Chad's thoughts

Chad- I had fun this week working in these two ladies houses. I was painting inside the living room and up the stairs of the houses. Everyone in my group was pretty cool and I had fun working with them. I would rather be working outside or something cause painting is very boring. Overall it was fun.

Last night

Well last night two big things happened. first of i was in a skit and it was a planned thing so we knew it was coming but Chad volunteered for and was selected to participate in one of the many fun "training exercises" that they have the kids do for laughs before we get down to some serious stuff. Below is a video of Chad with a pair of panty hose over his head with an orange at the bottom. the object is to get your two hose tied up with the other persons and then pull backwards and then who ever pulls off the other person's panty hose is the winner. Watch to see if victory is achieved below.

Tom's thoughts on tuesday

Tom- Ok so yesterday we were in a skit. The skit was entitled “Pass it on” all of the youth in our group had a role. The basic jist of it was this.....Chad won a car through a sweepstakes and he could keep it on one condition that he read the note in the glove box. The note said “you don't owe me a thing I've been there to don't let the chain of love end with you” Chad reads the note and then a few years later when he graduates from college his parents buy him a car and he decides he needs to give Herbie the car away. He then takes one last drive to his place of work, Target, and give his car away to a gentle old co-worker played by Austin. Austin enjoys the car a few months till he meets a young waiter played by casey at which point after hearing about casey's troubled life he decides it's time to pass on Herbie. Casey keeps the car till he meets a young married couple that is very poor but very happy played by Mike and Justine. After they finished the meal the saw that some one had left them keys to a car. Happily they take the keys and drive off in the distance. Blake had the only speaking role as he was the narrator, and Jason played the role of the delivery man that brought the keys and envelope to Chad. Pictures below.






Well it's almost mid week and it appears that all of our youth are very tentative to type anything into this little screen. I would suggest that if you want your child to post something of substance during this week that you need to send them a text message encouraging to enter a paragraph or two. I'll keep twisting arms and see what I can get out of them.

Tonight at evening program there will be a super secret adult skit that the kids will make the kids laugh quite a bit. If you are lucky you will see some low grade video of me dancing and making a fool myself.

Blake's one line on tuesday

Blake-Today was a good day. We painted this convent. Austin and I had to sweep. I don't like to sweep. Austin is a big guy.

Tom- If you are really lucky I might be able to get a video of Blake dancing with a broom.

Casey thoughts on monday late.

Casey- well today I killed two birds with one stone because I did not want to get on stage in front of the whole camp but I knew I would have to do it twice while I was here at camp and I got both of them out of the way tonight at evening program.


Tom- Casey has promised to write three lines a day I'll see what I can do about getting him to write a little more. Just to exspand on what he wrote he was assigned a position in his work group where he has to get up and speak on there behalf about what they would like to pray for yesterday. the second time he had to get up on stage was when we had a group skit that we performed in front of all of camp. That event will get it's own blog entry with pictures later. More pictures tonight in the mean time all I have are these two on Bo and Justine

Justine's thoughts on monday evening

Justine- So, today I woke up to a Lion King song and although it was a good song, 6:15 is a little early for me...especially during the first week of my summer vacation. Aaaaaaanyways, not the point....hokay so basically yesterday when I met my group I also found out that I would be working at the Neighborhood Boys and Girls Club. My group got there and we met our site coordinator and she gave us a brief overview of the history of the club and what we would be doing. We first started in the arts and crafts room aka The Discovery Room and we cleaned the walls and the chairs and the tables and some people organized and then we took a lunch break and ate with the kids there. After lunch, we got the opportunity to play with the kids outside. So, we finished up playing with the kids and we then organized all the shirts that they had in the storage closet. Although this may seem like an easy task there was a lot of organizing involved and if you know anything about me, you know that I am not a good organizer. We finished the task, left the club, and much to my surprise and happiness, I got back to the high school and come to find out there wasn't anyone in the locker room so I got my shower right away! It was the perfect ending to a great day(:

Tom thoughts on sunday night

Tom- Well we have arrived at Chicago and things have went well. The only set back was at the rental counter. We were scheduled to pick up two mini vans but unfortunately one of those vans that was supposed return by another customer wasn't back yet so I had to switch things up and go with a mid sized SUV. It might be a little to tight on the way back. So we got here and after some unpacking and some socializing we found out some rules and found out what we will be doing at our work sites. Casey, Mike, and Chad are all painting this week. Jason is doing yard work. Justine is helping to clean up a boys and girls club and might also do some babysitting. I am going to a senior center and cleaning. Monica is staying at home base and helping to prepare meals and clean up after all of us. I don't know what Blake or Austin are doing yet. The theme for this week is Love Repeated. The idea being that the small acts of love that we show this week for various people can and will be repeated by the people we are serving after we have left. Tonight at our evening program the compared it to one man Jesus doing loving acts that have echoed in our world since. I'll try to put a post up everyday to keep you updated. Hopefully we will get some pictures in my next few entries.

Casey wants everyone to know that he really likes the food. Also Casey's friend Kelsey(who is in his work group) has give all of us fruit snacks and that he likes getting free food from friends.