50 Blogs Old!

This is the big 50th blog. Hurrah, celebrate?! Party poppers, balloons, music, fun, friends and junk food yayyyyyyyy.....sounds just like primary school, radical!!!!!

I actually want to blog about my weekend though. It was pretty fun and just great really.

I somehow managed to get myself involved with a SAGALA camp. Salvos have this program sort of like scouts and girl guides and brownies called SAGALA. The girls are called sunbeams and moonbeams and lads are called legionaires. It's so similar it's a rip off hahaha....they earn badges and find good deeds to do for people. Just great!

So yea, i went to this camp. But not for the whole weekend as a SAGALA leader just as a 'special guest' kind of leader. On the Saturday.....actually, let me tell you what happened on the Friday night...

Well, i was wearing flip-floppy things (not thongs, coz thongs are rubber and you wear those when you're tent-camping) that had wooden soles and it was slippery so i lacked grip. Seconds after i was thinking how horrible it would be to take a fall after numerous near misses, sure enough, before i knew it i found myself face planting the garden and looking up at the people i was walking with. Humiliated i picked myself up, took off my shoes and hobbled away with them. So now i have a shiner of a massive bruise on my kneecap, it's good to have something to show, it makes the humiliation somewhat worthwhile. Back to Saturday....

So Saturday the deal was that the kids had been organised into groups of about 20. Throughout the day, they were involved in a round robin kind of thing. Our round robin station was a bible teaching program that we'd set up as a smelly, dirty backyard shed (for those international people, like the Russian guest we had, that's like a garage/storeroom with all your garden tools in it) and it was great. It did get a little repetitive because we had to do it 5 times during the day but the kids LOVED it, they really got into it. We sang songs (with actions!), we played games, we learnt about the prodigal son through drama (with a few alternative endings "do you think that's what really happened??" "NOOOOOOOO!!!!" - kids, gotta love 'em!), we watched a dvd with the REAL ending to the story, we learnt a bible verse - WITH TOOLS! We read stories, played more games and sang more songs. WOW! The greatest thing was that even though we did it 5 times during the day, every new session brought new blessings as different kids milled in and out. Their enthusiasm, their energy and their openness wasn't just 'a kid thing', it was from God. The blessing i received was watching them laughing and smiling (even the 'too cool for school' boys) and getting into it, it was seeing them pray and the desire to know God and the 'i'm-going-to-wet-my-pants' enthusiasm to be chosen to have a crack at the memory verse on their own. They were groovers!

So i went home, actually to lyxxy's place, and we played skip-bo hehehe....memories of hospital....and ALMOST got around to playing nightmare (something about maggots mooj?)....then i drove myself and Dina home and nearly fell asleep at the wheel....yep, fun times!

Tink xoxo