Niu2 with her berries.

Hollywood always stunning.

Phillipy and Peter bam hittin ya with the berries.

Dakota - Hmm how to look at things today? I kinda was productive, ya know worked on my portfolio for a little and umm watched some Full House. Boy, I need to get some long term thing going. At the same time, I was encouraged by an email that I got today from an old boss. Eh back to the drawing board tomorrow that's for sure.

Hmm oh yeah, I found out that I will be receiving an award on Sept. 30th that will be in like the Chinese papers probably. I was excited to hear that part of my Dream Team will be there to accept an award too. At the same time I was down because I wish I could trade my award in for the rest of my Dream Team. So I guess I'm in the middle still bout this thing.

Doom

Hollywood ready to pick some strawberries.

Big Lily's group ready to pick some fruit.

Alex's group ready to go strong.

Camp Mad-Heights rollin on the wagon.

Reyrey and I doin some serious work on this 1000 piece puzzle.

Silly Lily vs. Peter in the Pokemon Tournament.

Who will be the next Pokemon Master?

The Ping Pong Tournament begins.

Munchkins workin on their puzzle.

Chapel Hill - Well I set a record coming back from Charlotte, just under 11 hours baby! It's funny too because we gave my parents an hour head start to leave and we end up beating my parents by an hour and a half home. Plus I can check another state off my list and say I've been to South Carolina now too. So the biggest challenge now is living with my sis once again.

Now it's time to get my life back to normal. First up, gotta get me a job in terms of long term subbing. Other districts I'm lookin into now is Warren, Troy, Chip Valley, and Rochester. Bleh, the fun stuff I see.

Beamin

Mengchen, and Double J chillin at the park.

MeiMei, goin down the slide.

Alex, and Crystal laxin in the shade.

MeiMei, hangin from the bar, what's up.

ReyRey passin out his Mentos.

Of course, the girls gettin some from ReyRey's candy shop.

Super Size posin at the top of the hill.

Such a beautiful day, man I miss my kids.

Dream Team laxin over pretzels and Big 2!

This was the design during Week 1, seemed as if it were yesterday.

Super Size kids workin on their Chinese.

Skyway - Well it's officially over, summer that is :( It just seemed like yesterday I was working on my portfolio and preparing for VBS. Camp Mad-Hts had it's ups and downs, but I'm thankful for the Dream Team. It's sad that they may not be together for next year, which makes me wonder where I'll be at then. Then there was the poor showing at CCUC which only frustrates me. This is the first time in my CCUC career that CBC did not pick up any trophy. I was bummed to know that I did not need to stay for the closing ceremony. As for the A Team, that's 3 years in a row we've taken a step backwards now from 2nd, to 3rd, to now 4th. I appreciate one of my t'mates apologizing because not everyone played to their fullest, which only pisses me off to know that I played my heart out but not everyone followed suit. Things will be different next year, I promise on that.

Chicago wasn't all that bad though because of the fellowship I had with other peeps. Food of course was delicious and I ordered a lot. The best part was spending more time with my girl around the Windy City. Between the two of us, we ate $125 worth of seafood at Bob Chin's. I never knew a 28 oz. Lobster Tail and 16 oz. of Crab Legs could be so filling. Thanks to Ben and Jill for being hospitable and showing us around Navy Pier. Kinda wish we could go back on the Ferris Wheel again. This year is the latest that I've ever gotten back from CCUC weekend, which was 4:00 a.m. Tuesday, yet that was only to MSU. It was also encouragin to hear the message at CCUC but even more was to hear Chris tell me how he wished there was more Bible being used in the message. I drove for a total of 1030 miles over the weekend, new record for me.

Now, gotta get ready to drive down to Charlotte soon baby.

Hard To Kill

Opera - Elektra is kinda right, the summer is almost over :( For me, summer is officially over after CCUC. So much has happened to me and it just seemed like yesterday that I was teaching VBS with The Franchise and The Legend. Time moves on, such as today I had the honor to hang out with fellow DX leader, Emoy and Dr. Amy. We went to the poor man's version of Somerset, Lakeside. It was fun because Emoy, and I bought Tigers jerseys. He'll represent Verlander in Beantown, while I sport Grandy.

Had dinner with B-12 tonight, man I'm stuffed. So many things have moved on but gotta stay focused. Woohoo, bought the Team USA Kobe jersey too! So many jerseys and hats to wear now. I miss my Camp Mad-Hts. kids :( but CCUC is only so many days away so time to start practicing baby.

Green

Muddy Buddies - It's been a couple of weeks since I've blogged. I've been busy in the midst of a war at Camp Mad-Hts. Today is the last day of camp which means the closing ceremony. Niu2, ReyRey, Crystal, and I have been putting together this thing for the past couple of weeks. It's amazing how He works because The Diva and I have teammed up to form a good tag team. We had our first rehearsal and I think each counselor learned something in terms of prep. The kids tried their hardest, however it's not seen in The Boss's eyez for some parts. She keeps wantin to take stuff out of our program just so we can squeeze Camp Canton in which is fine. However, she wants to do this for the $ out there, ya know all those who support the Camp financially so that we could get more $ for next year. My kids have tried their hardest and want everything that we came up with in the show.

Obviously, we have a prob if my counselors or kids are upset then I am upset. The Boss and I went at it, she said I was "being defensive" so I fired back at her with the same thing. Of course, she was defensive and I smiled back because an eye for an eye ;) Master of mind games, she questioned my work ethic despite knowin that I am always the last to leave. I called her out when she shafted my Dream Team on their wages. Of course, none of my Dream Team will say something to her because she is The Boss, but I ain't scared.

She seemed bothered when some counselors hugged me and told me to "be strong and that they all need me to be there for them." Like I've said before people don't follow titles, they follow courage and mine comes from my heart and to do what it is right and hope that this is in His Will. I can't wait for the Closing Ceremony because I feel my Dream Team keeps gettin screwed, I'm gonna add a lil DX flavor at the end of the show. Y'all can call it defying authority against The Boss, but I call it doin what's right for those who put their heart into this program and got shafted. This will also show The Board and The Sponsors how my Dream Team have been treated. The Boss might of worn out the others but I will not break.

Example of shadiness: T-onda has to pick some Camp Canton kids up in the morning. She is not scheduled to work yet was asked to do this. Now if she drives them back to Canton after the ceremony she gets paid for a day's work.However, T-onda can only drive them there because she's comin to the Twp after. So The Boss decides not to pay her at all but yet T-onda still has to drive Camp Canton to Camp Mad-Hts. I cannot stand for this type of treatment to my Dream Team anymore.

Open Door