im pretty sure i work EVERY DAY this week, which I have never done period. Not only have I not done it at this work place, but NO work place. Its killing me lol. Such long days suck butte (haha Montananess there lol). But thankfully tomorrow is my last long day, 8:30-5:30, but i have a 2 hour lunch from 1-3. So not so bad. And Friday i work from 10-1 which is awesome, but i have to babysit from 4-6 or 7. Haha i dont think ive updated since my babysitting experiences and add ons.
I babysat last saturday a 6 month old girl who was asleep the whole time. She goes to bed at 7 which is when I got there and didnt make a peep the whole time i was there lol. Well actually I got there and they hadnt left yet, so I sat there 30 mins and got paid to watch tv. Awesome I must say. And then they left and probably wouldnt be home till 12 or after, but ended up coming home at like 10:30. But anyway I watched tv and got online like they said I could and got 30$ for 3 1/2 hours of work. That was actually more than I had worked but I didnt know they gave me more till I got home and looked. Very nice of them. I get 7$ an hour when shes asleep and 8$ when shes awake, they decided the extra dollar for me lol. Apparently shes rotten as can be and doesnt like any one holding her except her mother, not even her dad really. I held her for like 7 secs and she was fine, which was amazing actually cause she didnt freak out immediately lol. But yeah all hell will break loose when shes awake and I babysit. Oh well.
Oh and I got a new call from a new family to sit for. They have a 2 1/2 year old girl to sit for. Its kinda funny cause her mom said she wants me to sit when shes there in the house so she can get housework or whatever she needs done lol. She said her daughter needs to be entertained constantly and gets bored easily with her lol. So i'll be sitting there friday. I tell ya man I make more sitting than at work. If I get enough families i might quit my job. I only make minimum wage at work. And besides when school starts i'll probably go back to 3-6 hours a week which is only 30-45$ a pay check, which is fine with me cause its just some money comin in but its not worth it almost if im sitting and making more than that during the school year. Oh well.
Oh yeah and im definitely not going to Baton Rouge anymore. Boys can kiss my ASS. Ha.
Wednesday, July 19, 2006
Saturday, July 8, 2006
Drive Inn Movie
Woo!!! I went to my first drive inn movie theater last night!! It was great!! Well I think im making it better than it actually was. It was cold, yes we went more north to Trenton, so it was cold, and then the ground was wet cause of the dew. We couldnt understand half the movie cause it was hard to hear everything from the huge speakers. We saw Pirates of the Caribbean 2 and it was good from what I understood.
So I worked all day yesterday, 7:30-3:30, got home at 4, talked to Sally at 4:05, showered and out by 4:20, left the house by 10 till 5 and met at church. Quick, long day. But anyway me, Sally and Sarah all met at church and we drove to Stephanie's house, whom id never met. We were the only Bayside people who went, Woodland Park people were going, so we kinda crashed their shin dig cause Jonathan and Brian invited us lol. But we met over there to watch the first Pirates movie. It seemed longer than usual. Probably because I was cold and starving. So then we went to eat at Taco Bell for dinner. I had a Jonathan and Brian sandwich, got to sit between them at dinner lol. It was great! And I rode with Brian and he was fun. He's actually on the paleness level of Jillian, and hes blonde lol.
And so we had to wait on some people at Woodland Park, so we played frisbee in the parking lot. Its always frisbee or cards lol. And then we finally left at like 9:15 and the movie starts at dark. So we thought we'd be late. But somehow with the interstate down to 2 lanes, we got there in time. Well the only bummer was that the spots were all full, so we had to park on the side and go sit in the grass. That wasnt bad until we got cold and wet. And then the bugs were semi bad. And then we got lucky and found 3 parking spots for the cars, so some of us girls stood in the spots and waited for them to come back lol. It was a double feature too, some guy goes to play soccer in England was the second film, which i would have stayed for but I was running on adrenaline by that time and i was freezing, so a bunch of us went back. It was only 5$ for both films!!! It was great!!! We gotta go back! Next week there playing Pirates and the Lake House. Should be good. Its worth the drive, which went by horribly fast since Brian drove like a freak and went like 80, which isnt bad, he just drove kinda crazy around every other car lol. Good times. Oh and when we got there I heard an oldie playing and i got so excited, but then it went off and the movie started. So i think they play oldies beforehand which rocks. I'll remember that next time and go early to listen and sing lol.
Oh yeah i'm pretty sure my parents are leaning towards NO for me and Christin to go to Baton Rouge. They pulled the, you dont know where your going, crap on me. But then again I dont even know if Christin can go yet, she has to ask her parents. We'll see.
So I worked all day yesterday, 7:30-3:30, got home at 4, talked to Sally at 4:05, showered and out by 4:20, left the house by 10 till 5 and met at church. Quick, long day. But anyway me, Sally and Sarah all met at church and we drove to Stephanie's house, whom id never met. We were the only Bayside people who went, Woodland Park people were going, so we kinda crashed their shin dig cause Jonathan and Brian invited us lol. But we met over there to watch the first Pirates movie. It seemed longer than usual. Probably because I was cold and starving. So then we went to eat at Taco Bell for dinner. I had a Jonathan and Brian sandwich, got to sit between them at dinner lol. It was great! And I rode with Brian and he was fun. He's actually on the paleness level of Jillian, and hes blonde lol.
And so we had to wait on some people at Woodland Park, so we played frisbee in the parking lot. Its always frisbee or cards lol. And then we finally left at like 9:15 and the movie starts at dark. So we thought we'd be late. But somehow with the interstate down to 2 lanes, we got there in time. Well the only bummer was that the spots were all full, so we had to park on the side and go sit in the grass. That wasnt bad until we got cold and wet. And then the bugs were semi bad. And then we got lucky and found 3 parking spots for the cars, so some of us girls stood in the spots and waited for them to come back lol. It was a double feature too, some guy goes to play soccer in England was the second film, which i would have stayed for but I was running on adrenaline by that time and i was freezing, so a bunch of us went back. It was only 5$ for both films!!! It was great!!! We gotta go back! Next week there playing Pirates and the Lake House. Should be good. Its worth the drive, which went by horribly fast since Brian drove like a freak and went like 80, which isnt bad, he just drove kinda crazy around every other car lol. Good times. Oh and when we got there I heard an oldie playing and i got so excited, but then it went off and the movie started. So i think they play oldies beforehand which rocks. I'll remember that next time and go early to listen and sing lol.
