I was talking with Aly tonight and she wanted to go to a camp with some of her friends in March, which led me to telling some stories from Young Life camp. Two immediately popped to mind
1. We were settling into the cabin and decided to go as a group (counselors too) to the boys cabin to say "hi." Well, no one was there so we began snooping a bit in their things. One girl picked up a shirt from our guys and his underwear fell out of the shirt. Giggling ensued. We noticed the size on the tag...more giggling. So we decided to cut off the tag and keep it. Well, we then figured out a great way to meet guys was to ask for their underwear tags and we carried around scissors to help cut them off. A contest between the girls, now divided into teams, began and I think the other team won if memory serves corretly by collecting over 140 tags.
2. We were lead out to the field in our prospective teams. (Our team was Malibu and we seemed to be the hippie team, lead by our sponsors, as opposed to the other teams boisterous shouting and yelling. I think all the teams were named after beaches.) Anywho, we made it to the football field and it was divided into four sections and was wet (not sure if this was intentional, but it worked). Each team was given several bags of marshmallows. The goal of the contest was to keep all the marshmallows off your section of the field by throwing them onto another teams field. When the contest began, the field lights were turned out (I seem to remember strobe lights, but can't be sure) and we began throwing marshmallows, dry ones at first, but it got gooey and messy quite quickly. Many were smashed into opposing teams hair and such. It was so much fun, I can't remember who won.
2 comments:
Funny, the timing of this post. I just pulled down the Young Life stuff on the back of the computer room door. Did you have to use so many staples?? I'll bring it when we visit for Aly's graduation unless you want it sooner.
I was creeped out when I found that it was a church/Christian backed thing and have always wondered just how much prosetylizing went on at the gatherings, and if there was a specific religion involved.
As far as the posters (I'm amazed they stayed there as long as they did!), I can wait until May.
Young Life wasn't too bad when we first started. They played a lot of games and sang songs. Very little preaching...at least until my senior year. I remember Vicky and I went to a meeting and we were glared at and it was so solemn. Needless to say, we felt very uncomfortable and left.
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