What an excellent weekend.
It started on Friday - my Spanish presentation on Aztecs went well (despite the 12-14 letter names O.o ) and I time to watch some Veggie Tales before I had to leave for Fall Retreat. I love Veggie Tales :D
I was going to make lasagna for the people going on Fall Retreat so I went out at 3.30 on Friday. Pastor Lana, Ella and I made the lasagna and by the time everyone else was there the pasta just had to bake so we went on a walk around the campgrounds. It was a pretty big area, and Liz and I found a spot where there was a valley and ridge - it was beautiful. After dinner (I got a lot of compliments on the lasagna :D ) we had some improv time. That was pretty entertaining, it was like Whose Line is it Anyway? :]
Then we went out to a campfire for devotion time. I like fire :D After the devotion, a group stayed outside and sang some songs with an acoustic guitar - that was really neat.
On Saturday I woke up an hour before breakfast was going to be served, so I went for a walk back to the ridge overlooking the valley. I'm not sure if it was raining or water was just falling from tree to tree, but it was really peaceful.
As part of getting the reduced rate we did, we were going to help them out getting the camp ready for another season. A few people helped demo bunk beds and bikes, the rest of us formed a line to sort the rotten firewood from the good and pass it all from one stack to a covered pile. I was one of the ones stacking the logs under the lean-to. The guy that normally does it said we were doing well :]
After lunch, we went to a climbing wall. That was lots of fun, especially when I was shaking once back on the ground... Julia, a freshman, said the quote for my title, and I enjoyed it :D
Once we were done, it was back to Purdue. I'd planned on staying in all night, but then I remembered that I had to get groceries. The nice thing about Marsh is college students get 10% off if we shop on Saturdays :D And once I got back, Jake asked if I could play bass Sunday morning - apparently their bassist backed out right before the rehersal on Saturday night. So today I left for First Church at 7.30 am and just got back (to stay) 40 min ago at 9 pm. It's been a long day.
But it's been fun :] I really liked the songs we played at First Church this morning. Then, right after service, I went to Hicks underground library to study statistics with some people in my class. We have an exam on Wednesday and we get a cheat sheet, so I got that written up. From the library, I went to Wesley to practice for that service.
And it wasn't the best practice ever, I couldn't even hear myself for the vast majority of the time because no one was there to do the sound. Then I had to transpose (change the chords into a different key) two songs because they were supposed to be capo'd (that clip thing on guitars that people sometimes put on their fingerboards). Nicole, Kyle Gonzales, Mason and Chris got there so I showed them around the church and they stayed for service.
Unfortunately, about a verse into the first song I discovered that I had transposed the cong wrong, and then the next song was capo'd and I hadn't known so I was transposing on the fly. It was an interesting set...
The service was good, though, and dinner was fun with the visitors. It was really good to see them again :D We went back to Aldersgate quickly before I was going to play Ultimate with Wesley so I said bye and got changed quickly to head out with Kyle (Hoos. I know so many Kyles).
That was quite the fun game(s) of Ultimate :] It was kinda sprinkling as we arrived, but about a point into the second game it really started raining. The ground got slick and the frisbee even slicker, but I didn't actually go down like I did on Thursday.
I finally got back to Aldersgate to stay at 9 and I immediately changed into some warm, dry clothes. I was rather wet :]
It really was an awesome weekend overall. Now I have to shift gears and take a Spanish test tomorrow. Good thing I've got time to study tomorrow :D
Peace.
-Carly
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