Sometimes it is nice to have structure in your life. A routine keeps people focused, and often ensures that the necessary tasks are completed in order for a day to run smoothly. But it makes for a pretty boring story. So instead of running through my morning routine, I'm going to start the recollection of my day in the afternoon.
Everything went smoothly Thursday morning, and now it was time for me to decide what I was going to do with myself. Since I arrived in Mission, I have continued to discover my love for the game of frisbee. Whether I'm just tossing a frisbee around or actually playing a game of Ultimate Frisbee, I always enjoy myself. So that's what I did Thursday afternoon.
I played with a couple different people at different times, but it was a lot of fun just hanging out in the school yard, tossing a frisbee. Since I spent probably two or three hours out there, I ended up getting really good at a couple different tosses, which was pretty exciting. We ended our time of frisbee with a two on two game of Ultimate. It was a little unorthodox, but it was fun! Sean and Luke won.
After Ultimate, Greg called me and asked if I would be able to meet him out at Anne's place to help with some of the roof. So I met him out there and spent about an hour learning a little bit about roofing. I mostly just handed Brian and Greg materials, but I was able to ask questions, so I was complaining.
It got pretty hot pretty quick, so we decided to take a break from working on the roof. Since today was the last day of kids club, Greg and I wanted to go out one last time to see the kids, so we headed out that way and got there a little before dinner time.
I love the kids of SF so much. I decided that I would give a couple kids piggy back rides today, since it was the last day and I had said no most of the time I had been out there earlier in the week. I think piggy back rides goes all the way back to when our church first came out to the rez. It was almost a way we could connect with the kids and they absolutely loved it, so year after year they would ask our group for piggy back rides and it quickly became a staple activity of kids club.
When it was time to bring all the kids home, I was definitely sad that our week was over, but I continued to take heart in the fact that I was here for the rest of the summer. I am definitely going to make it a point to spend time with some of those kids from SF for the next couple weeks that I have here. I'm glad it wasn't just goodbye this time around.
By the time we had finally gotten back to the school, it had gotten really late. I should have come back earlier but Greg and Brian left after a few hours, and I sent Stephen off without me cause I didn't realize what time it was when he was leaving. So needless to say, most of the churches were more than ready to get started with the rest of the night. Especially considering tonight was end-of-the-week cleaning.
Somewhere in between getting off the bus, and realizing how much we still had to do tonight, I found out Lauren had gotten sick. She was "out of commission", so it was totally the Interns show. Time to step up and get this show on the road. We had to get through snack, sharing, and worship, before we started to split up all the churches into their designated cleaning areas. Craziness.
I had a lot of on my mind and a lot to organize in a short amount of time, so I quickly got the interns together and told them my plan. First we needed to recognize the kitchen crew for all of the amazing work they had done this week. Seriously, without them, we wouldn't have an LJ Week. So we got them together and handed out gifts to each of them. It was awesome to be able to take that time to thank them.
Afterwards, we started snack, and as soon as the snack line had died down, we started sharing/worship. While everybody was worshiping, Emily and I ran back to the dorms to make sure we had enough cleaning supplies to make everyone's time worthwhile. We organized those supplies, then we waited for Laura to send everybody over to the dorms.
When everybody got to the dorms, I divided them up by church and sent a specific number of them to different stations that needed to be cleaned. Overall, after the initial hour or so of craziness, the actual cleanig went well. Everybody was willing and able, so most of the churches were done within the hour.
The interns stayed up to finish up some last minute things in the cafeteria. The kitchen crew finished up a couple things, Laura prayed, then I followed the kitchen crew over to the dorms to lock those up, before we locked up the kitchen. All of the interns were probably back to the dorms by 1am or so.
I did my rounds quickly to make sure nobody was left just hanging around, since cleaning had obviously caused most to be up passed the curfew. I only had to kick a few people out of hallways/ couch rooms, telling them I didn't really care if they went to sleep or not, as long as they weren't in the hallways. But most had gone to bed on their own.
I visited some guys from SSEFC, who were still up, and we talked for a while. Some pranking happened that I did not participate in, but was out of my control. Everybody had a few laughs, and both parties who were pranked took it well, which was nice because I didn't want to have to break up any fights that late at night. Then I went to bed.
I had planned on being up at 5am to see the first church off, and make sure everything was unlocked for them to be going back and forth between the dorms and their cars, so sleep was necessary.
I hope you enjoyed reading about today as much as I enjoyed living it. Thanks for reading!
Until Tomorrow,
Brenden
Things I learned today:
1. New ways to throw a frisbee
2. Roofing is harder for tall people, because of all the bending over one has to do.
3. James 1
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