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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

An inner nose Injury

So today as I was being tickled by my sister and cousin, I lost all control (as what tends to happen when people tickle me), and my thumb..MY THUMB...went up my nose and the nail sliced the inside of my nose causing it to bleed a little. It hurt a great lot.

Why I told you this story. Probably just so everyone is aware that I am able to injure myself in incredible odd ways including with plastic knives and tongs. Thats Talent.

Where did summer go?

Summer just flew by. Working at camp has been AMAZING. People keep asking me, "Well did you get sick of being there?" and "Did you get tired of the campers", and the real answer is No.

Looking back at the summer, some ULTIMATE HIGHLIGHTS:

There we stood. Staff before revival praying over the staff participating in revival, the chaplin, and for the campers. When we were praying for the campers, suddenly the name 'Alex' came into my head. Not knowing even if there was an Alex at camp, I prayed, God be with the camper named Alex.

It was an amazing night at revival. There is a series of skits that the campers go through that is a story illustrating the burdens Christ carries for us and the love that he has for us. There were a few kids by the end of the night that had accepted Jesus as their Savior. During the chat that the chaplin was giving to the campers, my friend Seth came up to me all excited and said that one of his campers had given his life to Jesus. It was super exciting news.

The next day people were signing up for interest groups and as I was sitting there a kid named Alex signed up for my interest group. I remembered that I had prayed for a kid named Alex on revival night and this kid was in my Seth's cabin.

"Seth. Do you have a kid named 'Alex' your cabin?"

"Yeah"

"Is the kid that gave his life to Jesus, is his name Alex?"

"Yeah. How did you know?"

"I have a super cool God story to tell you."

Both special needs week were awesome. I saw a lot of guests that I saw from week 1 again in week 4. I kinda missed Coach and his dancing from first week. I got lots of hugs throughout the week. Pastor Stan was there as the Chaplin and he did such a great job making easy to understand messages for the guests as well as interacting with them every spare moment. It was the first time I have ever shaken hands with an invisible boyfriend.

Revival night during Senior week. Teens and staff who were filled with overwhelming praise and joy for God. Worshipping loudly and unashamed.

Being part of a unified staff. Love them to bits and pieces. The body is a unit, though it is made up of many parts; and though all its parts are many, they form one body. So it is with Christ. 1 Cor. 12

God speaking to me more about where he wants to lead me after this year in highschool. Super SUPER pumped.

Basically there are just so many stories to tell. It has been a summer to remember.

Saturday, July 17, 2010

Good Night

So instead of Slushies Crub took me to Cafe Demetrie for the prize of the Crib Crub Tourney.

I had a GRANDular Crepe with apples and cinnamon and ice cream.

Then on the way home Em and I danced out the window with our hands, pretended to be canoeing, put our hair out the window.

Now we are home watching a movie.

Good Night.

Rain

I made up a song this week at camp when it was raining.

Flipflops

Raindrops

I'm Dancing in the rain

Thats all I have so Far.

Just thought I'd Share that.

Thats because it rained today

The rain tends to make me smile

Another Week

Another week has flown by. This week was the first week of adventure camp and munchkins reloaded. The week had 104 campers plus staff and volunteers, so everyday I felt we were feeding a mini army! hehe. Meal times were loud and boisterous. There was never a moment of silence as cabins were constantly singing Fun Songs (or if those were used up..QUITE likely) they would sing:

There ain't no _______ on us

There might be blank on you _______

But there ain't no _______ on us

I have to say I heard "There ain't no cheaters on us...There might be cheaters on you Uncle Peter..." at least 3 times.... Pandas on Aunt Amanda 2 or more times.

We had four kitchen volunteers this week. One of them called me Bridget all week. nbd. But then on Friday I found out that one of the volunteers name was Jane and I'm pretty sure that the whole week I thought it was Joan and I would have called her that. hehe

The volunteers were not good listeners so that could be frustrating, but with the amount of work and prep we had as well as cleanup and dishes, the volunteers were an EXTREME blessing

Highlight of the week was definitely cleaning the bathrooms with the lifeguards yesterday. They were behind schedule and my best friend looked a little stressed so I decided to help them out. I had no clue what I was doing at first but I started to catch on. Then we started belting out songs like Swing Low and This Train is Bound for Glory. We laughed really loud, and were just being plain dumb. It was pretty hard work, but with the friends that were there we just laughed our way through it. I laughed harder than the whole week combined in the 1 hour time frame of cleaning the bathrooms. We took the Shop-Vac and put it up to our faces. It distorted our cheeks and stuff and the power of the suction, sucked the spit right out of our mouth. We really looked like fools, but whatevs. We even took a video of it. Hahaha. GOOD TIMES!

Another Highlight was bonding with other support staff.

"This is how real women fight!" (playing Punch for Punch)

"When I say Maintentence you say Food Service. Maitenence. Foodservice. Maitenence. FoodService"

Talking out in the gazebo until midnight with a friend. No I was not wearing Bug-spray. Yes I wish I was.

I had a few chances to bond with campers too. It is always so great to still be part of their week at camp.

A couple of girls from cabin 2 were sick and homesick. I sat with one in the Nurses station. The other one I made laugh because I dropped my cookie on the ground stepped on it, then picked it up and ate it.

I taught a few of the girls from cabin 2 how to make friendship bracelets and I helped with sewing with the Day campers

So many stories to tell. One of the oddest/ most odd things that happened to me was on Wednesday/BBQ day, I was BBQing and this tree frog just lands on the BBQ. At first I didn't see it because it kind of camouflaged by the burgers. I didnt know what to do, so I just yelled to Kaitlyn to come help, Kaitlyn had no idea why I was calling her, she came over, screamed and the Tree Frog proceeded into jumping into the bottom of the BBQ. The intense heat then caused the Frog to die belly up. Through the grill, all you could see was a dead frog belly up.

There are so many stories to tell. But I don't always remember them all. All together as a whole the week pulled together for an awesome, full week.

The JOY of the LORD is my strength