i think that's the title of the song
I'M HOME!!!
i'm just going to do a really fast recap of the trip and then a couple specifics if i have the patience to
the first week was all work projects; we build a fence, a playground, painted trim, pulled A LOT of weeds, picked up A LOT of rocks, and prepped for the VBS; a close friend of about four people on the site died in the first week and so that was really hard; i spent a lot of time in the first week crying about my Grandpa
the second week was VBS, basketball clinic, and basketball tournament; i was in the VBS skit at the beginning of each day as a really bad gymnast, which was really hard because i didn't want to embarrass myself; i also spent a lot of time with little kids and they actually liked me! i was sooo happy about that
we decided that we would have one hour time slots (during work projects, VBS, and basketball stuff) in which three people would stop what they were doing and get together and pray for other sites, others on the site, and anything else they could think of
okay, specifics:
*on the first day of work projects, there was this forty mile per hour wind that actually picked up David Mitchell! it was amazing
*the girls decided they wanted to show the guys how much we appreciated them (this was right before we went to sleep) so we decided to do a take off of Part of Their World from The Little Mermaid so the next day, we blocked off the dining room because it was right next to our sleeping area and we said we were doing some major cleaning (all of the guys believed us (there was no lying on Project Serve *glances around nervously*)) and we put big pieces of blue construction paper (like from a roll) and wrote things like "You're Especial", "We Love You", et cetera on them; so then we prayed and told the guys that we would be serving them (they were confused when we told them to sit down but then got really excited when we told them why) and we told them what the meal was and Jenn and i went to Matt Taylor; we went out and put pink streamers in our hair for like bows and fed them and then sang to them; here it is:
Look at our guys, aren't they neat. Wouldn't you think our site is complete? Wouldn't you think we're the girls, girls who have everything. Look at our guys, treasures untold. How many wonders can one site hold. Looking around here you'd think, sure, we've got everything. We've got blondes and redheads a plenty. We've got short hair and curly galore. You want long hair? We've got plenty but why cares, no big deal, we want mullets! We want to be where the guys are, we wanna see, wanna see 'um digging, digging up all of those, what's the word? oh... rocks! Flipping your hair, you don't get too far. Guys were made for lifting, weeding, serving our Lord here in... Challis.. here where they joke here where they work, here where they hike the mountains up high. Working all day, we are so glad you're part of our site. What would we give if we could serve with you forever. What would we pay if we could stay here in Challis. Betcha in Idaho, they understand that you don't repremand your brothers. Strong young men, sick of sinning, ready to stand. And ready to know what God knows. Asking some questions and getting answers like what is a hot spring and why does it, what's the word? smell! Isn't it swell, serving God here, where we can share his wonderful love. Aren't we so glad, so very glad, He's part of our site!!
*we were all very aware that would be very difficult for the boys to top and weren't planning on that happening; we all had to go back to the basketball tournament after the church service (those of us who weren't already there) and we were all about to get into the vans when DAvid Mitchell takes out his guitar and is like "girls, we have something for you" and they start singing, badly. Matt Taylor gets a solo and he's singing terribly, all squeeky and high pitched so he gets embarrassed and runs really fast away with Dan Smith, Tim Balow, and Steve Southwell following him. we all get in the vans to where they are. Matt's in the middle and the guys are comforting him, we all get out and they stand up and have flowers for all of us. then some guys come out of the vans with brown paper bags and tell them we have to put them over our heads. they lead us all to the vans and bother us while driving (saying things like "look at that beautiful white horse running alongside the car" and so on and so forth) and then they lead us out of the vans and when we take our bags off, they're standing in a line across from the line they put us in and there's a bonfire between us; the scenery was gorgeous and there was a real log cabin. They sang (Everything I Do) I Do It For You by Bryan Adams:
Look into my eyes - you will see
What you mean to me
Search your heart - search your soul
And when you find me there you'll search no more

Don't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
You can't tell me it's not worth dyin' for
You know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you

Look into your heart - you will find
There's nothin' there to hide
Take me as I am - take my life
I would give it all - I would sacrifice

