Leaders had a meeting a 7:00am, my alarm went off at 6:45am and I spent a few minutes trying to wake up Ian without waking the others up, this involved me whispering "IAN! IAN!" and loudly as I could whisper, and poking him with my mobile phone. Eventually he got up and told me he dreamt about how me poking him made it into his dream, then he woke up the youth.
I put on a jacket (neglected to bring a jumper) then headed towards the hall for our meeting. It's fun looking at how tired and restless everyone else looked, I'm sure I didn't look any better myself (I never do). We had devotion time, going through the passage for today then prayed, had debrief of the day before, prayed some more then headed for breakfast, which was a meatball and toast, which was sufficient for me.
After breakfast was chapel time, which was the passage Mark 4:35-41, Jesus calms the storm. This passage showed us who Jesus was, he wasn't just a teacher, a prophet or some random guy, he was so much more, he is God! So while the disciples were all afraid on the boat when the storm was rampaging, Jesus remained calm, seemingly in control of the situation. So we should have faith in Jesus, for if Jesus is for us, who can be against us? I suppose the basic gist was to show what kind of person Jesus was, which makes sense, we should know who we are following, its fortunate we are following such a powerful person!
After chapel time was question time, which took a while to start off, but once we started, it was good and we had questions from the youth. Priorities are always a cause for concern with people, the whole putting God as number one above everything can be tough for people to do. Maybe people see it as once you have God as number one you can't be devoted to other things? Putting God as first priority is not a bad thing obviously, but I suppose its the process of having Him as number one that's hardest, especially with family, studies and whatnot happening, but you won't fail your studies just because you have God as number one (unless you don't study) or lose your family just because you have God as number (unless you ignore them).
11am was time for the first activity for youth to do, ranging from canoeing to abseiling to archery to swimming to whatever. I was tired so I stayed back at the campsite and hung out with the other leaders who stayed behind. Can't remember what exactly I did though, but whatever I did I did it until lunch time, then afterwards was the second activity for youth to do, some of which went to volleyball, so I decided to go down and take a few photo's, videos. There was quite a crowd for volleyball too, which was pretty cool.
Air David (Ha)
Volleyballin'
After volleyballing for one hour we headed back up for refreshments, to keep the youth entertained Bryan played our youth group's Oscar Night videos, which drew quite a crowd, if only to see what was being shown. This worked well in getting the youth to one place so we could explain the next game to them, which was Ultimate Frisbee! We joined our eight teams to make four teams and had them face each other. The basic idea of Ultimate Frisbee was that you pass the frisbee to one another across the field, then throw it to one of your teammates past the 'goal line'.
Competitiveness amongst all
One highlight was one of the teams, called Beautiful Girls decided to put all their girls on to play, and they went on to win their match. In the end we broke the overall winning team back into their individual teams and had them verse each other. We played with an 8 minute time limit and the goals were even all the way through up until the last minute where one team scored a deciding goal, leaving the score 4-3 I believe. So that made for an exciting last round.
Will's daily struggle (sorry Will :p)
After Ultimate Frisbee was dinner, which I can't be bothered trying to remember what we had so I'll skip on ahead to Evening Activities. The first activity was newspaper mascot, each team had to dress one member in newspaper to create a mascot of sorts. Then at the end there's a catwalk of sorts to show off their 'mascot'.
Cut and Paste Them Newspapers!
All teams produced something quite awesome, but I didn't want to put up 8 photo's so I'll just put up the two photos that came out non-blurry.
From the team Beautiful Girls...
Dressed to uh..win!?
They dressed Phil up as what you would probably call a Beautiful Girl.
And from the team whose name I've forgotten (mainly because I can't remember which team he was on) Man and a Spartan warrior!
For Sparta!!
Originally we were supposed to play a capture the flag game in the dark with glowsticks, but with the weather raining up we had to postpone that game until the next day, which meant moving my trivia game to today. So I had to get my stuff ready and fast! I really liked how I planned trivia, all done on powerpoint in as fun a style as I could make it. Five categories with five questions, 'Let's Get Physical', named after that song, and of course involves physical challenges, all created by Bryan. Musical Substitune, at attempt at a pun, where you sing a song with words from a different text, and you have to guess the song. Hybrid Handicap, something I made up to throw in five random questions that I wanted. Seeking SYC, another alliteratory attempt, involving SYC related questions. Screened Scene, television and movie related questions, with a bad title. Every team went for physical challenges first, which was suprising, maybe because they didn't know what to expect from the other categories. It was fun watching Dewey do a perfect handstand, the guys duke it out in a pushup challenge (which David Ha won), four girls do a crab stance with the support of everyone when they finally beat the 1 minute mark, Man and Jason beating up Haste in order to make him cry (he didn't), only to have a girl shed a tear winning 50 points and finally...
The Showdown
Watching Bryan try to hold off Ian for 2 minutes, but to no avail. Musical Substitune took a while for people to understand, but was fun nontheless, singing Close To You with the words from the SYC booklet was funny, and finding out some people (girls) didn't know Wannabe by the Spice Girls or I Want It That Way by the Backstreet Boys, make you feel old, but then I wouldn't want to know those songs either.
Seeking SYC and Screened Scene were least picked, I suppose because straight out answering questions isn't all that fun or something. Hybrid Handicap was fun (because it was my own category lol), which involved people trying to beat me thrice in Scissors, Paper, Rock, attempting to guess the number I was thinking in my head, skip rope and do two criss crosses, solve a riddle and eat a raw egg (which was done easier than I thought). Apparently trivia turned out better than people had thought, based on previous trivia's, so that was a pleasant suprise. But I ended up losing my skipping rope. But thanks to Joyce and Bryan for helping me out there, and Kitty for her egg!
After evening games was supper, I took this time to take a shower before sleeping. The boys in my dorm went off to Nelson's room to play poker, Ian went to 'supervise' so I was left alone, which I took advantage of and tried to get to sleep before they got back...they got back and I was still awake, but was listening to music on my mobile phone, so that helped drown out some of the sound and soon enough I drifted off to sleep...Day 2.
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