Calvary Chapel's High School Summer Retreat.

*Warning. This blog contains lots and lots of photos.

It's taken me long enough, but finally, my blog about the high school summer retreat I helped out at.

Calvary Chapel West Grove is my church, and this year, I got the pleasure of being able to help out at the high school summer retreat. I've helped out with Jr. High before and it was a lot of fun, so I was totally stoaked when Pastor Eric asked for me to come up.

The whole week was totally awesome: the kids were great, helping out was a lot of fun, and hanging out in general was a blast.

A couple kids came to the Lord that week, which was amazing. And at the end of the week, they were baptized at the beach. The Lord is good.

On the last night there we had an afterglow, and it was just amazing to see all the kids there, worshiping and praising the Lord, praying for other people, people they didn't even know. At one point in the night almost every single one of the kids had stood up, and it was a beautiful thing to see.

GAMES

They do this thing that they call Color Wars. They have different games every day, and the kids play against each other, Red against Blue. Some of the games are freakin insane and the kids can get crazy sometimes:

Egg Toss

Bobbing for....ONIONS. With some eggs.

The Obstacle Course

The best one of all:

Dodgeball!

Or as we liked to call it that week: "Doggy Ball"

Leaders vs. Blue Team boys

Feed your Neighbor

The games were really fun to watch. Some of the kids get crazy. Red team ended up winning by 2 points!

Here are some other fun pictures from the week.

Slicing and Dicing

59 eggs for breakfast for the leaders

We got crazy

One of the last things the teams had to do was put on a skit, whoever won got more points. What they ended up doing was combing the Red Team and the Blue Team, everyone [who didn't know] was shocked....because they couldn't have a specific "winner", it resulted in a dance off.

PRANKS

All the high schoolers had to be in their tents about 11:00 each night. Us, being leaders, got to stay up as late as we wanted. Well every year there is a break out of pranks that go on, this year this is what we decided to do:

There is the place where everyone has their chairs set where everyone meets before meals and also to listen to the main study. Well, one night, us "young adults" decided to gather everyones chairs, put them in the middle of the gathering area, and saran wrap and duct tape them all together. It was amazing.

Another one of the pranks we did, or helped out with, was duct taping a kid to some poles. He has always given one of the older leaders a hard time, and says he looks like Joe Biden[which he does I must have to say], so he wanted to get him back. I have pictures but for some reason I'm having trouble upload them, you can look at those pictures and also the other pictures from the whole camp HERE. There are two albums: Summer Retreat 2009 and Summer Retreat 2009(2). If you're really looking for the pranks, its in the second one.

Well, another one of the pranks we were planning on doing was in the middle of the night go and unhook some of the tents, so they collapse. Yes it may sound mean but, we would mainly be doing it to the kids we knew. Anyway, we didn't get around to doing it so on one of the last nights, Marissa's(a friend of mine and also a leader) little brother decided to pull that prank on us girls. at 6:30 in the morning. When we had gone to bed just 3 hours before. It was wonderful, really. So, the next day, Frankie decides to get revenge for us girls. (thank you boyfriend) There was leftover fish that had been laying out all night, so what does he decide to do? Rub it all in his face. watch the video and enjoy:

Overall, the camp was just absolutely amazing. I had so much fun. And it wasn't even just having fun with the friends that were helping out with you, it was also serving the kids there, because that's what you're there to do, is serve them. I was really glad to be there, and I can't wait to go back and help out again next summer.

macbook pro...and some.

So it's been a while, and I've been meaning to blog for so long, but have been extremely busy with other things..

A couple weeks ago a purchased, the amazing Macbook Pro. 13 inch. I absolutely love it. It's amazing. I was waiting so long to blog about because I was waiting for a picture, but I never got around to taking one so, I'll do with this. I'm hoping to blog more since I have it, it's a goal of mine.

Here's the beauty:

Taken, by my laptop, with the wonderful "screenshot". One of the many amazing things it can do.

So for now, I'm leaving you with that. I have a full day of work ahead of me. But since I have the next week off, I will be blogging about what's been going on lately.

Coming Soon:

Helping out at a High School Summer Retreat.

A One Year Celebration<3

concerts schmoncerts.

I find concerts very amusing. Though I have only been to two, I have found, funny things about the whole shindig. 

For those 3 of you out there that read my blog, you know I went to see Coldplay last week. Last night I went and saw The Fray, with my boyfriend and my parents. Total last minute random thing. Anyways, last night is when I discovered most of these wonderful findings about concerts.

