November November

This was a pretty chill week. On Tuesday we went to the Horne Lake caves to do some caving. I'd never been before, so I wasn't sure what to expect. There were some pretty intense tight spots and we had to slide around on our bellies and grip onto what we could without slipping off. I was really thankful for my helmet- I had lost count to how many times I smacked my head into something jutting out. It was super encouraging to have the support and helping hands and words from my group, there were definite times when I thought I would have to set up camp and stay in the cave, cause I had reached a spot that I couldn't move out of, but they kept me going and wouldn't give up on me:). I had some falls and slips that shook me up a bit and shaved down my nails so that they were once again super short, but over all I had a pretty good time, and would definitely do it again.

This week we were also busy with finishing up our Camp Ministry course with Jim Bad. We have our last class this Friday-where we will be presenting our group projects concerning an area of camp that we are improving. So our group has been busy creating a video that we'll be showing during the presentation and just finalizing the details. It's a pretty humorous video, and we taped a lot of it outside in the rain. We just have some last minute editing to finish up this week and we should be set for Friday.

On Friday the Junior High retreat started. This was another one of the full weekend that i was required to work for my camp ministry, so I was assigned to work in Club Coco-making shakes and smoothies, etc, some belaying in the Challenge Course, and I was also part of the All Star Games crew and had a little dish-pit time as well. It was a pretty sweet weekend:) I really enjoyed being part of the games crew. We played this one night game called QSI and us from the crew were selected to be different witnesses and had to hide out around the Qwanoes campus and wait for the campers to find us. My job was to give out the blood samples, so the kids would first have to find me, then go back to the main agent at headquarters-get a syringe, then find me again to give them their blood sample-aka-red kool aid:). Two of my youth kids from my home town were able to make it to the retreat-it was really cool to see them once again:)

This week is reading break and a lot of the guys and gals have gone back to their homes until Friday. There are only a few of us remaining here, but we are still having a wicked awesome time. Tonight we had dins at BP and hung out in town. I have to make sure to buckle down and do some actual reading for my Church ministry course coming up in a couple weeks and work on my final Hermeneutics paper that is due this weekend, as well as the projects for Jim's camp ministry. Should be some fun-filled days:)

Thanks for checkin' in!

Love Jayme