i'm exploding through my skin because i want to tell you, but i'm not going to give it away just yet.
Mood:  bright
Now Playing: whirr of the computer
Topic: just a regular update.
Wednesday was take your kid to work day. I thought I'd be a loner at Nortel, but when I was at the registration desk, I saw "Jake Garvey" on a name tag! I started freaking out, and it turns out he was right behind me in the line! I said hi and he said hi back but with a really evil look on his face. I'm SOOOOO proud to say that when I looked at him, I felt nothing! No attraction whatsoever! Yay! And then I saw Katherine in the line, and then Donovan, Dan and Nick.
Afte speaches from people, we split into groups (i was #12) and our group played Jeopardy first against two other teams. I felt so bad because I didn't go up to the podium at first and I knew almost all of the answers- at least we got second that round. I went up for round two but my knowledge (lol) didn't help much because they could never understand my whispering, and by that time the other teams had understood what i said or figured it out on their own. Then we watched 2 demos from guys and played a team building game. There were two really hott guys in my group, and one of them was flirting with me the whole time *laughs*
Then lunch, presentation by the parents in my dad's group, tour, watched Dad's colleageus work and then to dance.
I was doing pretty well in dance, but Mrs A singled me out for my crappy pirouettes. I had to do at least 10 en dehors pirouettes from fourth at least! But strangely it didn't bother me, I liked her finally pointing it out, instead of me just knowing it ... :p And I might quit my grade 7 ballet in the evening, because ending at 9:30 is too tiring for me...

Thursday I didn't talk to Jason much, but after school Nicole and Jamal were trying to get me to talk to Damon. Jamal in the end shoved me in front of Damon.
me: hey
D: hi
[talk for a few seconds about geo trip]
N: you guys are sitting together on the geo field trip (me thinking "what about jason?")
J: and just so you know, you guys are going out.
me: I don't think that'd work, the longest of our conversations was 30secs..
D: 2 actually (laughs)
[we talk about science class for a bit]
J: don't talk about school! It doesn't count!
D: its embarrassing...
me: yeah [me almost late for bus therefore I run]
In music class we watched some of "Amadeus" the movie in the lecture hall, and I was sitting on the floor beside Kaan. I had a feeling he kept on staring at me, and my suspicions were confirmed today in music when Julie told me that her and Coralyn noticed that he was checking me out almost the whole time!
Dance was really tiring today, but I felt confident I did better than normal (even though my grand jetes and countertemps were bad...). BTW, Mom almost quit voice lessons for me because I almsot never practise (for some reason I can't practise when other people are at home- that means only Tuesday evenings), but lesson yesterday was pretty good.
And I did tons of homework after dance *sleepy*

Friday (today) um... lots of stuff happened wow Okay, where to begin? French, nothing. Geo, nothing. Lunch? *rolls up sleeves and takes deep breath* So I was sitting with the same people again, and eventually Jason came and him me Quinn and T? (i don't remember his name, just that it starts with at t...) went for a walk.
Q: (to me and Jason) so are you guys going out yet?
J: no...
T: Janessa, do you like Jason?
me: thats an awkward question
T: well, Jason, do you like Janessa?
J: yeah...
me: yeah i like jason
T: why don't you guys go out?
J: (talks with T...)
Q: hey janessa (btw he is totally cute!) do you want to go out with me?
J: um, no
Q: aww why?
J: i don't know you. (he was the random dude on monday who asked if jason and i were going out.)
(more random talking)
T: janessa come here
me: fine
J: janessa, will you go out with me?
me: okay (and then he hugged me but his shoulder went in my neck so that hurt).
So yeah, I"m going out with Jason now! App. Damon doesn't care, but I don't totally know for sure about that. That's what Jamal says though... And Kaan does like me but he said "well she likes all those other guys too so..." I feel bad for him, cuz he's a really funny guy (and cute- please don't kill me for saying that Stephi lol) and I want to be friends with him. And as Sarah says (but this was about Damon...) theres always time for me to date jason for 2 weeks and then kaan.. lol. I hope that doesn't happen. Its just so weird for 3 guys to like me all at once, and them all being pretty good guys... WEird....

