Sheldon's See You at the Pole 06

a funeral for last years grade 12s.

okay. here is the situation. as much as I would love to have last years grade 12s on this blog for ever and ever

...and ever

...it just can't happen, because it would no longer be the youth group blog. I encourage the rest of the youth group to check the personal blogs of the last year's grade 12s, because they have amazing things to say. but unfortunately, kids grow up...to be adults . and I don't know how that last sentence relates at all, but hey. so all old grade 12s, this is a heads up for no longer being on this blog-ness. sorry, I love you all, but sometimes you've just got to throw out your old shoes (heh, heh, juuusst joshing).

kara.

Last Bonfire of the year!!

On friday night after youth we will be having the "last "(hopefully not last) Bonfire of the year .
If its cold we will have a fire inside and a movie, or just chatt it up :)
At 241 Halifax st. N
(the Reimers)
Please bring snax
thanks

Youth retreat

Here are some of the things that went on this weekend. All I can say is what a blast!!!!!

(I figured out that Ross loves secret layers)

(How much I hate feet)

(Bernards creepyness shows again)

(Andrea is a great grandma and grandpa)

(Riely, Ross, Taylor, and Dallas love cold water)

What a blast this weekend was I wanna give a shout out to Dallas, Bernard and all the leaders for making this weekend happen.

Dallas Valley!

Wow... this weekend has been awsome! I just got home and took a shower (hot water!!!) And now I am typing this. I just wanted to thank the grade 10, 11, and 12's, I was sort of worried that it would be akward (I'm pretty sure that's not how you spell it) coming into sr.high as a grade 9 because all of you would have been together for the last few years... but it was so awsome.... all of you guys made me feel so welcome and I'm sure all the other grade 9's feel the same, so I just wanted to thank all you guys for the AWSOME time this weekend and I'm looking forward to being with you guys for the next few years!

God, take the wheel.

I am so pumped for ISCF this year! And it's not anything that I've done, but God is taking total control over everything, and blessing it. Sheldon's group hasn't even started yet and I already see God working. A number of things have happened in the last couple days that convinces that God's in charge.

ISCF Sheldon starts tomorrow. bright and early at 7:45am. so I went into the office before school to hand in the announcement I had just made up to formally announce the start of ISCF (aka to pretend I was organized). Usually announcements like the Inter- School Christian Fellowship group would get down graded to the announcement sheet that is handed out to all of the classes but never read. but for some reason the SRC prez announced it in second period and was giggling when it came to the part about chuck norris kicking it off (or somewhere along those lines) therefore advertising it all the more! and then for some reason it was announced again near the end of the day...so for anyone who missed it the first time!

during my spare I went around the school to take down any posters that I had hung up last friday advertising ISCF that had been vandalized and to see if any of the posters had been taken down by the janitors (grr). but to my surprise all of the posters were up and none where vandalized!

at lunch I was helping a teacher when I ran into my friend Tim, who helped me lead ISCF last year, and is co-ordinating it this year with Jonathan and Stacie. It was wired, I hadn't seen him since last year, and just this morning I had made a note to myself to call him to see if he could come to the meeting tomorrow (aka emotional support). but I didnt even have to call him, because I randomly ran into him. And he already made plans to come tomorrow!

for the last couple of days, Ive kinda been worried about what to do for the first bible study. then after school today, my dad comes up to me with a fairly big package (I never get packages). I open the package and lo and behold: the package was from Canada Fire and they sent me a bunch of resources and bible studies and a bunch of other stuff, all valued at about $40.00---for free. one of the books they sent me is all about praying for our schools. this is exactly what the whole theme of the year was at Sheldon's ISCF---seeing as it's a prayer meeting...to pray for our schools.

then over the last week, random people (that I don't even think are Christians!) have been coming up to me asking me about when ISCF starts, and that they are going to come this year! and then there was the awesome youth rally on Saturday night that totally inspired me and I met some awesome Christians in my school that have never been to ISCF yet!

so God is at work, and I can;t deny it. I can only imagine what He has planned for this year in Sheldon. even all the praying that will be going on, something God-sized is bound to happen!

kara.

so long, farewell, (however you say it in german), goodbye!

hey peeps, so just to let you know, my dad is having a farewell barbeque at his house on friday at 7 for me, and you are all welcome to come. i know that there's a worship team practice that night though, so no worries if you have to go to that instead, because i'll be at church on sunday anyways, so you can still see me there, and then if you want to come to the airport, that's another chance...just minus the hot dogs...if you want to know my new address in bc, holla, and i'll put you on the mass email that will contain said address once i get there. for those of you who may not have my email, it's the_awkward@msn.com.
i'm also going to take this chance to say that it's been a blast. i'm really glad that i've gotten the chance to hang out with you guys pretty much every week for the past few years. you are all amazing people, and i'm definately going to miss you. i wish i had a nice inspiring speech to go out on, but i just don't think that's going to happen. i guess i can give some advice though, seeing as i'm practically a senior citizen.
to the older kids: ok, not going to lie, being the oldest rocks. to quote spiderman's uncle: "with great power comes great responsibility". you all have the chance to be good examples of leaders to the rest of the group, which i know you'll do fantastically. it might be stressful at times, but jsut remember that god's got your back. oh, and don't forget to have fun...i sometimes forget to, but post-it's work wonders...trust me.
and to the younger ones: don't be intimidated at all by the older peeps. they're all awesome people, and are some of the greatest friends i'll ever have. get to know them and try to squeeze advice out of them like a financially despirate kid squeezing juice out of a lemon to make lemonade to sell because he wants that new bicycle...yes, it's a horribly bad analogy, but work with me here. you might be at the bottom rung of sr. high, but you're still leaders to the kids in jr. high, so remember that to them, you're leaders too.
i'll just sign off with an encouragement to you all to keep living the good life. it can definately be hard at times, as i definitely know, but in the end, it's all worth it.
love and peas
alayna

Football

This year I am on the Campbell Tartans football team and we have our first game tomorrow night at 5:45pm, even though there is youth group I was wondering if people would want to come to the game for the first half and maybe a little bit more before going to youth. I am #44, just so you know.

guess what everybody?! after many, many long hours of kara procrastinating and staring blankly at the computer in a somewhat frustrated state .... the sonshine videos are done!!! (the crowd cheers). so sonshiners pick them up from kara as soon as possible (as in on wednesday/saturday/sunday....that is if kara doesn't forget to bring them to youth...which is pretty likely.) donations for the cds may possibly be accepted (maybe.). and if non-sonshiners happen to want a copy too, just tell kara and she might possibly make you one. the end.

kara.

school

School oh school
Well yesterday was horrible. I was so tired because of the storm the night before. And once I got to school I was all nervouse and such. So then we went into the auditorium and they talked for a bit. Then off to our Homeroom classes. Then we had this weird scavenger hunt that was so confusing and boring. After that back to home room then off to the barb-q lunch that was okay I guess. Then we had a mini timetable then home it was.

Today was a lot better I went to school and it was a normal day;
Art
Math
Rush (homeroom)
English
Lunch
Science
Home Ec.

Then off to my house to mow the lawn.
No really funny things that happend to me today other than.....
I dropped my binder when I was walking down the hall with Kelsi. And this physics teacher walked by and said "I think you Dropped your books" -oddly**then started to chuckle**- then I started to laugh and picked up my binder when Kelsi started talking again and said oh what was his name (she wasn't talking about the physics teacher). When the teacher walked out and pointed to his door and said "It says my name right here" then he went back into his room as Kelsi and I burst out laughing then he peeked out his room to only look at us funny....again

Definatly the weirdest thing that hapend to me in a while