Do not let anyone look down on you because you are young, but set the example for the believers in speech, in life, in love, in faith, and in purity. I Timothy 4:12
May. 31, 2009
Another AIM day
SO I guess the next thing to blog about would be Thursday. No, AIM isn’t back in session yet. However, I did spend a significant part of my day at the Salvation Army church, which of course means that it must have been a blog worthy day.
I had told Tess that I wanted to help her out a lot while the Browns were gone (Browns gone = more work to do = more things for me to do =D). However, she had the nerve to go off to Tennessee (j/k, I’m sure they had a great time), so this past Thursday was the soonest date that ended up working for both of us. Pretty sad, but at least it worked and I was determined to make a day out of it. I had just finished my science test and Chinese 2, so academics were light enough that I could ignore them for a day.
Arrived at the church at nine but Tess wasn’t there yet, so I hung out with Ms. Mildred until she got there, looking slightly haggard and explaining that the reason she hadn’t answered my call that morning is because she’d been asleep – she’d fallen asleep at five and woke up around eight. Poor person.
The first thing Tess gave me to do was definitely the worst. Here at HQ we’re preparing for the Alaska mission trip – training camp starts this Tuesday and the mission trip leaves on the 7th. Well, as one might imagine, the best way to get to AK is to fly. And unfortunately, when one is flying with a large group of people, one does not usually get a large group of seats all together. Of course, this being an AIM trip complicates things as well, as we want to avoid guys sitting with girls they aren’t related to and vise-versa. Well, Tess handed me the reservation and told me it was now my job to assign everyone seats in which a) inexperienced and/or younger people wouldn’t be sitting alone and b) there would be no inappropriate guy/girl seating arrangements. Sounds exciting, huh?
So, uh… I spent the first two hours on that. WELL… there are four flights, and fourteen people, and seats all across the plane, and it was far more complicated than it first appeared. However, I will admit that it was most enjoyable, save for the crick I got in my neck after drawing four different plane diagrams, and most satisfying to have accomplished.
Next was a task a little closer to my heart but equally daunting, seeing as it could not be done. Yet. Ryan had sent Kristi and Jorge a list of songs for the AKMT and Kristi had narrowed it down to a workable number and Tess had added and taken away and finalized it. So I had a song list, and I made a prop list. Tess asked me to gather all the props and see how small I could make them (and, presumably, how much they weighed). This could not be done without a small amount of difficulty, however, because the Browns have most of the mission trip props with them in CA. Well, actually, they’re currently in OK somewhere, but they’re not here, and they were in CA when I was looking for props on Thursday.
So the point is that I couldn’t really pack the props because they were gone. I did bring one of the SIN banners back home to sew the S on firmly and iron it (haven’t done that yet) because it’s so wrinkly. While I was working on the props Tess left, and just as I finished up Ms. Mildred came in and asked me in a slightly plaintive tone if this was my purse. I told her no, that was Tess’ purse. Whoops… Tess is gone. I called Tess and she was quite upset because she needed the purse in the next thirty minutes. As I am practicing to be an intern, I ran out to my car (after acquiring from Kristi the quickest route to Tess’ house from the church) and hurried over to Tess’ house, where I dropped the purse on her front porch and headed back to the church.
Dropped by the Madrigal house looking for Kristi but was greeted by four small children and one small (but rather loud and hyper) dog, plus Egroj Lagirdam. Duh, Jess… she’s still at the church. Gave Jorge a hug and left. At the church Kristi was in the middle of something so I went on to the assignments that Tess had given me before she left. I was to write up the song list and parts for each song and send it to Ryan so he could fill them out, and prep some gloves to send to Jared.
I got the parts list written up, and after some issues got it transferred from Kristi’s computer (no Internet) to one of the office computers (Internet) and attached it to an email and sent it out. However, I later got an email from Ryan that basically said “thanks for the thought but the file you attached is in a format that I can’t open.” Hrm. Apparently, and I have no idea how I managed this, I had sent him the file with a .bat extension, which of course means nothing to me. I was using Outlook, though, and I have no experience whatsoever with Outlook. I wrote up the list and sent it to him again and this time didn’t attach anything. It worked.
I started on getting the gloves ready to mail to Jared – don’t try fitting 60 pairs of gloves in one manila envelope – but had to go home for a family emergency. After things were smoothed over at home I rushed back to Kristi’s house. I was determined to spend all day doing AIM stuff.
We spent the next hour and a half getting Kristi’s shopping list for training camp written and organized, plus finding all the best prices on produces and such from the coupon pages Kristi had. We were both kinda loopy so it was fun. Plus everything’s fun with kids around. Nicky and Lily were playing with moon sand across the table from us… Christopher was bouncing around in his walker and Gabriel was sound asleep. Yes, a true rarity.
So Kristi and I finished the list and went to the bruised can store in Hollister and shopped and then I had to go home. The end.
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