well, I'm tired of typing now, so I'll leave you in peace (?)
*hugs* and happy first weekend of november
--janessa
Please don't be hurt- I really don't want you to be! I don't know whether I should tell you, but I want to be friends with you for sure! PLease don't be hurt!

see me laugh but hear me cry
Mood:  not sure
Topic: just a regular update.
Choir this morning. We were all (i think...) puttin in some of our best efforts, but 20 minutes before parctice ended our energy died. Mr C addressed that subject in music last period... All the talk about sleep in that discussion made me want a nap. *sigh* I miss nap times!

French was boring as usual, but we got to read this really creepy horror story about this woman being the 13th wife of this baron, and it's so well written, omygosh! And in the middle she's trying to tell people that he's going to kill her or something but they just laugh and say that "we told her not to marry him- at least she's trying to prevent it" and then sit back and relax as the baron's 13th wife mysteriously dissappears, just like her predessesors. You'd have to read it yourself to feel the gravity of the situation, maybe its on the internet. Maybe I'll check sometime....

Geo was in the library again, and I kinda had the feeling Jason was stopping liking me. Julie said app. yesterday he was saying that this other girl was a 3000 on a scale of 1-10! My group worked pretty hard, i'm so proud of them lol amber "random attack!"

Lunch I sat with Julie and Mick and Gabby etc. I finally got to meet Jerod, but he was staring at me the whole time. Julie and Sarah told me that he does that to everyone, which made me feel better!

Science I got to talk to Damon a bit. He had had coolaid powder in a package, and there was a hole in it so everything fell on his desk. We started wiping it off, and I noticed there was red stained on the tips of 4 of my fingers. When I looked at Damon's hands, they were TOTALLY covered in it. Haha mine still hasn't come off- imagine him?!

In music Julie told me she had talked to Jason in their french class the period before. He said that he likes me a lot, and a lot more than any girl he's ever liked! *gasp of delight* And that he wants to go out with me exept he's grounded and stuff... He sent me that on email later today (including his phone number!), and it made me so happy. I responded saying my side (ie that i like him too, but since i live in barrhaven it'd be pointless to try to go on dates etc- not that i really want to go on dates, i still feel too young duh i'm 14!. i also gave him my number...) So hopefully it'll turn out for the best.
During music class we had the discussion about sleep/energy, had our C major triad test and then went back to the class to sing choir music. I get so annoyed from the other altos who can't sing their parts. Honestly, when its us in the class (ie minus the grade 10s) i can only hear me, Catlin and Polly! Its even worse when we split, cuz then I can only hear me and POlly, and the "high" altos can never find their notes! ERGH! And when us low altos (i have no idea why i volunteered to be in low alto- i CAN sing pretty low, but i can also sing fairly high...) sing with the baritons (guys) in one part of a song, the regular people can't figure out their notes. They should seriously practise and figure them out! There's a friggen performance tomorrow! Course, I'm not going cuz i'm going to the Take your kid to work day with Daddy, but w/e.

thats all i'd say. better go practise voice lesson stuff or mom'll kill me! lmao *hugs*
--janessa
Sorry, it's getting too late. The more you put it off, the less of a chance there'll be between us. Hurry now, you were my first choice for a while, so talk to me. I'm really not that scary! Please... It might be too late by Thursday...

