I made it safely to North Myrtle Beach! Our road trip was nothing less than an adventure. It was so nice to get to know some of the people I would be serving with this summer along the way! Thank you so much for you prayers for safe travels, it really meant a lot!
Ever since I have arrived I have been so busy, but I'm loving absolutely every minute of it. I'll just give a recap of my week so far and write more as the week goes on!
above: one of main beach houses...the project office is in the bottom left hand corner!
our street sign :)
some of the beach houses we lived in..(that's also the car we traveled twenty hours in!)
our street, 2nd Ave South
Wednesday is the day we arrived in North Myrtle Beach after traveling for over 20 hours. We pulled into the parking spot and walked towards our beach houses, we were welcomed by a bunch of cheers and claps from fellow project staff and students. It was so awesome to just walk up to people and introduce myself, I felt like every bonded immediately. We then had to get checked in, get our room key, figure out support, and move into our room.
My bed! I got the top bunk, and my roommate Kari was below
Our bathroom
My roommate, Anna Jean's bed
Our Kitchen
When I got to my room I was greeted by Kari, one of my roommates, she's such a sweet girl! I found my bed (I don't have to share, woohoo!) and put my stuff down and went back outside to meet more people from project.
me and my roommates: Kari (left) Me (middle) Anna Jean (right)
We all decided to walk down to the ocean. I have never been to the ocean before and I was amazed by how beautiful it was! It doesn't even compare to Lake Michigan back home!
Later that night the entire summer project walked to a park where the staff had made dinner for us. This was really the first time that we were able to sit down with people and ask about who they are, where they're from, what's their major--the typical get to know you questions. We all went around the entire pavilion and introduced ourselves, to this day, I still don't know everyone's names, it's a work in progress! After our picnic they let us have the night free to go to Wal-Mart and pick up things that we may have forgotten to pack. Instead of driving a group of 4 people and I walked (saving money, but definitely not time!) It was so funny to see everyone's carts filled with "Great Value" food products instead of the name brands, I mean who are we kidding, our parents are no longer here to buy food for us! Overall Wednesday was a great day of fellowship and getting to know one each other.
Thursday is when we met our Bible Study and I had Chick-Fil-A for the first time, but more importantly Thursday was our first opportunity to go sharing our faith on the beach. It was sooo awesome.
More stories to come!
