Student Ministry Fall Retreat Oct. 8-10

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As Fall Retreat 2010 is quickly approaching, I can’t help but remember last year’s Fall Retreat where I experienced one of the funniest and possibly most embarrassing moments of my life.  For those of you that weren’t there let me fill you in…..

Intern Alex VS. “THE BLOB”

It was an average afternoon at Camp Widjiwagan.  We had just finished kayaking on the lake and now it was time for “THE BLOB” and the ridiculously high water slides (which if I’m honest, I might or might not have avoided due to a slight fear of activities that could result in death…ha)  However, in light of the events that occurred later that day, the slides definitely would have been a much better choice.

Anyway, so like everyone else I was in the water waiting for a turn to try “THE BLOB.”  Little did I know there was apparently a rule that said you could only blob someone who was within 30 pounds of your weight.  So naturally I subtracted a good 20 pounds from my actual weight because let’s be honest, I wasn’t very enthusiastic about walking around and shouting my weight for all to hear.  Well it turned out that only Nic Allen was within 30 pounds of my “weight.”  So we climbed the tower and off we went.  As much as I’d like to say so, the rest definitely wasn’t history.  As soon as I jumped from the platformed and landed on “THE BLOB” I knew something was wrong.  While I had definitely landed in the right spot, I immediately began the struggle to actually stay on “THE BLOB.”  But I wasn’t going to give up easily so I held on for dear life and tried to stay in the middle as I slowly worked my way toward the spot where I would inevitably be launched joyfully through the air.  Unfortunately my progress was……slow.  I spent the next 15 minutes literally rolling back and forth on “THE BLOB.”  At this point I couldn’t see how making it to the end was even possible when I was having trouble just to stay on.

Now you might be thinking, “oh that’s not THAT bad.”  But let me tell you, when a large group of students (many of which were not even from our group) start chanting your name it becomes slightly embarrassing.  Now if I had been a star athlete about to make the game winning shot then I probably would have been encouraged by people chanting my name but when you’re trying to roll across an oversized ballon filled with air on a lake surrounded by people I’ve never meant, I can assure you it’s very embarrassing.

I hope to see everyone out this year for our Fall Retreat.  I can’t promise that I’ll have another run-in with “THE BLOB” (one time was enough) but I can say that you won’t regret coming!

Peace in the Middle East,

-Intern Alex

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