happy halloween- i wish i could say the same for myself
Mood:  not sure
Now Playing: nuttin. too po/d to play anything.
Topic: just a regular update.
This morning I wore my regular clothes to school, and then when everyone in the Drama Hall was wearing their costumes, I changed into my black cat stuff.
French was okay. We had presentations (my group's sucked, cuz i didn't know we would be reading from my VERY VERY messy copy....) and then got candy.
Geography was in the library, and the whole time Jason was being so touchy-feely with me. It was kinda weird. But still cute. And I don't mean like sexual harrasment, but like playful "banter" (hah that word is so weird!). I used to be so sure it was Damon, but now I'm wondering... And I busted my ass on the weekend for the geo project, and it turns out no one else in my group did their work! ERGH! So basically the whole period it was Jason and I "sneakily" trying to be near each other. Weird. Julie said he was/is really horny today.
At lunch I um... sat with the dancers and Julie etc. I didn't end up going to the costume contest (too lazy). Eventually I went to the practise room with ??? (i don't know his name, but he's cute!) Josh and Jason. The uknown dude eventually asked Jason and I if we were going out, and he was like "no!!!" as if it was the stupidest idea ever! Wasn't he the one who was bragging I'd be his gf soon? Auch guys!
In science we met our real teacher (ms gorsline is a sub), and she brought her new baby Nigel and some chocolate for us. She seems pretty cool! We did some random boring work that I'll forget by next week... And when I was talking to Victoria, Spencer and Ryan beside Damon, Damon barely looked at me. Exept when he thought I wasn't looking :)
Music we sang choir stuff, had a test on italian terms and got candy. Boring.
Hehe after school when I was walking past Jamal, he was like "run! damon's right there" loud enough for Damon to hear. I didn't have to run, Damon slowed down, even though he only said "bye see you tomorrow" after a minute. Jamal said that he had actually SHOVED Damon in my direction after school on Friday but "he's too much of a loser".
On the bus I was strangely hyper (well, lately i HAVEN'T been hyper, that's why its strange) and was complaining about how it can be hard to talk to ME. Like, I will talk for hours about nothing if I'm awake/not too lazy to do it!
And the reason I'm in a bad mood? (I was in a good mood until I got home...) No trick or treating cuz I'm "too old". No movie to occupy myself with. And I don't want to stuff my face with candy cuz then I'll gain a billion pounds. The only good thing was when Krystal Katherine Jessica Kelsey and Emily came to my house. They got their candy and left. *tear*tear*

Its so boring. I totally feel like I have no life. Oh well. Maybe I don't. And maybe I'll have Julie ask Jason tomorrow if he actually still likes me. And I'll initiate an actual conversation with Damon. And pig out on ice cream and TV and Habbo Hotel.
*hugs* happy halloween
--janessa
I'm so sorry for what happened to you. I wish he hadn't done that to you, even though I don't know him. He's a butthead for discarding you like that- don't worry, you deserve better than him, even if you love(d) him.

a quick catch-up (i hope, for the sake of my unfinished science homework....) on a pretty autumn day
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: n/a
Topic: just a regular update.
Friday Krystal, Erin, Leila and I went to the Merivale dance (8-11pm) at 8:30. We stayed until 10:30pm and I was so tired when we got home. Its gross how many people were grinding. *gag* They seemed to either be having sex standing up and swaying to the beat or having anal [standing up]. Ugh. I swear I saw two guys grinding- and then one of them went off with a girl at the next song! I met a few people. The music wasn't that crappy. I felt so bad for Jacob, because he SORTA asked Krys to the dance, and he was the one of his guy friends who went to the dance, so he spent a lot of the time walking around staring at people.

Saturday I woke up, ate Kraft Dinner, went on Habbo Hotel (jmgypsy1) and email. Jessica, Katherine, Kelsey and I went to see Elizabethtown at the new Barrhaven theatre. It was a really odd movie, kbut not a total waste of my $9.95. I think Orlando Bloom should stick to fantasy type stuff. lol katherine "stroking" orlando!
Ryan and I went to "the gathering" which was a Christian Praise and Worship gettogether at the Corel Centre. We sat in the third row from the stage (on the ice, which felt so weird...). Most of the music was good, but some I didn't know at all. There were lots of very, how shall I say, charismatic people, which was kind of annoying at some points. And Craig was beside me, so whenever he lifted his arms in the air (which happened a lot) I almost died from his BO ugh.

