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Ligonier, session five 2004... and everything before it (no lyrics in this subject line).
Man, I haven't written in here forever!! Wow... sorry about that. Anyway, I'm writing about Ligonier and everything before it.
On the Thursday or Friday before I left for Ligonier, I figured out that Travis and Pedro have been together for three years now. They make a cute couple, and I'm glad for them, I guess. I was just surprised at first, when I put two and two together.
The Friday before I left for Ligonier was my last day, not counting the last one week I spent at Friends when I got back from Ligonier. On that Friday, I took pictures of everyone. After camp, Brian chased Murray around and got two pictures of him. Murray was very pissed because almost no one takes pictures of him and he hates getting his picture taken. At least that's what he says. I apologized for that, and everything in general, and I wished him good luck in college. He thanked me, and we hugged. Then he drove away. A rather sad ending for a friendship.
The next day was Saturday: LIGONIER!! Mom, Dad, and I drove to Ligonier. When I got there, I saw a lot of people from previous years, like Jenni, Sunny, Chris, etc. I met my new Tribe 12 girls: Julie, Chelsea ("Che Che"), Anna, Caitlin, Nicole ("Nikki"), Meg (from last year's awesome Tribe 12!!), Ruth, Miriam, our awesome CIT Lindsay McCoy ("El Coy"), and our counselor Lauren. I was a little sad though, because Jenni and Sunny weren't in my tribe this year. They were in Tribe 11, even though they're probably the oldest girls at Ligonier. Oh, well. At least we were deckmates. The rest of the Tribe 11 girls were cool too. I became friends with Christina, Katherine, Meghan, and Brit *insert emu noise*. I was friends with Chrissy and Sarah (unfortunately, Meagie/Meghan, our friend from last year and the year before, did not come back this year) from last year. I was buddies with the other girls, too.
Along with Chris being a CIT again, Ben and Colleen (from Storm) were CITs, too.
And Charlie a.k.a. Bagel a.k.a. Bagel Boy, one of the coolest kids from last year, was back.
I also made some new friends, including K.T. and Adam, who are friends with Charlie.
This year's theme was "No Need to Fear, The Underdogs Are Here! 1 Corinthians 1:27-29". Ligonier in general was much needed for me, as I was pretty much spiritually drained, but this theme was perfect for me. God really does work wonderfully. I needed this theme so badly.
The dinner wide game skits this year featured Harry Potter's girl relative (cousin?) Carrie Potter trying to teach dancing lessons at her Disco Dancing School to Sauron, the flaming eyeball (a black towel with an orange and pink flower in the center), a student (one of the counselors... erg!! I forget his name!! but one of the coolest guy counselors) and his log, Log, and the Prisoner of Azkabedpan and her rock, Rock.
That sentence probably didn't make much sense, but... oh, well. In the end, Log and Rock reunited. w00t!!
We Tribe 12 girls adopted Tribe 1 as our little sisters and Tribe 6 as our second cousins.
Also, I became closer friends with a lot of people, especially Charlie. We were able to talk about a lot of our problems with each other. Charlie's really understanding, kind, and he's not judgmental. He's also very mature for a thirteen year old boy. He gave me the nickname "Beth Friend" because it's supposed to be like he's calling me "best friend" but with a lisp.
The two weeks went extremely freakishly fast, but were so awesome. During nighttime devotions, Lauren read to us Tribe 12 girls The Lion, The Witch, and the Wardrobe. I went on the climbing tower (some of us went climbing, others went caving). I was planning on white water rafting, but I scraped some skin off my foot at the Tribe 11 vs. Tribe 12 dance off on the concrete on the side of the pool during Water Olympics. It hurt really badly and I could barely walk on it. However, I still did high ropes and the zipline. I <3 the zipline.
I can't remember each day perfectly, unfortunately.
I wrote Murray a letter of apology. I don't want our friendship to end. However, Dad took the list of numbers I wrote down from my old cell phone so he could put them in a directory or something before my new cell phone started working (and then he lost the list). So I lost Murray's cell phone number, and I can't call him and find out if he got the letter.
I also wrote a letter to Abby L. at her camp. I hope she got her letter.
I wrote Mom and Dad two letters, and they sent me a card and some Pocky.
Ryan and Maya wrote me letters. I wrote Ryan back, but I didn't have time to write back to Maya.
I got stung twice by a wasp on the first Thursday, I think, in the Arts and Crafts hall. That and my foot led to me becoming friends with the nurses and the Infirmary. The second week nurses, the von Steins, had a sweet dog, a golden retreiver mutt, named Annabelle.
I think we had our "overnight" on Friday. Lauren left Friday afternoon to go to a Dispatch concert in Boston, so Lydia was our counselor for the next two days. Lydia and Lindsay helped us set up our tarps in our camping spot. Jesse came around on the red moped and helped us make our fire (it was hard, because everything was wet and muddy). After we ate dinner (I had an Uncrustables instead of a hot dog), some counselors came around and told us there were severe thunderstorms headed our way so we couldn't be out any later than nine o'clock. We decided to go into the creek because we figured we could change and shower when we headed back to the KYBO and cabins. So we had all of the fun of an overnight, but also had fun playing Consequences and then sleeping in our cabins.
