"I'll never look at a run down house the same way again!"
- Ben Linnerud
That is a perfect way to describe how you feel after a week like this. After you spend a week with a family who is trying, trying to hard, but is just low on luck. A family who is closer than any family I have ever met. Salkehatchie is the best possible way that you could ever learn about how other people live. You're surrounded by the greatest people ever for a week and you realize how amazing your life is. Until you experience something like this, you go through life without any thought of how lucky you really are. I could never imagine spending a week of my summer doing anything but this.
Waking up at 5:30 and being on your site by 7 and not leaving until 5 that afternoon (or much much later on Fridays) and not sleeping until midnight is definitely not easy for me but its well worth it all. I met the best new people and got even closer to my best friends. We had a lot of bad things happen outside of camp and I know for sure that if we had been anywhere else but there during all of it, we would have cracked. We were all completely surrounded by the love of others and our faith for The Lord. The fun we had could not be completely formed into words but can be shown though pictures :)
One of the best weeks of my life. Eight days that I will NEVER forget! :)
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