You Know What I Did Last Summer

Hi, friends!

Awww dorm, sweet dorm! 

I'm so glad to be back! I've really missed all of you! (I'm sorry I haven't been posting, but I'll explain that in a second.) Katie and I are back at JSU, and Katie's a JUNIOR now! (She says that she's really old and that the world is falling apart around her and that she has a lot of big, grown up decisions to make...but she's always been dramatic, so I'm not too concerned about it right now.)

This is Katie's newest newspaper! Available now through Sept. 22!

 I'm not a junior.
 I'm a bear.
She's also editor of The Chanticleer. (That's pronounced "Shant-i-kleer," she told me.) The Chanticleer is JSU's newspaper. And she's in charge! She has 3 other editors and a lot of writers that she can boss around!
(Oh...she said I should say that nicer. She doesn't want to be a mean boss. She wants to be a cool boss. A fun boss. But she wants to get stuff done. She has to be strict, but reasonable. She wants to make a super cool newspaper every week, and she wants all her writers and editors to be her friends. She likes friends. And she's a pretty good one to have.)
So while Katie was doing all that, Susan and Maxx and I went to Summer Camp! Summer Camp isn't too far from the dorm where I live with Katie during the school year, so I wasn't too scared or lonely.
It was a really hot summer. I think that's partly because I'm a bear all covered with fur, though.

Me and my BFF Johnny Depp

Summer Camp was really fun. We saw lots of animals: wasps and bugs and even a skink! We could take nature hikes without leaving the room! Susan and Maxx and I all lived in the same room with a lot of other friends--like Johnny Depp! Sometimes Katie would come to visit all of us, too! Those were great days!
Summer Camp ended on August 20th, and then I moved back to JSU with Katie. She's been really, really busy already this year (I didn't think that she could be busier than she was last year, but she IS!), but I'm excited for her to blog about be again! I'm going to go on so many adventures this year, and I can't wait to share them with you!

P.S: Don't forget to read Katie's newspaper, The Chanticleer!


Katie's Note: Okay, just to clarify some things that Trash Bear said. "Summer Camp" is a storage unit. (Yes, I kept Trash Bear in a storage unit this summer. I was working. I had a lot going on. I didn't have time to be a good parent. But he was well taken care of. I promise. I checked in on him every time I needed something from the storage unit. Please don't judge me.) "Johnny Depp" is...actually Johnny Depp. Well, a life size cutout of him dressed as the Mad Hatter. My drama teacher gave him to me when she retired in May. And there really were wasps and bugs and a lizard in the storage unit, but it's cool. They didn't ruin my stuff. And, yes, you should totally read The Chanticleer!

All the "Summer Camp Kidz" got moved back in. On the bar L to R: Susan, Eugene, and Maxx.
On the bed (back row L to R): Sitting Raccoon, Bearis Karloff, Jack, Myrtle, and me.
front row L to R: Coco, Tortuga, Steve, Sassy, Jax, Baby Cocky, Bob the Minion, and Bing Bong

~Trash Bear (and Katie)~