Today was church of course. We didn't get christmas pageant scripts because the photo copier died. But I read through half of it, and it seems pretty good. We're doing "The Best Christmas Pageant Ever". I'm Immogene Hurdman, the one who's the bully and plays the part of Mary. I love that story, its so funny. Sadly, i have the second most lines- 35. Thats a lot for me, who sucks at memorisation. Jamie has the most: 45! I feel so bad for her, but I don't want to switch- if I can hardly memorise 35, how could i do 45? And its dumb because we practise EVERY FREAKIN Sunday during either Sunday School or Children's Hour. I'm only not practising in one of the slots one day, but I have to miss the sermon EVERY DAY!?!?!??! That is really dumb. I don't like that idea at all. Ergh.
After church the youth group had a food drive for the Ottawa Food bank. ITs about 1.5 hours for my community service. The afternoon was so pretty, so it was really nice to walk around. Aimee and I were together, and at one point Gabriel came with us. At one house, one of the ladies gave candy to Gabe and I, saying I was his big sister! That made Aimee feel very old... She would have had to have me when she was 17! lol poor her.
And since I got home, I napped for an hour (i only wanted to for about half an hour, but ....) and then went on the computer to do my homework. Once I finish this entry, I'm going to do my science homework ergh its a lot, because we were being too noisy/rambunctious in class on Friday.
And OMYGOSH! ITS HALLOWEEN TOMORROW! YAYAYAYAYAYAYAY!

*hugs* and *friendly kisses* to all of you out there!
-janessa
I think I've chosen you, but I don't want to be a b*tch about the whole thing. Why do both of you have to like me? And why can't you talk to me?!

the friggen most awesome day EVER!!!!
Mood:  celebratory
Now Playing: nuttin
Topic: just a regular update.
I'll have to write this quickly because its 6:05 now and I have dance at 6:30... Anyway, as the title says, today was the most awesome day ever! My mood was totally random on the bus (lol Dylan and Marcus, my happy place!) and then I hung out near the winds music room with a variety (haha that sounds so weird!) of people. Including Jason lol *blush*- more on that later.
It was a half day so the periods were squished into 9-1pm. In french we um, did nothing except talked about the french play we went to see yesterday and corrected some grammar work. Geography we took notes (duh).
Then was "nutrition break". Haha Sophie and I walked around and then I sat near the gym with some of the dancers and Kat and Nicole and some of the guys. Oh Sarah was there too (she sat on my lap which was very awkward for my chest lmao). Jamahl was trying to get Damon to talk to me I think. ?! When I was going to my locker, Jamahl was there and here is our conversation:
him: i know you, you're the girl [who likes Damon]
me: no, actually i don't!
him: what? but everyone says you do...?
me: yeah, well, i don't know him well enough to like him
him: oh well, okay
me: why, does he like me or something?
him: i can't answer that question
So yeah... Then we had science, and we were doing an experiment with voltmeters and batteries and lightbulbs etc, and I was so stressed cuz I thought we had a test in Music about italien theory terms (cantabile, allegretto etc) and note names (tonic, sub-dominant etc). Then in music Mr Cas moved the test to tomorrow because so many of us had missed class yesterday because of the french play! We spent most of the period passing tests back and stuff.
Then we had to change into our choir uniforms. I said hi to Damon, and he looked really happy--?? Jamahl intercepted Nicole and I as we got to the bathroom, and asked us what we were doing, etc. I eventually asked him if he had told Damon that I didn't like him, and he was like "no, i just said he needs to talk to you more". To which I replied (haha love my fancy writing? *winks*) "okay, cuz i wouldn't want to break his heart. He does like me, right?" "yeah". Hah. I don't know if i haven't totally stopped liking him, or I'm just flattered. Eeeek!
Then we had choir... lalalla so we got out at 2pm, and Sarah, Emily, Brownwyn (? spelling ?) and a few more people sat near the strings room and sang choir songs while also being crazily (even by MY standards!) hyper.
My parent-teacher interview was at 3, so I walked my mom down to my bag after. Mme S says my only problems are I don't seem to get the conjugations (which won't end up being a huge mark) and it seems like i don't care about it !??! We went to Brio so I could get a new bodysuit for dance (its black, but really cool, I'm wearing it right now actually). Then voice lesson, now supper just happened... And dance in 15 minutes.
So, the Jason thing! *takes deep breath* So he likes me, and I like him. But we don't know each other well enough yet to let it progress to anything. And we haven't ever talked to each other about the fact we like each other. But there is definitely a connection. [haha the competition between him and Damon!]
Okay, thats all for now, sorry, g2g brush my teeth before ballet!
*hugs*
--janessa
How can you think its all about you? Its like you WANT to be blamed for doing what he did. What?

