August is going to be so stressful!!!!!!!!!! I've always looked forward to summer camp, but this year I have 3 girls that equal pain and torture in ten and eleven year old forms. One is super slow and has a mind of her own like you wouldn't believe. The other two tag-team and manipulate like they've been trained by the FBI or something, it's almost impressive. I cant hate on them though, because one of them told me once that I'm her favourite counselor.... cue the 'awwww!!!'s. This will take up my first week of August. I'm counseling with a university student I don't know - I get to meet with her on Thursday. I have to go through the devotions and 2 other guides we've been given. I have to finish getting together things for my girls. Gahh.
AWSI will take up my second week in August, and will be easy apparently. Not much sweat there.
NLS, however, will be the death of me. It's two weeks long, all day every day 10 - 4:30. I've been training in preparation for the physical standards. Well, actually.... I've been thinking about how I should be training. Hey, it's the thought that counts right? :-P
All in all, I have 9 days off at the end of August to do what I was born to do in the summer - read :-D
I took standard first aid a few weekends ago, and it was probably the most fun I've ever had in a lifeguarding course. The people were great, and we were pretty comfortable around each other after only 2 days! We had a lot of fun :-) but two days straight of simulations and classroom time were dreadful in their own respect. It got boring, and tedious having to do the same rescue procedure over and over. and over. and over again. But I'm a pro now :-P If you're injury prone, keep me around I guess.
My awesome teacher from SFA got us all to volunteer at the upcoming lifeguarding competition in our city! I'm so incredibly excited, I get to be an injured or drowning person in the pool for the competitors to save all day :-) Plus, volunteering in such an event looks REALLY good on a resume :-D It's one of August's perks :-)
I just got back from CREATION FEST on Sunday! :-D It was so much fun, but it was definitely lacking something, obviously because it wasn't at the gorge. Oh, well! There were still amazing bands and speakers, and I had a lot of fun with the people that went. For once in my life, I have a flip-flop tan. I got to meet Toby Mac's drummer!!!!!!!!! He came up to me and my two friends when we were walking to a concert and introduced himself, it was amazing :-D And I went in a mosh pit for the first time in my life :-D (Yes, yes I KNOW it wasn't an actual mosh pit Keenan... 'It's not a mosh pit!!!! Mosh pits are violent, that was just a group of people jumping up and down together!!!' ) I went in for Toby Mac and Skillet, which were the best performances I've seen from either group. On the hottest day, my youth group started a water fight among ourselves, but it ended with 4 other sites involved.... and ended with what had been a pretty big mud puddle turning into a massive one that blocked the entire path. Whoops. But it was so worth it!!! After we were done, we went around giving free hugs. Because being soaked makes free hugs so much better to give :-P And I touched a snake!!!!! It was just a garter snake, but it was so cool. It felt like jelly!!! I'll add more stories and some photos tomorrow when I have more time :-) My throat is killing me still from screaming my face off at the Skillet concert.... but it was so worth it.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SDTZ7iX4vTQ&ob=av2n
Tuesday, July 26, 2011
Saturday, July 9, 2011
Carwash
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3v8I5egzoMo
'Nuff said.
My youth group did a carwash today to raise funds for some kids to pay for CREATION FEST!!!!!
It was crazy fun, and I couldn't help but come home and blast this song immediately! I'm probably really burnt but I cant tell yet, and my arms are tired from holing up signs and washing so many cars :-P We raised $312!!! And there are a lot of good looking guys here, I never realized it! I found that wonderful thing out from looking into so many people's cars as they drove past :-) There was of course the mandatory soaking with buckets and water hoses, and our youth pastor's wife brought us slurpees after. Someone even payed us in like, 500 Japanese yen, we think. Crazy stuff!
All in all - Epic Saturday :-D Now, lunch time. I'm starved.
'Nuff said.
My youth group did a carwash today to raise funds for some kids to pay for CREATION FEST!!!!!