For one, you aallwayys have those drunk people around you. Or, that drunk lady standing behind you the whole show yelling, and almost crying, while her husband is sitting on the ground shaking his head. Really, it was the funniest thing ever. Her voice was just, trashed and she's screaming, "THE FRAY" the whole time. And while they would talk to the audience, she would scream, "JUST SING ALREADY! Ohhhhhh I cant take this!!" And of course she makes friends with the other drunks next to her..We couldn't help but laugh. 

It's always fun when you "make friends" with the people you're sitting around. Totally cool.

Yes, sometimes you will get immature boys pointing a laser at everyone during the whole entire show. But in the end you get them to take a picture of your group "since they were doing that all night"

Of course, the lovely smell of marijuana allll night. ha. I only got it once last night but at Coldplay it was pretty much all night...I will admit though I'd rather smell that than cigarette smoke.

The hours of waiting and sitting in the parking lot to leave, only to find out you could have made it out much faster if you just went to the other side.

People, or girls, dancing, to music that isn't even really, "danceable" to. Just hilarious to watch.

Needless to say I mostly encountered this last night at the Fray, and all of this really basically is about last night's adventure. After we finally got out of there(12:20), we went to 7eleven and got slurpees and candy bars. The Fray did a really good job, I will admit they were awesome. I just had an awesome time with the people I was with, rather than being worried about watching the show..

last weekends extravaganza.

This last weekend was a very fun weekend. On Saturday, me and Frankie drove up to Temecula for my little brothers birthday party. He turned 5. The theme of the party was Spongebob Squarepants, and I was unaware of this. Not only did I buy him a Spongebob game for his DS, but I came dressed looking like I was trying to match the party. I had a bright yellow shirt on, and someone even asked if I wore it on purpose. I really had no idea..

We are sort of party animals

Birthday Boy

There was a jumper and all, and here are a couple pictures of some fun we had..

looks like a legitimate floating jeanie.

the running maannn


good old pure fun.

Sunday night, was an amazing night. Me and Frankie and saw Coldplay. He, has seen them twice before, and me on the other hand, had never seen them, nor any other band in concert for that matter. So yes, I was a little bit excited.

One of the best parts of the show is when Coldplay came out in the audience and played a couple of songs. One of the reasons being:


THEY WERE RIGHT IN FRONT OF US!!!

You could see, the sweat coming off of their faces. Yes, a little disgusting, but amazing that they were that close.


It was one of the coolest, most awesome things I have ever experienced in my entire life. Seeing one of my favorite bands play, 5 feet in front of me...amazing.

The whole entire weekend was a blast. I had a great time; with my boyfriend, and family in between. I love you guys.

summer lovin'

So, it's been quite some time since i've last posted. I want to say i've been busy, but I kind of havent? But I have. A little update:

-summer speech class is officially over: stoaked about that.

-My summer literally right now is working, and going to the beach. which, other than work, is amazing.

-I dyed my hair. Darker brown, with red and purple throughout. (I know, the red and purple sound tacky, but I promise its not like that)

-I'm debating on looking for a new job. Possibly a bank?(thanks Camyron)

by the way I think I have mentioned a new job before? oh well.

-I have been on two bike rides this summer so far...keep 'em comin!

-I just got a really pretty new ring, which my wonderful boyfriend got me..and I love it.(shout out to Blythiepants for giving him the idea.)

-My Disneyland pass expires August 25, i'm renewing it online so i get $20 dollars off. ALSO, I can get the "special" design on my pass, not the standard..sweeeet. I'm also doing monthly payments, instead of all $249 up front. Just a lot easier for me..

-I tried sushi for the first time tonight...wasn't bad, not gunna lie.

-still looking for a car. I've called a lot of people but they don't call back:/ Lookin' in the $5,000 range, or lower, if anyone knows of anything, that would be great:)

In other news, I am just extremely excited for the rest of summer. Reasons being:

-July 18th:Little brothers 5th birthday party, driving up to dads house for that. Don't really see them often so, it should be a lot of fun.

-July 19th:Coldplay concert. STOAKED.

-July 25th:Sisters 10th birthday.

-July 31-Bammers 21st birthday party!

-August 1st-8th:Vacation to Mammoth! WOO!

-August 9th-14th:Helping out at high school summer camp. Really excited for that.

-Auguest 21st:A one year celebratoin<3..should be amazing.

-More beach:)

Tune in next time.