My Great Summer
Summer was a wonderful experience for me this year. There are so many things I am going to miss about summer that it will be difficult to explain them all, but I’ll try. First of all summer was great if not simply because of the heat it brought with it. I cannot recall how many nights I laid awake thankful for the warm nights in my sweat-drenched bed, or even the days I arrived at school at 8:00 AM and had completely sweated through my shorts and t-shirt. I don’t think the sweltering Serengeti like experience was the best part of summer though.
Working out during the summer was a lot of fun mostly because of the gym hours. Some how they managed to make it open in two hour intervals that seemed to meet everyone’s schedule. I mean from 6:00-8:00 in the morning, 11:00 – 1:00 in the afternoon, and 2:30-8:00 at night. I lifted a lot this summer and became really strong because the hours worked out quite well with my 2nd shift job. Someone really should go thank the genius who set up those hours for me and the rest of the Calvin community.
Fortunately for me, I had a job this summer that could take my mind off of the heat and the weight room hours. Working at a mentally stimulating facility like the Calvin FAC maintenance crew helped expand my horizons and challenged me on a daily basis. The first few weeks of working, I received the honor of bathroom duty with Phil. Phil was an incredibly hard worker, but people always seem to call him on his cell phone so he never seemed to get much done. Luckily for him, I was there to do his job when he received these unexpected phone calls so no work time was lost. Later on I moved on to the extremely challenging position of vacuum duty. Vacuuming allowed me time to contemplate many of the hard questions of life like “Is there really a God? Who vacuums for him? Is it really worth $6.00 an hour?”. All-in-all I’d say that summer was great and I’ll miss it everyday!
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