It was crazy fun, and I couldn't help but come home and blast this song immediately! I'm probably really burnt but I cant tell yet, and my arms are tired from holing up signs and washing so many cars :-P We raised $312!!! And there are a lot of good looking guys here, I never realized it! I found that wonderful thing out from looking into so many people's cars as they drove past :-) There was of course the mandatory soaking with buckets and water hoses, and our youth pastor's wife brought us slurpees after. Someone even payed us in like, 500 Japanese yen, we think. Crazy stuff!
All in all - Epic Saturday :-D Now, lunch time. I'm starved.
Wednesday, July 6, 2011
Summa Time
DONE GRADE 11!!! But I have been So. Bored. Which started to make me worry about how I'm going to spend the next two months of my life! So I made a list, here it is so far:
1. Learn Spanish - I have this ten minutes a day book, an 'Usborne' and 'A Becka' book (it's a homeschooled thing :-P ), so I think I'm set to be able to somewhat speak Spanish by the end of the summer. Deséame suerte!
2. Re-visit all of my favourite movies from when I was little. I'm so stoked for this, but I'm mostly excited to re-watch 'The Princess and the Goblin', 'The Troll In Central Park', and 'The Swan Princess' trilogy :-D Like, so stoked. So stoked I should be embarrassed, but am instead quite proud.
3. Learn to Juggle. This includes your traditional circus act of juggling, but also learning to juggle a soccer ball. Having played soccer for 8 years, it concerns me that I cant do that for very long yet :-P
4. Read. And read and read and read and read.... I have a summer reading list in my room, and I'm quite proud of it! It's got classics, from Homer to Dickens, but also some modern works that I thought looked interesting in Costco. Can't wait :-)
5. Take at least one noteworthy photograph every day this summer. Or at least thoroughly document it through photos.
6. Lifeguarding classes. Standard first aid starts next Saturday, and I have AWSI and NLS in August.
7. Camp Evergreen! It's a camp run through my church and one of our sister churches, North Delta Evangelical Free Church. It always runs in the first week of August, so this year it's the 1st - 6th. I cannot wait, I'm FINALLY a junior counselor, and next year, I'll be senior staff!!!! I can't believe I've come so far, I remember being 8 years old at camp, wondering if such a day would EVER come, it seemed like all of the counselors were so OLD!
8. Wait. And wait and wait and wait and wait.... for my niece or nephew, due on September 26th! Pray for my older sister, she has to be pregnant through the summer :-S Plus, she has a heart condition that was under control, but now that she's pregnant it's rearing it's lovely head again. The doctor says all will be well, but your prayers would be comforting anyway :-)
9. Creation Fest Northwest!!! SO STOKED, the lineup this year is amazing - TobyMac, Switchfoot, Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Newsboys, Chris Tomlin, David Crowder Band, Francesca Battistelli, Hawk Nelson, Disciple, and so many more :-D Not to mention the speakers! *sigh* :-D
10. Clean my room..... Yeah. LOL no! It's not actually that bad, I just never got a chance to really set it up and go through stuff after we moved in, so I've been sorting through old toys (yes, I still have my Barbies and Polly Pockets, DON'T JUDGE ME. I'm saving them for future nieces. Yeah. That's it.), books, clothes, and bags. Purses, duffles, backpacks.... you know, most girls love shoes more than air, but for me, its bags. /facedesk.
11. Do nothing whenever possible (check :-P )
12. Catch up with my friends.... I was beyond busy this year, my social life went down the toilet :-P So I'm set to repair it this summer :-)
13. Compose a Sonatina, Rondo, or Minuet. I took Harmony II this year, and I'd like to put it to use (in the nerdiest way possible, obviously) :-P
14. BUY MY BABY!!!! (better known as a Nikon D7000)
Fine :-) That's all I've got so far, but that sounds pretty good to me! Oi vey, dont plan on seeing me in August..... Camp 1-6, AWSI 8-13, NLS the 15th - 26th.... I will be so tired, on my days off between activities, I plan on sleeping like I'm hibernating :-P Wish me luck in August!
