I'm much, much better, and I wouldn't necessarily say I'm happy, or hyper, or colorful, I'm just....content today. And that wasn't in the little mood graphics today. So, just saying, I'm content.
AND TODAY I'M POSTING BOUT MY SUMMER!!!!!! Yes!!!!! I'm so excited. This summer was really great (except for yesterday of course ugh), so I really am excited to post. And anyway, just a quick but huge THANK YOU to YOOJIN for the comment it was really nice and helpful and very much like you. :D thanks!!!!
Time to get started. I'm so excited! Again! -runs off to get her journal and a bunch of other stuff-
Whoa, thick stack. o.o my 11th journal, my 10th journal, an ordinary notebook, and a blank notebook (sorta a sketchbook but it looks like a notebook somehow). OK I really better get going.
`took place 6/22 to 6/29`
VBS IS AWESOME! I went to it every year I could. It lasts for one week, and every day we do the following: worship, crafts, games, snacks, missionary story, and a lesson. By the way, that's the order I'll be telling each day about. Like, for each day, I'm gonna write #1 or #2 and so on, and #1 represents worship, #2 represents crafts, etc. Yeahhhh. My favorites out of all of them? I like the crafts, snacks, and missionary story. :) OK, moving on to the first day!!!
**Most of these will be quotes from my journal. :)**
DAY ONE
- I was sent to my brother's friend's house to get there. Quote from journal: "I think he was speeding!! If not, it sure felt like it." The songs that I remember singing are Mighty to Save, Amazing Love, Here I Am to Worship, Every Move I Make, and Satan Didn't Like It. Yeah.
- Pretty colors! We're making a t-shirt with pretty colors and the phrase FEAR NOT. All we did today was cut out the letters and tape it onto the t-shirt. And I heard tomorrow we're gonna spray-paint on it. Ooooh....ahhhh....
- We played a game where in the center a person had to say something that's never happened to them and anyone who was like them had to go to a different seat. GAHHHH I was moving around so much! The other game we played was a human-Foosball (when I looked in my journal I thought this said football and I was like WHAT?!). It was odd since we had to hold hands (and before the holding hands it was linking arms LOL). -_- Lots of people are sexists there. Grrr. Not me. Phew. Anyway. This random kid was showing me his rubber ducky. haha. Ok, so I had to hold a guy's hand, so first we did it til we had to, and then he just grabbed my wrist, and THEN he just held my index finger. hahaha. :D
- I was so tired from the games I drank like three cups of juice. We ate a "burning bush" for snacks. (this will deal with the lesson later) It was like a walking taco (haha I have a friend who's nickname is Taco :D). It was good. And I had some fudge!! Yummy in my tummy. XD. Fudge!!!
- Ooh in my journal it's really creative how I shared bout this. I did the who/what/when/where/etc. thing. So I'll do it here too.
WHO? Yi-ee person.
WHAT? 2 tribes are coming together and I'm not sure if it's a trap. :3
WHEN? I don't think it's too long ago since there were real photos.
WHERE? Somewhere between Australia and Indonesia.
WHY? They want 5 wives. -_- Gawd.
INTERESTING STUFFS? There was this really awesome photo of this river called Kronkel River or something and I'm gonna go search it right now to see if I can post a pic! Awww man, I searched it and it seems like it exists, but I can't find it. Oh well. - We started off talking about the theme of this week (there's a theme every year) and then today's theme. When we entered the classroom we were "sheep" crawling over "mountains"-- which were really pillows. Soft mountain! :D Then we saw a "burning bush" and it looked sooo cool! Hehe all the other "sheep" kept touching it. Then we discussed when Moses (Bible character) was chosen by God. We talked bout confidence, unsureness, read from the Bible, and prayed. Pretty decent lesson if you ask me. :)
DAY TWO
- I think at 6:40(am) my dad was pretty noisy so I woke up and that was when I set my alarm. ha. ha. I went to my mom's "daughter's" (just a really good friend) house to get sent. I tried to fall asleep on the car but I just couldn't... anyway, I don't remember any of the songs (from journal) but I remember having a great time. :)
- We decorated our t-shirts!! OMG, it was sooo fun. I'll talk bout it when we get to DAY THREE, so if you really wanna know go to DAY THREE, thanks. :D Other than that, my friend Rita's only turned out to have an 'R' which she claims is for Rita. haha. And my friend Claire's t-shirt got messed up, but she's not sad bout it because she said she already messed up when she was making it anyway. haha. No offense, Claire!
- I think we played Capture the Flag. Usually this is boring for me since I'm not the one who gets the flag. My side won twice anyway. ^____^ I remember my friend Jennifer just walked over to the other side and still got the flag. She walked. Awesome! I saved people. :) That's what I tend to do when playing Capture the Flag.
- We ate little snack bags! Each little snack represented one of the 9 first plagues spread on Egypt-- what we were gonna talk bout at the lesson. All of us saved our bags and ate them in class. Teeheehee.
- I think this was the day when we heard bout Don and Carol Richardson, these 2 Americans for the passion to save those people wherever Yi-ee was. And by the way, Yi-ee died and got eaten by the enemy. EW! And :(
- We learned about the first 9 plagues, as said at the snack place. We wrote about them on the board and discussed them. And then we acted it out and it was totally random and FUNNY. heheh.
DAY THREE
- I went to my brother's friend's house again. I saw my friends Wendy and Jonathan (OOPS I just exposed the Wenganator's identity! hahaha! Sorry!) across the street. We were stuck in a traffic jam. Aw. Too bad for me. :D We had to stand up for most of the first songs because they all had motions. So these were some of the songs I remember singing: Every Move I Make, Shine Jesus Shine, With God As My Vessel, and Deep Down in my Heart. I told Jennifer about seeing Wendy and Jonathan and she was like "Jonathan's following you!!!!". Haha, as if.
