Wednesday. Happy St. Patty's Day! Today was a typical same old schedule where we get up at 6:45, get dressed, and walk the one block to the church to eat breakfast. Today was some egg and ham thing which I didn't really like so I ate other things.
After that we listened to some lady talk about poverty but she never really got on the topic of poverty which was weird. She kept telling us that she wasn't a good public speaker so I didn't really pay attention.
Instead, I read the Bible because she had passed out Bibles. I went to one of my favorite funny Bible verses which is Hosea 3:1 because it has "sacred raisin cakes" in it depending on what version you read and because sacred raisin cakes seem funny.
I then started reading from Colossians and the next thing you know I had already read a chapter which was weird because the Bible has always seemed to drag on when I read it.
I haven't read the Bible in a long time. I only hear it on occasional Sundays and a couple times in class. Reading the Bible this time though was interesting, different, and poetic. I don't know whether it was from taking a long break from reading the Bible or from reading lots of books about the Bible.
Maybe a little of both.
Next thing you know the message is over and we are on our way to work.
It was chilly in the morning and rained just a little bit so for the first part of the morning we were working in mud. It heated up though and got nice out.
The first half of the day I cleaned off a curb that basically had not been cleaned in a long time judging from the build up of mud and weeds on the street. I found a pile of fire ants which I was told to stay away from so I did. Supposedly those things are nasty.
The second half of the day I watched a chainsaw guy cut up a massive tree and we helped roll away the pieces to the side of the road. It was a very large tree, so much so that two big pieces are still sitting in their original spot because they were too heavy.
After working we took a little break and then hopped on the vans and went to go play with little kids again. I played frisbee with some guys and then we got in our circle groups.
I am on the blue team and on our team today was Josh and Orlando.
We played a relay game where we would run around the circle with a football or a baton. I slipped going around the circle in the same spot I slipped twice the day before. Naturally, I was embarrassed but I got back up and ran harder for one reason only.
We have a chant everyone does before the games. The leader goes, "click, click" and we shout, "we don't quit!". We chant this many times among other cheers.
So I don't quit, Josh doesn't quit, Orlando doesn't quit.
All of us never quit.
We slip, we get back up. We fail, we try again, and again, and again.
I want to say that I have gone through life with a kind of quitting attitude. Where I set my limit and then when I reach it I can start to slack off when I know I can do better. I want to start the "click click we don't quit" mentality of my life.
I want to say I'm off to a good start so far. I've never been on a mission trip. I've never been to New Orleans and I've never really put myself out there as much as I have down here.
Here's an example:
One of the games we had to do was to make up a team cheer with everyone. We had to include our team name, blue, and our motto, all people are sinful, in our chant.
There was also green with God loves me, red with Jesus died for me, and yellow with I need Jesus to be my best friend.
For our chant we had a few people say, "all people" in a cool beat pattern and then Orlando and I came in with, "are sinful!". Our part was fun because we use get to use our falsetto voices for the "sinful" part. My leader said it was funny to watch because I had my crazy hair and my head would go back when I would try to scream sinful in a falsetto voice.
At the end we did this little dance thing were we would all get in a big circle arm in arm and then the leader would scream, "leg up," and we would all raise our leg. Then the leader would yell, "and stomp," where we would start stomping on the ground. Next the leader would scream, "let me see you (insert dance move here)" and everyone would reply back with, "what's that you say?". We would repeat that three times and then we would do that move as we would make a smaller circle then go back and return to our original circles.
I got to be a leader on this one and we did the spider-man. Other leaders chose the superman, the stanky leg, the cockroach, and the funky chicken.
All things I would normally never do and all totally worth doing.
We got ice cream after dinner and now I'm just waiting for the dryer to get done with some laundry. I'll be back on Sunday y'all.
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