Rafael

This new blogskin is beautiful and unique and I plan to get some pictures to replace the little navigating words you see by the right side of this window. So here's what has happened for November and has been happening for this month!

Church Camp

Full of fun :D
But I was ill and down with gastric flu and missed out on many activities :(
And actually this camp didn't seem to be appropriate for a church-like theme, but more of a long sleepover for the girls to catch up with the guys and the guys to catch up with the girls.

The catechism class that I'm in is like separated, you see.
Guys on one side, girls on one side.
But it's not like what it seems like; the guys are not that disciplined but are actually quite willing to mix in with the girls, but every guy seems to be shy towards the girls, with a few exceptions like Sherman and Andrew.

Activities were plenty and were pretty fun too :)
They include sandcastle building, ice-breaking games and even involved water-filled balloons too!

The Sandcastle Team! (with me looking down -_-)

The Artistic Sandcastle We Built ^^

Of course, there were many other teams consisiting of the others in the group picture featured above.

You probably noticed that our sandcastle wasn't build on the sand itself.
Hahaha.
It's their (the team's and not mine) brilliant idea to build the sandcastle on the table to reduce the water-loss of the moat, which is crucial because the objective of this little activity was to ensure that your moat can sustain and hold the water in it, for at least 3 minutes.

The camp ended off in church, after mass, with another activity that seemed like a pathfinder kind of game.

Wee! Watch the pretty girl hop across!

But the camp wasn't all about fun. It was also about getting serious.
It still is a Church Camp anyway, so there's the 'Churchy' stuff.
So there were little workshops where we did plentiful of reflections!

Such as in this room..

So there was a talk, or rather a little workshop that was conducted by Brother Michael Broughton who spoke on areas such affective and effective love (maybe its his own classification of love) and how boys and girls feel toward each other in this adolescent stage, the outcomes, how to handle or avoid the outcomes, and lastly, things we can apply to ourselves to avoid the messy puppy love thing and get on with life, instead.

So you realised that more than half of the last paragraph (it's literally just a sentence, look again) is bullshit, but this has happened ages ago and to come to think of it, no one took any pictures of him conducting his workshop.
So this means I have to Google one up to show you how he looks like, to those who don't know of this holy man who called us, adolescent guys, 'horny bastards'.

The Oh-So Holy!~
ignore the little boy and more importantly.. the pants

I took down some notes of his speech for reference in the future, especially when life hits the shit. I'll share that some other time, or if someone asks me to (it's some pretty interesting stuff).

Concluding

I'm sure all of us enjoyed ourselves and I'm looking forward to the next gathering they're planning.
I have missed one of the gatherings already, but I think there'll be one coming up soon!
Yay! I hope it's next week. Or the week after next. Or the week beyond!

:D