Goal checklist-My awesome summer

Well I said I was going to do a post about my goals for the summer and I guess this is as good a post as any.

So first off what were my goals?

1. Spend a ton of time with Handsome
2. Find a summer job
3. Work with my CHLP club
4. Connect with old friends
5. Attend Kadooment Day and Bridgetown Market
6. Hopefully attend CHLP Youth Vibes in St. Kitts

Did I achieve any of these..well lets see...

1. Spend a ton of time with Handsome- I sure did and for 99.99% of the time it was fantastic! The other 0.01
was time we had our tiny disagreements. WHat I love most about my Handsome is that even when we get so mad offset at each other we never go to bed offset...even if we do we wake up and make sure that the other wakes up to hear we love each other.

2.Find a summer job-did not succeed in this one but I don't mind, it was disappointing sure, but was expected so my hopes were never high on that front to begin with and it opened a chance for me to do other things this summer. (will explain)

3. Work with my CHLP club-CHLP stands for Caribbean Healthy Lifestyle Program, its a youth club that teaches youth life skills and trains them so they are able to pass it onto other youth and Barbados has one branch of it in the region. This summer we did a lot of work with five different camps. Though its volunteer work and I actually lost money, it was actually very enriching to help mold young minds.I was also able to help coordinate a lifeskills workshop for the youth has well as a social event for the club.

4. Connect with old friends- This was achieved...to an extent. So many of my friends have gone so far on their own path, that even tho we all used to 'roll deep' its hard to find them. However, I was able to see some of them, share laughs and I'm actually proud that I made time to do this. I personally think life is a place for friends...takes some of the pressure off sometimes.

5. Attend Kadooment Day and Bridgetown Market- Did not get to Kadooment, which is our big jump up day (carnival)  it was raining so hard down my side that I didn't bother, but I caught some of it on tv. I did get to bridgetown market and this year it was a family affair. Mom, dad, nephew and niece all bundled into a car and took that stroll along the mile long street fair. It was nice, then I ended it with my tradition of sitting in Handsome's gallery with friends until an ungodly hour in the morning...it was great.

6. Hopefully attend CHLP Youth Vibes 5 in St. Kitts-(I actually knocked off quite a few goals with this) You know what CHLP is, but youth vibes is the annual REGIONAL conference that is held by a different club in a different country each year. I had no plans on going, just really big dreams since on my student budget of no money, and my having no job, with gave me a startling (-^) income of no money, I was beyond broke to find airfare and accommodation money. Then God came through for me and I was fully SPONSORED to attend Youth Vibes 5 in the sweet, sweet sugar city of St. Kitts.
   I not only attended, but I attended as a facilitator this year and that has been one of my goals since I entered CHLP way back in 2005. (yay)
   While I was their I made a ton of new friends, reconnected with old friends from previous youth vibes that live all over the Caribbean.
   To add icing on the cake, I WON THE INTEGRITY AWARD. And almost like this wasn't enough, this year it was sponsored by a major telecommunications giant within the caribbean, so not only did I win an award, I also won a BLACKBERRY CURVE. Which coincidentally, was on my goal list to try and attain this year.

So by attending youth vibes I actually achieved not one but 4  FOUR of my goals.

I really feel like I accomplished much this summer and its an awesome feeling. I hope many of you attained some goal you wanted, feel free to share it in the comment box.

Now its off to pack (been trying to pack for two weeks and still haven't finished and I leave tomorrow...sigh)

So here's to positive people!