Oh yeah i'm pretty sure my parents are leaning towards NO for me and Christin to go to Baton Rouge. They pulled the, you dont know where your going, crap on me. But then again I dont even know if Christin can go yet, she has to ask her parents. We'll see.
Tuesday, July 4, 2006
Happy 4th of July!
Happy 4th everybody! Im listening to the fireworks outside my window now. Ahh my favorite holiday at last.
A bunch of us from church went to collegedale last night and saw the fireworks and listened to the east tennessee symphony orchestra play. It was so great! We met at Rafaels restaurant and got pizza and then walked over to the Veterans Park and laid out blankets and played cards. We were there like 4 hours before anything happened lol. Got eaten by bugs, sweated alot. Fun times i must say. The fireworks were great though, minus the street light that was directly in the middle of the show. That was poo and so was the fabulous traffic at the end of the night. I got lucky and Lucas let me back out so I could sit in traffic a while lol. Who thinks 24 is too old for a 19 year old lol? Just a thought.
So I went over to the Hall's house on sunday night after dinner to watch The End of The Spear with everyone from church. Good times. I'm glad I went. I've made lots of new friends since Montana and have hung out with church people all week and last week. Its fabulous I must say. Me and Sally, Brittany, Sarah and Brian all went to Chik Fil A and to see Bench warmers at the 2.50 a week ago and then we went and played cards at church. And then me, sally, sarah, brittany, brian, jonathan and 2 other girls i didnt know went over to Tylers apartment and played cards lol. And then a butt load of us went to see fireworks obviously, and then today Blaine had a bbq at his house in Mill Run and i couldnt eat cause my family came over for our own bbq, but i went and swam.
Haha it was so funny though cause we all sat after we ate and watched the Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contest and the top 2 guys were obvioulsy Kobiyashi who wins every year and Joey Chestnut the American!!! Yes joey CHESTNUT!!! We all almost lost it when we saw that!!! What killed us though was that he was ahead by 1 or 2 the whole time until the end and he lost by 2 hot dogs. It was so sad. We were screaming at the tv cause someone was actually beating Kobiyashi but he was Joey Chestnut of all people too lol. Craziness i say. Its a Montana camp thing lol.
Ahh gotta work tomorrow 8-12, my usual, but i gotta work thursday and friday for a teacher from 7:30-4:30, not excited. LONG days. Ive only worked one of those long days before and now i have 2 back to back. I know the paycheck will be worth it.
A bunch of us from church went to collegedale last night and saw the fireworks and listened to the east tennessee symphony orchestra play. It was so great! We met at Rafaels restaurant and got pizza and then walked over to the Veterans Park and laid out blankets and played cards. We were there like 4 hours before anything happened lol. Got eaten by bugs, sweated alot. Fun times i must say. The fireworks were great though, minus the street light that was directly in the middle of the show. That was poo and so was the fabulous traffic at the end of the night. I got lucky and Lucas let me back out so I could sit in traffic a while lol. Who thinks 24 is too old for a 19 year old lol? Just a thought.
So I went over to the Hall's house on sunday night after dinner to watch The End of The Spear with everyone from church. Good times. I'm glad I went. I've made lots of new friends since Montana and have hung out with church people all week and last week. Its fabulous I must say. Me and Sally, Brittany, Sarah and Brian all went to Chik Fil A and to see Bench warmers at the 2.50 a week ago and then we went and played cards at church. And then me, sally, sarah, brittany, brian, jonathan and 2 other girls i didnt know went over to Tylers apartment and played cards lol. And then a butt load of us went to see fireworks obviously, and then today Blaine had a bbq at his house in Mill Run and i couldnt eat cause my family came over for our own bbq, but i went and swam.
Haha it was so funny though cause we all sat after we ate and watched the Nathans Hot Dog Eating Contest and the top 2 guys were obvioulsy Kobiyashi who wins every year and Joey Chestnut the American!!! Yes joey CHESTNUT!!! We all almost lost it when we saw that!!! What killed us though was that he was ahead by 1 or 2 the whole time until the end and he lost by 2 hot dogs. It was so sad. We were screaming at the tv cause someone was actually beating Kobiyashi but he was Joey Chestnut of all people too lol. Craziness i say. Its a Montana camp thing lol.
Ahh gotta work tomorrow 8-12, my usual, but i gotta work thursday and friday for a teacher from 7:30-4:30, not excited. LONG days. Ive only worked one of those long days before and now i have 2 back to back. I know the paycheck will be worth it.
Sunday, June 25, 2006
Kevin....
Im glad my life is over since Kevin is leaving the Backstreet Boys. Its not gonna be the same. Its like when Geri left the Spice Girls, 5 is the magic number...
Monday, June 19, 2006
Montana baby!
Well I just got back from fabulous Montana this morning at 2 am. We had a GREAT time. I cannot explain how much fun we had. Im so glad i went now. So i got to the church at 1 to leave by 2 for atl. I got on the bus and sat and ended up sitting by Bethany, never talked to her before in my life and Sally sat in front of us. So yeah i dont know many people well in the group so Sally stood up and talked to me and Bethany the whole way to the airport. It was great. Shes a little fireball for Jesus, its fabulous. So we get to the airport and fly to Minneapolis, they were so funny when they spoke lol. And then we flew to kalispell, Montana. Got there at like 12 something there time and we stayed with people from the church we were running the camp through. Me Bethany and Sally stayed with an older woman who was really nice. And so then we got up the next day and went to church. It was a small church compared to ours, but apparently it was big for Montana. But then they fed us and we all hung out and played wiffel ball till it was time to go to the camp.
