home again, home again, jiggety-jig...

i have many thoughts on camp... a lot of it was what i expected... including the good and the bad... i talked with cameron about it this morning, which helped me get some perspective about it...

i could probably write a great deal on my thoughts for the week... i don't really feel like writing any of the serious stuff... so here's the not-so serious/random stuff...

• i went down a 1/4 mile zip line and when i landed, evidently i landed wrong... my head went back, hit the water, flipped me over 3 times, knocking the hair rubber band (tightly wound in my hair) out of my hair...
• i went on the pamper pole... i climbed up a pole that was about 20 or 25 feet high... got to the platform at the top... with shaking legs, i stood and proceeded to jump off to try and grab a trapeeze bar about 5 or 6 feet out... maybe less... i am not a big fan of heights, so it was pretty brave of me to go through with it - and i even picked the hardest of the 3 poles...
• i ended up with about 10 bruises on my legs (one being about 2 inches in diameter and ugly purple and green) with no idea where any of them came from...
• after i informed my girls which guy i thought was "hot," one of them said, "robyn, you finally fit in!!!" (evidently jumping off of a high pole and almost cracking my head open on the zip line wasn't enough to win them over...)
• i got my first sunburn of the summer... not fun...
• i decided that singing songs like "pieces of me" by ashlee simpson and "welcome to my life" by simple plan and "something like that" by tim mcgraw in a group setting is kind of weird...
• the song "walkin' in memphis" evidently makes me a bit homesick...
• antelope, oregon was the closest town to the camp (about 15 or 20 miles away)... the population of antelope in the 2000 census was 60...
• shaniko, oregon is the next closest town (about 10 or 15 miles past antelope, maybe a bit more or less)... the population of shaniko in the 2000 census was 26...
• my cell phone didn't get a signal until within a 50 or 60 mile radius of the camp...
• the camp site used to be the home of bhagwan shree rajneesh and his followers (rajneeshees) who were responsible for a bioterrorist act (involving salmnonella) in the dalles, oregon in 1984... they also took over the town of antelope, changing the name to rajneeshpuram in 1984... rajneesh was indicted on federal immigration charges and the original residents and rajneeshees who were left changed the name back to antelope in 1985...
• young life bought the property in the late 90's (all the rajneeshees were gone in 1996) - a montana billionaire (dennis washington) donated $2 million dollars in order for young life to be able to purchase the land... (64,000 acres)
• the "worship" leader for the week's name was mark wagner... i bought his cd and it's pretty good... one of the nights he was wearing a college of charleston shirt - i had to ask about it since louis was doing campus ministry with college of charleston last year and i love charleston, having spent summers there... so i asked about it... he just loves charleston, too... he's from tennessee (knoxville)

that's all i have for now... all the pictures are on my computer at home... so maybe i'll post some pictures later today - late this afternoon or this evening... the office is very quiet... a lot of people went to a memorial service today for a man who was very connected with convention life today... i didn't really know him at all, so i chose not to go (on top of the fact that i didn't know about it until this morning)...

my thoughts are scattered... i don't know if this post will even make sense... it's been a 3-hour long process... so close to the end of the day... maybe i'll sneak away a little early today...