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2/16 Fun mail time yesterday. I had to make up a song about pink lemonade to the tune of Blessed Be Your Name [with two verses and a chorus]. Fun. Personally I liked the chorus, but the verses aren't so good. [They actually gave me several minutes to write this out... a lot longer than I expected to have. Everybody seemed to think it turned out pretty good, although I wasn't too impressed myself.] Soury sweet and watery Red yellow pink lemonade You know that I love the stuff Red yellow pink lemonade
I'm done with schoolwork! Actually I finished on 2/14. Now I'm doing Road Report stuff instead. Andrew asked me to proof everyone else's! I had been doing that a lot anyway - I'm now the unofficial spelling/grammar/writing/Bible study answer woman and I had partially proofed a couple the night before [at the authors' request] - but I was still excited that Andrew asked me to do it. Rumor is, we're doing paper plates tonight. I'm done with mine, but some of the others are doing theirs really elaborately and aren't close. We have an hour or so of school/paper plate/road report time left, so I hope they can do it. I helped Emie with cube and quad roots today. Deja-vu. [I help Jessica with her math all the time at home.] I think she's got it, so that was good. It's kind of like logarithms when you think about. No, I mean that.
We're staying at the Silva's. He is the co-director of the team, and she flew out to DC the morning after we arrived, because her dad is dying. :( They have four kids, two of whom - Amanda and Tiffany - are still at home and on GIA. AManda is 16, a veteran and one of the main leaders of the team. Mrs. Brown, the former director of GIA, is chauffeuring us. This morning she took us to pick oranges at her neighbor's house. (right - Emie getting oranges from the top of a tree) They're going to be made into juice for Leadership Camp! [That's AIM's annual conference for team leaders in Calabasas, CA. It was also the last stop of the mission trip.] Cool, huh? Speaking of Leadership Camp, Andrew is swamped. As soon as I finish this entry, I'm going to go see what I can do to help him. Between the mission trip and preparing tons of stuff for Leadership Camp, he stays busy. Jessica was at the office [AIM national headquarters, located in Branson] helping Tess [co-leader of the national ministry - Jessica and I try to spend a few hours each week helping her with paperwork and stuff]. She got to assign me to a cabin [at Leadership Camp]! She put me with Jenny. :) There are benefits to volunteering. Our host home has the most annoying dog. She's a yappy poodle named Cha-Ching, and she's really grumpy. No fun at all! We've been staying up way too late working on road reports and paper palets, 11:45 last night, 12:15 the night before. Since I'm the oldest, I've kind of made myself the boss at host homes, and it's hard to balance "we have to get this work done" and "we need to sleep a little bit too" [not to mention "we should really try to get to know our host family." Unfortunately, we didn't get to know them very well because we had so much work to do. We kind of got chastised for not spending more time with them. I understand why that's important, but it's really hard to find a balance between doing the homework that's due tomorrow and spending time with people.]
^ Photographic evidence... yeah, we really did stay up kind of late Kristina [a former member of AIM Branson who is attending Bible college in Redding, CA] is staying with us tonight on her way to Leadership Camp, then driving with us tomorrow!!! I can't wait! Going to try and help Andrew now. Bye! |
I got a total of five letters! Two from Mom (including a 6-page Walnuts! [Walnuts on My Windshield, a humorous column that Mom writes for our family website]), one from Andrew [little Andrew, that is - my 7-year-old brother), one from Jenny (a valentien) and one from Mrs. Smith [Olivia Smith's mom, who had come out to training camp to help with the cooking but had left afterward]. Andrew got a big package from Jenny for Valentine's Day - he wouldn't let anyone see it. [We were really rushed this mail time - we had about 20 pieces of mail, and only about 20 minutes to sing for all of it. So some people got off really easy. There were some memorable ones, though. Olivia had to sing Happy Birthday to a tree whose name escapes me - picture at right. Andrew had to sing a love song to a Hershey's kiss for the aforementioned package.]
Had a two-day [workshop] with GIA (Grace in ACTION - Ventura) 2/14-2/15. About 1/2 public schooled, and a lot of new members. Taught five songs, and critiqued some they already knew. They did well.
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