So before I venture out and cross the Atlantic, my summer will be spent teaching kids to rock climb at a camp near the Shenandoah National Park in Virginia. This means two things.
1. I will be spending as much time outside as possible, walking the line of having to be super-safe and super-responsible at all times and enjoying a summer of peter pan syndrome.
2. I have four days between an eight week stint in the woods and flying from Charlotte to Paris on August 15th.
So inevitably I have lots to do in the three-and-a-half weeks before leaving for camp. And because I tend to make lists, I now have a list of lists. It includes...
1. Trips that must be taken all before June 13th. (including Crowder's Mountain, NC; Chapel Hill, NC; Carderock, MD; Atlanta, GA; Saluda, NC; Etters and White Deer, PN)
2. Things to get rid of.
3. Things to buy. (thankfully much shorter than #2)
4. Things to organize and clean.
5. Things to read. (from suggested books to the selfish time I spend online with the nytimes and Foreign Policy)
6. Foods to try out. (quinoa is checked off the list thanks to Hannah)
7. addresses to obtain.
8. and most importantly communication that needs to happen. (emails, phone calls, visits, movie nights and dinners)
Now, this is probably just a crazy attempt to remind myself that sleeping late and other things associated with summers off don't apply at the current moment. But at least it's recorded. The next step. Checking things off.
