So anyways where I left off. We set out on the bus ride to North Carolina. Most of us had stayed up all night so as soon as we were off 99 percent of us were out asleep. Some interesting things that did happen though, was that is apperently snowed on the way there. Crazy weather we've been having really.
Well, ten hours later and we make it just in time for the opening session. Music, prayer is was all good. Toke me afew to get into the mood of things but once I did there was no stopping me or anything there. It was a short opening session and afterwards there was pizza and drinks for everyone but we had to go check into our hotels. I roomed with three of my friends and it was pretty cool.
The next day we had to wake up early for the days events and sense we had been silly enough to go to bed insanely late we only got about three hours of sleep. We woke up to my crazy friend singing to us and jumping on top of poeple. Best wake up call I could have asked for. Pumped for the day ahead we set back out to the church and had the days opening,which I regret to say that I ended up falling asleep though about half of, sense we where just sitting in an arena. Maybe I was more sleepy then I thought. More music and sometime after we got lunch, pizza for everyone again this time outside sense it was nice. We all sat up on the hill in the grass and pretty much layed there for afew hours. Lots of photos taken of poeple stuffing their faces too lol.
Afterwards back inside for class sessions, the first one I went to was called "defeating Plurelism" I don't remember exactly what was said but it was a really good speech. The second class I went to was called " Healing for a wounded heart." It was good, I fell asleep through part of it again though and it ran late so I had to leave before it was over to get back on the bus and go to dinner with everyone. It was hectic, going to eat and back to the hotel and back to the church all in one hour. We got back in time for the closing session which was good, the speeches were ok and it was a really great moment when everyone came out with a flag from their own nations. It showed really how far god's influence has reached and was pretty amazing.
The real highlight of the evening though was when we were closing out with worship music for the night and everyone was singing it was soo wonderful. I got so into the spirit that I was determined not to stop singing till I passed out on the floor. apperently others where thinking the same thing becuase it lasted for more then another two hours. I however was starting to get wobbly knees at the two hour mark still determined that I could go longer but a little voice in the back of my head was like "don't you really want to sit down?" I was like Nuu i want to keep going! but then god was like "sit down fool!" and I kinda just slinked to the ground at that point. Afew minutes later my friends and roomate came to check on me, I tryed to get up and almost fell over the row of seats in front of me but god I felt great. Drained but great!. We left soon after that when I was able to walk without falling over again.
Going back to the hotel everyone was completely stoked. No one wanted to go to sleep so we all decided to take a trip down the road to waffle house. Of cuase sense the bus had left and none of us had taken cars with us we walked. left the hotel and went right, past the gas station we had been going to for snacks and down past it for afew blocks til we figured out we had gone the wrong way. So back down the road and toke a left at the hotel, under an overpass and across the highway all 30 something of us went. It was like a line of hobos or something, really funny. Anyways, when we finally found the waffle house it was tiny and already packed with poeple. There was no way we could have gotten in there anytime soon. So I sit down in the sidewalk outside, my ankles hurting cuase I had messed one up real bad before the trip and had stood up for two hours singing just afew hours before this. Most of us gave up at that point and headed back to the hotel. Me and a friend eventully sung by the gas station again later that night but other then that we tryed to settle down sense we had another early morning ahead of us. Of course going to sleep early wasn't an option again and we ended up jumping on beds and jumping on each other til our friend "the boss" made us turn out the lights cuase she wanted to sleep.
Another three hour sleep later we were up for our final morning at the conferance. It was sunday now. We all got our junk togather and checked out of the hotel and back onto the bus. The last morning was short, anotehr speech and more music but only about an hours worth all togather. We toke photos up on stage with everyone and then had to leave. Leaving the conference we eat lunch before leaving town and becuase the bus and to refuel. The bus apperently toke redicully long to do this though so we where all stuck out in a wendys parking lot for an hour. What do we find to entertain outselves. We all started playing "gigalo" if you don't know what that is it's pretty much a dance where you take turns dancing whatever you want.
Well, tha'ts almost the whole story, but I'm tired and will finish it up tomorrow. This is turning out to be a really long story that just keeps going but in a good way. =)
Ok, so I tryed to type this long story once but compy decided it was going to knock me off and delete what I had typed so this is my second go at it. So it's gonna be shorter.
This weekend I got to go to CampusHarvest, a church conferance in North Carolina for college students. It was amazing but we had a rough start getting there. First off, we where supposed to leave at 1am for the 10 hour drive down there. So we got our stuff togather and went outside in the cold and rain and waited...45 minutes later we learn that one of the bus drivers that was going to take us had to drop out becuase of an emergency. So the company decided not to send any busses at all. Out of our ride there we had to go back to the dorms and wait until 7am when the local bus companies would open and we could get another ride. deciding it was silly to stay up, we all tryed to watch movies until 7, most of us fell asleep in chairs, I somehow made it to my messy bed with shoes and all still on.
At about 8am we finally got another bus it was still cold outside but atleast we had something to ride on. So with about 17 hours til the conferance and a ten hour bus ride ahead of us we set off.
ok, thats all I'm typing tonight, I'll continue with the rest of my weekend tomorrow.
So after I actully got fully awake today was much better. The test I toke wasn't so terribly hard and afterwards I got invited to bible study by my friend AKA my super secret crush. Afew interesting conversations later and Me, him and two of my other friends are going to Eat at a korean bbq place. It was neato, I got to try octopus and some clam thing, Yum! Now I"m back in my room, I need to get a shower but I have to wait for a friend who needs let into the building soon. So I suppose I should be finishing packing for the trip, but I'm all scatter brained again. OH! It rained today like a really good hard rain, so I got run and puddle splash in it, so now my jeans are down in the dryer cuase I got them all messy. Later tonight we're all going to go watch Prince of Egypt somewhere, I love that movie. Then at 1am we'll be bourding the busses to be off! ADVENTURE!
Well, I'm still debating on wheather or not to bring my laptop with me, so if I dont' post over the weekend it will be becuase toppy did not fit into my travel bag. =D
So, guess who's working on three hours of sleep this morning! Yeah, I suppose this isn't unusual but it's alittle less then I'm used to when I have a test before noon and too many things to do. I'll post more after class, too cranky to think much at the moment.
Today has been busy and boring all in one. I woke up and decided that I wasn't going to go to class today. So I ended up sleeping until like 1pm. Then I realized I really needd to go to the bank before tomorrow becuase all the money I own was sealed into a little check that needed to be cashed before I go on the trip tomorrow I'm excited about the trip though, Im going to north carolina for Campus Harvest, a church comferance thing. Everyone I know is going just about, it's gonna be so fun!
But before all that, I've got a test tomorrow and laundrey to do and packing and al that lovely junk. I just can't seem to concentrate today, ya know. Actully I kinda feel like going to the gym. Maybe I'll take a break and do that later. I got a softball game tonight though, I need to get ready for that too. *sigh* Can i just go back to bed now?
