I finally have some real internet that lets me update my blog and upload lots of pictures without taking a million years! Well for the night at least. So you can check out the video of where I stayed last week when I was in South Dakota, and if we're friends on facebook you should look at my lovely new photo album!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S-hAOXGdlvg
Friday, August 19, 2011
Monday, August 15, 2011
Recovering From Last Week & Moving Right Along
Last week my school helped lead an MA trip (Mission Adventures) to Pine Ridge Indian Reservation in Allen, South Dakota. Brenden's (another student) youth group came from Michigan and we spent the training weekend with them, then took our 14 hour van ride there, passed through the badlands, and arrived on Sunday night -the 7th. Most of the week was spent running a VBS -Vacation Bible School- for the kids on the reservation. We had the MA youth group do skits, songs, crafts, and games and my school was basically staff to their trip. The VBS ran from Monday through Thursday, and I can't tell you enough how amazing it was to love on those kids. My age group that I was working with was the 10-12 year olds and I bonded with a few in particular. We also went to Mount Rushmore and Crazy Horse on Friday, the best part about that was seeing Brianna Bloom at Mt. Rushmore!! So fun :)
I have about 600 pictures from the week, go figure, and eventually when I have better internet I will upload my pictures onto facebook, and maybe some here too. I also have a tour video -of course- of where we stayed on the reservation, so I'll try to upload that as soon as I can. I know that for sure we have Labor Day weekend off so I think I'll stay at home or something of that sort and spend a good portion of the time uploading a ton of pictures.
But yeah, to sum it up, every part of last week was incredible. I didn't really know what to expect, but for me, it was one of the best mission trips I've ever been on. I seriously would go back in a heart beat. However, I'm extremely sore from carrying kids on my back at all times and I'm really worn out from the long days we had. I kinda need a few days to recover, well everyone in my school would love a few days off, but we went right back into classes today. I'm not that upset about it though because our topic this week is World Religions!
Our speakers' name is John Mayer (that's right), and tomorrow we're taking a tour of Minneapolis as a class because Mpls is a HUGE center of diversity, and I'm really excited. Partially because I love studying world religions/cultures more than any other subject, and partially because I love my city so getting to know all the different ways of life right here is going to be so fun for me.
I'll try to update again later this week, I know I've been neglecting my blogging duties lately... But hopefully you all can understand the busy schedule of at least the last week or so!
This picture is of me and Lily, one of the girls at the VBS. She was bored waiting for the bus home so I picked her up and started spinning. We got some super cute pictures from it :)
I have about 600 pictures from the week, go figure, and eventually when I have better internet I will upload my pictures onto facebook, and maybe some here too. I also have a tour video -of course- of where we stayed on the reservation, so I'll try to upload that as soon as I can. I know that for sure we have Labor Day weekend off so I think I'll stay at home or something of that sort and spend a good portion of the time uploading a ton of pictures.
But yeah, to sum it up, every part of last week was incredible. I didn't really know what to expect, but for me, it was one of the best mission trips I've ever been on. I seriously would go back in a heart beat. However, I'm extremely sore from carrying kids on my back at all times and I'm really worn out from the long days we had. I kinda need a few days to recover, well everyone in my school would love a few days off, but we went right back into classes today. I'm not that upset about it though because our topic this week is World Religions!
Our speakers' name is John Mayer (that's right), and tomorrow we're taking a tour of Minneapolis as a class because Mpls is a HUGE center of diversity, and I'm really excited. Partially because I love studying world religions/cultures more than any other subject, and partially because I love my city so getting to know all the different ways of life right here is going to be so fun for me.
I'll try to update again later this week, I know I've been neglecting my blogging duties lately... But hopefully you all can understand the busy schedule of at least the last week or so!
This picture is of me and Lily, one of the girls at the VBS. She was bored waiting for the bus home so I picked her up and started spinning. We got some super cute pictures from it :)
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