From the mind (and refrigerator) of my favorite Love Advice Columnist Zoe Pope!

Back home?

So, I'm back in Arizona now.

I stopped by Cody Bear, Thailand, Milic, and Preston's new place and said hi to some dudez.

Rip clip haver, Ryan Reyes soaking up the fame.

A mysterious Raver stopped by to show off his new gear.

I was even able to squeeze a daily monkey(.............attempt) out of him.

My baby........

Tonight was mega fun. We went to skate the mini ramp/bowl thingy at the Vans offices. We had a good crew and had an awesome time. Pretty boring post I'd say.

Kevin Willrick

Chris Fetter

Bart Jones

A camper stole my phone and took a picture of me.


Some cool kids, Judd and Alex. Alex is actually one of my favorite kids. He's the one on the right with the blonde hair and dreds. I met him last summer at camp. He was homesick and I was pretty much the first person to talk to him and made him feel better, he was attached to my hip the rest of the week at camp. He came back this summer and we hung out again. That kid makes me want to get more involved with the kids that I work with and he makes me want to find some sort of job where I have the opportunity to become a part of a kid's life in a more meaningful way. Hanging out with him just made me happier at camp and I know he was really psyched to hang out with me too. He's also a really good guitar player.

Now that I'm done with summer camp, I don't know what to do next. I'm in California right now hanging out with friends and sorta skating. My toe is hurty so the skating part is sorta sucking because I can't really do much without my toe aching inside of my shoe.

I'm super nervous about going back to Arizona and not being able to find a job. Last winter I was lucky to work 8 hours a week and I was pretty broke the entire time. Working at camp is such a good escape from real life. You don't have to worry about rent, food, and where you're going to skate at all for the entire summer. And then when you get out, it's like being let out of prison, you don't know what normal life is like.

The summer flew by really quick it seems. If I think of specific things or certain kids that came to woodward in the beginning of summer, then it seems like forever ago, but the summer as a whole went by so quick. I could easily spend more than 11 weeks there if I had to. A lot of people seem burnt out towards the end of summer, but I have a pretty good set up there and I don't have many complaints about being there.

Now it's on to other things for a while, I've been looking online to try to find a job in Arizona where I can keep working with kids, but so far nothing has come up. I hope that this winter I can get on some more Woodward marketing trips or find some cool job where I get to play with funny kids or both.

SD

Another day in San Diego

Ari waiting his turn at Memorial skatepark

Ari decided he didn't like the way this kid was looking at him so he started a two man brawl

After the dust settled, Ari was able to get this pivot fakie in the deep end


The park was super crowded though, Ari tried to get the footy and some other dude was trying the same trick!

After the skatepark, we went to a place called the Secret Beach, all those people heard the secret.

The beach itself is straight edge, even though half the people there were using some sort of illegal substance. Why do I keep seeing people do drugs at beaches?
Lindsay, Ari, and Buzzy deciding what drugs they want to do.

Ari took LSD and thought he could fly.



After the San Diego party was over, Ari and I headed back up to Santa Ana to hang out with the White T shirt gang!

Oceanside beach

Raw Unadulterated Ocean

Ari on top of the world, or the peir.


We did some skate tourism.

Lindsay got down on the hubba, but you're going to have to wait for the video to see.

These fools were getting bamboozeled! Is Buzzy holding Vomit flavor or Candy Corn.

Vomit

We skated this barrier, which looks a lot better than it really is.

Buzzy smithed it

But not without taking me out first

Bad boys jumping fences

Speaking of bad kids. We went to this ditch afterwards to hang out with some local bad boys. They told me I was faggish for not bringing my board and one of them even went so far as to tell us he's done weed and it's not so bad. His dad came and picked him up a few minutes later and yelled at him for skating without his helmet.
B Jovi

Then we saw Ronson Lambert at a stoplight. Definitely the highlight of the day.