Dayspring!

To answer your question, Petr, in laser laser tag, at least the version I played, you have a laser gun and a vest with sensors on it and you just wander around shooting at other people's sensors. It records your score, and then prints out a score card. Very simple, but it can be quite fun.

As mentioned earlier, this last week was camp. It was totally amazing! First off, all of the girls from our church were in on cabin (there were two different rooms), so there were about 30-40 girls in one building having way too much fun way too late at night. The best part was how we did role call every night. The first night, when our name was called, we made animal noises (and gestures if we wanted). I was a lion, so I jumped over a few beds whilst roaring. The next night we died dramatically, the next we played the game where the first person starts a story and the next person adds on and the last person finishes it. The last night we played the no teeth game, in which you have to hide your teeth with your lips and then make the strangest noise possible without showing your teeth. It was good fun.

My small group was great this year. We were all focused so we didn't have to worry about staying on topic, and we had lots of good discussion. There were all different beliefs represented, and people were very open. I loved our leaders, they were very good about getting us onto good discussion topics.

I did manage to wear my ankle out the first day so I had it wrapped the whole week, preventing me from swimming, hiking, playing ultimate or volleyball and I wasn't supposed to jump or run. I did do a bit of that though. I injured my ankle playing softball in '06 and I think what happened with it is that when I went hiking on the first day, I worked it too hard, causing it to hurt.

Nat was at camp too, and he did something most of you may not believe. On Wednesday, he shaved his head for one of the games. I knew it was coming, but I still couldn't believe it, and I'm still not used to it. He was pretty much bald when they did it, but there is some hair growing now.

I don't have pictures on the computer yet, but they will be coming shortly.

In other news, this next week is the kids musical camp, and I am going to have to learn all the hand motions today and tomorrow, and I will have to be working from 8-3 all day Mon.-Thur. plus extra on Thursday. I'll have to let you know how it goes!

~Ellentia

Once again, I am posting. As I mentioned earlier, I played laser tag last Tuesday, which was lots of fun. I didn't expect to like it, and I didn't do very well, but it was fun all the same. Unfortunatnly, one of the girls in my small group was in a wreck on the way to play, so she didn't get to come. She is okay though, and the wreck wasn't her fault.

Next week is Dayspring (church camp)! I am actually excited, and I am usually not really excited. I hope I have a good B.A.S.I.C. group (Brothers and Sisters In Christ), it will be sad if I don't. It should be a fun week, especially with the girls from church, we have all become really good friends these last few months. So, barring any major drama, it should be a great cabin this year. We recently got a new middle school youth pastor, and he will be at Dayspring. I am excited to get to know him better, he seems really neat.

Well, that is all for now, I'll be back next weekend with lots of pictures and stories to tell!

~Ellentia

So, this has been a long week, but not in a bad way. It just never seemed to end. We have a summer Bible/book study, and last week was a big bonding time for us. It isn't something to share, but it was an incredible morning, and if everyone in the Church could be part of something like this, the Church would be such a different body of believers. We are reading Acts and a book called Messy Spirituality by Michael Yaconelli. It is about spiritual growth, but it is unlike any book on the same subject. I didn't like the first 4 chapters at all, I disagreed with quite a bit, but the 5th and 6th chapters were good. It is an interesting read, at the least.

In two weeks is the annual Summer Arts and Music Camp (SAM Camp) and in preperation for it, Mom and I went to Dallas on Friday to visit a camp similar to ours that did the same musical that we will be doing, Go, Go Jonah! It was a fun trip, and we got to go into the different classes. I went to a handbell class and a quilting class, which was fun. That night we got to see the performence, which was good. The main kids did well, except that they didn't know the lines perfectly. The singing was good (thankfully) and overall it was very enjoyable. There was a bit of excitement during the show, about halfway through the fire alarms went off and we had to evacuate the building. Thankfully, there was no fire, one of the sensors accidentally went off, but we had fire trucks there and everything. The kids weren't shaken up too bad though, so after 10 minutes we went back in and finished the show. We got to our hotel about 9:30, and we had been up since 5am, so we were very tired. The logical solution? Stay up reading and watching Food Network, of course! Needless to say, we didn't leave very early. We did get to stop at DQ, a rare treat because the only one in OK is far south. It was a good trip.

On Tuesday my small group is going to play laser tag (my first time, can you believe it!) so I will let you know how I do. But until then, goodbye!

~Ellentia