Random Pictures to Think About

ok, i may have used some of these already, but they definitely give u something 2 think about...

josh...yeah

josh on chris

josh hugging mr. john

mr. john hugging mr. tommy

josh...again

cory sleeping

steven on a wierd spinny merry-go-round thing

josh canada (a local) tried 2 cut his hair

ryan hugging steven

is that a camera??

am i close enough??

mikes beautiful pink nails

shawna decided 2 decorate a picture on my camera

clifton in a girls' shirt

demon-possessed ned

grace

steven and phil

grace, megan, and miriam

wow phil...

one of my all-time favorites...i just walked in and happened 2 have my camera

megan and nyoka drew on each others faces...

Saddle Club

ok someone must remind me 2 never sit in my computer room for extended periods of time w/ turning the fan on...it was like 500 degrees in here!! anyway, the saddle club was where we did our little vacation bible school with the kids...basically it was this nasty building full of dirt and spit and stuff with substandard plumbing...yeah we had 2 use porto-potties cuz the water kept shutting off...it was gross...anyway, have u ever tried 2 fit 4 classrooms able 2 fit around 15 kids each into a tiny little building thats like im gonna guess 60x20?? yeah, its hard...well, the hardest part is actually putting up "walls" (theyre actually sheets...by the way, fitted sheets dont make very good walls) that wont fall down and finding places 4 all the kids 2 sit so they wont have 2 use the floor...they always end up on the floor anyway, but u know what im saying, right?? anyway, our theme for vbs this year was outrigger island, so we had 2 decorate the classrooms in a kind of hawaiian type fashion...i think we did pretty good:

looks pretty good, huh?? yeah well i can only take credit for the room in the first picture...that was my classroom, but really it was me, megan, and cory that decorated that room...stephanie was out delivering flyers 2 people...but yeah...so thats the saddle club...

My Dorm/Angel-Dale House

yeah thats right, im writing a blog entry about my dorm...i kinda lost track of what i was gonna write about next, so im writing about where i stayed the whole time i was in kentucky...hutton hall at the university of the cumberlands:

this is where we all converged before breakfast the whole week...its pretty awesome isnt it?? ur probably like "freak" but i cant really think of anything else 2 say...so here r some pictures:

sorry i dont really have any pictures from ground level...i was on the 2nd floor and i took advantage of the height 2 get some aerial shots...the last shot up there is of the vending room...boring, right?? anyway, here r some pictures of my actual dorm room:

u just love how different my side of the room is from my roommates, dont u?? of course...the hawk nelson poster was megans idea actually...i brought the poster and was all "im gonna hang it up on my side", but she was like "well then i wont get 2 look at daniel biro as i fall asleep" so we put it on the ceiling between our beds...so yeah...ur probably also wondering y we brought jaren on our trip...well we couldnt just leave him home!! he has 2 change the world!! so thats y jaren came w/ us...anyway, when we werent at the dorm or the saddle club (upcoming entry will explain more about saddle club in detail), we were at the angel-dale house...

this is where we did our daily/nightly devotions...where we met up w/ the am team in the mornings after breakfast, then we would all head out 2 the saddle club...yup...so im gonna end this entry now...

Cumberland Falls

ok, so i took a break for a bit but ive still got a lot 2 write about k-town...like the waterfall, for instance...eagle falls (a smaller waterfall near cumberland falls) hold sentimental value for me, since last year i was baptised there...heres a very bad picture of it:

yeah, i hate this picture, but u get the point right?? so anyway, this yeah we went back 2 the falls...the hike up there was a lot easier than i remembered, but it was still brutal!! so anyway, heres a video of what i saw there...

pretty, huh?? yeah i know...but yeah, the only sad part was that josh (from a previous entry) didnt bring his cape this year...i would post a picture of it, but unfortunately i had a very suckish disposable camera last year and my picture of it was all dark so u cant even see anything...but i KNOW somebodys got a picture of it...whatever...this year josh just hopped around on rocks:

supposedly this is how he hurt his heel, but we all know he fell in the shower...of course, he could have fallen BECAUSE of his bad heel...whatever...he wasnt limping until the night after the falls...when he fell...u know what?? im gonna drop this subject before i make myself sound even more like an idiot...so anyway, we (me, megan, brittany, shawna, and steven i believe) were just arriving at the falls when we hear nyoka (stevens "girlfriend"), her brother brenton, and his friend zack (all in our 5th and 6th grade class)...u shoulda seen stevens face...he loves nyoka...its always sad 2 watch them say goodbye at the end of the week...but yeah so it turns out they got 2 come 2 the falls 2...i guess they must have come before us 2 get there that far ahead of us...idk, so yeah we had fun w/ brenton, zack, and nyoka:

but yeah...the climb back down from the falls is always harder than the one 2 get up there cuz 2 get there u go up a little ways, then down like 5 flights of stairs...ok do more than that, but whatever...and on the way back u gotta climb back up all those stairs, a lot of which r just rocks on top of each other...its murder getting back from the falls!! but somehow i made it w/ less difficulty than i had the year before...plus, i didnt fall this year...last year i fell and got the ginormous shirt i was wearing (it went past my knees!!) all covered in this nasty orange mud...it was quite sad, so i didnt wear my huge shirt again...but that is so far away from the subject its not even worth mentioning so idk why i did...well i guess i will close this entry w/ some very pretty pictures of eagle and cumberland falls...

K-Town Kids

megan and i got 2 work with this insanely awesome group of kids on our mission trip this year: the fifth and sixth graders...they rock!! WAAAAAAAAAAAY better than my experiences last year w/ the preschool/kindergartners...idk if i even spelled that right and i dont really care right now cuz theres so much 2 write...like over the week we (the teachers) had the privledge as a team 2 lead 2 girls 2 Christ, kaitlyn and kaitlyn (aka bubbles)...ok, so the whole "as a team" thing is debateable (did i spell that right??) but its really about God, isnt it?? and the kids, of course!! but yeah, those girls were awesome, and of course the rest of the kids were 2...like brenton, zack, nyoka, savannah, brody (though he didnt like 2 show up), jerry (he wanted 2 stay w/ the youth), jed (what happened 2 him??), hollie, della, and dakota...im pretty sure im forgetting someone...those guys were the coolest!!

wait!! whos that kid!!?? i cant remember, but its cool...so yeah, i also got 2 work w/ 2...more experienced...teachers...thats all im gonna say about their personatities right now cuz im trying 2 keep this blog fun...but yeah i got 2 work with cory (mentioned in last entry) and stephanie...we may have had some differences throughout the week but its cool now...well, cool enough since we dont really talk 2 each other and they're never at church...but yeah...and of course megan was in our group 2...but yeah, i could say so much more about the kids but i think im gonna take a break 4 right now...this one entry by itself took me 20 minutes 2 write!! so yeah...peace