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This shall be a long journal entry, so be prepared to read for a while. All right. So I got up at 05:45 on Saturday morning of the 25th of June(I think), and got ready for my trip to Mexico. At 06:40, I arrived at my church and prepared to leave. We gathered a large circle and prayed for safety and then left. I did not cry, even though I was on the verge of tears. The sad thing is, I was actually looking forward to getting away from my family and life in general in San Jose for awhile; I felt as if I needed this trip to get my priorities straight. Anyway, so we left and I started to get to know the people I would be building a house with. Most of them were really awesome people, and I automatically grew attached to a select few of the ones in the vehicle I was riding in. I slept most of the trip down there, waking up only for the rest stops(to go to the bathroom), and for lunch. Saturday night we arrived in Fullerton, at Hope International College(HIC(hey, that is funny)), and we spent the night there in the dorms. That night, we played three different games of hide-and-go-seek and I was paired with this girl named Carrie. Well, the first game was the regular two people search and the others hide(we had to do it in pairs), and my partner and I hid behind the sign saying the name of the college. Well, we both thought it would be a really easy spot to find and we would surely be found in no time at all; we were not. The pair of boys who were searching never found us and that led into the next game of sardines. For those of you who do not know how to play Sardines, it pretty much goes like this: two people hide(once again: pairs) and the rest of the group has to search for them. Our leaders added in a little twist by having the people who found the pair who was hiding hide with the pair. And then the third game was a regular game of hide-and-go-seek, but when you were found, you had to help the searching pair find the others. In each of our hiding spots, it took the rest of the group a while to find my partner and I, and that gave us a little bit of a chance to know each other a bit better. The next day we woke up early and crossed the border, heading towards our campsite. We set up camp and I was one of the select four who got to go to the worksite that evening and set in the foundation we would be pouring cement into and building on. I came back to the campsite, ate dinner, and pretty much went to bed. On Monday of that week, I woke up early, ate breakfast, got my stuff ready for the work day and we all headed off. We worked until 17:00 and then went back to the campsite. We did a scavenger hunt that night around the campsite that was really fun and exciting, then we settled around the campfire and one of our leaders read a little bit from the Scriptures and we talked about it a little bit. Then we played this game where the leader would pass around the nerf football to a person and that person was told to either a)ask for a quality in someone else, b)give a quality they had found in themselves to someone else or c)ask for a prayer request. On Tuesday, we went back to the worksite, started building up the wall and started working on the roof, and then came back to the campsite and ate dinner. (One thing you guys should know before I go on is that between Monday and Tuesday, I switched tents from a crowded one to a large one with only four people in it. It was all girls, and all good friends I hope to keep forever)After dinner, it was one of the guys' birthdays, so they had to find clues to get their present, and after they found it, we talked about something from the Bible again then played the nerf football game again. That night, I told the girls in my tent about the "Jenny incident" and broke out crying, to be comforted by the girl I least liked out of the three I was sharing a tent with(I still do not quite like her). Then, that night, I woke up and had to go pee really bad, so I ended up dragging the same girl to the portable potties with me. ((Okay, I am really tired and want to go to sleep, so I will finish this tomorrow. And forgive me if there are any spelling. grammar or punctuation mistakes in it, since I am really tired and am not quite aware of what I am typing. ))
Lady_Esmerel · Mon Jul 04, 2005 @ 06:41am · 4 Comments |
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