[Dandelion Seeds...]: Across the state

NEXT stop that I remember significantly was Colorado! We flew there for 2 weeks to attend a couple different things with our mission. Our Mission is called World Venture, or WV :) So, WV had a Spiritual Renewal type week for our parents and the kids went to "Camp World Venture." I was able to become one of the honorary (not payed) Interns for those 2 weeks because I was older. It was very stressful but a lot of fun! The first week (camp) was where the parents stayed in a hotel and had their meetings there and the kids/teens stayed in the WV office and slept, ate, and had their programs all there. It was a very cool time for them/us to bond because we were always together, but it was super stressful for the interns because we had to be in charge of them 24/7. There were like 23 kids from age 10ish to 18, talk about variety. There were a quite a few kids who had their siblings there, so we had to try to divide them in activities :D Another cool thing was, that even though everybody was different and came from different places around the world and different cultures, we were all the same in a way! We were all TCKS (third culture kids) and best of all, all of us were MK's (Missionary kids)!!! Some people don't understand how we work, but we all understand each other and that was so awesome to have. We had a big talent show at the end of the week where I MC'd and that was crazy and fun. There was one special person there that I was so happy to see. Kerri Klingsmith! Wow, we go way back! While I was in highschool we met when our schools joined together for a joint choir session. She was staying at my house with a couple other girls, and after talking we found out that we were on the same mission! THAT was just so cool! We sang more joint choirs together, played against each other in volleyball and sang together in the ACSI Honor's Choir! So yea, we are good friends and it was SO NICE having her there! i love your kerri and thank you for keeping me sane! :D
Well, moving onto the next week, we didn't have the kids every day and every hour. We only had them from 8:30-5ish. It was again a great week but significantly less stressful!
After those two weeks flew by, my family and I drove to a small town called Ulysses, Kansas and that is where you will have to read the next post... but of course I will include some pictures of those 2 crazy wonderful weeks in Colorado. Again, forgive me for some of them being sideways :)
Love, Rachael