bus trip with krystal to value village! hahaha.... bus trip --> bust rip? lol nvm
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: nuttin
Topic: just a regular update.
So we had so much fun! Omygosh, it was so awesome seeing my best enemy again! lol So we got to Fallowfield fine, and then we were supposed to get off at the Queensway station, but I could only read it once we got past and the bus driver didn't stop when i pulled the string, so we went down this looonnnng road, and were so freaked out. But eventually we found the right bus and got there all right! :) I bought two tops and some boots, and krys got 1 or 2 shirts, and part of her halloween costume! Then we went home. It was so much fun lol. We got on the wrong bus though at Fallowfield and had to go all the way around Barrhaven! Oh well. Jacob (krys' friend) got on the bus and then when I got off, I saw nathan who had biked Jacob to the bus. We got to talk for maybe 5-10 minutes. It was cool. To all of you people who haven't seen him in a while, he's a lot nicer. I mean it!

PETRA, dance, assembly and *sigh*
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: my favourite songs... ish
Topic: just a regular update.
Okay... So Wednesday was a sameoldsameold day until the evening. I went to intermediate ballet and then the PETRA CONCERT!!!!!!!! OMYGOSH!!!! IT WAS AWESOME!!!!! The first act, Black Talon, sucked. Seriously sucked. Then Breath of Fire or bread of fire, i can't remember which played. They were pretty good. The drummer was like 18 and SOOOOOOOOO hott! Next was Farewell June, which is now my new band that I love! (Don't worry Newsboys and TFK, I still lurve you guys! lol) At 9 Petra finally came on. 'Cept the lead guitarist couldn't fly in, so they were mostly "unplugged". John (the lead singer) gave his testimony to stall for time. One of the guys in the audience offered to play guitar, and at the end they let him, and he was awesome! I can't believe they didn't let him before! We all got free tickets to last nights concert in Kingston, but I couldn't skip school to go.

Yesterday was a bland day. Nothing happened. Voice lesson was boring, but I did some harder stuff that was almost impossible. And no, I don't mean I did it properly. I sucked at it. Well, not TOTALLY sucked. But pretty bad. Dance was awesome! I worked so much harder than usual and it felt so good afterward. I went to sleep an hour earlier because of the late night on Wednesday.

Today um.... During period three we had an assembly! And no, that's not the sort of thing where you go to the gym or auditorium and listen to someone talk. At CHS it's different musical/dance etc acts. There was this band that one of my gr12 friends John is in, the Bamboozles, and they were pretty good, except Sugar's (Adam- the lead singer/guitarist) mike didn't work, and they only gave him the MCs' mike in the last 30 seconds! There was one really good dance duet with two twins. Then Joel's band, Alibi played the last act. They were really good, except that their song was 12 minutes!
Science was okay. We took notes (as usual), corrected homework and got more homework. ["let the rain fall down and wake my dreams"] Elias is getting a bit flirty with me. It's creepy. He's my love/hate buddy- but don't let him know that, cuz he'd freak. I'll explain our relationship: we're friends, but because he's so pessimistic we always have to fight or something. Ryan (not my brother, one in my science class) gave the guys caffeine pills. For money. Isn't that drug dealing? Grace and I "got mad" at Damon (yes! I've been speaking to him finally! Yay!) for having one. After stealing my apple, she threw the pill at him, so he didn't have it anymore! Haha. I think she got through to him. But he's SOOOOOOOOOO hott! Omygosh! And Grace says he must like me! Yippee!
Aww, I was going to go to Saunders Farm with some friends tonight, but Mom said it might not be a good (safe) idea and then one of them had babysitting. Oh well. And it's going to rain the rest of the weekend apparently.