Don't tell me it's not worth fightin' for
I can't help it - there's nothin' I want more
Ya know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you

There's no love - like your love
And no other - could give more love
There's nowhere - unless you're there
All the time - all the way

Oh - you can't tell me it's not worth tryin' for
I can't help it - there's nothin' I want more
I would fight for you - I'd lie for you
Walk the wire for you - ya I'd die for you

Ya know it's true
Everything I do - I do it for you


i can't update any more, i'll do some more later

I PASSED MY DRIVER'S TEST!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
YAY!
yeah, i did really well, i'm very happy about that
i do have a request if any one who reads this would pray for my grandpa because he's in the hospital and hasn't woken up in five days because he had a stroke and i'm nervous and i want him to come out of it okay
i have finals starting tomorrow, here's the schedule
June 3: english
June 4: spanish then math
June 5: Driver's Ed then history
June 7: chemistry then biology
and i am right on the edge of an A in english, spanish, math, driver's ed, and biology so i have to do really well on all of my finals
GAHH!!!!
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i have a reason for having a crappy song as my music, just read below
So I woke up yesterday morning and went online just for the heck of it and chatted with Chris for a bit… worked on some homework… went to my first workday at Steamer’s. That was nice but a little hectic. I walked home and was sure I was going to faint because I hadn’t had anything to eat or drink (save about half a cup of water) all day and I jogged part of the way. When I got home, I took a shower and then went to Relay. It was crazy. We did our first lap and it started raining but we kept walking and then it started to thunderstorm so we had to go inside the school. We stayed there for about forty-five minutes to an hour. I did some catching up with Ally, which was cool. We got back outside and Ally and I walked around the track for a while. I jumped in a puddle and splashed her pretty bad and then she splashed me, so my shirt that I had just put on got all wet but I really didn’t care. Later in the night, we had to go to back inside because it was lightning, even though the lightning wasn’t even over us. We did the luminaria ceremony inside and chilled inside for a while. We went back out around midnight and I started walking around the track. My pants were rolled up really high because otherwise they wouldn’t have stayed rolled up and they would have dragged in the water, which would not have been cool. However, I wasn’t indecent because I had a blanket wrapped around me and I walked around for about two hours or so. My mind actually stayed on the same subject the entire time. It wasn’t a very happy subject, though. I suppose I was just lonely because I kept seeing all these couples and it was like “AHH! SO FRUSTRATING!” I really don’t want a boyfriend, but I suppose I like the idea of it. Anyways, I finally decided to talk to Manny about it because he was the only one there that I could talk to about things like this that isn’t dating anyone. In any case, Ian said the funniest thing I had ever heard him say at around four o’clock in the morning. They started playing “Toxic” by Britney Spears and I was complaining about how bad of a singer she is.
Ian: “No, she’s good”
Me: “No, she’s really not, they use computers to enhance her voice”
Ian: “That’s because she’s toxic”
It was just hilarious. Anyways, I spent a lot of time chatting with Rusty and he’s a cool kid. Right now, the bottoms of my feet kill from walking around without anything on my feet and my ankles and legs hurt from walking for so long. I think it totals somewhere around seven hours. But yeah, I slept through my alarm again. That’s all
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GAH!!!!! school!
i'll just go through my day
Chemistry: Greg came back and that sucked because it was so nice without him there and Louront asked a lot of stupid questions that none of us cared about except for him and because of the two of them together, we almost didn't finish the notes on time
Biology: uneventful
Driver's Education: Betsy Carlson (president of DuPage section of MADD) came in and talked to us; she had been hit by a drunk driver and has had over forty surgeries in the past thirty years to fix all the stuff that happened to her, most people that saw her at the scene of the crash assumed she was dead because of how terrible it was; she also had her period for two years because of the stroke she had that they didn't know about; she broke her wrist and dislocated her jawbone and they didn't know about it; it was just horrible what she's gone through
History: we finished Dr. Strangelove which was hilarious
