Mime4Jesus - *sniff* Goodbye to presenting...

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

Nov. 10, 2009

*sniff* Goodbye to presenting...

I think I last blogged nine days ago. Sad, I know. However, it can’t be helped. *sigh* When one is usually busy, it’s hard to find time to do something not justifiably “productive.”

Let’s see. Last Sunday was the day that the MT came home! Oh, joy of joys. It was wonderful to see Courtney and Emily again. We spent all night talking. Quite a relief to have all the SALT girls back as well, although it’s going to be a bit difficult to adjust to no longer being the sole “girl authority.” I think a lot of the parents still look at me that way, though, so I’m going to have to set them straight.

In other news… I got a laptop for my birthday!!! Well, it’s also my graduation gift, Dad says. It’s a Dell, running Windows 7. We also bought a copy of Microsoft Office because we decided it was finally time for me to graduate from using Office 97 – no, I’m not kidding.  It was quite the shock, because I’d been planning on buying part or all of it myself. It came in the mail a week ago and I’ve been disciplining myself not to work on it ‘cause it’s not my birthday yet. However, I think I’ll be breaking into it pretty soon. I’m eager to get it set up!

Thursday was our first practice with the mission trip back. As expected, it was chaotic – but not as chaotic as I thought it would be, despite our lack of a SALTeam meeting. We spent our SALTeam meeting over at the Mansion setting up flags for the Veterans’ Week opening ceremonies. While we were there Tess held an impromptu SALTeam meeting in which she briefed us on the schedule, but that was about it.

It’s been very confusing recently who has been presenting what songs when. We have the Branson team, the MT team, the Response Team, and the various combinations of the three. Definitely a headache but glad we didn’t attempt to teach the Branson team all the songs we did today at the Red Roof – would have been way more of a headache!

Yesterday the older response team minus Jo and I – see, what did I tell you? – presented at a Women Veterans’ thing at the Starlite Theater. That would have been – Jarek, Josh, Alex, Charleton, Emily V, Courtney, Emily B… gosh, not very many people! But then most of our team is under 14, and everyone that went had to be 14 or over. I heard it went really well. Apparently they had a theater full of very enthusiastic veterans who cheered loudly and gave them several standing ovations, so I’m sure that was super fun!

Today was pretty fun too. The entire team was in for a presentation in the “day room” at the Red Roof – apparently the band we usually open for was replaced or couldn’t make it or something, and the new band didn’t want/need us to open for them, so we were inside before the band started. We presented America the Beautiful (RT), Honor (RT), Soldier (Branson), In God We Still Trust (Branson), America Again (RT), and God Bless (all). It happened that Jo and I were in every song (as we are on both the Branson team and the Response Team), which was nice. I sure enjoyed it, seeing as it was my last official presentation… *tear*

Yes, it has finally happened… I have decided to step down from presenting. Tragic, but the right thing to do, I think. There are plenty of girls who can do my parts – who should learn my parts – it’ll be easier to critique songs, and a good way to start working me out of things for when I leave.

It definitely causes one to reminisce. I’ve been presenting for four and a half years (since February 2005). In that time I’ve gone on five mission trips – two with ACTION, three to China. When I started we had about forty people on the team – thirty on two older kids teams, and then on the younger team. We modulated to a team of sixteen and no younger team, then to a team of eight, and now we have twenty-two presenting members. I think. Let’s see:

Jo, Josh, Jarek, John, Caleb, Kyle, Alex and Charleton
Courtney, Emily B, Emily V, Emily D, Sadie, Maria, Rachel, Amber, Madison, Moriah, Britney, Jessica C, Amanda, and Makayla

Nope! Twenty-one. Emily D just does sound and whatnot and I’m no longer presenting, so 21.

I guess stepping out of presenting is kind of reminding me that in about six months I’ll be saying goodbye to AIM, maybe forever. It’s definitely a sobering thought. So I’d better enjoy the time I have and make sure the team can run smoothly without me (that’s not meant to sound like it does).

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Nov. 12, 2009 - Untitled Comment

Posted by Kaitlin

*sniff sniff* Good memories presenting with you. :)

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