Inspire 2011 - Part 2

Don't ask me why, but someone decided to wake up early on Saturday... =(
Nevertheless, after everyone had done each others hair, we still managed to go down to breakfast a little too late, resulting in being split up at the tables. The pancakes were good though =D

Then were chores (who on earth came up with that idea??? I mean, we do chores at home all the time, and then when we have a weekend away, we have to do more?!?) before the first speaker at 9:30.

10:30 was morning tea, then at 11 were the mini-topics - Purity (Kelly Abernethy), a Personal testimony (Kadesh [sorry I don't know her last name!]), and Missions (???).

Lunch - filled rolls - at 12:30, and 1:30 was craft (which we all opted out of) and free time. Everyone else wanted to go swimming, so I went along as photographer:

They wanted a photo with all of them jumping in together, my camera didn't seem to like that idea, here's one just after they've jumped in (obviously..)

This one's a little better though..

They also decided to have a go on the pedal boats:

Well until the next group came along wearing life jackets anyway...!

Here are a couple more pics of the lake, isn't it beautiful?

The rest of our free time was spent talking, looking at the books, jewellery/buttons for purchase, choosing bracelets and viewing the table set up by a volunteer from 'Voice for Life' (if I remember correctly anyway!).

4 o'clock was the next speaker - Lois Jordan on Actively pursuing Godly growth in your relationship with God, your family and others.

5 o'clock - Dinner time! We had butter chicken and heaps of other stuff yum!! And dessert.

At 7pm the evening session started with a Q & A Panel;

Then a talent show. I would love to show some pics of this, but my uncle has put them all on an external hardrive, and I don't know how to access them yet, so you'll just have to wait patiently for them! =)

After supper we had free time again as the evening session had finished early, so we just sat and talked until my dad came to pick up Anne Roos and I. Then, with a slight deviation to McDonald's, we dropped Anne Roos off, and came home. Exuasted. And that was the end of Inspire 2011 for me! Can't wait till next year...! =D

Inspire 2011 - Part 1

Ok so I havn't posted in AGES (sorry everyone..), and Inspire was ..let's see...in February..! So I'm not sure how much I'll be able to remember, but I'll have a crack at it anyway...


So on Friday 16th Feb, Anne Roos picked me up (Thanks!) and we went to the Sonnevelds,' where we had pizza before six of us girls (Anne Roos, Suzanne, Ruth, Esther, Emma Fussel and I) left for Ngaruawahia ,where we were all attending Inspire Girls Camp for the first time.
About 5 we stopped at McD's for dinner, before continuing on to the camp where we registered, found and set up our room, and said hi to the many people we knew.

Finally it was time to head to the main hall for the welcome, games, and a talk from Alana Dixon (recently married) about dating, courtship, and doing relationships God's way. Alana has a great sense-of-humour, and I'd be surprised if there was anyone who hadn't laughed by the end of her talk!

Then we watched a movie called Saving Sarah Cain before going to bed...where we talked/txt (*grin*) for ages...!

Sorry this post is kinda short, but the next one is really long to make up for it =)

I'm doing the 40 hour famine!!!

I'm doing the 40 hour famine again this year (this is the second time I've done it), and I need you to sponsor me so I can reach my goal of $160.
Click the link below to go to my page and donate!

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Bee

Going on Holiday...

Just  a quick note to let you all know we're leaving today for a  holiday in Dargaville, Northland.
We'll be coming back next week Friday..hopefully I can squeeze some more blogging in when we get back!

Check out this website!!

Check out this awesome website, run by Anna Sofia and Elizabeth Botkin, who authored So Much More, and produced the DVD - The Return of the Daughters.

http://visionarydaughters.com/

Feel free to comment with your thoughts on it!

Bee

End of Atheletics Season

I've been REALLY busy with sch wk recently, and (as you all know!) haven't taken the time to post.
Hopefully I'll have time sometime soon to do a nice long post, but I thought I would stop by quickly now and tell you all the depressing news that tonight was the last night of athletics for the 2010-2011 season =( lol

Bee

Bike to Breakfast

Hey everyone!
Sorry I haven't posted in a while...

Well, anyway, on the 15th of February a group of us homeschoolers (only Jarrod and me from our family) (homeschoolers are awesome, by the way =)lol) met at the Rakete's house (at 7am... =(  )and we all rode to Manukau City together, for Bike to Breakfast...basically you ride there (all the way from the carpark in one family's case lol!...) and they give you free food!! =) [oh and this year-free (thin though) backpacks with various things like punture repair kit, slap-band, drink bottle, etc in them] This year they had various cereals, yoghurt, scones, muffins, fruit, and possible a couple of other things..sorry  can't remember... AND...they had a coffee van!!! Unfortunately they weren't able to supply Esther's Cappamochahotchocolate (pronounced Cappa-mocha-hot-chocolate!), so we all decided hot chocolates would be ok instead. =)

After most of us had finished eating, one of the people running it asked to take a photo of us, so we all got on the grass with our bikes (shhh, don't tell, we might get in trouble!! lol) for photo 1, then photo 2 was all the girls, and last of all, photo 3 was the guys, which seeing as I obviously wasn't in it, I got a photo of (after the main photo had been taken, that's why there's a couple of other people in it =) ) -

And, no, us girls weren't showing off like this in our photo!

The clown in the above pic (Jingles I think his name was), had brought along some unusual bikes - a large unicycle, a very small unicycle, and another one that i won't try to explain, so you'll have to wait for the photos - I'll point it out in one of them =)
Jingles also juggled fire and knives. Some pics:

Juggling Fire



Alan blows out the fire-sticks (unfortunately for him it was
a losing battle, as 2 were always lit!)

Alan prepares to eat fire!

View these two pics together - say goodbye to your hand, Alan!

Juggling knives

Nice juggling Mark! =) ok, ok, he was pretty good,
but this pic is funnier..lol

Sometime later (after the organisers had left!) we all went back to the Rakete's, where Jarrod's bike tube was changed as it had a puncture - check back again soon as I will try to get a picture of this!
And J and I arrived home about 10am, tired, and not at all feeling like doing school work!

Well dinner's ready, so I better go...
Bee