So we load up on the cheese doodle, which is the church's short bus lol. And then we go to camp and stay in the lodge for the night. I stayed with Kristy and Bethany that night. There so funny lol. Kinda bored that night. Not much to do actually lol.
Hmmm and then the next day we went to eat at a little restaurant where they had elk burgers and then we went and had huckleberry ice cream!!!! Apparently huckleberries are native to Montana and they are EVERYWHERE. They had everything huckleberry u could imagine. Well Eddy bought us all some huckleberry ice cream, it was fabulous. And i got some huckleberry coffee. I hope its good.
So then we waited around a while at camp and then kids started showing up. So almost all of us were counselors, which means we had a cabin of kids. So Kristy and I were first and I got 5 girls. And then we drug our stuff over to our cabins which were carpeted, praise Jesus. And then i saw that there were 2 bunk beds and 1 queen bed, u can guess which one i got lol. They brought an extra mattress in and put it in the floor. So then my girls got there and I had 4 12 year olds and 1 15 year old. So let me just say that these girls were WILD. They asked me if they could move my bed so they would have more room to wrestle. Yes they did. They beat the crap out of each other the whole week lol. They were not girly by any means and kept saying they didnt like those preppy girls who wore make up lol. So i tried to hide my make up from them lol. Oh I had 1 native american girl too, her name was Whisper. I could tell when i saw her she was cause of her eyes. I'll post pics on myspace and facebook tomorrow hopefully.
I'll update more later, kinda bored at the moment.
Ok back to do some more of the entry if not all lol.
So yeah this trip was kinda odd for me at camp. I dont really know alot of people in the youth group so I was trying to hang out with them and make friends, while hanging out my girls at the same time. I just figured they would wanna hang out with each other but apparently they did wanna hang out with me cause I came into the cabin one morning to get my teaching stuff and I was about to leave and they go why do u ditch us? Kinda made me feel bad. But I hung out with them more so during the day later on in the week. Cause I spent an hour with them during Bible study and then before bed and alot of the morning.
But anyway the day consisted of getting up at the butt crack of dawn at usually 5:45 so I could start waking my girls up to get showers. We couldnt get out of the cabins till 6 so I had to start waking them up a bit early so they could be at the showers by 6 cause otherwise there was a line and no hot water haha. But i ran my booty to the shower too. Plus the sun comes up at like 5 and goes down at about 10. Someone told me they dont see the sun for 2 months during the winter. Crazy. I dont know if i talked about the weather yet but it was HORRIBLE. They usually dont get rain from July to September but for some reason it poured and flooded everywhere the week we were there. One day I wore 4 layers cause it was so cold out and then the rain was freezing. I had a long sleeve t shirt, t shirt, hoodie, and then my wind/water proof jacket. One of the girls in my cabin told me what I was wearing in 50 degree weather is what they wear when its like 15 below, not kidding. We kept complaining about it being cold and they were like cold? Its hott!!! It was like 65 one day and they were like wow its so warm! We all kept trying to explain Tennessee heat/humidity to them cause they dont have humidity at all. I was just like omword u think 65 is hott? Please spend one day in TN where its 96 outside but feels like 104. So yeah lets just say everyone was always soaked and had soaked shoes and then everything turned to mudd, so some kids decided to get into mud fights and all during recreation time. I praise Jesus my girls didnt. I would not have been happy with them when they went to the cabin.
And speaking of cabins, we had absolutely NO room to move. They crammed us all in, but all of our luggage was the problem. They were shoes and dirty socks and jackets and hair brushes and everything else under the sun thrown everywhere.
But our days had WAY too much spare time. We didnt think the camp was run very well. But every day was like this:
7:30 - breakfast
8:30 - quiet time
9:15-9:30 - break
9:30-10:30 - Bible study
10:30-10:45 - Break
10:45-12 - Morning challenge, games
12 - lunch
1-4 - Recreation
5:30 - Dinner
7-9 - Worship
9-10 - Break
10 - Cabin devotions
11:30 - In Cabins
12 - Lights out
So lets just say that everything did not take near as long as planned so kids would have nothing to do technically. And they never wanted u to go back to your cabin. That sucked. And recreation was WAY too long too. They need more to fill in time next year. I'm almost 90% sure were going back next year which rocks.
But anyway I had to teach my small group, which was suppose to be gender based. So I thought alright im gonna have all girls. Well the first night they called all the counselors to the front and introduced us and gave us our small group by cabin number. So they called my cabin, so I had my 5 girls and like 21 i think and then suddenly I see these 6 HOTT guys stand up and i looked at Brian (the coordinator) and I go, I have boys? with this look of utter disbelief lol. And the other counselors asked that too and he was like yeah cause they only had 2 guy small group leaders cause the rest of the guys on the trip were in the band or doing technical stuff. So off we went to our first Bible study group. So yeah after moving areas twice and getting crapped on by birds, we finally sat and attempted to learn lol. I was so scared!!!! Well it was better though cause they actually talked when I asked questions and when I was trying to teach. And what was funny was that the boys talked! My girls didnt say a word. I was very surprised but happy. Actually my girls were 12 and 13 and the boys were 14-18. Yes I had an 18 year old who had taught 2 Bible studies before. That made me feel fabulous cause he asked if I had ever taught before and I was like haha no. It was kinda hard all week though cause I have to admit the lessons were long and boring and I just wanted to talk to the kids about Montana and stuff. We got off topic alot, lets put it that way lol.
But yeah there were 2 brothers in my group, Beau was 16 and Caleb was 14, and I have to say their parents must have had great genes cause there eyes were practically on fire. They were the prettiest mix of sea foam green and a light aqua green color. And they were so cute!!! I had to contain myself the whole time cause I kept looking at them lol. But Caleb is kind of in outer space, cute and sweet, but hes really young and now hes like obsessed with me lol. He made me his # 1 friend on MySpace on his top 8 and messages me about every day lol. He did teach and entertain me during recreation though for like 2 hours with new card games. I had never played any of them and we sat and played which was good. He was willing to teach me and I was willing to pay attention to him lol. I think thats what all these kids really wanted. Most middle schoolers only want attention from someone older. My girls were the same as the kids at Hunter when I tutored them. Kids are the same everywhere.
