Here We Are Again

Well I am back in PA after a week and a half "vacation".
I think like a day or two after my last post my grandpa passed away. I was trying to get home to see him before that happened, but I was about 17 hours too late.

He passed away on Tuesday July 10, and my mom had called me telling me she had switched my plane ticket so that I was coming home Wednesday, and I would be in Illinois at 1030 am. Well he passed Tuesday evening. So needless to say I was at home for a funeral. It was a really nice service though, the night before the service my uncle who is a pastor approached me at about 10p and asked me to sing and speak a little.

SO I went ahead and did that, it turned out really well and I am glad that I did it. I met a lot of family that I have never met before. Spent a lot of family time at my grandma's for the first week that I was home and that was good.

It was good getting to see people again that I havent seen for a while. I guess I was home sick, which was weird for me because I have never been homesick before in my life. My whole first year that I was at BBC I never was, even when I traveled out to Montana, Washington or Arkansas when I was younger without my parents I never got homesick - - so that was different for me.

Right now it is TLC (Teen Leadership Conference) here at BBC. Its weird after this summer has been so quite to have over 650 teens here, plus their leaders, and then counselors and support staff. But its cool because I am friends with a lot of the people counseling, so its good to see some familar faces again.

Thats all for now, this is getting pretty wordy.
-Alex