so, that’s where i’m going tomorrow night/sunday morning… we’re planning to leave around midnight, hopefully swing by through ohio (Cincinnati, though i didn’t add that in) to see an old friend of Jordans, before heading on through to the St Louis area… i’m really excited for the trip, for time to talk and see more of America, listen to some good music, see some of St Louis… all those good things… and we’ll be back in time for Thanksgiving….
i got a brilliant package today.
i also got pelted with acorns.
i also need to try and think of somrthing to do about the bible with my 6th grade class.
and tonight is intern class- yay for all the interns being together!
and this time next week, i’ll probably be in St Louis (if you want to contribute to gas costs.. please give me a shout…)
and this time in two weeks, i’ll be back in Scotland.
eeeeshk, that’s kinda weird and a bit scary, because…. i have no idea whats going on…
but also awesome, cos i am looking forward to seeing friends and family in Scotland again… but i will be very sad to leave these kids, even for a little while, even into the capable hands of the other interns… but i am wearing my Scotland hat today… yay.
i think thats all for now… :)
What’s got into me? Can’t believe myself!
Must be someone else. Must be someone else. Must be,
Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways.
Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.
What’s got into me? Can’t believe myself!
Must be,
Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways.
Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.
Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways.
Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.
Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways.
Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.
Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways.
Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.
Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways.
Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.
Any day now hows about getting out of this place. Any ways.
Got a lot of spare time. Some of my youth and all of my senses on overdrive.
Don’t play Coltrane you will sleep at the wheel
Eyes on-horizon. Don’t sleep at the wheel.
i love this song.. :)
so, fundraisers at Chick-fil-A yesterday and all day today…
which means we took kids yesterday (mayhem) and will again today (more mayhem).
and they wonder why we’re broke? :)
reading crime and punishment. it’s really interesting.
did something of an art class with my kids… went as well as could be expected… i am actually sort of looking forward to being home for a while so i can really plan some great activities for my class…
hmmm… should really head to camp now.
i finally got my other film back from Wal-Mart, but they forgot to do a cd, so until i can get to a scanner, there are no photos…. sorry guys.
however, i have had a couple really good days.. yesterday we had cell groups in class, and my kids were hyper as usual, but i showed them a short film that we talked about a little… then Garianna was hanging out with me and Winnie after program, before she went to another program. I was asking her about her life and she was drawing us pictures. she told us about her family, how they’d been away from Camden for the last 6 or 7 years, and just what she’s going through atthe moment. then I asked her what this other program was she had, and she said, ‘we just talk about God, me and Nasir and some other kids, but we don’ know them, we just talk about God and pray and stuff, that’s why i’ve got my Bible today…’ It’s just so good to know that she’s actually excited about this stuff… she’s even trying to get the other girls in the class to go too, but they’re not really interested…
Today, a bunch of my kids were around for a special camp night. we ate some pizza, played mafia, played empires, and got photographed for the Courier Post, our local newspaper, so hopefully, w’ll be in the paper tomorrow or sunday.. if there’s a link, i’ll post it after it goes online.. :) they were ridiculously well behaved for the photographer… it was kinda funny…
All in all, a good week, highs, lows…
This week is the start of the thanksgiving dinners- Chad’s Mum is in town from tuesday, and we head out to take Jordan to St Louis next saturday… man, is life ever moving fast!!!
tonight may be the night for chipotle… :)
‘peace out, yo.’
i wantedto say hello, and sorry for not being here so much.. this week was pretty mental… we had the summit thursday/friday and then a weekend off- where most of the houses disappeared… (the people- to other cities, not the actual houses)
and so i feel like i have little to tell you, and less to show you, but i promise to be back soon with more exciting things to say…
that i am my mothers daughter.
we were in Walmart trying to find decorations and prizes for the harvest carnival for around $100 or less when the statement is made that, ‘we need cupcakes for all the kids coming to the carnival tomorrow.’
ok, i think. ‘well, either we can buy boxed mix or just the ingredients, which would be cheaper.’
ten minutes, two boxes of eggs, two tubs of margarine, a bag each of flour and sugar later, it looks like i’m making cupcakes for 170.
with no baking cases.
friday morning, and jordan and i go on an expedition to the end of the street to get baking cases from family dollar. (at this point jordan thinks i’m looking for cases of bacon.) family dollar = fail. save a lot = success!
