My old time friend came to visit me in Oklahoma City and gave me a reboot and ready to charge type feeling for the rest of my internship. I am ready to take on these final weeks as a grand learning experience and hopefully get some good stuff out of it. I have been blessed to be here and learn a different type of fast-paced journalism. I don't want to dig myself into a hole just because I miss my familiarities. I won't have these cameras or the access I have right now in a month so I need to take full advantage of my situation and truck on. I haven't been here that long, but I think I have been here long enough to know I don't want to live here. I didn't realize how much the outdoors meant to me until I came to a place where the outdoors doesn't exist. The lake water is too dirty and there just aren't any hills or mountains to climb. City parks are about as outdoorsy as one can get here and I just can't ever let myself get used to that. And because of the over 100 degree heat and humidity, it's almost a burden to be outside for too long. Being outside is a part of who I am and something I need to be around to be happy.
*There was a crazy storm on the Fourth of July. The picture above is from Gerhardt's phone. This is what we were driving into as we were going to the baseball game. Everyone had to pull over on the freeways because you couldn't see anything at all because the blanket of rain that covered the windshield. My car was rocking back and forth and lightning was hitting the freeway as we sat and waited until we were capable of seeing.
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