Oh yeah what was so funny was I sat and talked to my group about Montana and Tennessee and all and I was asking them what kind of restaurants and shops they had. I was like, Do yall have Krystal? and they go we have crystal meth! And i was like are u kidding? And they all were like haha no and got all interested lol. I found out that Montana is the number 1 state in the country for homemade meth labs. Which makes sense though cause on the way to camp we saw this horribly nasty graphic billboard of thus woman's mouth that was all decayed and gross and it was a sign for anti meth. Oh and I also made sure to tell them that I was very country and if they needed me to repeat something to tell me lol. They sounded so funny though. If u know what Minnesotans sound like, kinda like that. And they say Pop for their cokes!!! The first day my girls were like u wanna split a pop? I was like what the crap!?!? Crazyness.
More later, bed now.
Alright, back again.
So yeah we were also suppose to go to a water park down the road one day during recreation. Well on tuesday it turned out to be the only nice day and we didnt go, stupid people, so they said as long as it was above 50 degrees on wednesday or thursday and not raining horribly, then we'd go. Well haha we didnt go. Which was good cause it looked crappy and I wasnt gonna get wet anyway and then speak of the devil, i started my period the day we were suppose to go! No joke! A week early!! But all the girls on the trip started theres too, it was funny. So instead there was an indoor heated pool right next to camp that they took us too but none of the counselors swam. Bleh, smelled so much like chlorine.
Hmm..oh yeah the huckleberries. The boys in my group said they had a tradition every year to go down to the little store next to camp and get huckleberry milkshakes and they could go as long as they had a counselor. Well I thought they were kidding and they said they werent and i believed them cause other people had gone before too. So I asked Brian and he said no. He said some people snuck down there and werent suppose to. The boys were so mad, i felt bad for them. I mean it was a stupid milkshake, i dont know why they cared so much if I was going with them. We could walk down there! Well I know if we go back im gonna go get them for them even if I get yelled at, its just a milkshake, the world wont end. But actually once camp was over we went over and got one, it was great too lol.
Oh and the one day we went to the pool, i was dreading recreation time cause it was just gonna take forever to get through and it was pouring the rain so we had to stay in a specific place for 3 hours, well till it was time for the girls to go swim. But anyway card games were a big deal with the counselors. I had no idea why but we were always playing cards. Well anyway they had extras laying around so me and most of my boys sat and played. Caleb taught me like 8 games lol. I knew nothing, i didnt know how to play anything. He had lots of patience cause he sat and told me how to do them all and I was slow at them too, so it was good. Lots of fun. I think he was just happy to have someone pay attention to him honestly lol.
Well once camp was over we packed up and went to Glacier National Park for our hike. Well we got there and found out it was 12$ a person and no one really wanted to pay that for mud and rain, so we decided to go to the Hungry Horse dam, which is the 4th largest in the country. It was great! Great pics, especially the one i got next to the sign haha. I'll post a link to my facebook pics, u'll know which pic im talking about when u see it lol. And then we went to the hotel, the Super 8 which sounds cheap, but honestly was SO nice. We thought we were living in luxury compared to those cabins. And the rooms were so big with nice beds!!! It was 3 to a room and I shared the bed with Lauren, which I thought was a bad idea cause shes kinda big too, but i fell asleep before she got back in the room and didnt move or wake up till my alarm went off. So i didnt notice anyone was there lol. But then we went and had pizza at pizza hut which was good since we dont have any sit down pizza huts in chattanooga anymore. And then some of us went back to Walmart and I got some cards and a cowboy hat, thats what I wanted most from the trip. It was good. It got smashed in my suitcase on the way home, but its good lol.
And then I was out cold for the night and we got up saturday and went back to Glacier for our boat cruise through Lake McDonald. It was beautiful, but freezing. You could sit down below or go up top and take pics which I did some of both but it was so cold. I also ended up wearing my pink hoodie, then my pink rain jacket over that for wind and then I bought a pink and black ball cap haha. And then I had my pink luggage too. Everyone was like, do u like pink lol? I had told Lauren that yes I do like pink, but it just looked like I had alot more pink than everyone else cause the main pieces of clothing and accessories they saw were pink, i dont have more pink than any other girl, i dont think at least. But anyway we went to eat lunch at Jammer Joes after that which was italian, so we had pizza again.
And then we had a car tour in these awesome cars from the 30s that looked like hummers. Well these are made to take the top off and the windows down so u could take pics of the mountains as u went by. It was raining and cold, but our car decided to be bold and put the top back anyway lol. I dont think I was that cold the whole trip lol. It was fun though. And I also got to cuddle with Jonathan for 3 hours!!! Ahh!!! I was FABULOUS!!! Jonathan was in the band, taking the place of Brittany who couldnt come cause of work. He goes to Woodland park baptist. Hes latino and FABULOUSLY BEAUTIFUL. He also works at Chik Fil A lol. And hes 19 next month. He was so great. I drooled over him the whole trip. Oh yeah and on our car tour the whole car decided to play freeze out, which is where everyone takes off their clothes on top, well the girls went to their t shirts, but yeah it was like 40 outside and then the wind was going and there we all are top less lol. It was SO funny. And amazingly, once we all put our clothes back on in the car, we were warm. It was crazy.
And then we went to eat that night at the Backdoor, which was a place that gave us bbq and more pizza lol. It was all unlimited and fabulous. And they have this stuff called indian fry bread which were these huge pieces of fried bread that were like a cross between a donut, bagel and funnel cake all in one. They were great.
