it has begun. young life is in full swing. it is crazy. it is a lot. it is what i came here to do.
my teammate jorge and i have been going to lunch at coronado to hand out otter pops. the school loves us and lets us come on campus whenever we want as long as we sign in. it's nuts. so easy. love it. the first time was weird and we met a lot of kids but nobody knew who we were or why we were there. this week was a lot more fun as we are getting to know tons of kids. we started our first club on friday. club at coronado has been during lunch at school in the hallway outside the gym. this concept is something i'm not used to at all and quite frankly wasn't really prepared for. it is fast and you have to be on your toes. 25 minutes to do the whole thing. we had 80 kids come due to some serious advertising from our wonderful campaigners. it went well and we met a ton of kids! hard to start real relationships in that time with that many kids, but the first club was a success.
my teammate jorge and i have been going to lunch at coronado to hand out otter pops. the school loves us and lets us come on campus whenever we want as long as we sign in. it's nuts. so easy. love it. the first time was weird and we met a lot of kids but nobody knew who we were or why we were there. this week was a lot more fun as we are getting to know tons of kids. we started our first club on friday. club at coronado has been during lunch at school in the hallway outside the gym. this concept is something i'm not used to at all and quite frankly wasn't really prepared for. it is fast and you have to be on your toes. 25 minutes to do the whole thing. we had 80 kids come due to some serious advertising from our wonderful campaigners. it went well and we met a ton of kids! hard to start real relationships in that time with that many kids, but the first club was a success.
pudding eating contest. out of a diaper.
that friday night i went to the football game with a bunch of girls. remember two weeks ago when i went by myself? this week i was in the middle of the student section. with blue and red ribbons starting chants. we won the game and i met even more kids. i ended up having 8 girls sleep over my house that night. 2 freshman 3 sophomores a junior and 2 seniors. such a random group of girls and half of them didn't know each other but they stayed up until 6am on my living room floor watching mean girls and laughing and eating big cookie (i copped out at 3. i'm old)
i am getting the feel of what this job is and how i can spread my time between being with kids and doing office work. so far i love it. fundraising is still the largest time consumer. it's coming slowly but it's hard. one of my goals with coronado is to move club out of school to monday nights like the rest of the clubs in our area. this will give us way more time to do club and to hang out with kids and get to know them. we had a pool party last night to get kids used to young life outside of school. 21 kids came and we had a blast. not bad for our first time and we are planning on starting club next monday! please be praying, we have no idea what to expect and may have a hard time getting kids to come to stuff outside school.
young life is on. full throttle. i am doing my job now. hanging out with kids and talking about jesus. i love it. the rest of arizona is still wonderful too. really hot. last night i watched the season premiere of how i met your mother with jorge matt carter and alexa. my friends. things are falling into place here. and i am so blessed to be here.
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