Don't you dare touch my candy

Summer is almost over. This statement brings a lot of mixed feelings. I'm sad to leave the mountains..but so excited to move into an actual apartment and start classes and my new job. We have our last full group of kids this week. Hopefully it will be a good one. Then I'm trying to get the last week off so I can get ready for school. A day and a half is definitely not enough to move in and get books and everything. Doable…but not fun. Quite a few events have occurred this week. First I had this brilliant idea that I would surprise my family and come home and see them during Thanksgiving. The only problem with this is that tickets are 500-600 dollars. Not exactly in my budget. Then I had this brilliant idea to email the airlines and see if they would give me a discount :) I told them that I am a hardworking college student and that I would endorse them by wearing their shirt and telling everyone that they were a great airline. Sadly….I was not effective enough. They told me thank you for my heartfelt letter. And then kindly shut me down. How rude haha. It was worth a try! The next thing that happened was so weird. I had gotten a roll of rollos from my boss but I couldn't eat them because they have sugar in them. I decided to put them on my shelf and save them for when I can eat sugar again. Then a couple of days ago I woke up and there were these wrappers all over the floor. I couldn't figure out what they were and didn't really pay attention to them until I realized the were rollo wrappers!! They were completely shredded up in little pieces with no chocolate to be found. It was the weirdest thing. I think the mouse or a potgut age them. Some of my friends think that I was craving sugar so bad that I went and raided them in my sleep. I'm pretty sure I didn't since I did not wake up with chocolate all over my mouth. Then today I was cleaning out my bottom drawer and found rollos hidden in my clothes!! So bizarre! And creepy. So who knows what happened..I blame it on the mouse though. I got to watch a meteor shower this week. That was so cool!!!! There are so many stars up in the mountains .. It is so pretty. We went out at about 12:30 and just watched the meteors flash across the sky. Well that's it for now!

Peanut Butter and Jelly

The summer is going by so quickly. I can't believe that it is actually August. I will be starting school in less than a month. A day and a half after this job ends. I get quite the break. I'm living with three girls that I knew from last year which will be great. And then my roommate that I will share a room with is someone random. I won't be meeting her until the day I move in. We'll see how this all works out! Meanwhile I am still quite occupied here up at Aspen Grove. As you can see from the picture..we had an eighties night. It was time for the dance and some people decided we should dress up. We made quite the entrance...it was sweet. As we ran in they were playing the song Freak Out. By some of the people's faces when they saw us they definitely were. It was funny. Luckily my kids weren't too embarrassed of me. Although one girl was running away from me. Hopefully that was a joke and not serious :) So the summer ending soon also coincides with me being able to eat sugar again!!! I'm trying to decide if I will keep not eating sugar or start right back eating a bunch of sweets. The hope is that I will just hate sugar and deserts when I get to have them again. But knowing me it will be quite the opposite. We have another huge group this week but so far they seem like well behaved kids which is great! But you never know...one of the guys was miming today soooooo who knows. One thing I can't wait for in the fall is being able eat my own food. I have discovered that I am such a picky eater. I really didn't think I was until I came here to Aspen. For a lot A LOT of my meals I end up having peanut butter and jelly or cereal or something. There's great food don't get me wrong but I just don't like most of it. I end up making the weirdest combinations. But hey it is free food so I can't complain. My co counselor was telling me that going off sugar and getting 200 dollars is a waste of money because up here the food is free so the more food you eat... the more money you "gain". While this is a clever idea...I don't think they understood the point. If you count food as money...you would blow up like a balloon. I will justify this 200$. It is definitely worth it....it better be :) Anyway life is great. I have the greatest friends up here. And even though there have definitely been ups and downs, I have no regrets about taking this job. Besides the fact that I miss my family. But other than that it has been amazing.