A Glimpse Of Youth Camp

The Ups:

• covering the youth in spoiled milk and making them eat crickets dipped in honey as an initiation before they could enter camp.
• playing Fear Factor with the youth and making them do the following:
• bob for fruit in a bucket full of pig intestines, skin, stomach and other various parts
• run around camp with large maggots in their mouths over and over again
• weave a dead fish and a chicken head through their clothes by going in one sleeve and out the other
• making the youth jump in the lake any time they heard the phrase, "You're all a bunch of big girls' blouses!" The best times were:
• in the middle of the preaching during the first evening session
• at 5am on the first night and again at 6am
• during meals
• at 3am on the 2nd night
• anytime the leaders needed to talk without any youth around
  
• awesome worship led by the youth.
• learning a new way to communicate with God.
• being inducted as an official member of The Crew. The other members are Laura, Zac and Marcus (14, 15 and 19 years old).
  
• being told by The Crew many times that I am super cool and they love me. It was a huge ego boost!
• feeling a renewed purpose in my life.
• taking 100's of photos, some of which you can view here.
• being given the nickname "Dr. Evil" because I came up with all the good and disgusting games.
  
• watching the youth cling wrap each other and transport across the lake and back.
  

The Downs:

• watching the youth cling wrap each other and transport across the lake and back. It totally freaked me out and prayed the whole time that nobody would die.
  
• getting a total of three hours of sleep in three nights and then having to drive the long way home.
• watching one of the youth spray hot pink paint on my beloved camera and then trying to clean it all off.
• falling down the stairs on the last day causing the following:
• sprained foot
• broken toe
• pulled muscles from the splits that I did when one of my feet went through the banister while the other went down the stairs
• various scrapes and many bruises
• a blood red bruise the size of my hand on my upper leg, lower butt shaped like a stair (strangely similar to this)
  
• being eaten alive by bugs of all kinds.