Tue, Jul 22, 2008

Redefinition YEAH!

It's time to report back on EFAC Redefintion Camp 2008. Roughly a week ago (give or take) I embarked on the annual youth camp held at Encounter Conference Centre in Victor Harbor. As usual, things were being organised right up until the last minute before camp - I am beginning to think this will always be the case. Obviously a lot of things rely heavily on gaining the attendance numbers as far in advance as possible - unfortunately the "options generation" like to leave everything until the last minute and this makes it very difficult to get the information early!

Anyway... onto the actual camp! I got up there earlyish on the Friday night to help set up the band gear so we'd be all prepped when the campers arrived. Stepped out of the van... freeeeeeezing cold! Warmed myself up with a hearty meal at maccas though.

We soon found out that all the band equipment wasn't going to get to the camp until late on the Friday night due to a series of unfortunate events, so we just hung out until the hoarde of campers stampeeded of the bus and into the campsite and dorms. It had begun. From then on much fun was to be had in the form of various memories as dot pointed below:

• Ghosting on the way up to the bluff.
• Saturday Night Games (organised by Jason & I) including food roulette, disgusting drink challenge and a chaotic game of capture the flag with glow in the dark tennis balls that didn't actually glow in the dark and a whole bunch of glowsticks that looked pretty cool.
• Greenhills - Team Robin Hood, Henry "loose cannon" Davis on the minigolf course & tackling on the bouncy castle.
• Skanking and jumping around to Brendan's band - Left in the Changerooms. This was wicked fun, very tiring, and I think I may have jumped on a few people, but very fun!
• Messy Food Games - "God stop the rain!", one kid playing the Mr Whippy game with his hood on, honey on people's faces, and my food fight with Samara!
• Concert - Ninjas Vs Henry!!!
• Articulate... need i say any more?
• "Sneaking out" at 6am on the last morning for a 6 month celebration walk with Samara :D

I guess those are some of the "bigger" memories, but it's everything inbetween that really makes up the camp - the atmosphere, the tonnes of awesome kids, the jokes you say to kids are you walk past them, the talks from Tab about God, the endless comments on my height, the opportunities to talk about God & the friendly mealtimes with good food. Looking forward to next year... and CE Camp in the meantime!