From the City to the Mountains.

As I am in the car driving towards Crooked Creek Ranch, the place I will be living for the next year, and the snow is falling hard and the roads are icey-- I ask myself what did I get myself into.

Is this Miami girl really ready for the below zero temperatures? Is she ready for the hard blizzards and "mud season"?

Well the answer is probably not, but I wouldn't be me if I didn't absolutely love a good challenge. So here I am in our intern house with the view of snowy, lush mountains knowing that I got one hell of a year in front of me.

Excitement fills me. Excitement for the challenges, the growth, the work, the community, the summer, the skiing, the friendships, the outdoor stuff, and for the unknown.

I know my human self has been filled in the last year--as I find myself the happiest I have ever been. And that happiness came from finally accepting and loving the person I have become. I have the best of friends and the greatest family who support me beyond belief. I have so many people supporting me through this experience and I want to give you all a HUGE thank you!

So yes, my human self has been filled but I anticipate God filling my spiritual self.

BUT, I am scared. Scared of being so far away from home without any friends or family (Don't forget about me guys). I am scared of the things most people are scared of when going into a new place--not fitting in, not being accepted, not being understood. And I am especially scared of the winter....

But let's not talk about that because it truly terrifies me.

It is our second official day of work today. I don't go into work until 11 a.m. Mountain Time ( I like saying that ;) ) but I don't get off until 11 p.m. so it will definitely be a long day. But I really like working, it makes me feel accomplished--let's see if I am still saying that 5 months from now.

But our first day we got here and I met all the rest of the interns. There are 10 of us. Six girls and four boys. We all live in a three floor house. The girls have the upstairs, boys have the downstairs, and there is the "basement" on the bottom which is like our "play room." The boys and girls have there own kitchen, living area and bathrooms. I will post pictures of our house soon.

We all started unpacking, and then had dinner with the rest of the staff and played games to get to know each other.

Then the next morning we had orientation and basically a brief of what our job was for the weekend. I am on Guest Services, and I will be running the ropes course and just being on call for anything that needs to be done on camp or for the guests. Of course, I tell them that I was once ropes certified. Mind you that was like 5 years ago. I took like an hour class on it with Mallory. Ha Ha..so obviously it wasn't anything intense.

But I am up there in the trees on the ropes course, and we are all harnessed in. But they are teaching me and I am doing it all wrong. I am taking off their carabiner (the metal hook that is attached to all the lines in the trees so that basically if you fall you won't die) Well, I of course, am unhooking people before I re-hook them to the next line. And Ray, who is the Guest Service coordinator is so nervous that I am going to kill someone and I am just cracking up the entire time. I just loved every second of it. But everyone survived and hopefully I won't kill any of the guests today cause today we are running the ropes course for the group.

Also yesterday after work, me and one of the other interns went mountain biking. AND I about died going up-hill. I thought my heart was about to pop out of my chest, but of course I loved it, and it was so beautiful. Hopefully, I will come back a pro biker, skier, and hiker.

So that one was a long one post..but thank you for reading and caring enough about me to read my blog. I love you, and until next time...

Hebrews 2: 1

"We must pay more careful attention, therefore, to what we have heard, so that we do not drift away."