DMV, Poisonwood, and Camp

So, as I promised, I am making a post about my trip to the DMV. And.... I passed my test! I am now an officially licensed driver! I am so excited.

There isn't much to say about my trip to the DMV, other than waiting in the line for two hours was an excellent way for God to test my patience. The "written test" is no longer "written." It is on a touch screen computer. This is okay for people like me who know how to operate computers and work around their problems, but for the 75 year old lady next to me, it was not okay. The poor thing was forced to learn how to use a bogus computer under a clock. No one was allowed to help her and they wouldn't let her take her test on paper either. When I got back from my driving test, I learned that she had not passed and that she would be back to try again another time. It is amazing how much technology has changed in the lives of these elderly people who were born in the 1930s and 1940s. My grandmother still calls the iPad we bought her the "internet box" and still doesn't know how to use it despite our countless instruction lists which include pictures AND arrows! I love her to pieces for it. I just wish that the state would recognize their inability to use technology and cut them some slack from time to time.

Sorry I went on a little rant there!

I just finished The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver. Tata Jesus es bangala! It is one of the saddest, most depressing books I have ever read! I am soooo glad that it is over. I appreciated learning about the Congo, but the themes and ideas that came from this book drew me away from it. Thankfully we have been reading the book of 2 Timothy for our devotions as a staff here at camp and that has been helping me greatly. The two books contradict each other in every possible way. The Poisonwood Bible teaches me how NOT to be a Christian! Oh well... I finished it... It is D.O.N.E. The next book I have is called The Once and Future King about King Arthur and his knights! I am more excited for this one I think. Hopefully I won't fall asleep as much as I did the other one! That is the hardest problem for me and books... I usually like to read them from cover to cover. But, if I am not interested, I pass out and sleep for four hours, missing my reading time! Then it takes me weeks to read a book. Ellen Foster, the easiest English book I have ever had to read, took me a week when it should have only taken me two hours because I couldn't stay awake.

Camp is going well. This week is the beginning of the teen weeks. This week is senior high, and next week is junior high. I am supposedly on the list as a counselor for the second week, but I am going to guess that that is not going to happen since we only have about 35 kids signed up for that week... =( I guess it is the hardest week in the summer to fill because of all the sport camps that happen during that week. So please pray for the numbers to go up!

That is about all I have to say right now. Life was kind of slow this week since I wasn't working. But I am back on tomorrow and ready to clean some dishes WOOT WOOT!