English: i started thinking about Chris being gone this summer and i almost started crying; the last day of school is the seventh of June and then we leave for PS on the twelfth and get back on the twenty-sixth of June; i leave for Cornerstone on the twenty-eighth of June and get back somewhere around the fifth of July; Chris leaves to go intern with Jay on the first of July and doesn't get back until the fifteenth of August; then we've got somewhere around eight or so days until he leaves for college on the twenty-fourth of August and he'll be getting ready to go off to college for basically that entire week and spending time with his family because he hasn't seen them and won't see them for a while; i really don't know what i'm going to do when he goes off to college; i'm hoping that from this summer, i'll be more prepared to not have him around as much and i'll be writing him this summer and when he goes to college as well
Lunch: i ask Manny some questions concerning Relay and he's just rude about it and now i'm mad at him again; what else is new, right?
english: mr. downie gives us this assignment in which he wants us to go to this all black church where his friend is a reverend and get a bulletin and watch the sermon and write a page-long paper on our experience in a black church so i ask him if i can use my experience from project serve because i was in Brooklyn and that was definitely an all black church and he said no; the idea behind this extra credit was so that we could get the experience of seeing what a black church was like and i've got that and it's just frustrating to me
Spanish: uneventful
Math: mrs. blanco was so pissy today, it just put me in a worse mood than i was already in; luckily we're seeing Show Choir perform tomorrow so we won't have to have math tomorrow
and now, my dad's worried that something's happened to my grandparents (his parents) and i don't know what it is because one of his sisters called and said something about a hospital calling her and she said she'd call him back later and now one of my dad's brothers is on the phone with him
but yeah, i've got homework to do
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GAH!!!!!
okay so i went into the counselor's office this morning to see if i could change my schedule because Ruthie had to get hers changed and Mr. Grosernaud is like "you can't take CAD (computer assisted drafting) first semester" so i moved it to second semester and i'm taking CAD 2 first semester senior year and CAD 3 second semester senior year so i had an opening in my schedule and he just put in a study hall for me for the time being; i wanted to switch RTE (responding to emergencies) and health but health is sooo full they can't switch it and i don't really know if i want to take AP Gov't and Politics next year right now because a lot of people are taking speech first semester and i'm signed up for second semester and i'd rather take it with them first semester, even if i'm not in their class, it's hard to explain why though so i'm not going to try; anyways so i went back later that day because i had made an appointment but apparently the secretary who had made the appointment for me didn't bother to tell Mr. Grosernaud that i was coming so i sat in the guidance office for twenty minutes because he was with someone else; i went in and asked if i could take psychology and i couldn't so he just told me to wait a week because a lot of people would be changing their schedules with health and driver's ed and such so i'm going to be paranoid about it for the entire week because i can't calm down until i know that everything's going to be okay
Relay's less than a week away and bank night is tonight and that's only going to take like thirty minutes but neither of my parents are home so i'm getting a ride with someone really early and i'm probably going to have to stay really late even though i want to go to large group at my church and i'm not going to have anything to do while i'm just sitting there
okay, i don't feel very much better but i've vented and that's all i can really do unless i call someone and beg them to come get me so i can go to large groups
GAH!!!!!!!!!!
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iGAH! school tomorrow
So, I haven’t had a very eventful weekend. I did some chores, a lot of homework, some errands, and I went to a Project Serve meeting. That was fun though. I was doing skits and I had a really big problem with this one part and Dave laughed at me. It was bad. The second skit was really, really good though. Nathan was Jesus and he was really good at it. I hate biology, though, just as a note. We had to do a lab and it was really stupid. While I’m complaining, chemistry is terrible as well. First, Mr. Fleddermann isn’t that great of a teacher; and second, Greg is the most annoying thing in the world. He doesn’t know how to shut up. I’ve yelled at him twice in two days now and I really want to throw my water bottle at him. When I’m mad, my aim is somehow better. I’m not really sure how that works, but it does and it’s nice that way. GAH! Manny hugged me when I got to the meeting today and I was wearing my back brace. I hated it. I feel so disgusting when people touch me and I’m wearing it. Best of all, my curves have doubled in a year so I have to wear it for at least six more months and for longer periods of time during the day. It’s really aggravating because I asked the doctor intelligent questions and he gave me crappy answers. Ah well, I’ve got to go, but I’ll update another day.
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