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Well, Peru was just absolutely incredible.  I’ll make a mega post later when all of my best photos are uploaded and spare you the play by play.

It’s summer!  What are my plans?

I turned in my TCH badge today but I still have a bit of work to do on the LEAH website.  Hopefully I can wrap that up by the middle of June.

Here’s a rough to-do list for the next few months:

Try to hook up with the Boys and Girls Club

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Landscape the backyard to look like one of these yards

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Successfully complete some inductive bible studies (starting with Kay Arthur’s book, Lord, Only You Can Change Me)

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Improve my photography skillz (via Tom Ang’s Digital Photography Masterclass)

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Improve my tennis skillz (try to reach a 4.0 rating)

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Read the Harry Potter Series

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I think I’m most excited about improving my photography skills.  Peru is such a beautiful country that really almost any photo you take is going to be a good one but I spent a lot of the trip frustrated with settings and not being able to get my photos to look the way I wanted them to.  I think photography is one of those fads that a lot of people can latch on to and most people plateau and are okay with it but only some people really disciplined in learning and pushing themselves to the next level.  It reminds me a lot of acoustic guitar in high school where everybody and their mama learned to play the C, G, D, E, A, B, F, Em, Am, and F#m chords, learned how to do a double strum, and then just quit learning.  I really want to push myself.  The book seems pretty interesting, it’s presented in the format of a class so there are assignments.  Maybe I’ll post my homework assignments here to log my progress.

It’s going to be a summer of transitions and changes, goodbyes and hellos, sunshine and mosquitoes, and learning and growing.  I’m really looking forward to it.

Oh yeah, and if you haven’t seen Pixar’s UP yet, go see it!  I think it’s the 4th best Pixar movie.  (1st Place is a tie: Toy Story & The Incredibles, 2nd Place: Monster’s Inc.)  Such a sweet movie to start the summer with — (oh and the 3D is not that great so it’s not a must).