And then we went back to our host homes that night and Emma had made us homemade brownies with chocolate icing!!! Ahh!!! We ate so many they made us sick. They were still warm too. SOOO good. And we then we went to first service the next morning at church, which no one goes to lol. And we went to Arbys for lunch and then on to the airport. We flew to Minnesapolis, then to Atlanta and then we met the other team from bayside that had gone to Montana and we all rode home for 2 hours on a school bus. No im not kidding, we were all crammed onto a school bus in the fabulous GA heat. It was so hot when we got home, we were excited lol. I got home about 2. Felt real good.
Great trip though!!! I was so glad I went!!! Im praying that we go back next year.
So we load up on the cheese doodle, which is the church's short bus lol. And then we go to camp and stay in the lodge for the night. I stayed with Kristy and Bethany that night. There so funny lol. Kinda bored that night. Not much to do actually lol.
Hmmm and then the next day we went to eat at a little restaurant where they had elk burgers and then we went and had huckleberry ice cream!!!! Apparently huckleberries are native to Montana and they are EVERYWHERE. They had everything huckleberry u could imagine. Well Eddy bought us all some huckleberry ice cream, it was fabulous. And i got some huckleberry coffee. I hope its good.
So then we waited around a while at camp and then kids started showing up. So almost all of us were counselors, which means we had a cabin of kids. So Kristy and I were first and I got 5 girls. And then we drug our stuff over to our cabins which were carpeted, praise Jesus. And then i saw that there were 2 bunk beds and 1 queen bed, u can guess which one i got lol. They brought an extra mattress in and put it in the floor. So then my girls got there and I had 4 12 year olds and 1 15 year old. So let me just say that these girls were WILD. They asked me if they could move my bed so they would have more room to wrestle. Yes they did. They beat the crap out of each other the whole week lol. They were not girly by any means and kept saying they didnt like those preppy girls who wore make up lol. So i tried to hide my make up from them lol. Oh I had 1 native american girl too, her name was Whisper. I could tell when i saw her she was cause of her eyes. I'll post pics on myspace and facebook tomorrow hopefully.
I'll update more later, kinda bored at the moment.
Ok back to do some more of the entry if not all lol.
So yeah this trip was kinda odd for me at camp. I dont really know alot of people in the youth group so I was trying to hang out with them and make friends, while hanging out my girls at the same time. I just figured they would wanna hang out with each other but apparently they did wanna hang out with me cause I came into the cabin one morning to get my teaching stuff and I was about to leave and they go why do u ditch us? Kinda made me feel bad. But I hung out with them more so during the day later on in the week. Cause I spent an hour with them during Bible study and then before bed and alot of the morning.
But anyway the day consisted of getting up at the butt crack of dawn at usually 5:45 so I could start waking my girls up to get showers. We couldnt get out of the cabins till 6 so I had to start waking them up a bit early so they could be at the showers by 6 cause otherwise there was a line and no hot water haha. But i ran my booty to the shower too. Plus the sun comes up at like 5 and goes down at about 10. Someone told me they dont see the sun for 2 months during the winter. Crazy. I dont know if i talked about the weather yet but it was HORRIBLE. They usually dont get rain from July to September but for some reason it poured and flooded everywhere the week we were there. One day I wore 4 layers cause it was so cold out and then the rain was freezing. I had a long sleeve t shirt, t shirt, hoodie, and then my wind/water proof jacket. One of the girls in my cabin told me what I was wearing in 50 degree weather is what they wear when its like 15 below, not kidding. We kept complaining about it being cold and they were like cold? Its hott!!! It was like 65 one day and they were like wow its so warm! We all kept trying to explain Tennessee heat/humidity to them cause they dont have humidity at all. I was just like omword u think 65 is hott? Please spend one day in TN where its 96 outside but feels like 104. So yeah lets just say everyone was always soaked and had soaked shoes and then everything turned to mudd, so some kids decided to get into mud fights and all during recreation time. I praise Jesus my girls didnt. I would not have been happy with them when they went to the cabin.
And speaking of cabins, we had absolutely NO room to move. They crammed us all in, but all of our luggage was the problem. They were shoes and dirty socks and jackets and hair brushes and everything else under the sun thrown everywhere.
But our days had WAY too much spare time. We didnt think the camp was run very well. But every day was like this:
7:30 - breakfast
8:30 - quiet time
9:15-9:30 - break
9:30-10:30 - Bible study
10:30-10:45 - Break
10:45-12 - Morning challenge, games
12 - lunch
1-4 - Recreation
5:30 - Dinner
7-9 - Worship
9-10 - Break
10 - Cabin devotions
11:30 - In Cabins
12 - Lights out
So lets just say that everything did not take near as long as planned so kids would have nothing to do technically. And they never wanted u to go back to your cabin. That sucked. And recreation was WAY too long too. They need more to fill in time next year. I'm almost 90% sure were going back next year which rocks.
But anyway I had to teach my small group, which was suppose to be gender based. So I thought alright im gonna have all girls. Well the first night they called all the counselors to the front and introduced us and gave us our small group by cabin number. So they called my cabin, so I had my 5 girls and like 21 i think and then suddenly I see these 6 HOTT guys stand up and i looked at Brian (the coordinator) and I go, I have boys? with this look of utter disbelief lol. And the other counselors asked that too and he was like yeah cause they only had 2 guy small group leaders cause the rest of the guys on the trip were in the band or doing technical stuff. So off we went to our first Bible study group. So yeah after moving areas twice and getting crapped on by birds, we finally sat and attempted to learn lol. I was so scared!!!! Well it was better though cause they actually talked when I asked questions and when I was trying to teach. And what was funny was that the boys talked! My girls didnt say a word. I was very surprised but happy. Actually my girls were 12 and 13 and the boys were 14-18. Yes I had an 18 year old who had taught 2 Bible studies before. That made me feel fabulous cause he asked if I had ever taught before and I was like haha no. It was kinda hard all week though cause I have to admit the lessons were long and boring and I just wanted to talk to the kids about Montana and stuff. We got off topic alot, lets put it that way lol.
