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Another amazing weekend. It truly is a blessing to be able to attend these kinds of YFC camp. You get to meet new people and see old faces as well as reconnect with them. There are fun activities and games. Good food! Talent Show. Late night sleep. Conversing. And renewing one's relationship with the Lord. There's a lot of crying no doubt about it. Worshipping to God and giving your all. Asking for forgiveness, strength and courage. All those things we feel like we are missing. As a facilitator, I learned a lot from the participants in my group. They reminded me a lot of my first YFC camp and the lessons I learned. I hope to serve more in the future, as well as serve with the new YFC members! :)
Last day of Camp Fire! So many things to say. Lost for words. >.<
I got to be a discussion leader for the first time during this camp! Jennifer told me suddenly that I was one of the few discussion leaders picked. I haven't had any youth camp training yet and here I was helping with the camp service.
Anyway, I met new people today :) and saw familiar faces as well. It was aaaiightt. Ahah. HMMMM. I honestly have forgotten the "seven IDs". I'm not even sure what ID stands for.
As always, we went to church. This church is beautiful! Due to lack of sleep, I wasn't able to pay attention as much as I wanted to. But I do remember a mother and her daughter with the priest talking about how they entered Christianity. I'm not so sure what else happened, but that was very nice to witness people who recently turned Christians. We also had a talent show too. LIGHT PATROL, you guys did well with your version of "Teach Me How to Dougie" lol. It was really catchy :D
As I remember other things that happened, I'd say this was a Saturday well spent!
I attended a Youth Power event for Youth for Christ today. I think this is my first time attending this if they had these events before. At around 10:00 AM we started the day by singing/worshipping. They presented a couple of talks and ate lunch in between. Then we headed to the Drop In Center to volunteer. It was part of their activity that we volunteer during Youth Power. You wouldn't believe how many people there were. SO MANY! Anyway, the Drop In Center is a place where people who don't have a place to go can stay. These are basically homeless people. We were told that 85% of them actually get sobered up and start working while the rest stay for as long as they can. It's my second time here. I volunteered before and served them food some time ago. This time though, our schedule and plans changed as the person who knew about us wasn't there, so we got a tour of the building instead.
In the clothing room, I saw this quote, "Never get so busy making a living that you forget to make a life". I read something like this before and really liked it, so I took a photo. It's nice to be reminded on the important things in life through a quote. Because we do forget. Anyway, today was a good day. Saw new faces, got to know more people, and turned red a few times. Gosh. WHYYY. >.<
Junnel asked me a few days ago if I could volunteer for St. Thomas Moore Elementary School's play day. I was going to turn it down because I was somehow feeling uncomfortable. After thinking about it, I decided to volunteer since I didn't want to waste my summer doing nothing. I really hope my summer will not go to waste. I want to be able to do as much as I can before school starts again. I want to help out, learn to cook a few things, draw, improve on photography, read the book my friend lent me a year ago (I still have it >.<), succeed as a set designer for Kids Village, make bracelets for little kids, glue the little origami pieces and display it, redecorate my room, etc etc. You know that feeling? When you just want to do everything ALL AT ONCE? Yeah, that's how I'm feeling. I want to do so many things, and believe me, there's A LOT more things I want to do this summer. You know that saying, "There's a time and place for everything"? Well, this is weird, but I feel like I'm running out of time to do all the things I want to do. Because I'm getting older that's why. In 13 days I won't be 17 anymore, I'll be 18. And because of age I feel like I'm running out of time. Yes, I'm still young, but I regret not doing the things I was able to do. With all the pressures around you, there are just some things you had the chance to do, but didn't. And so, I'm trying to make the best of my summer. To do what I didn't get to do and to mature and accept what I'd lost. I know that I'm growing and I'm also realizing things I've never noticed before. Also I'm lazy, I have low confidence in my self, I lack self discipline, I'm forgetful, and all the bad habits I do. And because of that, I might not be able to do some things I'm looking forward to do this summer. And if that happens.. well, I guess I need to remind myself that there is in fact, a time and place for everything.
I am really happy that I do not have school this whole week! But sad at the thought that I have to read my Biology 35 AP textbook (homework). *sigh* For a while I was glad that Bio 30 was over, then I remembered that I still need to finish Bio 35 for half of next semester. >.< THEN I REMEMBERED that I took Math 20 >>AP<<. DAARN. This is going to be a challenging semester.
Anyway, I was asked by one of the leaders from Kids for Christ if I could make a poster for an upcoming event this saturday. I was a little hesitant to be honest, but then I thought that this would be the first time I would contribute as part of the KFC core (though I still need to attend a covenant orientation this February to be official)! So I agreed to it. :D Besides that, I am currently working on something...particularly drawing something. If it starts turning out good, I will post it in the near future. Well, I will be watching a movie tonight, care to join me? Haha, jokes. Have an awesome nighty night! :)
About the picture: During R.O.C.K training, they asked us to paint anything using our fingers. This was my painting. I have this taped on my wall and every time I look at it, it feels like it was painted by the child in me. I love it. :-)