Listen, these are amazing -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTKMI52GBcA&feature=BFa&list=AV4oVf-d_DwKDnB4ZjAzVbk8DQ-Nhc-mgV&index=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbn2xBUGLM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g48C0CEL0dQ
1. Learn Spanish - I have this ten minutes a day book, an 'Usborne' and 'A Becka' book (it's a homeschooled thing :-P ), so I think I'm set to be able to somewhat speak Spanish by the end of the summer. Deséame suerte!
2. Re-visit all of my favourite movies from when I was little. I'm so stoked for this, but I'm mostly excited to re-watch 'The Princess and the Goblin', 'The Troll In Central Park', and 'The Swan Princess' trilogy :-D Like, so stoked. So stoked I should be embarrassed, but am instead quite proud.
3. Learn to Juggle. This includes your traditional circus act of juggling, but also learning to juggle a soccer ball. Having played soccer for 8 years, it concerns me that I cant do that for very long yet :-P
4. Read. And read and read and read and read.... I have a summer reading list in my room, and I'm quite proud of it! It's got classics, from Homer to Dickens, but also some modern works that I thought looked interesting in Costco. Can't wait :-)
5. Take at least one noteworthy photograph every day this summer. Or at least thoroughly document it through photos.
6. Lifeguarding classes. Standard first aid starts next Saturday, and I have AWSI and NLS in August.
7. Camp Evergreen! It's a camp run through my church and one of our sister churches, North Delta Evangelical Free Church. It always runs in the first week of August, so this year it's the 1st - 6th. I cannot wait, I'm FINALLY a junior counselor, and next year, I'll be senior staff!!!! I can't believe I've come so far, I remember being 8 years old at camp, wondering if such a day would EVER come, it seemed like all of the counselors were so OLD!
8. Wait. And wait and wait and wait and wait.... for my niece or nephew, due on September 26th! Pray for my older sister, she has to be pregnant through the summer :-S Plus, she has a heart condition that was under control, but now that she's pregnant it's rearing it's lovely head again. The doctor says all will be well, but your prayers would be comforting anyway :-)
9. Creation Fest Northwest!!! SO STOKED, the lineup this year is amazing - TobyMac, Switchfoot, Skillet, Thousand Foot Krutch, Newsboys, Chris Tomlin, David Crowder Band, Francesca Battistelli, Hawk Nelson, Disciple, and so many more :-D Not to mention the speakers! *sigh* :-D
10. Clean my room..... Yeah. LOL no! It's not actually that bad, I just never got a chance to really set it up and go through stuff after we moved in, so I've been sorting through old toys (yes, I still have my Barbies and Polly Pockets, DON'T JUDGE ME. I'm saving them for future nieces. Yeah. That's it.), books, clothes, and bags. Purses, duffles, backpacks.... you know, most girls love shoes more than air, but for me, its bags. /facedesk.
11. Do nothing whenever possible (check :-P )
12. Catch up with my friends.... I was beyond busy this year, my social life went down the toilet :-P So I'm set to repair it this summer :-)
13. Compose a Sonatina, Rondo, or Minuet. I took Harmony II this year, and I'd like to put it to use (in the nerdiest way possible, obviously) :-P
14. BUY MY BABY!!!! (better known as a Nikon D7000)
Fine :-) That's all I've got so far, but that sounds pretty good to me! Oi vey, dont plan on seeing me in August..... Camp 1-6, AWSI 8-13, NLS the 15th - 26th.... I will be so tired, on my days off between activities, I plan on sleeping like I'm hibernating :-P Wish me luck in August!
Listen, these are amazing -
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WTKMI52GBcA&feature=BFa&list=AV4oVf-d_DwKDnB4ZjAzVbk8DQ-Nhc-mgV&index=1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ovbn2xBUGLM
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g48C0CEL0dQ
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