YOUTH WEEKENDS ROCK!

hehe, disregard my rawther enthusiastic title. i'm still having a pretty tough time calming down with coming home. it's a change from being with so many people in a different place for so long. i missed home, but i really love the break now and then.

we did so much cool stuff this weekend. it was a little bit frustrating to me at points, because this time all of the kids were arranged into teams. once you were on a team there was no going back. i was on team three, and although we weren't very good in quiz bowl (that was because mel and I weren't there, of course) we were good in naming melted candy bars and drawing portraits on balloons....i'll tell you about that in a minute.

first of all, last friday i was sadly sick. :( *sniff* i was really queezy and feverish for a while, but i slept it off (man did i sleep it off!!! i slept over thirteen hours that day and night!!) i spent my day doing fun things like watching The Mask of Zorro (if you see my profile you'll see that that's a fav movie) and other movies. i didn't do school (hallelujah) and then on Friday the weekend started, so i haven't done any school for a while.

Friday morning we headed out with 'Evan and melody. we reached fairwood early, so we were able to show her fam around the premises. i love fairwood. it's my second home, and i always feel so comfortorable there. anyway, we had to head into meeting pretty quick. but of course there was seeing friends and talking about braces off and chatting and hugging etc for a while. the weekend's theme was being friends with God. i really liked that, because that's something i've been thinking about lately. this weekend came at a good time for me, because i've been back into the reading Bible and learning about God, versus starting to drift and go in the other direction. there were a lot of good experiences, and i'm so glad that i went.

we had sports! (OH YEAH!!!) after the meeting. we went up with out teams and played some blind volleyball (clothes pins on net, volleyball=purple rubber thing) that was cool, and then we played basketball, but i didn't do that one cause i didn't want to lose too much energy and get sick again. i think we did more, but i don't remember much about friday. maybe i should have copied Kate's devotion to xanga and written down stuff as it happened in a notebook. :D
more meeitngs....

sabbath meeting was enjoyable. i almost fell asleep, and i kinda wish i had because that night there was a very little amount of sleep for everyone. a person who i will not mention who had snoring issues, and we were all kept up quite late with her melodious snorts. (sorry person, glad you don't know my blog!) Aunt Sharon put a fan out and turned it up really loud to try to wake her up enough to make her stop. to no avail. the opposite happened, the girl started snoring LOUDER! by now i was laughing, even though i wanted to get to sleep just as much as everyone else wanted to. but the inevitable happens, and i eventually dozed off.

morning was good. yummy breakfast, another good meeting, etc. they have a fellowship room in the basement of the church now, and some awesome time was spent there wti around the world ping pong and just lounging. i was in the top three of around the world quite a bit, but i could never quite reach the top. *sniff*

sports that night were much better than the ones before. we played WARBALL! yes! that's the best fairwood game ever! with all the guys there by now it was very competetive. i got out a lot, and i was starting to get frustrated. but that's just me, i always get frustrated in warball. i see it as i'm the good guy and everyone else is the enmy (at least, everyone on the other side of the cout.) i slammed to my knees a few times to catch a ball, but i ended up ruining my knees more than anything else. everytime i play warball i get large purple bruises and red scrapes all over my knees. oh well, i'll just call them battle scars...

i forgot to mention some stuff we did in the afternoon. we did a cool game called balloon portraits. you had to draw everyone on your team on a balloon and then once you were done you had to go and guess who was who on each of the other team's balloons. you got points for your team when you guessed the balloons correctly and when people guessed the ones you drew. i did mel, and she came out good. my team got a 42, which was the best score possible!! oh yeah! some people had hideous ones, some people were quite well drawn. personally, i liked my team's best...

we did a few other games, but one interesting one was naming melted candy bars without tasting or touching them. my team did best on that one too. thanks Amy!

the night last night went much smoother than the one before. we went to bed a little earlier, and everyone fell asleep much faster as well. i love to sleep......

church was awesome. so many people got baptised! FIVE! it was really cool.

i must go, i love long posts, and though none can be too long, i guess osme can get rawther close to that. anyway, it's aaron's birthday, and i should straighten up stuff

love you all! ben, keep blogging! i'll miss you if you don't, you make everything much funnier...