I need a good camp counselor name for all of the campers to call me. If I don't get one, then the will pick a dorky one for me at the end of the week. I need ideas!

Camp finally starts tomorrow and I am ready for it. Not to say that I am tired of Amaris, because I am not even close to that. We have been having a blast this week with her friends, driving around Anchorage, and camping with her step dad’s coworkers. But it is going to be a lot of fun nonetheless.

The camping trip we took this weekend was fun, but the drive was not. Amaris has a brother that is… well… difficult. He is 15 so he thinks that he is right almost all of the time, and if he isn’t then he just makes enough noise to compensate for it, so the drive was just short of unbearable. Also, the “camping” trip really was not camping at all because there were full hookups, and the campers were about 20 feet apart from each other (I had no problem with that because I had a place to charge my laptop while staying warm!). Also, everyone was fishing and there was not nearly enough room for all 10,000 people to be fishing on the same corner of the river, but they were. The term “combat fishing” was introduced to me when I saw people fishing literally a foot apart from each other in the river. I guess a lot of people have heard about the great fishing up here, but didn’t realize that everyone else in the world will also be coming for the fish too. Oh well.

I didn’t go fishing anyway, because I was too busy playing spoons and stuff. Also, the food those guys eat when they camp is unbelievable. Ahh… I am drooling just thinking about it.

I am going to miss being with Amaris everyday because I haven’t been eating this well in a long time. Oh… and because I like her too :P. So I will update this after I get to camp and actually start working and stuff.

First off, I will be updating this fairly regularly throughout the summer because there is an internet connection up at the camp that I will be at. However, in this primitive place that we call Alaska, there is only one cell phone carrier, which puts me in roaming mode on my cell phone, so I just turned off my phone for the summer. I am not sure if I still have voice mail, but it really doesn't matter because I will not be able to check it all summer. If you need to get a hold of me then just email me.

Now about the trip up here. I really didn't start packing until the night before my trip, but I had been thinking about I needed so I was pretty sure that I had everything ready. I saw Kacy, Kevin, Chris, Yohan, Macheala, Rammey, Matt, and Steve before I left when I played poker at Kacy's house. I also stopped by Charter to see Ms Nichols one more time before she retired and saw Corey in the process. I then ran home to get last minute things together before I left, but I still had that nagging feeling that I was forgetting something, but that is something that I always get when I am leaving for a while so I just kind of wrote it off.

I got to the airport and got through all of the security with plenty of time to spare (even though I almost forgot my wallet in my parents car), and got to relax and stop worrying about missing my flight. Then I remembered what I forgot when Danielle called and asked me when I was going to stop by to see her. Heh... yeah... I forgot a slightly important thing. Sorry Danielle, I feel really bad about forgetting about you :(.

So Alaska is awesome. Everything is really beautiful here and so is Amaris (I had to put that in because I know she hates hearing it). Amaris has been letting me drive most places so I have almost learned my way around Eagle River. Anchorage reminds me of what Boise was like 10 years ago, before the urban sprawl, the hoards of Californians, and all of the traffic.

I went to bed at around 4 last night, but it was still light out. I was expecting that, but I still have not seen any polar bears or Eskimos. I guess they hide them pretty well or something.

Anyway, we are going to go camping this weekend, and then I am going to the bible camp, so I will update this after that.

I will be gone until Monday night. I will be camping with my dad and my uncle, so when I get back I will be coming to say goodbye to everyone for the summer so make sure you leave time for me! See you guys Monday.

School is over for the year, and I miss it. I love all of the people from McCoy like a family, because that is really what they have been to me for the past year. Well, 90% of them are moving to the Scholars LLC next year, so we will still be together (I have decided to go there instead of to Theta Chi). The funny thing was that we really didn't start doing fun stuff until the last week of school, when there were Halo Tourneys almost daily, and even a run down to the new arboretum to scare two of our hall mates who were "camping" together. The most depressing part was seeing all of the rooms empty out Friday and Saturday. Whenever I saw a bare bed, I knew that the person that lived there was officially leaving for the summer, and the room I was seeing was no longer theirs. The part that really sucked was that I was in the tower until 11am on Saturday, so I saw almost everyone leave.

