My new-found addiction: hemp bracelets!

I'm making them for anyone and everyone so tell me if you want one. I can make flat strings or helix strings and use different color beads :D Although they're really time consuming (takes me 30 minutes to make one >.<), they're lots of fun. I'm playing around with different kinds of knots :p So this is what I do whenever I get bored of researching colleges...so productive

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So this song is an all time favorite when I'm with Cindy and Gina. We listen to it every time, and we hung out today so it was appropriate. Anyways, I woke up and went to church this morning. Nothing exciting happened at church except for the fact that no one was there ): I got back, and Gina picked us up to go to Joann's to get beads and hemp to make hemp bracelets [: They're extremely fun to make. I'm going to make ones for my friends yay. (Yes, I have friends) Anyways, then we went back to Gina's and stuffed our faces with chips and dip and ice cream. We ate some of Gina's homemade buffalo dip which was delicious :) Then we helped her pick out outfits for her senior pics tomorrow and looked at her elementary school yearbooks. It was funny seeing people I know as little kids :p

Also, Gina has an adorable dog! Its name is Jack and it has the biggest eyes :DDD Except it's afraid of me. I think it's because I'm Asian.

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Yesterday we went whitewater rafting with the family and a bunch of other families in my parents' bible study group. It was at Ohiopyle, which actually isn't in Ohio despite what the name suggests, and it took an hour and a half to get there. We got there around 10:30 and waited until 12:30 to get started. It was really boring to wait D: Then we got on our life jackets and rode on a school bus for 20 minutes to get 9 miles upstream, which takes around 4 hours to finish. The rafts weren't those wooden ones used by Huck Finn which made me sad ): They were these giant inflatable bed-like things but didn't feel like beds because the seats were hard. The guide told us that we had to paddle down to the dock area (9 miles away) and to empty out all the mud, sand, and water. I laughed at the time thinking water wasn't going to get into the raft because the river looked peaceful...yeah...NO. So we started on our way and got stuck on rocks a lot. Apparently to get your raft off, you had to bounce up and down while paddling except that never worked :p Luckily, none of us fell in but the people in the other rafts weren't so lucky. Mind you, the currents aren't crazy like you see on tv but it wasn't a peaceful ride either. Well, some parts were peaceful and it was nice to enjoy nature. We thought we were going to have a peaceful ride and a nice picnic but that didn't really happen. During the peaceful parts, we had to keep paddling or else we would never get off the river before 6 PM which was when the river supposedly got dangerous. It was still a lot of fun though! The scenery was beautiful [: Along the way, the other families started to challenge us to a competition to see who would arrive there first so we had to paddle extra hard. So it was basically a 4 hour straight nonstop paddling workout. :D My arm hurts now. Then, we got on shore, changed, and waited for the last family to arrive. After they got on shore, we had a picnic near the river. We didn't get back home until 8 at night.

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Let me explain my picture. I'm not putting up the picture because I like picture of myself standing on the driveway eating ice cream :p I put it up because I LOVE MY SWEATER VEST :) I felt like telling the whole world.

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Alright, it's time I make another post because you guys haven't heard from me in a while [: So anyways, since my last post, I've gone to speech camp and back. Speech camp at Northwestern was 10 days and it was pretty intense. It was a lot of work but a lot of fun as well! We gave 3 speeches a day and had 3 lectures a day, but it was all worth it because I think I improved. So the best way to show you what speech camp is like is to give you an example of a daily schedule.

7:00 Wake up
8:00 breakfast (but me and my roomie usually skipped breakfast to sleep some more :p)
9:00 first lecture (usually on something broad like argumentation or tournament procedures because the interp kids were with us)
9:45 Warm ups
10:00 second lecture (usually on a topic area like Europe, or Social Issues, or Govt)
11:30 First speech (usually with questions from the second lecture)
1:00 Lunch
2:00 third lecture (on a topic area)
3:30 Second speech (on third lecture)
5:00 Speech Drills
6:00 Dinner
7:00 Third speech (pick question from the other topics today)
8:30 Staff performance (counselors perform for us their events)
9:30 Must be in the building
10:00 Must be on your floor
11:00 in room/ lights out

[: We had no free time between each event so it was super busy. But Northwestern is a really pretty campus! I kinda want to go there now...they have a really good business grad program. We also went to the beach on Tuesday because Tuesday morning and early afternoon was used for a tournament. Except it's not like normal tournaments because they throw different events in each room so you can see what other people have been working on. It was pretty fun though [: So after that, we went to the beach and although it was super cold, we had lots of fun. We played mafia with most of the other people.

