Time Flies

Well it has been just a week or two tops under a whole year. And let me tell you the time just flew. I can't believe that last year at this time I was preparing to head out to work at Rainy Pass Lodge and now I am doing it all over again.

In October of 2011 my family and I started watching this show on TV called R5Sones Alaska and that is when it all become a dream. I thought of how much fun it would be to be at this particular remote hunting lodge in Alaska. So I got the idea to apply and just about 8 months down the road my dream of being at the lodge was coming true.

Prior to June in May of 2012 I graduated from High School, something I thought would never come soon enough and it was here and gone in the blink of an eye. Everyone was wondering where I would be going next and what school I would be going too, by this time I finally had a stable answer to give everyone and was able to say in October I will be in Cannon Beach, OR going to Ecola Bible School for there One Year Program only and that I had no clue what I was doing after that and the Second Year was not even an option in my mind at the time.

Now its off to the Lodge for the summer. I can tell you that last summer was a blast and that I am so happy to be able to say that I worked at a remote lodge for the summer cooking and cleaning and just having a good old time.

October is here before I know it and I am home for only a few days and my mom and I are off to Cannon Beach. School starts and then comes to an end before I know it and somewhere in those 8 months of being an Ecola student God changed my heart and I applied for the Second Year program and got accepted and not to long after that I applied to be and RA for the next year and what do you now I also got that. As the year came to a close I was ready to come home and visit my friends and family again, but didn't want to say goodbye to everyone from school.

And now a year later in June of 2013 I am about to head back out to Rainy Pass Lodge to work for my 2 summer and just to think that only about 20 months ago, about a year and a half ago, working at this lodge I now call one of my homes was just a dream that I prayed would come true.

Ok so that was a year and a half of time flying bye, but that doesn't mean it doesn't go fast because I will be the first to say that it does.

 Graduated

 Lodge

 Ecola

 The start to my summer of 2013

Goodbyes Are Hard, But There Is One Thing That Makes Them Easier...

Over the last year I have had to say goodbye to so many people. It has been one of the hardest things for me to do, even tho it may not be shown on the outside deep down it breaks my heart. It started last summer when all of sudden I was going out the lodge to work for the summer. I had to start saying goodbye to friends that I wouldn't see till September or December or even as long as this May...wow that was reality to me that the next chapter of life was starting. My summer consisted of many emails with my friends keeping each other updated on all of our little adventures of summer and when they all started school and I was still working in the middle of Alaskan  Mountains. Next work was over and I was saying goodbye to all my new friends that were made or should I say my new summer family and it was home for a few days and lets see everyone catch up from the last four months and then say goodbye again to wind up in Oregon at Ecola Bible School where I knew absolutely no one and I was terrified. The year began and I started forming what where to become AMAZING friendships. Then Christmas break rolls around and saying goodbye for a month was odd, but I knew I was going home to see family and friends that I hadn't seen since May or October and I had ONE month to catch up with them all. As break ended it was goodbye again until May. I got back to school and those friendships became stronger and better as the year went on. And of course the year came to and end faster than we all wanted and as graduation day rolled around and we were all leaving and saying goodbye again it was hard yet again. I was just reminding myself I would be seeing them again, sometime, that time I just wasn't sure of. But the plus was I get to see my family and friends that I haven't see since December and some even a year ago now. So I was ready to do some good old catching up. And now my time is running out. I go back to the lodge this week and fitting people in to visit and enjoy each others stories is hard when you are on call to leave any day now. And now its time to say goodbye again to everyone. Most I wont see again until December and some I will squeeze in a visit with when I return from work for a few days before heading back to Oregon.

My life is wonderful no doubt but goodbye is hard and it is a constant cycle of hello, visit, and goodbye.

Now you may say, so what makes saying goodbye so easy for? Well this year I came to realization of the beauty of Eternity and I never put that much thought into until now and my goodbyes are never ending, it seems. And then I think...wait its not goodbye, its I will see you later. You never really know when later is, but it sounds so much better than goodbye. Just think of Eternity spending with all the people you love and being with them ALWAYS! Let me tell you I can't wait. So as I wait I enjoy the time I have with those around me and yes I do miss those away from me and know I will see them again, one day. God knows when that will be and it will be so Good.