So the journey began on Thursday, May 12th from Fayetteville, Arkansas. I had a final that morning from 8-10 a.m. and then I pulled out of town headed to pick up Sam's car in Columbia, MO. The funny thing was, I had never met Sam before. We had talked over the phone multiple times throughout the semester but never actually met until the day I showed up to pick up his car for the road trip. After meeting Sam and picking up his car, I headed west to Kansas City to pick up another staff guy, Justin, at the airport. Justin flew from Charlotte, NC to KC so he could roadtrip up with us this summer. We then proceeded to drive to Seward, NE to arrive at the place we would be staying that night. We were meeting two of the women's staff for the summer, Ann and Emily, and staying there at Ann's grandparents house. We then preceeded to Laramie, WY where we met another staff guy, MJ, and stayed at his friend's house there in town. Little did we know, one of the other housemates had a super energetic dog named Turbo. The dog wanted nothing more than for us to play fetch with it all night long. We would put its toy on a shelf on the wall and watch with anticipation as she would climb onto the couch and jump onto the rocking chair and then reach out to grab her toy. It was definitely a sight to see. The next day, we drove to Boise, ID and once again stayed at a friend of MJ's. I got to see the smurf turf, which is the football field of Boise State. The next day, we drove through the Cascade mountains in Washington which were absolutely beautiful on our way to pick up Sam, whose car I picked up, from the airport. He had graduated on Saturday and flew up to meet us on Sunday. We preceeded on that night to go through Vancouver, British Columbia and stayed at a campsite outside of Cache Creek, British Columbia. Upon arriving, we came to the realization that we only had 1 two person tent amongst six people and it was raining outside. So the ladies used the tent, while two guys slept in the car and MJ and myself created a make shift shelter using two tarps and a picnic table. It worked and kept us try all night. The next day we drove almost all day and late into the night and early morning. Finally, we found a campsite off the side of the highway in northern British Columbia. We got up the next morning and continued on and reached the Alaska Highway, where we then preceeded to drive until we crossed the border back into Skagway, AK. We jumped on the ferry today, May 18th, from Skagway to Juneau because there is no road that actually comes into Juneau. We arrived in town today around 3:30 p.m. and have been getting settled in the rest of the day. Staff Orientation starts tomorrow morning at 9 a.m. with breakfast together, followed by a staff meeting at 10.
I am so excited for the summer to finally be here. It seems like I can't believe that it is finally here but it also seems as if it has gotten here so quickly as well. It is going to be a great summer and God is going to do some amazing things through us as staff this summer as we reach out to the city of Juneau and as we invest into the lives of the 24 students coming on project this summer.
Some prayer requests for the upcoming week:
1) Unity and cohesiveness as a staff team
2) Safe travel for students as they start their trips to Alaska
3)That we as a staff, will get everything done and prepared for when the students arrive on May 24th
4) That God will begin to work in our hearts as we prepare as a staff to invest into the students on project, in the students hearts who are coming on project his summer, and in the hearts of the people of Juneau
Until next time.....
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