Tuesday, August 10, 2010

August 5th, 2010 Driving to Portland

Lunch with Jordan yesterday was wonderful. It turns out even people in Portland are feeling what I'm feeling. Jordan and Stacy's wisdom and joy was so encouraging. I love them.

After lunch we went to the square. We broke into groups. Ryan, Mel and Cory. Brandon, Alexis, and Marissa. Shawn, Rachel, and me. We sent the first two groups into the streets to do a scavenger hunt thing. Rachel and I had done it before so we walked around with Shawn, trying to get our bearings and looking for familiar faces. We talked about the future, Shawn's future, Jordan's future, stuff like that.

We then hung out at Powells for a while. It was so familiar and wonderful.

After Powells we ate at 'Escape from New York Pizza'. Then we drove home. We debated Calvinism vs. Armenism the whole way home. It was good conversation. We were all super tired.

This morning, well, till 1 ish, we worked in the garden. I got to talk to Jan (the house mom) for a while, it was really cool. When we were done when ate at Subway and went home.

None of us showered last night, so we have 2 days of garden filth on us. We couldn't shower and had to play the ball and string game. (Here is Rachel's description of it. I'm quoting her's because it's a great description.

It's basically a team building exercise where dozens of strings are attached to a pvc pipe on top of which sits a wiffle ball. The goal is for everyone to hold the end of the strings (they're like 5 feet long) and get through an obstacle course without dropping the ball.

It's one of the most frustrating game in the world.)

The people who had played before couldn't talk. It was so hard. So frustrating. We didn't really work as a team at first. We got better, but it was still frustrating. We played for 3 hours, or like 2 and a half. So we wasted our shower time. But we left for Micky D's and now we are going to Father's house. I'll write later.

Jesus please give us courage and wisdom and discernment. Help us to glorify and love your more. Please give our team unity.

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