I'm Excited! And On An Unrelated Note, It's Day 8.

Today's theme is a song I know all the words to. :D This one is really fun to sing along with. I used to get tongue tied a lot on it because it's kind of fast, but I've gotten the hang of it.



Love it.

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On another note, I'm waking up at 4 AM to go to the airport to go to Linden, Guyana, South America!! :D And I couldn't be more excited!! Much to early to be awake, but it's worth it. I'm all finished packing...I think. I took my suitcase to the airport earlier to weigh it just to see and it was 56 pounds. 6 pounds overweight. So I transfered my hairdryer and some clothes to my carry ons. Hopefully that fixed it. I'm so bad at overpacking. D:

I'm excited to...

See the preacher Nigel and his wife and son

See my good friend Staci who I met last year along with other lovely people from the mission group that I met last year

See the many wonderful Guyanese people I met last year

Have discussions around the dinner table about our day

See giant, multicolored crickets

Eat Guyanese fruit

Look at the lovely landscape

See rainbows almost every day

Sing!!

Play cards with roomies

Assist in teaching class

Learn from classes taught by others

Learn from the examples of others

Sit in on Bible studies to gain more experience

Laugh a lot

Go to the market

Relax in the air conditioned house

Go on an aiplane

Witness baptisms

Be encouraged

Encourage

And much more!


And what am I not excited about?

Sharing a bathroom

The preposterous heat

The headaches that come along with the heat

Hurting feet

Daily power outages

Poor water pressure in the shower

Outhouses

No sleep (or not enough anyway)



Obviously, the good far outweighs the bad! :)

And thank you for your prayers! <3


~Bef

Happy New Year's Eve!

I decided to do another post today simply because I am so, so behind and I got ready for church to start at 6 and then remembered it's Wednesday and doesn't start till 7!

So let's move on to day 7...a song that reminds me of a certain event.

I love Guitar Hero. Really. Not as much as I used to (which is a good thing...I got way too obsessed), but it's still a fun game to play. And where did I first play it? At the 2008 New Year's Eve sleepover at Sarah Wolfert's (now Tripp) and Lauren Anderson's apartment! Seems like soooo long ago. We played that thing to death. And there was this one song I just COULD NOT BEAT! So this song reminds me of that event.

Good times, good times... :)

~Bef

Come Sail Away to Day 6

It's day 6! A song that reminds me of somewhere! Well...actually is very much after day 6, but this is where I am at the moment. :P

Almost a year ago now I went to Roundhouse for the first time! That's a Christian homeschool thing in North Carolina that lasts a week. I had a great time aaaand was baptized there, so I've got some good memories from there. :) And I have a song that always reminds me of Roundhouse!

One night at Roundhouse, there's a talent show thing, and one group played this. Which means we heard them ALL WEEK practicing this song in the Youth Activity Building (YAB). Which is where Macy and I were a lot of the time to get in from the cold outside. Yes cold. It wasn't supposed to be cold, but it was *freezing* in North Carolina! Felt like the middle of winter.

By the end of the week, we promised we never wanted to hear this song again not because it's a bad song, but because we were just sick of hearing it! But it's not too bad after all. :P Hey, at least we had background music to everything we did and weren't sitting there in silence!

~Bef

Get You Some Crackers

Day 5 - A song that reminds me of someone.

I had to think for a while about this one. Usually, a song just reminds me of someone when I'm hearing it, but then I don't exactly make a mental note of that, so I just couldn't think of a specific song that reminded me of a specific person.

But I finally came up with Puttin' on the Ritz.

This song reminds me of my friend Sarah. We used to hang out ALL. THE. TIME. But I haven't seen her in like...a few years. Anyway, she had all this different music on her iPod (these were the days when I had horrible taste in music), and I seemed to like a lot of it. I really liked this one, and whenever I hear it, I think of all the good times I had with Sarah.

She was the one who helped me paint my room blue, orange, green, and pink.

This is the back of my bookcase.

She started all the splattering.

And the polka dots. And the putting of medals and ribbons on that polka-dotted ceiling.

Every time she came over, we rearranged the furniture in my room. I think we took apart my old metal bunkbed about a million times at 3 AM, being super duper cautious not to let it make noise.

We climbed on my roof and laid there for hours many times.

Don't worry, my room doesn't look like this anymore. :D It was fun while it lasted, though. :P

~Bef

Under the Bridge on Day Four

Day four: A song that makes me sad!

I guess it's just the general tune and lyrics of Under the Bridge by the Red Hot Chili Peppers that put me in this weird, sad mood. I like the guitar in the beginning.

It's said to be about a heroine addiction or something, but I try not to think about that.

It is a very depressing song, but I like it nonetheless. Oh, but I absolutely hate the part after 3:05 in the above video. I always skip to the next song on my iPod when it gets there. I just don't like to think or hear about someone under a bridge killing themselves.

~Bef

Day Three! And Some New Shoes

Okay, so day 3 asks for a song that makes me happy. I had several songs to choose from, so it was a bit difficult. I narrowed it down, though, and in the end picked New Shoes by Paolo Nutini! My friend Lavonne introduced me to this song one day at fencing when I had just gotten new fencing shoes, and I've loved it ever since!





