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I think this summer was also great preparation for college. I say that because I learned how to live with and get along with all kinds of people. It can be tough sometimes to spend every waking moment with people, but I think I am much better prepared to do so now.
At the beginning of the summer, I guess we all felt frantic and a little worried that we would not get to spend enough time with each other to make sufficient memories. This was sort of a problem when we started staying up until 2 in the morning several mornings in a row. We had lots of card games to play, lots of jam sessions to have, and lots of heart to hearts to have! These late nights didn't prove to be much of a problem on weeks where we only had to staff a single week in a row and then go home...but when we finally realized that this would kill us for multiple weeks in a row, we started to change the way we did things. We actually grew closer and happier and much more energetic when we got to sleep. Such a crazy concept.
We learned how to separate ourselves and take the time to get lost in a book instead of always having to be around everyone. It was nice to know that we could take alone time. When we got back to hanging out after taking a nap or whatever, everyone seemed so much more pleasant. We set ourselves a bedtime, so every minute we were with each other, really counted.
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