chocolate chips really don't have anything to do with anything-that's just the food that i'm eating at the moment.....
so ya the youth retreat was good times. it was an amazing picker upper. you know how after you've just had a spiritual high (ie camp, quizmeet) and you get all excited and what not and then once you're home it's just kinda blah? well that's what it's been like for me for the last couple weeks sincei got home from camp and such. but this last weekend i went up to camp and it was such a huge picker upper for me. it didn't feel weird at all going back. the transition was just so smooth. it was great. thanks to all you who prayed. the weather was perfect. coldish at nights in the unheated cabins but it was good. lots of ghetto ball action.lol...dallas commentating on the kevin and ritchard game was absolutely hilarious...got to meet some cool exchange students from Thailand and Japan. got to "teach" horsemanship but teaching didn't really happen....cuz it's not camp so you only had the one day of "skills" oh ya it was an 80s theme for the whole weekend. complete with 80s music and clothes for the supper on saturday. i didn't dress up though cuz i don't have 80s clothes...but it was funny watching other people go all out with backcombing their hair and wearing spandex and such....oh boy. i don't know how people found members of the opposite sex attractive in that era.....but ya. twas a good time. the worship times were amazing.wOOt yay for wade and kurt and their amazingness. you guys made chapel interesting. good ol 80s style "Be Bold..."lol...ya. twas awesome. but ya such an amazing weekend. so glad i could be there to take part in it. but twas the people who made the weekend. thanks you guys for everything. y'all are so amazingly awesome. luv y'all.

luv n hugz
alissa

yup one more day until the retreat up at DBC. wOOt wOOt so sososo excited.especially for the hanging out with campers i got to know over the summer and for the worship. God's gonna move and there's gonna be good times....i can feel it in my bones. lol....every wonder why people say they can feel it in their bones. bones don't feel do they? you feel it when they break and such cuz i'm guessing extreme pain. (not that i would know-i've never broken a bone in my body ever...) but that's something that you as a human feel. so how is it that people feel things in their bones when bones don't even feel????? just a slightly more creative excuse than saying they saw it on the weather channel or something. not that you can see good times coming on the weather channel....but the weather definitely helps to create those good times. bad weather=inside inside all the time=restlessness and idleness restless and idleness=bad stuff afoot. just what bad stuff could possibly come-ill-gotten humor/jokes and all sorts of crud like that. then instead of being a revival of getting people excited for God again it just dampens it more and turns into school in a different setting. then it makes the whole thing meaningless. so if you guys could pray for good weather and that everybody including staff would be revived and excited again that would be so great and awesome.
As the Nichole Nordeman song Legacy comes on at like just now....it really makes me think. What will people remember me by? Ever wonder what stuff is gonna be said at your funeral? What kind of legacy will I leave to the people at my school? shoot a legacy doesn't just have to be for when you die, or for old people only, at least i don't think it does. How am I making an impact on people's lives of the people even at school? I don't know if I'll ever fully know. But the least I can do is show not only the people at school but everybody I come into contact with an example of Christ's love. Even though it is definitely hard especially with the people we don't get along with and such. And no I am so not perfect at this and have not always been a clear example of what Christ's love is but I know that it is my calling as a Christian to be Jesus to those around me. You never know we could be the only Jesus

one of those days...

so ya it's one of those days where it's just blah outside. actually it's not quite as miserable...it's pretending to try to do something like rain or snow or hail or sleet or something...the weather sucks when it's just in between those things and is just crappy. otherwise it's actually not a bad day. and it's only half way done. i am in my spare so no i am not skipping school...well i guess i technically am but heck i don't have a class to be at. and it's just the lounge which is actually somewhat overrated for the total of one time that i've been in there....the guys just sit in front of the tv and play xbox and you can pretty much only play if you're at least half decent. and since i never grew up with gaming systems and such i would say i'm pro-star...just kidding no i'm as about as bad at that stuff as a penguin. so ya. not that i have time to sit in front of a tv screen and excercise my thumbs while my mind is being numbed by all the stuff happening on the screen. shoot if i did that for a day my mom would shoot me. not literally speaking....but ya. video games are actually ok sometimes-it's not like i'm all antivideo games, maybe it's just cuz i'm horrible at them......oh well....anyways.........so quiz practice is tonight. i have no idea if i'm ready for it otherwise i'll just be doing straight quoting the whole time we're in our groups. window writers are fun at quiz practice. last week me and stacy went around to all the mirrors in the church bathrooms minus the guy bathrooms (with the exception of one of the guy bathrooms) and wrote the key verses all over the mirrors. it was so fun cuz we were kind of racing each other to get to the mirrors first. good times.....but ya. it's exciting to see some of the rookies comin up. yay for russell sprouts! lol that's another story...and yet it's so weird being at the top (aka the oldest) because i'm not used to being the oldest. i've always had someone there who was older then me whether it was friends or siblings. oh well. i'll get used to it i guess....it's also somewhat of a responsibility for me i think. i don't have younger siblings who need looking after (the one that i have is only a year younger so you can imagine how that is...nah she's great and i'm not dissing her in any way....) anywho. but just to be an encouragement to them. and i guess that is a challenge to all you older people in quizzing just to encourage the rookies and anyone really.So today go out and encourage people and seek God's face rather than His hand of blessing....

luv n hugz
alissa

so ya I am extremely bored on this um not so fine Saturday and decided that I would create my own blog. how ofen this will happen i don't know, but anyways...i guess the reasom i'm bored is because 1.i don't have a job (i should get one i know...)and 2.most of the people i normally hang out with are all at school soomewhere more exciting. i don't know. it's just really boring right now. i know i should be doing homework and such but i feel real lazy. you ever get days where all you want to do is just sit around on the couch all day and not do anything really worthwhile? i guess those kind of days are good every once in a while just to kick back and veg and what not just to relax and especially if you have a crazy busy life you need those days. oh well. i'm just insanely bored as by now you probably have realized. just thought i'd state that plainly...and just to warn i tend to repeat myself...so since i am doing that now i'm gonna say this is all for now.

luv n hugz
alissa