So i'm at camp. this post is going to be far more informational than the last one and i'll do my best to make it BRIEFLY informational cuz i know a lot of you don't really like reading ridiculously long posts.
i just spent a week in training. it was a lot of lectures on safety and procedures and rules and doctrine etc...kind of long and boring but definitely necessary. also a lot of getting to know the people that i'll be working with this entire summer. it's been a lot of fun and my fellow staff members are....amazing. they feel like family already. even as a new person from WAAAAYYY out of town, i've been immediately accepted and i feel like i've known them all for ages!
i also joined the worship team here. it's pretty much an amazing amount of fun. our leader is john messner (aka johnny mess) and he's pretty great (check out his band). he's hilarious, has a great voice, and has an incredible heart for leading worship. plus he's just a lot of fun. but i've had a lot of fun with learning crazy camp songs that i never learned as a kid....letting out all that excess energy i always seem to have. and then we practice serious chapel songs...we have a good group and it sounds REALLY good. i'm excited for camp to start.....
sooo..for now, i have 24 hours off. from 1 oclock today till 1 oclock tomorrow. and then the munchkins come! we found out today who our co counselors are going to be and i'm with sarah and kelly for this week and then just kelly when more kids come next week. i'm kind of pumped. sarah's been in my cabin for the past week and she's pretty awesome, and i've gotten to know kelly a bit and she seems pretty great too.
but..just to make you guys all jealous..i just thot i'd post a short list of what i've been doing. camp hasn't even started yet and i've already:
played dodgeball, soccer, basketball, kickball, and ultimate, climbed the MEDIUM climbing wall (caroline'd be proud of me), got on the swing of ridiculous scariness (i'll post a vid if i can), and spent an evening at chuck e cheese's with my girls!
it's been a CRAAAAAAZZZZYYYY week!
anywho's..luv you all!!! i'll do my best to keep you updated when i get the time!
me ;)
18.6.08
.surfing polar bears.
so, in case you couldn't tell by the insanity of my title (haha), i'm at summer camp and will be for the next dos meses (that's months....for those of you non spanish speakers out there).
it was a little rough at first....new place, new people, just got over jet lag....meh. but it's been a few days and i've gotten to know some people and it's been great. from running around with pool noodles, to screaming songs about sheep and watermelons , to just hanging out with awesome people, it's been a ridiculously crazy couple days.
we did an Amazing Race, camped out at a different middle of nowhere than where the camp is, swam in a couple lakes, got blobbed to kingdom come, played some hardcore basketball, sat in way too many lectures (oh my poor aching back) kicked butt in several foosball games (BRING IT ON!) and mucho mucho mas.
anyways...it's lunchtime so i've gotta peace out. but in case you were wondering, my title is a tribute to a certain hippy pirate wanna be with exceedingly strange...philosophies?..about global warming....:D
i'll catch y'all later...and if you're reading this...chances are i love you and miss you!
me;)
it was a little rough at first....new place, new people, just got over jet lag....meh. but it's been a few days and i've gotten to know some people and it's been great. from running around with pool noodles, to screaming songs about sheep and watermelons , to just hanging out with awesome people, it's been a ridiculously crazy couple days.
we did an Amazing Race, camped out at a different middle of nowhere than where the camp is, swam in a couple lakes, got blobbed to kingdom come, played some hardcore basketball, sat in way too many lectures (oh my poor aching back) kicked butt in several foosball games (BRING IT ON!) and mucho mucho mas.
anyways...it's lunchtime so i've gotta peace out. but in case you were wondering, my title is a tribute to a certain hippy pirate wanna be with exceedingly strange...philosophies?..about global warming....:D
i'll catch y'all later...and if you're reading this...chances are i love you and miss you!
me;)
6.6.08
.your turn.
wow.
these last two days were anything but what i expected.
that's probably cuz i expected them to be easy, to breeze right through them...48 hours of fun.
wow.
the end of any year at BFA is hard. ridiculously, tear-jerkingly, heart-wrenchingly hard. and after 7 of them, i know how much it hurts. and after last year, i know how mush it hurts to leave. it's not just leaving a place you grew up in, a place full of memories, a home. it's leaving people, friendships that mean more than anything, bonds comparable to none other, lives impacted in too many ways to count. and the hardest part about BFA is-- these goodbyes are most often very final, very terminal in nature. oh sure we'll all see each other in heaven some day. but as true as that is, it doesn't seem much comfort through bitter tears and last hugs.
and now that i know what leaving is like, how much pain one actually has to endure in one day, it killed me to watch people that i love with all my heart have to go through it themselves. i would rather go back and do it again myself, than watch them hurt. it was literally killing me. i didn't cry at my graduation. i cried today.
but as much as i want to fix things, i can't, and i shouldn't. it's a step they have to take, just like i did, and a barrier they'll have to learn to hurdle. it's a part of life, albeit a sucky one, but i know that i am stronger for it, and i can only pray that they will be too.
i know that very few people read this, but those of you that do, and are leaving, i want you to know that you are in my prayers. i know what you're going through, and i know it sucks, but i pray that you'll lean on the One who is constant and remember that you're never never alone. i also pray that you can move into the next phase of your life, while still cherishing the friendships and the memories of BFA. as my good friend yohan put it today (kind of) in his valedictorian speech: "remember, and race on"
these last two days were anything but what i expected.
that's probably cuz i expected them to be easy, to breeze right through them...48 hours of fun.
wow.
the end of any year at BFA is hard. ridiculously, tear-jerkingly, heart-wrenchingly hard. and after 7 of them, i know how much it hurts. and after last year, i know how mush it hurts to leave. it's not just leaving a place you grew up in, a place full of memories, a home. it's leaving people, friendships that mean more than anything, bonds comparable to none other, lives impacted in too many ways to count. and the hardest part about BFA is-- these goodbyes are most often very final, very terminal in nature. oh sure we'll all see each other in heaven some day. but as true as that is, it doesn't seem much comfort through bitter tears and last hugs.
and now that i know what leaving is like, how much pain one actually has to endure in one day, it killed me to watch people that i love with all my heart have to go through it themselves. i would rather go back and do it again myself, than watch them hurt. it was literally killing me. i didn't cry at my graduation. i cried today.
but as much as i want to fix things, i can't, and i shouldn't. it's a step they have to take, just like i did, and a barrier they'll have to learn to hurdle. it's a part of life, albeit a sucky one, but i know that i am stronger for it, and i can only pray that they will be too.
i know that very few people read this, but those of you that do, and are leaving, i want you to know that you are in my prayers. i know what you're going through, and i know it sucks, but i pray that you'll lean on the One who is constant and remember that you're never never alone. i also pray that you can move into the next phase of your life, while still cherishing the friendships and the memories of BFA. as my good friend yohan put it today (kind of) in his valedictorian speech: "remember, and race on"
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