Another week in California!

Hey yall,

Time is flying out here in California! It's been another wonderful few days at Summit. Classes are going well and i'm beginning to get a handle on all the busyness.
On Wednesday, we volunteered at the Boys and Girls club, once again. It was a blast. I played basketball and soccer with most of the younger kids. I remembered a few of the kid's names from last time and met even more.
Thursday was our last day of classes for a week or two until we are settled in Ecudor. In the morning, me and Bekah both lead discussion for one class, each. And we wasted most of the afternoon class with questions and plans for winter camping. In the evening, the girls had a night out playing Bingo. So, me, Tom and some of the other Summit guys decided to have a movie night. We ate way to much and watched Live Free Die Hard starring Bruce Willis.
Friday morning, we had Chapel with another outdoor program called APU, just a few minutes up the road. There are 40 students enrolled in APU's outdoor program. Alot more chaos then just 2 students, thats for sure! That afternoon, we spent pulling food and equipment from storage (they call it "log") for our trek. We had to check off what equipment we took and measure out all of our dry and canned food.
Today, we had a much more relaxing day. I slept in, took a 2 hour bike ride by the lake and had a little work out after. This evening we packed up everything into our backpacks. It took me a few trys before I was able to fit everything in. The packs weigh close to 50-60 pounds. It felt like I was back at home, lifting feed bags. I was still able to do pushups with it on my back, so that gave me some ressurance that these next few days shouldn't be to hard. Except, I think learning to ski with the backpack might have a few challenges.
Anyways, we leave early tomorrow morning! I'm really excited to see how things go. Thanks for reading!

Goodnight,

Brendon