What a long and stupendous day.

I got up with the sun so I could be ready for pickup at seven thirty. The plan was to meet all the campus students from my church and our nearby sister church in a parking lot about half an hour away from campus. Then there'd be driving, tubing down a river, and hiking up near a waterfall! Exciting news, gentlemen and ladies.

The tubing itself was quite a lot of fun. We had about thirty peeps in our group. The bus ride to the drop point was full of very loud singing and clapping. I swan-dove into the pile of inner tubes and got wet bruises for my trouble. Some poor soul immediately flipped their tube before even leaving port. At first, everyone was kind of just floating and swimming around the river, trying to flip each other and get some good fellowship in and stuff. After a while, we started collecting in clumps. There were a lot of rocks to get stuck on, so I made myself useful by "flexing" our little amoeba and moving into the best flows. As our clumps grew, this became more complicated. I spent most of my time face-up on my tube, holding another with each arm and trying to position a third to support my head. Consequently, when we got stuck at one point, I couldn't see the pure catastrophe that was building right behind me (I was floating head-first). I ignored the cries to let go of my neighbors, insisting hold the group together like I had been doing. Suddenly, I felt a strong pull in one direction. "Success!" I thought. We began to quickly move.

We began to quickly leave my tube behind. Before I knew it, I was being dragged backwards over multiple sets of small waterfalls, mostly underwater. I think it was at least four. Eventually I surfaced with several scratches along my back (my shirt mostly protected me), a major cramp in my leg, and one of my Vibrams trying to escape, and a wayward tube following closely behind. One of the girls asked, "Are you OK?!"

"I think I'm dead," was my answer.

After that little fiasco, I relegated myself to the outskirts of the amoeba and spent less time flexing and more time listening to the songs we were singing. There were less rocks, so that was nice.

When we exited the river, some of us stayed in town to go on that hiking trip. The actual trail was pansy stuff. Mostly flat, a few switch-backs, mud and gravel. But the river! There were great rocks for climbing, lots of slippery surfaces to slide around on, and an awesome alcove carved out by a little waterfall. And then it rained, and that little waterfall got pretty swollen, and I PUT IT ON MY BACK. I mean, I crawled up under it, and stood up under its force, and roared!

fierce

Anyway, we hiked back in the rain, got in our cars, and skidaddled. I met a few really great and godly kids, had some good talks, wore my body out, ate some nature for breakfast, and just generally had a blast. Whoo!

Man. I'm still hyped up, and I have school in twelve hours. Better jump on that. Night kiddies.

That sounds like fun, except for the scary part where you... flipped... over...

I had a talk with my boyfriend, and I guess he respects me more now, but I don't really feel like I have any notable external accomplishments... The most I can think of are projects of mine that teachers have wanted to keep to use as examples to future classes. :/ Internally, I feel like I've made a lot of progress just becoming a more emotionally healthy/stable person, I guess... It doesn't really sound very impressive.
» randomjunk on 2012-09-04 04:22:04

I thought that maybe this would be about someone accepting God by being beaten with a rock. But tubing down rivers is good.

I went down a river in a canoe once. That was fun times.
» thaitanic on 2012-09-06 12:21:43

Thank you for the b-day wish :D
» hiddenagenda on 2012-09-06 08:05:04

Should I just drink straight from the bottle and then stare menacingly at anybody who looks at me funny?
» randomjunk on 2012-09-19 11:17:15

Thanks. And I just have no interest in alcohol. -Shrug-
» randomjunk on 2012-09-27 12:50:10

oops ! Yeah definately not 5 days ago, gonna go edit that. And yes no crazy diet, just limiting food and exercise. And I"m not even limiting it to certain foods, I eat everything, as long as I have the calories, and occasionally I eat more than my calories if I so wish cause its all about moderation ^.^
» hiddenagenda on 2012-09-29 12:42:22

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