But yeah there were 2 brothers in my group, Beau was 16 and Caleb was 14, and I have to say their parents must have had great genes cause there eyes were practically on fire. They were the prettiest mix of sea foam green and a light aqua green color. And they were so cute!!! I had to contain myself the whole time cause I kept looking at them lol. But Caleb is kind of in outer space, cute and sweet, but hes really young and now hes like obsessed with me lol. He made me his # 1 friend on MySpace on his top 8 and messages me about every day lol. He did teach and entertain me during recreation though for like 2 hours with new card games. I had never played any of them and we sat and played which was good. He was willing to teach me and I was willing to pay attention to him lol. I think thats what all these kids really wanted. Most middle schoolers only want attention from someone older. My girls were the same as the kids at Hunter when I tutored them. Kids are the same everywhere.
Oh yeah what was so funny was I sat and talked to my group about Montana and Tennessee and all and I was asking them what kind of restaurants and shops they had. I was like, Do yall have Krystal? and they go we have crystal meth! And i was like are u kidding? And they all were like haha no and got all interested lol. I found out that Montana is the number 1 state in the country for homemade meth labs. Which makes sense though cause on the way to camp we saw this horribly nasty graphic billboard of thus woman's mouth that was all decayed and gross and it was a sign for anti meth. Oh and I also made sure to tell them that I was very country and if they needed me to repeat something to tell me lol. They sounded so funny though. If u know what Minnesotans sound like, kinda like that. And they say Pop for their cokes!!! The first day my girls were like u wanna split a pop? I was like what the crap!?!? Crazyness.
More later, bed now.
Alright, back again.
So yeah we were also suppose to go to a water park down the road one day during recreation. Well on tuesday it turned out to be the only nice day and we didnt go, stupid people, so they said as long as it was above 50 degrees on wednesday or thursday and not raining horribly, then we'd go. Well haha we didnt go. Which was good cause it looked crappy and I wasnt gonna get wet anyway and then speak of the devil, i started my period the day we were suppose to go! No joke! A week early!! But all the girls on the trip started theres too, it was funny. So instead there was an indoor heated pool right next to camp that they took us too but none of the counselors swam. Bleh, smelled so much like chlorine.
Hmm..oh yeah the huckleberries. The boys in my group said they had a tradition every year to go down to the little store next to camp and get huckleberry milkshakes and they could go as long as they had a counselor. Well I thought they were kidding and they said they werent and i believed them cause other people had gone before too. So I asked Brian and he said no. He said some people snuck down there and werent suppose to. The boys were so mad, i felt bad for them. I mean it was a stupid milkshake, i dont know why they cared so much if I was going with them. We could walk down there! Well I know if we go back im gonna go get them for them even if I get yelled at, its just a milkshake, the world wont end. But actually once camp was over we went over and got one, it was great too lol.
Oh and the one day we went to the pool, i was dreading recreation time cause it was just gonna take forever to get through and it was pouring the rain so we had to stay in a specific place for 3 hours, well till it was time for the girls to go swim. But anyway card games were a big deal with the counselors. I had no idea why but we were always playing cards. Well anyway they had extras laying around so me and most of my boys sat and played. Caleb taught me like 8 games lol. I knew nothing, i didnt know how to play anything. He had lots of patience cause he sat and told me how to do them all and I was slow at them too, so it was good. Lots of fun. I think he was just happy to have someone pay attention to him honestly lol.
Well once camp was over we packed up and went to Glacier National Park for our hike. Well we got there and found out it was 12$ a person and no one really wanted to pay that for mud and rain, so we decided to go to the Hungry Horse dam, which is the 4th largest in the country. It was great! Great pics, especially the one i got next to the sign haha. I'll post a link to my facebook pics, u'll know which pic im talking about when u see it lol. And then we went to the hotel, the Super 8 which sounds cheap, but honestly was SO nice. We thought we were living in luxury compared to those cabins. And the rooms were so big with nice beds!!! It was 3 to a room and I shared the bed with Lauren, which I thought was a bad idea cause shes kinda big too, but i fell asleep before she got back in the room and didnt move or wake up till my alarm went off. So i didnt notice anyone was there lol. But then we went and had pizza at pizza hut which was good since we dont have any sit down pizza huts in chattanooga anymore. And then some of us went back to Walmart and I got some cards and a cowboy hat, thats what I wanted most from the trip. It was good. It got smashed in my suitcase on the way home, but its good lol.
And then I was out cold for the night and we got up saturday and went back to Glacier for our boat cruise through Lake McDonald. It was beautiful, but freezing. You could sit down below or go up top and take pics which I did some of both but it was so cold. I also ended up wearing my pink hoodie, then my pink rain jacket over that for wind and then I bought a pink and black ball cap haha. And then I had my pink luggage too. Everyone was like, do u like pink lol? I had told Lauren that yes I do like pink, but it just looked like I had alot more pink than everyone else cause the main pieces of clothing and accessories they saw were pink, i dont have more pink than any other girl, i dont think at least. But anyway we went to eat lunch at Jammer Joes after that which was italian, so we had pizza again.
And then we had a car tour in these awesome cars from the 30s that looked like hummers. Well these are made to take the top off and the windows down so u could take pics of the mountains as u went by. It was raining and cold, but our car decided to be bold and put the top back anyway lol. I dont think I was that cold the whole trip lol. It was fun though. And I also got to cuddle with Jonathan for 3 hours!!! Ahh!!! I was FABULOUS!!! Jonathan was in the band, taking the place of Brittany who couldnt come cause of work. He goes to Woodland park baptist. Hes latino and FABULOUSLY BEAUTIFUL. He also works at Chik Fil A lol. And hes 19 next month. He was so great. I drooled over him the whole trip. Oh yeah and on our car tour the whole car decided to play freeze out, which is where everyone takes off their clothes on top, well the girls went to their t shirts, but yeah it was like 40 outside and then the wind was going and there we all are top less lol. It was SO funny. And amazingly, once we all put our clothes back on in the car, we were warm. It was crazy.
And then we went to eat that night at the Backdoor, which was a place that gave us bbq and more pizza lol. It was all unlimited and fabulous. And they have this stuff called indian fry bread which were these huge pieces of fried bread that were like a cross between a donut, bagel and funnel cake all in one. They were great.
