is from California. Therefore she = cool. :)

I've been having a lot of adventures here.

Aubrey invited me to Dr. Farris' house for a BBQ to meet Congressman Wolf and guess who I found there? Emily! It was a pleasant surprise and we had a nice chat and met random people... :) We then watched a random movie that we were invited to about WWII, forgot what it was called.

Tuesday... Well. I got to learn CPR and First Aid and so that was lots of fun. I guess they want me to know some of that stuff if I'm going to be a counselor for the GenJ camp in a couple of weeks. Hopefully I will not have to ever use the knowledge in real life, 'cause yeahhh.

Today I got to actually work in the office which has been adventure filled. We had a tornado warning so we went to the basement and then lost electricity so we got off work at 3:30. My "boss" or whatever his title is invited a bunch of us students to his house for food. So here I am! I haven't figured out wireless at PHC yet and people keep telling me different things as far as whether or not I can get it so yeah, I'm using wireless here until I figure it out. OK. That's all that's up.