Looking back on the year, one thing that makes me laugh is how much I changed/ manipulated/ poisoned/ corrupted Chris. Yes... that roommate of mine who seemed so nice and polite really can be pushed to show his dark underbelly. Like, did you know that on the right occasion that Chris can almost compete with my flatulence? Not only that, but when I was considering going to Theta Chi, Chris was seriously considering joining SigEp. We both dropped the idea though. But I can be a good influence as well, like when I decided to go on a mission trip to Mexico, I somehow convinced Chris to go on the trip as well. Danielle went way more in depth with the whole thing on her blog because she has more "insider" sources on the whole thing. Makes me fell all warm and fuzzy inside to know that I had that much influence on Chris all year. :D

But now I am back in Boise, and I have just been chilling all week. I got my grades back and I have a 3.44 GPA, which I am semi-happy with. I emailed my physics teacher to find out how close I was to an A, and it turns out that I got an 85% on the final test (which blew my mind), which leaves me with an 86% in the class. The cut off for an A is an 87.5% and that pisses me off. Sigh... but live goes on.

I am so excited to go to Alaska next week though because I will get to see a whole new part of the world, doing the work of God, camping all summer, and... oh yeah... seeing AMARIS! And her friends too. I will be doing the camp from May 30-August 7, and I will get every Saturday at noon through Sunday evening off... and Amaris said that she will come get me sometimes! Yeah... this summer will rock. Seriously.

Then I will come back for a week, go to Rock the Canyon, go to school early to train for my ITS job, and move into the super double with Dan so that we can have a year of Madden. Oh yeah... this is what life is meant to be like.

One more week. That is what I tell myself over and over as I cram all of the things that I have "learned" this semester into my head so that I can regurgitate them onto an exam. I finished one of them today, and only have three more to go. Then summer starts.

Not only that, but a week and a half after that I get to go up to Alaska for the summer. This is great for two reasons: one is that I will be at a bible camp all summer hanging out and spreading the word of God to a bunch of kids. It doesn't pay, but I can handle that. The second reason is that Amaris lives about an hour away from camp.

Yes... Amaris. I haven't posted in a while so let me fill you in: we are going out. I know; Brian going out? But it is true, and she is a heck of a catch. She is beautiful, and completely humble about it. She is caring and actually puts up with me (and any miscellaneous gasses that come with me, including my feet). If you haven't met her yet, then you are missing out. She is amazing.

The other thing that I mentioned in my previous blog entry was that I was considering joining Theta Chi. It was a really close bid, but once a super double opened up in the Scholars Hall, I decide that I just couldn't move just yet. I will think about it again next year, but I don't want to leave all my friends from McCoy just yet. But then two guys from TC took me out to Applebee’s for lunch on Friday (which was awesome) and made small talk until they finally told me that they wanted to extend a bid to me right there. That would mean that I could bypass rush (which was a concern of mine) and just join, but I still declined it. Yep, this is for you McCoy!

That made me realize that I will be going from having Chris as a roommate to Dan. If you don't know either of them, then you don't know how polarly different they are. Chris is really polite, really quite, and REALLY clean. Dan... isn't. Dan is more like me, just more outgoing and... loud. Not to mention that he can kick my butt at Madden on command. Should be interesting next year.

Oh, and I will have a job at ITS next year at the help desk. Yeah... so I will have some income and stuff, but that means that I will have to come up to UI a week earlier (thus, cutting my time at Boise down to August 7 through the 14).

But Rock the Canyon is the 12th-13th. Danielle, Kacy and I went there last year and it was a blast. It is a Christian Music fest... let me know if you wanna come this year.

That’s it. Long post over.