It was also pretty cool because it's the first time I've been on the airplane by myself. I was scared at first because the Chicago O'Hare airport is pretty big and confusing, but everything worked out in the end [:

So I've been at home not doing much. I went to go see UP with Rona and Liyan, and surprisingly it was a really good movie. It was sad but I didn't cry D: Now people think I have no soul :p

Today I went running with Gina and Cindy at North Park. I didn't realize we would be running the lake which was about 5 miles...fun fun. Then, we went to Gina's and made smoothies. Her dog's so cute! I want it. It was scared of me though D: And then we went out to eat at Sonic and ate back all the calories we burned :p Then we went to Bayleigh's house to see her horse because she's out of town and her horse is lonely. She lives on the Soergel's farm so it was really cool because we got to see where they plant apples and strawberries. It was also a huuuuge piece of land. But then the horse ran out from its stall because we forgot to lock the gate...so we had to chase it down. [: Fun day.

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Oops I completely forgot to mention who was on the trip. Genny, Lauren, Cindy, Melissa, Luther, Jessica, Jon, and Sam went from our Youth group. Okay so continuing with the last post...the boys came to the center area that night and we played Poker. We used Connect Four chips to bet, but then realized that we probably shouldn't be caught gambling so we put our chips in the board to pretend we were playing Connect Four. The reds were 10 and they yellows 50. We all bet 10 the first round and Andy Beck (worship leader) walks over and gave us a weird look because it seemed like we didn’t know how to play connect 4 :D
We had to wear our navy world changers shirt the next morning (Sunday) because we were going to meet our crew members and church family (which brought us lunch at the worksite that week). My crew consisted of three adults, PK (who was our crew chief), Rachel (our encourager), and Mike. We had six kids, Sarah, Phillip, Taylor, Christian, Melissa, and me. I’ve gotta say, after a week, I’ve realized that we have the best crew. Most of the other crews had some sort of dissension but our crew never did (: I have come to love each member but each for different reasons. After meeting our crew, we went to our church, Mountain View Baptist, which had approximately 30 attendees that day. It was father’s day and it’s sad I didn’t get to spend it with my dad ): Anyways, we had lunch after the message and the food was delicious. I miss Southern food D: especially okras…Then we drove back to meet our homeowner, Mrs. Clark, and surveyed the house. We also had a chance to meet the neighbors to tell them about our project. We came back in time for dinner and worship.
The rest of the week was similar, except for Tuesday and Wednesday. We worked on reroofing the house and painting one of the interior rooms. We woke up at 6 and left by 7 on most days. We were really lucky because our roof was entirely shaded by several trees, which made the heat more bearable. We had to wear short sleeved shirts and long pants so you can imagine how hot it got on the roof. We were also lucky to get a small roof, which wasn’t as steep as some of the others. At times I felt tired and felt like complaining but then realized that I wasn’t here for myself but for God, and it no longer mattered that I had many mosquito bites and was sunburned. On Monday, a couple of neighborhood kids came to have lunch with us. At first, they were shy but they got more close to us as the week went on and it was interesting to hear about their lives. One kid failed 4th grade and dreaded seeing his friends move on to 5th in the fall, leaving him behind. Another girl was going into 5th but had trouble reading. She was an only child and her brother had died soon after birth. These kids stayed after lunch to do devotions with us and one day this boy, in 5th grade, stayed after to tell us that he was glad to be here and glad that Jesus saved him. It turns out he was hit by a car when he was 5 but recovered fully. It was really encouraging for me to see the love of Christ in these kids. We left the worksite at 5 most nights and got back in time for a shower and dinner.
After dinner, we usually had an hour before worship. Lauren taught us a card game called Nerts and it basically consumed our free time for the rest of the week (: It was really addicting. We found out that the Alabama kids were also addicted and had tournaments :D Two bama kids hung out with us during free time, Matt and Drew, and we played intense rounds of Nerts. Then we went to the worship and message at 7:30 and afterwards to youth group devotions. That ended around 9:30 and we had free time until 10:30 (more nerts :D)
However, on Tuesday, we ate a quick dinner and went to the nearby Indian Reservation for a Powwow. Many crews were working on the reservation so they wanted to thank World Changers. It was interesting to see a different culture but I didn’t take pictures of this because I forgot to bring my camera ):
Wednesday, we only had half a day of work and had the rest of the day off. We left after lunch and then our youth group went to the nearby mall. The boys went to see Transformers and we stopped at Walmart to grab snacks. Then we brought Luther to see Hot Topic because he has never been here before. Genny bought a batman shirt (: Then we went to Jessica’s friend’s friend’s house :D because a bunch of her friends drove up here to see her. We learned to play Contact which we played the ride back. Then we drove to Charlotte to eat Ethiopian food. It was pretty good! They give you this flat bread that has the texture of pancakes but was slightly sour. They also gave you the ingredients (whatever you ordered) and you wrap it with the bread. You ate with your hands (we made sure to wash our hands well after a day of work). We wanted to go to Baskin Robbins after dinner but it closed at 9 ):
On Saturday we woke up at 6, ate breakfast, packed, and left for home. We popped water balloons as a farewell. The ride home went pretty quickly because we played “would you rather” and Contact.


It was a lot of fun [:

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