successful teenage camp!

    

right, im back and im changing the language again so that my new friends can understand. im back from lovely Jumijärvi and from 5 wonderful days at camp. i got to meet awsome people and got a couple of new, really good friends. there was a team from Northern Ireland which made the camp even better. so good seeing Helen again and hearing everyone’s lovely english with a northern irish accent. what a banter! we’ve really been blessed with the most awsome weather ever! sunshine every day!

one of the greatest things for me during the camp was the Latin dance workshop! this was my first time having any sort of workshop and i was so excited. even more excited when i saw loads of names signed up to join!! my plan was that i would learn them to dance the Merengue and the Cha-cha. but i didn’t think they could learn two dances in two days. they proved me wrong. such good dancers and fast learners! the Merengue went excellent and i think everyone had a great time. i couldn’t have been more excited the secound day of workshops when i saw 4 new people joining. i had 4 boys as well!! :D we even performed with both dances at the party evening last night and it went excellent (except for a couple of mistakes in the Cha-cha that I made…that’s the bad thing about videotaping it, you can see the mistakes so clearly….) the picture in the middle is during the secound workshop day learning the Cha-cha, there you can see the move called “Check”.

as always it was good for me beeing at Jumi. i really felt God near me during the camp and really got to experience peace through His marvellous nature. i can’t believe it will be one year before i can go back again. anyway, we had a wonderful camp. all in all we were about 40 people at the camp which is a good number. a day at the camp looked more or less like this: wake up 8am, morning devotion 8.45, breakfast 9am, quiet time 9.30, Biblestudy 10am, lunch (the famous Jumi porridge) 12.30, outdoor activities / workshops 2pm, sauna two days, dinner around 4pm, zäpinä (games and fun) 5.30pm, evening meeting 7pm and supper 9.15pm. there you go. the sumo costumes that i wrote about in an earlier post was appreciated! me and Maria was in charge of them during one day of outdoor activities and it was so much fun. we made a track indoors that the whole team needed to go through, with the costumes on. it was so much fun to watch! this year we also had the famous water-soap slide down the wee hill that was popular this year as well. i really appreciated Reino and Per’s talks throughout the camp, God spoke through them and i don’t think any of us walked out of any meeting unmoved.

the two boys on the pictures are Matthew and David. two awsome young men of Christ who i got to know pretty well. really enjoyed their company at the camp! (soon you’ll find more pictures on my account on Facebook)

I’ll end this post with a quotation that melted my heart

“Om jag skulle få en önskan skulle jag önska att solen skulle sluta skina och att vinden skulle sluta blåsa, jag önskar att allt vad jag är kunde utbytas mot en glimt av ditt fantastiskt vackra ansikte”

~ by jenniecarita on August 2, 2008.