And then we went back to our host homes that night and Emma had made us homemade brownies with chocolate icing!!! Ahh!!! We ate so many they made us sick. They were still warm too. SOOO good. And we then we went to first service the next morning at church, which no one goes to lol. And we went to Arbys for lunch and then on to the airport. We flew to Minnesapolis, then to Atlanta and then we met the other team from bayside that had gone to Montana and we all rode home for 2 hours on a school bus. No im not kidding, we were all crammed onto a school bus in the fabulous GA heat. It was so hot when we got home, we were excited lol. I got home about 2. Felt real good.
Great trip though!!! I was so glad I went!!! Im praying that we go back next year.
Sunday, June 4, 2006
Montana is coming
So I realized I havent updated all week which isnt a big deal though cause not much has happened during the week but i thought i'd update anyway.
So I went out with Becca to a movie and dinner on thursday. I wanted to hear all about her prom night too lol. So we saw Xmen which was good and went to Olive Garden, which was the 3rd time ive been there in 2 weeks haha. I cant get sick of that place no matter how hard I try lol.
And then on Friday I went to lunch at Shogun with Lindley!!! We had such a good time!!! She was already cracking up when I got out of the car to meet her lol. She always laughs at what I say, she makes me feel funny when really my sarcasm that I always use when I speak, makes her laugh hysterically lol. Its really not that funny to me lol. But anyway shogun was great, so much food though. I went to Target before that though and bought a dress I didnt need lol. I saw it a week before and wanted to wait and get it with my parents money but I decided to go anyway and im glad I did cause Lindley ended up being late so it was good I had something to do. Its a cute dress too, short sleeved, stretchy, airy, black with little blue polka dots all over it and it looks semi like a wrap dress around my waist/boobs. Kinda got some cleavage there too, gotta watch when I bend over lol.
Oh yeah Christina Aguilera's new song is good, random I know lol.
Oh yeah I had my disaster relief classes this past friday and saturday. Not as much fun as I had expected lol. So I got there on Friday for class from 6:30-9:30 and it went by pretty quick. The only problem was that I was the youngest person there, which I expected though. So I befriended the older couples who sat at my table lol. They were nice. Oh and it was kinda creepy though cause I met a couple who went to Brainerd Baptist and it was odd cause I went to work there this morning in the daycare, i'll get to that in a minute.
So yeah in order to be certified by the Southern Baptist Convention (Tennessee part) I had to go to that intro class on friday and at least 1 class on saturday, well I ended up going to 3 on saturday. So u have to be certified in different classes to work in those areas if u go to help with relief. Well of all things, child care was not offered at my session for some reason which sucks. But its also an 8 hour thing, bleh. But yeah it was alot of information i couldnt take it all in at once lol.
Well I was kinda bummed to find out that YOU have to provide all the funds and transportation for yourself. I kinda figured theyd gather people up from the area and take them all together on a bus or something. But I was kinda confused by it all. Kinda something about u can get in a group with your church and go and u can also contact the North American Mission Board or something and they can send u somewhere specifically to a group. I was and am still confused on that area. Goll they kept talking of stories and all too and they ALL related to Louisiana, of course.
But on saturday I took 1 class called chainsaw, which sounds scary and it kinda was but apparently they need brush pullers once the trees are cut and all, so I would be doing that, too scared to use the chainsaws. Haha one lady was called the 'drag queen' haha cause she drug so much brush.
And then I went to a flood recovery class which was basically what to do with all the mold that appears in houses. It appears in 48 hours and they talked about all that u do, wear, take. Lots of stuff.
And then I took a laundy/shower unit class. Apparently it used by volunteers and victims to wash and shower cause obviously they dont have a place to do those things.
Oh and I found out that if u go on a relief mission, u take all the food your gonna eat and your bedding, down to what u sleep on, not just sheets and all. U gotta take an air mattress or a cot or something. They promise u a place to sleep, not a something to sleep on.
I dont know if im gonna actually go help though cause Im not sure about the whole team thing and I also dont know if i could afford it. All the supplies u need to help, u gotta pay for. SO MUCH MONEY.
And then I go to Montana saturday, nervous about that. But it should be good. The whole idea of camping does not thrill me still and then I gotta teach too, which shouldnt be scary since im gonna be a teacher obviously, but its middle and high schoolers, so its harder. And on top of that its witnessing, which technically ive never done before in this manner. So its all on me. Kinda scary.
I leave saturday and come back the next sunday, 10-18. Pray for me and my trip por favore. I'm sure i'll have a super long entry when I come back.
So I went out with Becca to a movie and dinner on thursday. I wanted to hear all about her prom night too lol. So we saw Xmen which was good and went to Olive Garden, which was the 3rd time ive been there in 2 weeks haha. I cant get sick of that place no matter how hard I try lol.
And then on Friday I went to lunch at Shogun with Lindley!!! We had such a good time!!! She was already cracking up when I got out of the car to meet her lol. She always laughs at what I say, she makes me feel funny when really my sarcasm that I always use when I speak, makes her laugh hysterically lol. Its really not that funny to me lol. But anyway shogun was great, so much food though. I went to Target before that though and bought a dress I didnt need lol. I saw it a week before and wanted to wait and get it with my parents money but I decided to go anyway and im glad I did cause Lindley ended up being late so it was good I had something to do. Its a cute dress too, short sleeved, stretchy, airy, black with little blue polka dots all over it and it looks semi like a wrap dress around my waist/boobs. Kinda got some cleavage there too, gotta watch when I bend over lol.
Oh yeah Christina Aguilera's new song is good, random I know lol.
Oh yeah I had my disaster relief classes this past friday and saturday. Not as much fun as I had expected lol. So I got there on Friday for class from 6:30-9:30 and it went by pretty quick. The only problem was that I was the youngest person there, which I expected though. So I befriended the older couples who sat at my table lol. They were nice. Oh and it was kinda creepy though cause I met a couple who went to Brainerd Baptist and it was odd cause I went to work there this morning in the daycare, i'll get to that in a minute.
