Well.....camp has officially ended. Family Camp was different yet fun. The kids were great and I loved seeing the eagerness from the parents. Always asking questions is one of the best ways to learn anything. Each family had it's unique inner-family drama of course but when they worked together, everything fell into place. I wish my parents had access to this type of program. I honestly think we all would have benefited better. Maybe my life wouldn't have been catastrophic at times. Who knows what if really, but in the end as one staff member put it, "We all have a different path. We all have different gifts. Maybe we find it, maybe we don't but the point is to keep going and not give up." God has put us here for a reason and created each other for a reason. He didn't design us to be alone. He knows we need companionship, love, acceptance, encouragement and all the rest. Life is tough even for the hearing world, but we have a bond as Deaf people and that bond is something to hold on to.
People have asked me if I'm excited to be done and I reply with "1/2 and 1/2." I'm super happy to be done with the drama, the living on top of each other, the conversations that I have no desire to be a part of, disrespect from both kids as well as just sleeping in a bunk bed. I'm looking forward to a new chapter, new beginning, new town and hopefully new friends.
It's been an amazing, hard, challenging, interesting ride here at Aspen. I didn't die on a mountain so that fear hadn't come to pass :D So I'm eternally grateful to have been around people like me. I still wish I had grown up in this atmosphere but can't change the past. I have no idea what God's plan is or why he had me mainstreamed instead of at ASD, but I know He knows best and I have to keep trusting He knows what He's doing regardless if I can barely see it.
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