Day 17

The past 2.5 days:

I SURFED! I SURFED! Oh man it was awesome, for like the whole 5 seconds of it! I did stand up, and I was soaring over the ocean spread eagle style, and then yeah, I’d fall. But it was still suuuperfreaking cool! Since there were so many people there who wanted to learn I only got to go like 5 times, but I bet I’d rock at it if I surfed more. My plan is this: live on the beach in a beach shack and surf for the rest of my life. Somehow my skin will mutate into non-scandinavian skin and I won’t have to worry about the sun. It’s a good plan. On that note, I’m also quite proud because I didn’t burn! I was walking around with my lap lap wrapped around me almost all the time, applying spf 60 sunscreen ritually, and wore a big orange hat I borrowed from one of the kids here at El Refugio. Yeah, the whole surf camp thing was a toon of fun. We got there Thursday afternoon, and the tents were already set up which was soo nice. We ate lunch and got divided into 4 different coloured teams; mine was Red, and our team name was Red Bull haha. Then there were games and stuff, and then dinner, and then like devotional/worship time and then it was around 11 and everyone went to bed. I was so tired I fell asleep right away, in my sleeping bag with no pillow and no mattress thingie. That’s the main difference between camp here  and in Sweden, everyone has massive blow up mattresses with them and a ton ton ton of stuff, but here everyone brought a sleeping bag and one backpack :P then the next day, Friday, we had devotions in the morning, then breakfast, then games, then free time which was when I went surfing, and I hung out with Lila, this girl from my tent who is super awesome. Oh, and I taught her how to swim! It was really fun but scary because there were huge waves all the time, so we’d have to wait for a calm part then practice the swim strokes, then run away, then come back etc. We got dunked and washed around by a couple of big waves and that sort of terrified her (i don’t blame her), but she was a brave one. And now she can swim! Then there were more team games, like kajabe can can and The Great Race. The race was that 8 people from each team hold hands and run to different activities or whatever, and if you let go you had to wait 10 seconds before continuing, and these activities were spread out all over the town we were next to so we were running around town holding hands holding up traffic and stuff, it was great. I didn’t know there was gonna be so much running (I haven’t done anything exercise-wise since I left PNG) but well, I was awesome. Haha. I at least didn’t slow us down. The last activity was eating, and I had to eat a packet of crackers. My mouth was sooo dry but I downed those bad boys. We got second (stupid yellow team), and so we were allowed to go take a shower before everyone else :D We had to pay to use the bathrooms and showers, which was sort of a bummer, but you can’t avoid certain things for too long. Also, everything closed at 10 pm so after that you better not have to pee. Anyways, after dinner we had a frisbe game in the dark with glow sticks and then devotions/worship and then bed. Once again, I was soooo tired and fell asleep in about 2 seconds. Then today, Saturday. Breakfast (they served bread and “coffee”. It tasted nothing but sugar and milk... but there was nothing else to drink. I’m writing this because I want some sympathy from fellow coffee drinkers out there.) and then we packed up our stuff and our tents, and then there was the last game – American football. Uuuhh... okay? I was trying to think back to 9^th grade PE with Mr. Barkman which was the last time I played that game. I guess it worked because guess what, I caught the ball. Twice. But then I let Darcy through the defence and she scored. Ooh weeeell. Then after a watermelon break there was the final message thing, and it was really cool because a bunch of people got saved, and then them plus a bunch more got baptized. Seeing all of that happen was amazing. God is totally awesome. After that we had lunch, and packed up and drove home. It takes about 2.5 hours, and I slept. For the first time in my life I slept in a moving vehicle, and I had this crazy dream I can’t remember but yaay!!! Maybe my transportation-insomnia is over.

When we got back home I realize that I’m almost completely deaf in my right ear – i think it’s full of water or something; anyhow I have an infection which sort of sucks. You could pray for that if you like. I’m lying here with something called Otalgan soaking into my ear canal as I’m writing this.

Anyhow, I’m going to bed. Somehow It’s already 10 and I am already falling asleep. Goodnight good folk.

I’ll post some pictures later.