Project 12 Orientation 2008

I'm back! I was away for about 11 days helping out at this year's Project 12 class' Orientation down in Bushnell. I always love going down there! It's so peaceful and beautiful...
I had a great time swimming, spending time alone in nature with God, getting to know the students, spending time with staff, helping out...and I got baptized!
I finally got to play watermelon football for the first time which was a lot of fun! Basically, you get some kind of melon (we got a honey dew melon) and grease it up. Then, you get two teams in the water, throw the melon in the middle, and the teams wrestle to get the melon in the opposite goal. You don't have to be athletic to play since, really, one person needs to grab the melon and be able to hold it and stay above water, while the opposite team tries to steal it from him and his own team pushes him to the goal. It's really crazy and funny! There were a couple times that some people and I would start screaming not to drown the poor person that was holding the melon. A lot of times I would end up just standing around in case the melon would get thrown out of the pit, 'cause they would end up wrestling in the deeper water and I couldn't really help since I'm short haha.
I also went rope swinging which was scary and fun. It took all of us forever to do it the first time. It was scary 'cause the rope had been there for a long time and was thin. We were also kind of worried about landing in the shallow part of the water. But everything went well. The boys did it a lot, but us girls only did it a couple of times.
I will post pictures and videos of this Orientation when I get them! =)

This Project 12 class is a lot closer in age than mine was and because of this, they have become closer as a group. Being a younger group, a lot of them are very energetic, but also kind of immature. So there are good sides and bad sides to it. I'm definitely excited for them, though!
Being on staff, I'm obviously seeing things from a different view now and I'm also seeing how I've changed in the past year. I also see my own immaturity which is annoying, but hey, I'm still young, I'm only 19.

The day I left for Bushnell (we left at 9:30pm and got there at 2:30am!), I moved to my new room. I am now living on 5th floor with Hannah!
Coming home to a different room was a little weird, but it felt good and right and I'm really happy about my choice.

God is definitely stretching me a lot right now! I have a job that I can't say would be my first choice, I am now living on the floor that I always said I could never live on, I'm living in the States for more than a year (which I always said I would never do), and the way I got baptized wasn't exactly the way I had envisioned it to be. But stretching is good and this means that God will help me come through and at the end of this time I will have been changed.

Man, I really want some hot tea....I've been trying not to drink much of the teas I have because I don't want to spend money in buying more tea...but really, I shouldn't worry about it too much. It's not like I'll be spending money on something super expensive that I'll never use....I'm so bad!
So now I'm going to make some Japanese White Tea with honey and tomorrow (if I'm able to) I'm going to go buy more tea =)