--janessa
Please be careful! I'm supposed to be watching you for her! And you're trustworthy but that girl IS flirting with you. Not good. Stay away from that sort of thing before your pattern repeats!

in the darkness it is easy to pretend that you're not there
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: favourites....
Topic: just a regular update.
Thanksgiving weekend was pretty good. Slept a lot, didn't stuff my face... Well, i didn't sleep THAT much. Monday I slept 12am-1pm and then last night i think there was some 3 odd hours randomly stretched throughought the night. I only know that because in one dream I got raped by a girl. Ugh.
Speaking of rape, I keep on getting this recurring nightmare! So it's grade 9 (this started in Jan.05) and December... 12th i think. I get invited to a birthday party, which at first I don't want to go to. In the end my friends convince me to go. At about 10pm the party is getting kinda bad- drunkenness, drugs, oral sex and everything else you can have in an R rated dream... So I call my mom, and since my friend lives half an hour away, she tells me she'll pick me up at 10:30. I sit on the front porch, waiting for her. This big man comes along with a map, and asks me for directions. I'm getting kinda worried, cuz he's staring at my body the whole time. Then I start to pull out my keychain (there's a whistle on it, even in real life). He notices, and slams me to the ground. I jump up and am almost away when he pulls my ankle. Then he rapes me. Fast forward a few months. I'm pregnant. Ugh. I go to schools talking about how to protect yourself from rape etc. Skip ahead a few more months. My belly is totally showing, and my first year of high school is totally screwed up. To make it worse, I get a misscariage. Such a lovely dream, isn't it?! Ergh... No one deserves to have that happen to them in real life- in a dream it's bad enough! At least I didn't have to SEE the goryness of the rape... And the idiot didn't even wear a condom! Auch... Maybe I'll write a story along those lines sometime.
I had an orthodontist appointment today at 1pm. Mom picked me up quarter after 12. It took forever to get there. Then he was like "yup, we'll take some xrays and then decide what to do". So after five minutes we had to take the 1/2 hour trip back. I got to school in time for a bit of science.
We did an experiment with combs and static etc... I got to talk to Damon! Yay! Well, not really. W/e. Don't laugh Stephi! Jamahl says he chickened out of something, but he wouldn't tell Nicole and I what...
Omygosh, Julie Sarah and I are going to be twins for Twin Day on Friday! We're gonna wear yellow shirts, jeans and do our hair the same way. Haha it's gonna be so awesome!

Personal Note: You say you like me, but you really can't! You've only seen how I look, but never had a conversation with me! So don't be so quick to judge me! Because you don't know me... And at this rate, you never will!
--janessa

