Tonight was fun. I think that I probably preferred last night slightly, because it was a lot simpler to just get on with people and flow, which is something that I am usually not particularly good at as it goes against all of my natural instincts.
Tonight was games night. After arriving, I met up with 2 friends and we just hung about for a while. We sat in the tent and wandered around while we waited for the leader to finish her preparations. One of my friends, Greta, is just one of those people who seems to know everyone and everyone seems to know her, so we were never without company.
Eventually, everybody gathered in the main tent to listen to the speaker for that evening who was a priest from a couple of towns over. He talked to us about how difficult it is to actually hear God, and how we never know when he will speak to us. He said that the more you open yourself up to hear him, the more you actually will which is something that many young people find quite difficult.
It was quite a short talk, after which he invited many people to ask questions, some of which were very challenging and some of which weren't so. By this I mean the questions ranged from views on homosexuality to his favourite colour - which is red btw.
Then, somehow, and I can't quite remember where the link came in here, the speaker mentioned that he was in one of the emergency rescue organisations and he knew how to use a defibrillator. Then the chief first aid lady came over with her mock up defibrillator so we could all see it and before we knew what was what, we were being giving a demonstration on a medical plastic dummy on exactly how to use a defibrillator. I repeat, there didn't seem to be any link between this and his previous speech, only that we should be given some valuable life lessons.
I don't know, this may sound really ungrateful or something but I just didn't find it that interesting. I'm sure that maybe one day it will come in useful and I'll be forever thankful for the demonstration, but it just wasn't really what I wanted to do on that evening in specific.
However, after our demonstration and training, we went outside to start the planned activities. The first was a twist on the classic boat, fox, chicken and corn riddle. I'm sure you've all heard it but the basic principles are that a farmer needs to sail a boat across a river taking only one thing at a time and he can't leave the fox and the chicken together and he can't leave the chicken and the seeds together.
In our groups of four, one person was the boat, one person was the fox and so on and so on. The person that was the boat then had to transport all of the other people in the correct order across the river (field) through the use of a piggy back. I, unfortunately, was the boat and I had to carry everyone else across the river (field), in fact I carried my friend Greta (the chicken) across 3 times!
Then we had to get into groups of 10 which wasn't particularly difficult, it just involved a couple of groups joining together. We went over to this web like structure that the leader had constructed out of string between 2 tent poles and we were told that we each had to travel through a different hole that had been made by the string. The way we did it was that the heavier and stronger people went through the bottom holes, so that they could lift the other lighter people through the higher up holes.
This was probably my favourite bit of the evening, and we all laughed a lot, especially when we lifted someone over the top of the web which involved getting her tangled in it and someone else nearly getting strangled. It sounds very dangerous, but trust me you had to be there - it was so funny!
After that we played a game of over-under, but with water. Everybody split into two teams and there were 2 buckets, one filled with water and one empty. The idea was to transport the water in cups by going over peoples heads and through peoples legs from the water bucket to the empty bucket. Our team was very careful and cautious and so none of us got very wet, but we were pretty slow. The other team went a little mad and everyone got soaked, but they won so clearly it worked!
P.S. Tomorrows day diary recount thingy won't be up at normal time because I am going to a friend's house and will be unable to write it. I'm not exactly sure when I'll get it up, but I'll try my best not to fall behind!
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