A couple weeks ago I spent 9 days in California. I had an awesome time hanging out my favorite diabetics. Each one of them teaches me lessons that I don't think they even realize. While I was out there I got to walk by the cliffs along the ocean with Katie, go on a hike with Ashley and Katie, have dinner with the Insulindependence crew, go to Julian and the Padres game Michelle, take a tour of the largest hospital under construction in the U. S. with Ashley, and many many more things that you can view in this Video! I hate saying goodbye to them. They are the people that understand what I am going through the best. I realized the other day that a majority of the people in my life will never understand what a high or low feels like. I find this crazy since I seem to always be feeling one of those.
Two weekends ago I went to HOBY Nebraska with two of my classmates. We had an awesome time meeting representatives from schools across the state. We got to listen to some wonderful speakers. A point one of the speakers made was that if we have potential we should get ride of it. He said when he died he did not want his gravestone to read "had potential" but instead "all used up". I need to use all the God given gifts I have because not using them does no one good. The speaker went on to say that there is no point in asking why because you cant change the past, you can only better the future. I have never asked why I was given diabetes there really isn't any point. It will not take it away, and why wouldn't it be me? Instead I can better my future by using diabetes to my advantage and strive to be a role model for others. There was also an amazing video that was shown to us. Watch the whole thing :) Here is the Video
HOBY adopted my Joplin Drive as one of the service projects that we did during the weekend. In one hour we collected over $100 in cash and received more diabetes supplies as well. HOBY challenged us to do a 100 service hours by next year. In two weeks I have a little over 20 done and coming up this next week I am volunteering as an assistant for Bright Lights along with Vacation Bible School so that should give me another 30.
I am also back to running! I did a 2 mile race last weekend that went extremely well. Monday, Tuesday, and Wednesday I had cross country camp where we worked on technique. Then today I did a gorgeous 5k run out a Pioneers Park that got me pretty soaking wet from all of the rain.
I planted my annual garden last week which is one of my favorite activities of Summer :)
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