- Yes!! The time to talk about my absolutely beautiful t-shirt. :) Hmm... how do I describe it... Um... I'll just say all the colors on it. Sorry viewers. Maybe someday I'll find a picture with it. (I don't have my own camera.) So... hm.. it has: GREEN!, yellow outline for the letters, sparkly blue (very unexpected), purple, orange, pink. :) I love all those colors. We also started sewing turtles. :)
- WET WEDNESDAY! WOOT! We played that game we play every year, where you soak up a sponge, run to the other bucket, and try to be the fastest team to fill up the other bucket. Our team tied for first. =) I think my friend Jennifer and I were pretty good at catching. Heh. Then we played another game where you toss back and forth a water balloon. Jennifer and I won by default cuz we took wayyy too long to pass it. Haha. And one time, it got on the floor, but it just rolled. LOL. We got water balloons for winning! Yay!
- We ate a pizza like thing (except with matzoh or something). It was yummy, I had 2 pieces. :)
- Today we got to the part where everyone was looking at Don and Carol and Don was praying to learn the language and then I don't remember the rest really....
- We talked about the last plague and it was sorta spooky... not much else to say. =]
DAY FOUR
- For once, someone from my own family - my brother - sent me to VBS. He turned and the wheels screeched and it was awwwwwwesome! Hm... I remember standing a lot since there were so many motions. -_-
- The helpers finished sewing the turtles for us. They do that like every year. I just don't get it. Why can't we finish on our own? Well on the bright side we got to stuff the turtles! :D Mine is medium-ish. This girl Christine's was sooo fat, it was so cute. :D Some people signed my t-shirt too! =)
- Haha, all the girls wanted to play Sharks + Minnos, and all the boys wanted to play Capture the Flag. So we just split up. Eventually Jennifer, Rita, and I went to the playset. I got to go on the zip-sort-of-thing!!!! Weeeee! It was so fun. =) And then we were forced (XD kinda) to play kickball. It was awwwwwesome cuz we (girls) were winning. One time, I was running to 2nd base and Jonathan almost caught the ball but I think I got right on the base, and then he caught the ball. And then another time I was running to 3rd base, he got the ball, but when he was gonna hit my head (grr Jonathan!) I ducked and got away. HA. HA.
- Vanilla wafers: the tomb, possibly?
Whip-cream: purity or something
Strawberry: aww! LOVE! <3 - I remember Don tried to tell the Sawis (the people at wherever the place was) about the Last Supper and then they thought Judas (who was the guy who BETRAYED JESUS!) was the hero! Ahhh! They took it all wrong! =(
- We talked about the Last Supper / Resurrection. I remember matzoh, salty water, the tomb, guards, and Matthew 28:5-6. :3
DAY FIVE (Aww. It's the last day!)
- I remember the boys behind us were like "If we stand up we just can't see anymore!". hehe. Not our fault. :D And this one guy seemed pretty sad that MJ (Michael Jackson) died. Aww.
- We made keychains. GAHHH at the beginning it was so hard! Even when Jennifer taught me an easy way! But then Alexandra (my teacher) taught me what Jennifer taught me (xD) and then I got it. YES!
- Capture the Flag! I sneaked up to this one person and they could not stop screaming. haha. They thought I like teleported right next to them. :D
- Here the person I made scream still could not stop talking about it. Anyway..
Blue jello: the "Red" Sea haha
Whip-cream: cloud/God
Goldfish crackers (oh man I really want these right now): the Israelites, I think? - I don't remember anything here -_-;;
- We learned bout parting the Red Sea. There was a looooong passage. And I don't remember anything here too. Aw.
And that's about it people! There was a carnival, but if you really want to know what happened, just email me and I'll give you a brief overview of what's in my journal. There was also a picnic...but that's when I fell down the hill. HAHAHA. :D So, because I fell down the hill I don't remember much bout the picnic. JUST KIDDING. Just don't ask about it, because the carnival is interesting enough. Thanks for reading!
What to do...what to do...
Obviously, I'm not going to type up anything else about my summer. I'm just gonna post that some other day, as any other smart person would do. By the way peoples, I'm not sure if I want to post about my summer retreat, because most of the stuff is rather embarrassing.
Like one time, I accidentally(!!) put these cards on Jonathan's place-that-only-boys-have (I did say by accident right??) and then he ran after me screaming at me. And this other time, we had this embarrassing food-eating contest and people ate baby food. Some guys puked their food back out. EW!!!! And then this other time I said "I thought spam was stuff in emails!!" (little did I know it was a food too) and the leader was like "Hey that's really good!" And I was cracking up cuz I really meant that, not as a joke. And then another time, I screamed at bugs. And tried to climb this huge rock. I climbed on trees too. With Wendy, Stephy, and Jennifer. :) And I had root beer floats every meal. It's not something you get everyday you know. And then this other time Jennifer was like "I'm going under here." and I was like "Under where?". HAHAHA.
Hey, basically, I just posted about my summer retreat! I think that's enough embarrassing moments. Oh, last one is that my cousins (that are boys) were singing to Nobody's Perfect by Hannah Montana. It was sososo funny!!!!! I think that's enough summer retreat events.
Yay, I typed up half of my plans today! I'm in a much better mood bringing up these happy things too. Yay!!!!!! So the next time I can, I will try to type about Taiwan (just some extremely important events ((to me)) like yummy foods or important places/people). And then I will post about anything else that would be just as important to type up. So the next colors I will use: GREEN and PINK. Watermelon colors! xD those are not my words, those are my friend Samia's words. :)
Bye for now, I hope y'all enjoyed this post! :)
Gonna do some home page stuff for y'all. Thanks for reading this far!!
-JoAnn :)