once i have the baking cases and extra margarine, i start making cakes… thank the lord for the electric hand mixer (which i pretty much break) in the kitchen…
four batches of cake batter (so that’s 32 eggs) later, we’re done with cupcakes to spare…
and margarine. so orange buttercream icing it is…
anyway. the point of this story is, apparently i relish baking large amounts of cakes for children and teenagers and all the other interns, and then helping people decorate them whilst wearing a tartan-ish moo-moo/housecoat thing and a tea cosy hat and slippers (baffies) and offering people ‘a wee cup of tea?’ in a weird old lady scottish accent.
so the other exciting thing that happened this weekend was that we went to Hershey Park and Messiah College with a bunch of our 3-5th graders. and i charged my camera batteries. and i took the camera… but then i left it in my bag in the van… ooops… sorry guys, i failed. maybe someone else will have great photos they can share…
so Hershey on saturday was awesome, i had Shydel and Craig (pronounced the american/canadian way like creh-gh, not cray-gh) and they were both up for all the big scary rides… however we planned badly with the first part of our time there, and missed out on lots of big ride opportunities, BUT, aftr dinner we got a map and hit up 3 of the biggest scariest rollercoasters and lots of other slightly less scary still cool rides. it was a lot of fun…
back to the hotel, and then into the pool- i had three girls in my room in the end- and we had a freakin’ good time- especially with the jacuzzi…
snacks, ghost stories, tv and bed, and we were all out like a light…
the clocks changed that night, and so i woke up at 8am thinking, oh crap! we have to be at breakfast already, these clocks probably changed automatically… shoot! and then realised, by looking at my watch that actually, it was only 7am. so we had an hour to get ready, which was just as well, cos all three girks wanted showers and Winnie and i still had to get dressed and packed too..
Messiah- the kids got to go explore with the students, and we got the day off…. lunch in the cafeteria, almost losing a child, then more free time… where i got attacked by sharpie… yuh.
back on the bus… and time to go home… all was controlled mayhem for about 20 minutes and then, there was an hour or so of brilliant peace, card games and magic tricks were played, several games of squares were enjoyed (that game is a life saver!) and then… we got near home. and it became crazy again. it was just really sad to see a kid that had been enjoying himself so much for so long need to react out, and become unable to listen to directions or enjoy the last half hour of the trip.. it made me sad.
over all, an awesome trip and i’m really sorry i don’t have photos for you…
i took photos. real photos. on 35mm film.
they are at walmart.
this time next week, i will hopefully have them back.
yaaaaaaaas.
oh yeah, and i’ve finally put some batteries on to charge (but i can only find two of my four… ooops)
there was something else i was going to say-
oh, we made yellow cake buns today.
and i think i’m learning how to not be so scottish in my attitude towards myself and other people- to accept compliments, to be positive rather than negative, all that good stuff. don’t worry- it’s a very very very slow process… but i realised today that it’s starting…
is a day for beards, and back rubs, and using a manual camera with black and white film that contains pictures of orphans from romania. yes. today is that day.
also, for having the word ‘poop’ written across your forehead.
i will aim to finish this film and develop it and post the pictures as soon as.
and i get to start making a new beard soon (yeah josh!)
oh, but the rest of life this past week? well, friday we went to the beach. and it was cold. and i read Grace (Eventually) by Anne Lamott and had to think quietly a lot. it’s an awesome book. i’ll send it to whoever wants to read it…
saturday, we went to NY for the day, hung out and wandered around in the rain… spent too much money at a comedy show in the evening that a few of us stayed back for, and then slept in a bit on sunday, spoke to some VERY important people back home (yay!!) even got to see a few of their faces (sorry if you weren’t one of thosse people. you’re still important) and generally slob around in my pj’s. then, instead of going to church i went to the downtown house and we made three bean chili and banana bread. and it was good. and so was the conversation. in fact, the conversation was so good, it was like church. though i’m beginning to believe more and more that just living with christians and doing life with christians is how ‘church’ should look. cos i know that church is not the building. it’s the people.
so, then the week started up again. and it’s been good so far. better because ellen and i discovereed that we’d each love to have a beard, for real, if it were possible and (for me anyway) i could grow one that was crazy.
yeah. that’s my life. :)