Every time I hear this song, it just puts me in a good mood! If I wake up in the morning and am tired or not in the best mood, I can listen to this song and it will make me smile and start twirling around as I get my morning tasks done! :D

~Bef

30 Days of Music: Day Two

Alrighty, well my parents are still packing, so I decided to go on to day 2 of the 30 Days of Music. Least Favorite Song.

This song is despicable. It's called Bossy, and it's by Kelis. I'm not going to post a video because, well, this song is very, very dirty and I can't have that on my blog...or anywhere else in my life. That's one reason I absolutely hate it. Not only that, but it's ANNOYING! Every time I hear it or think of it, I just want to shoot myself in the foot! Her voice is whiny and gross. Sorry. Ick.

Spits on ground in disgust.

So there ya go.

~Bef

30 Days of Music: Day One

I know I'm behind on this. I know it, you don't have to tell me. I've been procrastinating like crazy on starting this 30 days of music thing because of the topic for the first day: favorite song.

Well, the straight and honest truth is that I DO NOT HAVE A FAVORITE SONG! I'm sorry.

So I decided to just do a song that I like very much because I could never pick a favorite. So here's the song. :)

Macy introduced me to this song about a year ago on the plane on the way home from Guyana, and I still love, love, love it, so it must be a good song for me. Usually I'm over songs after a year. :P

The official video is a bit creepy to me, so I just got one with a stationary picture. :P

I love the guitar at the beginning of this song. I think it's pretty. I adore songs that have a good beat.

I love how the two voices - male and female - of Seether and Amy Lee blend in this song. It's really gorgeous. I think that's the main thing that makes me like this song.

I love singing this song. Amy Lee's voice is a good match for mine pitch-wise.

I love the lyrics.

And I'm going to be out of town for the next 3-ish days at the Atlanta Aquarium, and internet costs 16 bucks a day at our hotel. So I don't see myself updating while I'm away. Maybe we can jack some connection off of chick fil a or something. ;) haha If not, I'll just get more behind.

One day down, twenty-nine to go!

That is all. :D

~Bef

PBC 2010: What it Meant to Me

Well, well, well. It's been a while, hasn't it? I've kind of been putting off blogging simply because so much has been happening in the past two weeks. First I went to Palmetto Bible Camp for a week (of which I could write pages about every single day!), then I was home for less than 24 hours before I left to go to that pre-college creative writing camp at Coker College for a week (of which I could also write pages for every day!) I just got home a few hours ago. Oh, how I love being busy. :)

One of the best things about PBC this year was that Brian and Kristy Gray were able to come!! I was so happy when I saw them there! I loved getting to sit and talk with them throughout to week! :D Both of them are wonderful examples to me and others, and I'm glad to have them in my life!

Another great thing about camp this year was that we had 4 baptisms! The theme was 'Acts'tion Packed, so lots of the lessons really focused on conversions. I think that was beneficial to not only those 4, but to many others as well. It was kinda funny that Acts was our topic this year since we've been studying the book of Acts in our Sunday morning Bible class here at North Charleston. :) Macy won the individual Bible Bowl this year! Congratulations, Mae! Our team of Macy, Kimberly, Taylor, and I won the team part. Yay! We had an unfair advantage, though. ;) haha

We had lots of new people at PBC second week this year! Some friends we met at the Duncan youth rally last year who weren't at 2nd week last year got to come, so we enjoyed their company. :) I loved mealtimes at camp because we always got to sit outside instead of in the dining hall with Katrina, Kimberly, Michael, Macy, Kierra, and other good friends and have lovely (strange) conversations and just have a good time there together.

We had the most unproductive free time ever this year. Rest time was right before free time, so most days we got 1 1/2 or 2 hour naps. It was simply amazing. When we did wake up, we usually went and sat upstairs in the air conditioned ping pong room and just talked or played cards. Unproductive=awesome. :) Especially when air conditioning is involved.

Also on the top of the list for PBC 2010...we didn't have to clean the nasty, gross, disgusting bath house!!!!! :D Woo! Dining Hall cleaning is MUCH preferred.

One of the most precious things to me about going to Bible Camp has always been the singing. We do a LOT of singing at PBC to praise the Lord, and it is so uplifting! I just love it! We've been learning new songs the past couple of years, and I'm still trying to get used to them. At 2nd week, they have singing class where the male campers (and some staff) volunteer to lead a song, and I really like that because it gives young boys a chance to just try it if they haven't before. It's really great to see them having the courage to lead in the Lord's worship even if they aren't the most outgoing person or the best singer. :)

Campfires. I feel like I've been saying the words 'favorite' and 'best' way to much in this posting, but campfires are another of those. Have you ever just stared into the middle of a fire and tried to comprehend it's awesomeness? Cause it's pretty awesome. :P And then you add singing to a campfire...and viola! A perfect night.

Paintball. :D <3>

After we left camp, I kept thinking I saw PBC people everywhere I went. I'd turn around and be like, 'Hey, there's...oh wait, that's not them.' I miss them! :'( Next year is my last year as a camper. Imagine that!

Well that's all, folks!

~Bef