On the first Saturday, we had movie night. This year's movie was the first Muppets movie. It was so fun. I <3 Muppets, and I wore my "Nothing comes between me and my Kermit" shirt the next day (after church).
I forget what day Tribes 1-6 had their overnight, but I think it was the second Monday or Tuesday. Tribes 7-12 had a coffeehouse skit night thing going on in the Rec Deck. We Tribe 12 girls performed a skit that Caitlin had thought up at hockey camp but we changed it to fit Ligonier. It was "Ligonier Anonymous". I was addicted to cabin cleanup. The skit was really funny. And there was a lot of talent in all of the different acts performed throughout that night.
But on the second Wednesday, there was a tornado warning for the county, so we huddled in the basement of the Lodge for a while, and it was fun. When the warning passed, some state park officials brought a tranquilized bear to the Pavilion so we could pet it before they let it go into the wilderness. It was interesting, but kinda weird.
I forget which day I wrote Charlie the note, but I think it was the second Wednesday. It was basically thanking him for understanding everything, telling him how cool he was, how I was sad about his problems, and that I loved him. Anyway, on Thursday, Charlie gave me a note he wrote for me. It was the sweetest note ever.
I put it in the box I made (well, decorated) at the Arts and Crafts hall.
Later that day, K.T. took a picture of us together on my camera. It turned out nicely, thanks to Charlie.
The second Thursday night was the Night at the Theatre. Since I was in the choir elective, we (the choir and I) had to perform two songs. I was slightly nervous. Not in a stage fright way, because I don't get that quite as often anymore, and I prayed to God about it. However, I had only been to two of the five elective times because my tribe had wilderness activities and whatnot the other three times electives happened to be scheduled. We did fine, but it made my night when Charlie yelled out, "Yay, Beth Friend!!" I grinned so wide, like a Cheshire Cat. I just couldn't help it.
The second Friday night was the last night, so it was the night to announce the color team winners and light the candles. We Tribe 12 girls tried to win cabin cleanup that day, and we drew a bonus to go with the theme (and it included Spiderman, Storm, Sailor Moon, and Sailor Jupiter). And we won cabin cleanup!! It was the first time all summer that any girls' Tribe 12 had won cabin cleanup. We got to hold the Flaming Horse of Glory statue and keep it at our table. It was righteous.
Also, we Tribe 12 girls were on the red team... and we WON!!!! We kissed the Golden Shoe trophy, and sung "We Are The Champions". Then the guys and girls had their singing "match" (girls sung "Ain't No Mountain").
We Tribe 12 girls also won Tribe of the Term, which was awesome!! I've never won cabin cleanup or Tribe of the Term with any tribe before, so it was just amazing!!
For the candlelighting, we had a campfire, but it started raining, so by the end of the night, we were in the Pavilion. It was a bit like last year, in that sense. I got a four year candle, since it was my fourth summer at Ligonier. I dripped a lot of wax on my hand and made a large wax lump. I almost cried, except I don't seem to have tear ducts.
It was probably one of the best days of my life.
On Saturday morning, our last morning (not even a full day), Sunny and I ran over to the forbidden boys' cabin area (it's okay on the last morning). We sat on the deck of Cabins 5 and 6 and talked to Chris (he was the CIT for Tribe 5) and Charlie (he was in Tribe 6). The photo of Charlie and me was the last one on my camera, so I told Chris that my dad could take a picture of us on his digital camera.
SCRAM was cool, and the Stomp elective got to perform (again, since they had performed at Night at the Theatre). It was awesome, but bittersweet, sad because we had to go.
Dad took photos since my camera had run out of pictures, so he got the annual photo of Chris and me. He also got another photo of me with Charlie.
It was an awesome session and, like last year's session five, I will never forget this year's session five.
Session five, never say die.
I doubt I'll put up any pictures, but I'd like to, so maybe I will, if I remember. I'll write up Charlie's note, scratchouts and typos and all, in a private entry. And I'll write everything post-Ligonier in another entry.
Thank you, God, for an awesome session five this year.
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(Anonymous)
2004-08-20 19:39
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I'm so glad you had fun bethy! Its ok that you couldn't reply to my letter, I was just afraid it wouldn't get to you in time! I'm glad you won all those tribe thingies and that you got closer to friends and what not. :)
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(Anonymous)
2004-09-29 08:34
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yeah I was gonna write in this earlier but I'm bored now haha. Glad to hear you had fun @ camp w/ me! Did I read charlies letter? I think I did.. I know I read the one u sent him.. I cant remember I miss camp. :'( Call me sometime! I have to update you and you have to update me on life! (Reply to this) (Thread) |
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