Winter Reteat 09

I'm glad that I went to VKCPC's winter retreat. At first I was disgusted of the bathrooms with no doors, shower with no hot water, and having to sleep in the main sanctuary with ALL the guys. BUT I didn't even care about those what so ever.The reason was because I was with my brothers and sisters in christ and such things like not being able to shower in cold water didn't matter to me.

I had no idea of the challenge I was about to be faced with. The seniors boys and older girls in our church were assigned to a group to be a group leader. I have never had my own group before and on top of that my group is usually the one that never participates in activities. We had a co-ed group leadership. The other group leader was Ashley Kim. We butt-heads every now and then but minor shit haha even though we had our own shit from the past, for the sake of the group we forgave each other. and THANK GOD I had ryan in my group, one year younger but a big help to QT's.(oh yeah and the group leaders had to lead in QT and I'm not that good in interpreting stuff.)BUT i tried hahaha

So we played games over the next few days. The first was capture the flag. haha It was a failed plan because there was at least 22 people on each team and the jail was so close to the boundary line. The next game was the dreadful RELAY RACE. And my groups name was CIA which stands for Christians in Action!! i thought of that >:] but the idea originated from Hanaro's retreat shirt a while back. So we were up first for the relay race.

1st station: we had to right each others names on their hand with a marker in our mouth. But we finished that fast.

2nd station: blindfolded and we had to organize by age and then by alphabetical order.The hardest was to make a triangle but we had two members who can see through their shirts so that was easy HAHA.

3rd station: sharades- we chose the hard movie which was paranormal activity. Our motion for that was retarded HAHAHA but we still got it at the end.

4th station: Finish half a watermelon as fast as you can so we dug into it and were lagging it kind of haha.

5th station ( worst station): It was to choose and eat the stack of babyfood. So I took the one with green,brown, and some other color.

I ended up eating the peas.I took a handful and stuck it in my mouth. OMG I was about to die. I didn't finish it so i gave it to my other group member and they pass it around. It gets back to me and it was the same as i left it before. NO ONE at any of it. So i ended up finishing it, nastiest shieett ever.

Overall retreat was awesome.The last night I had the time to talk and catch up with a good friend. We both have similar problems and it was nice to talk to someone who understands. haha VKCPC youth group is Family. My brothers and sisters of christ. Like Pastor Ben said,"I have never seen a congregation or youth group that is so much like a family." And that goes for me too. I'm glad to be a part of this family and I thank God every time I think about it.

TO JANE:
My deal was that No cigs,drugs,fighting until Jan.2010. haha I'm sorry but I think I broke cigs many times before and during the retreat. But I was thinking because my pastor told me that the kids under us look up to us and that the senior boys will hopefully become biblestudy teachers next year. So I was thinking to quit at New years instead of my break being over and starting to smoke again after new years.