cold sunny day... ?! "i wish to go to the festival"
Mood:  a-ok
Now Playing: broadway music (Into the Woods, Wicked, Avenue Q etc)
Topic: just a regular update.
Wow it was nice to go to sleep so late last night after my lovely bath *sigh* and then wake up like 9 hours later! I went to school, um...
In french I totally understood the verbs! It was so cool! I was suddenly like *click* and WOAH! And we have a test on "aimer" and "finir" on Wednesday. I think I'll actually get a really good mark! Yay! Well, that is if I study properly! *laughs*
Geography was utterly boring. We corrected some questions from Friday and figured out what we're supposed to study for our unit test this week. BORING zzzzzzzzzzzz
At lunch I finished my science homework, ate my food and then "flew" off the really steep (maybe 80*) hill behind the school (teacher parking lot) with my friends.
Science was okay. We took lots of notes on cations and anions... Ergh so easy. [Into the woods to go to the festival] And on the "self test" i did really badly 0/3 cuz I wasn't paying attention to what i was doing. For the atomic mass i wrote 33 cuz I read 22.99 upside down and just ergh. So then everything was messed up! Oh well, it just returns to what Mom said about checking my tests before correcting them!
IN music we had a few tests on intervals and major and minor triads. I cannot believe how inexperienced some people are. How can you get into a music program without knowing what a quarter note is? Because you most definitely had to sight read and that sort of thing in the audition!
Omygosh Damon is hottt. But Grace says Anthony likes me. Haha. She also says he's a horny b*stard and likes Brianna, Corrine, Amanda, "that new girl". Haha.
And surprisingly Elias wasn't as mean to me today! He said he isn't ACTUALLY mean, its just that i WAS talking to myself. Well, I sort of was for a few seconds, but he only heard when I was talking to Emma, but she hadn't been paying attention so it seemed like I was talking to myself. *laughs*
So I've noticed that I have like been hardly flirting at all. It's nice! I decided in the summer that flirting isn't actually good, because it can be tricking a guy into thinking that I like him, or that I'll do some sexual thing with him. Which isn't the idea I want to send him.
Omygosh Sam, it was so cool to see that you're saving sex for marriage! It's a good choice! And when you're married, it's hardly ever bad that you get pregnant with your husband! But if you have sex when you aren't, it's almost always a public disgrace! And from having multiple partners, you will almost definitely get HIVs or something! And 50% of teen girls who had pre-marital sex wish they had waited a lot longer!

Note to someone: (you know who you are)If only you knew who I really am, then you wouldn't like me so much- I'm not your sort of girl.
janessa