So yeah in order to be certified by the Southern Baptist Convention (Tennessee part) I had to go to that intro class on friday and at least 1 class on saturday, well I ended up going to 3 on saturday. So u have to be certified in different classes to work in those areas if u go to help with relief. Well of all things, child care was not offered at my session for some reason which sucks. But its also an 8 hour thing, bleh. But yeah it was alot of information i couldnt take it all in at once lol.
Well I was kinda bummed to find out that YOU have to provide all the funds and transportation for yourself. I kinda figured theyd gather people up from the area and take them all together on a bus or something. But I was kinda confused by it all. Kinda something about u can get in a group with your church and go and u can also contact the North American Mission Board or something and they can send u somewhere specifically to a group. I was and am still confused on that area. Goll they kept talking of stories and all too and they ALL related to Louisiana, of course.
But on saturday I took 1 class called chainsaw, which sounds scary and it kinda was but apparently they need brush pullers once the trees are cut and all, so I would be doing that, too scared to use the chainsaws. Haha one lady was called the 'drag queen' haha cause she drug so much brush.
And then I went to a flood recovery class which was basically what to do with all the mold that appears in houses. It appears in 48 hours and they talked about all that u do, wear, take. Lots of stuff.
And then I took a laundy/shower unit class. Apparently it used by volunteers and victims to wash and shower cause obviously they dont have a place to do those things.
Oh and I found out that if u go on a relief mission, u take all the food your gonna eat and your bedding, down to what u sleep on, not just sheets and all. U gotta take an air mattress or a cot or something. They promise u a place to sleep, not a something to sleep on.
I dont know if im gonna actually go help though cause Im not sure about the whole team thing and I also dont know if i could afford it. All the supplies u need to help, u gotta pay for. SO MUCH MONEY.
And then I go to Montana saturday, nervous about that. But it should be good. The whole idea of camping does not thrill me still and then I gotta teach too, which shouldnt be scary since im gonna be a teacher obviously, but its middle and high schoolers, so its harder. And on top of that its witnessing, which technically ive never done before in this manner. So its all on me. Kinda scary.
I leave saturday and come back the next sunday, 10-18. Pray for me and my trip por favore. I'm sure i'll have a super long entry when I come back.
Sunday, May 28, 2006
Baptism
Well after a year of planning I finally got rebaptized tonight lol. I told Eddy I wanted to last May and we just now got around to doing it. We baptize every month but things just never worked out or whatever and I was about to forget about it but we started doing a study on revelation in sunday school and that got me thinking. So i started bothering the poo out of Eddy about it and the office finally called me cause they put u on the baptism list.
So I go and meet in a room with Eric (hes the pastor, Eddy is the youth minister and he wanted to baptize me) and the other baptizees lol. There was a couple and a little boy who looked like he was in elementary school. Very cute. I know what was so sweet was that the couple got baptized together!!! I was like aww, how nice. They got in the water together and Eric baptized them one at a time. Very nice.
Well I wore a white t shirt, white bra, my white linen pants, and white underwear and then white socks. And then they give u a robe to wear over that. And behind the baptistry theres a male side and a female side so u can change and get ready yada yada. So there are 2 women that help us get ready and who helped us get the robe off and get all the water up.
So I was last to go cause Eddy was only baptizing me and I get in the water, which was very warm, and Eddy starts talking about me and all and I look over and there I am on the BIG screen, I had no idea they were doing that and there are 2 BIG screens on each side of the church, so I looked real good on there haha yeah.
So were suppose to hold our right arm out palm up and then grab their arm with our left hand. And then we squat down semi and they put us back. Well the water went up my nose and burned since I havent had chlorine around me in a year lol. It was good though.
So yeah I walk out and the woman who was there was standing in the tin bucket thing were suppose to dry off in and she was naked lol. She had a towel over her but I was like hmm..I dont really wanna strip in front of u all so I crammed myself in the little room and peeled my clothes off to change lol.
Oh and I was kinda excited cause Eric told us we were suppose to be the first baptism withh the Spanish ministry, there was a guy who was suppose to be baptized too with Spanish translation but he never showed for some reason. That would have been good. But anyway yeah it was good overall. Its about time. Ive been living my life for the Lord since 8th grade techincally so yeah 6 years later is about time to get rebaptized lol.
So I go and meet in a room with Eric (hes the pastor, Eddy is the youth minister and he wanted to baptize me) and the other baptizees lol. There was a couple and a little boy who looked like he was in elementary school. Very cute. I know what was so sweet was that the couple got baptized together!!! I was like aww, how nice. They got in the water together and Eric baptized them one at a time. Very nice.
Well I wore a white t shirt, white bra, my white linen pants, and white underwear and then white socks. And then they give u a robe to wear over that. And behind the baptistry theres a male side and a female side so u can change and get ready yada yada. So there are 2 women that help us get ready and who helped us get the robe off and get all the water up.
So I was last to go cause Eddy was only baptizing me and I get in the water, which was very warm, and Eddy starts talking about me and all and I look over and there I am on the BIG screen, I had no idea they were doing that and there are 2 BIG screens on each side of the church, so I looked real good on there haha yeah.
So were suppose to hold our right arm out palm up and then grab their arm with our left hand. And then we squat down semi and they put us back. Well the water went up my nose and burned since I havent had chlorine around me in a year lol. It was good though.
So yeah I walk out and the woman who was there was standing in the tin bucket thing were suppose to dry off in and she was naked lol. She had a towel over her but I was like hmm..I dont really wanna strip in front of u all so I crammed myself in the little room and peeled my clothes off to change lol.
Oh and I was kinda excited cause Eric told us we were suppose to be the first baptism withh the Spanish ministry, there was a guy who was suppose to be baptized too with Spanish translation but he never showed for some reason. That would have been good. But anyway yeah it was good overall. Its about time. Ive been living my life for the Lord since 8th grade techincally so yeah 6 years later is about time to get rebaptized lol.
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