Well, I’m now back from Boys State, and it’s now the end of a very long, busy, adventurous month of June. At last, even though a full month of summer has already flown by, it’s now finally starting to actually feel like summer for the first time.

Overall, Boys State was an exciting and definitely eye-opening experience. But this wasn’t some trip or some camp for relaxing and having fun, no, my week at Boys State was probably the busiest week that I’ll have had during this whole summer. The way that I’ve been catching up on sleep these past few days since I got back, you’d think that I had jet lag all over again! Now that I’ve had a day or two to recover, and because my last post didn’t have many details about what the schedule of Boys State would be like, I guess it’s time that I provide a comprehensive review of what I had the opportunity to go through. (Oh, and to prove to all of my new friends from there whom I gave the link to this website that I actually do keep it up to date.)
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Well first of all, I am back from China. I got back six days ago–last Friday, but between getting caught up and getting over jet lag and watching two weeks worth of Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert, I’ve been a little delayed in getting a blog post up and out. But now is probably the best time, so here goes.
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