retreat was suh-WHEET-- i guess....?
Mood:  not sure
Topic: just a regular update.
Argh. The youth group got to stay in the Derbyshire lodge, which is the one right beside the main lodge. And it's heated, so we didn't have to freeze out in the field like jr fellowship! Awww I feel bad for them...
Friday night we just hung out in the lounge after campfire, and since it's so musty (old smelly furniture) I got a stuffy nose.
Aimee was our chaperone or whatever you want to call her, and she was already asleep with her son (two years or three, can't remember) Gabriel by the time Jamie and I came in.
I slept so well, it was nice! And its so weird, because past years it's been waking up EARLY, but now it's sleeping in for me! *laughs tiredly*
After breakfast we had an "ice breaker". We had to be in teams of 5 or 6 and make up a song using some random words... I was with Kaitie, Nikki, Heather and Ally. Our song goes like this (but its so much better if you hear us sing it lol) Oh, the words we needed to use are in bold.
The martians will brighten thesimple slug's life.
While we eat chicken at the church!
Then we quit our jobs as the slug eats the chicken!
AT THE CHURCHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!
Then was the first session led by our speaker. He's this song writer that specializes in songs that "appeal to the tall and the small". *cough* Um, for the 12-17 year-olds, it was incredibly boring. 'Cept at one point we got to write on newsprint what was going on in our lives... But it really ended up being our random drawings and things such as "this is a RABBIT, not a dog!" and turkeys... I have no idea why though...
After lunch was free time, and my group (from the ice breaker) and I wanted to do a skit for Not So Fine Arts Evening, so we were practising- we never ended up getting anything good enough in the ten minutes we used. I went swimming with the guys and Jamie and Maya (who had got there in the morning). The water was so friggen cold! But I got numb in the first 30 seconds so I could swim then.
The second session led by the speaker was at 4, but I only got out of my (really really really nice and warm) shower when the bell rang to start it, and I still needed to change into my clothes and everything, so us kids decided not to go. I don't even remember what we did instead. I think I ran around everywhere trying to find my guitar music and pick... Which ended up being in the first place I had looked! *shrugs* It was good excercise!
Then came time for supper, and the youth group was trying to come up with some idea for a skit or something for NSFAE...
NOT SO FINE ARTS [EVENING]CAME! THere were some really cool acts. I was in three. 1)playing guitar and singing "All You Wanted" by Michelle Branch 2)Doing one of those funny skits where someone pretends to be the persons arms and stuff- I think I shoved Kim's toothbrush up her nose! And I did her hair really badly! There was probably some bits of banana that had been on my hands (from feeding her) in her hair! 3)The Youth Group Skit. We did a "silent movie" for "David and Goliath". I was David. And David was our narrarator! lol that's confusing... ish. For Goliath we had Jamie on top of Stewart's shoulders linked to Maya on Ryan's shoulders. Ben "played" (ie used the demo on the keyboard and pretended it was him) the keyboard as our background music.
Then was campfire- led by us. It seriously sucked. No one was following the order we had planned, and my voice was gone (sore throaght which i THINK i'm over now) and Jamie can't sing loud, and the rest of em kinda suck.... Oh well.
Then we got to leave and lead the game for jr fellowship. We used my bikelight (its now broken but that's another story...) and they had to turn it off. Stew Mike and I were the bad guys, and we chased them around the field trying to not let them find it. It was fun ('cept for my bikelight now being broken ergh I used that for almost 4 years! oh well... I suppose I could duct tape it or so/ing...)
After the jr fell. went to their junk food night (which we're technically supposed to be a part of) we went star spinning. Big mistake! Ben had two flashlights, and as we were running (completely dizzy) towards him, he decided it'd be fun to run to the right. So we were going downhill, couldn't see a thing and were totally messed up. I saw Jamie out of the corner of my eye, but I couldn't stop- until i hit my face into her knee... We both got grass and dirt in our mouthes, and the left side of my face felt frozen for a while. I seem to have a tiny red cut on my eyelid, and it's still a bit swollen under my eye. It was still fun though.
We went back to the campfire, which was almost over, and ate some marshmallows {WOAH, THIS IS A LOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOONG ENTRY!}- Phil ate 40! Ugh that'd be gross *gag*
Stew, Maya and I lay in the field looking at stars- there were 3 shooting ones in 20 minutes! Eventually the others came with junk food and we sat there eating for an hour. Maya and I got cold, so we returned to the lodge and got our pyjamas and candy. Once everyone came in, the guys started to play guitar and stuff. At 12 or so... probably earlier though, I went to bed, cuz no one really seemed to want to go swimming really late (or early, depends how you look at it). I got to sleep almost instantly *sigh* It was nice!
So I was the first to bed and last to wake up for breakfast! Apparently in the end Stew David and Ben did go swimming, and Jamie and Maya watched their clothes (The guys were in their boxers) for them. Auch. It would've been fun to go.
After breakfast was "church" and Mariyah was sitting on my lap for most of it. She is so cute! Omygosh I love her so much! lol
Lunch, then packing and finally free time. We went swimming and played volleyball (I was actually better than normal! ... Maybe its cuz it was beach volleyball...) and swam, then played volleyball again, and finally swam again! The water was so fresh and nice *sigh* I enjoyed it. Ally and I were helping Stew and David with their lifeguarding stuff, by pretending to have engima's or broken legs etc. Jamie hadn't wanted to play volleyball with us, but when it was only Ben and her, she did- everyone found this interesting (lol jamie!) So after having dumped Nikki in the lake, Stew and David decided to dump Jamie in the lake. I got her to agree to helping the guys with rescue situations, so she came. When she did, we all grabbed her and carried her along the dock until we threw her in. She was a pretty good sport about it.

And now I can end this horribly long entry, because nothing else happend except we went home...
janessa