Geesh, now I have to cover 3 weeks worth of happenings in 30 minutes!!
So I left off on the 13th.
Using my trust facebook statuses, here we goooooo!
July 14th: Not much to say here. I was bored all day, kind of depressed too. SO I'll just skip! ;)
July 15th: After a failed attempt to make rice crispys with my mom (Don't ever use old marshmallows!!) I went up Mt. Peak with Colin, Anne and lil Peter. It was very fun, but note to self: lil brothers and somewhat immature guys together = chaos! He was telling Peter about guys stuff, like Guns before girls and such. Talking about cars and guns and all that crazy stuff. So, I wanted to get my revenge so I poured my remaining bottle of water(1/4 of the bottle) on his head. Baaaad idea! My little brother defended his new-found friend by dumping his own bottle on MY head. So...We both went home wet. It was actually really funny. ;)
July 16th: Didn't do much that day, the sky was cloudy so I stayed inside. Toward evening my sisters and I got on facebook and exchanged some really funny pictures. ;D It was quite amusing!
July 17th: Nothing done that day...Saddness!!
July 18th: At about 2 Colin and I trekked up Mt. Peak (After a failed attempt to recruit more people...) and then we had pizza and Starbucks on the way home, just to waste some of the day. It was nice.
July 19th: At 12 I went up Mt. Peak with a couple of other friends from school, it was a nice change. ;P Here's the funny thing. One of them was talking about how they wished they could make it to an event that was happening in a neighboring town called Creation Fest, but she had work. I realized everyone I knew was volunteering and I felt sad that I couldn't go either. (Creation Fest = a big gathering of Christians to worship God through music and concerts and just fun stuff. I had never been before but heard great things about it)
So, I went home and was on facebook at 3 and I got an email from a church friend saying she knew someone who needed volunteers at a vendor. Her question: Would I like to? My Answer: HECK YES!(Please excuse my use of the word heck.) So after some exchanging of emails over a 4 hour period and then some phone calls, it was decided I was to work the next day at a vendor for the organization called "Invisible Children".
(By then it was too late to finish The Fellowship of the Ring that I was in the process of watching, haha!!)
July 20th -23rd: Oh boy, I will write about this and then go to bed because WARNING, there is a LOT.
So, the 20th I got to Safeway at 12 because I was to meet my volunteer partner there. She was half an hour late so we got to our stand finally at around 2:00. (There was a half hour line for parking once we got there. x) ) so we introduced each other, set up and the doors opened at 4:00. At about 4:20 or so Colin came over(he was just done volunteering) and just talked with me. Haha, he even brought me a doughnut...
That day I stood for a solid 10 hours!! I did get a couple of half hour breaks to get lunch and such(which I spent with friends instead) and after some convincing of my partner we packed up at 10(with the help from Colin and a friend of his, Claire) and after my partner left I hung around with friends for half an hour.
I had to pack all the merchandise into my car because that volunteer wasn't coming back in the morning but I was. Sooo yeah, I finally got home at 11, was forced to eat a dinner because I hadn't eaten all day, and then went to bed!
I got to the vendors at 8:30 on the 21st and met my next volunteer partner(who was also half an hour late) at 9:30 when the doors opened. I liked him though, he was very outgoing and did a lot of the work. x)
He was also very flexible and I was able to leave at 4:30 to hang out with my friends the rest of the day. That day was GREAT! So yeah, I went home at 10:30.
On the 22nd I got to the vendors again at 8:30 and set up while I waited for my next volunteer partner(yes, another). Though she was late it wasn't her fault because the "guards" mistook her for a customer. xP
I really enjoyed working with her too! She had so much experience. Anyway, I got out at 1:30 and met up with my friends to hang out. I kept going back to the vendor to work half an hour shifts while I let my partner look around and get lunch. But anyway, at around 9:30 I was finally done for the day and met up with my friends. Apparently Colin was in trouble by his parents, who had been gone all week, for not doing a couple of things right. So we comforted him before he left(apparently his mom was seriously ticked!) and then he left at 10:20 and I left at 10:24(yes, I remember the exact time.)
On the 23rd I got to the vendor at 8:30 again and HUZZAH! I got the same partner. ;) Unfortunately I was only able to work until 12:30 due to the fact that I had to get home for my dads birthday. I met Colin on the way out who told me he actually hadn't gotten in trouble yet because his parents were asleep when he got home the night before. Sooo, I was off home and he was off to his doom. On our way out we ran into a friend who was wearing a kilt and playing the bagpipes!(This guy is hilarious!!) so he played a song before Colin left, and then a tribute to him as he was leaving. I left soon after.
I spent two hours at home just sleeping and the rest doing nothing. Sad, I know. So I decided I was going to spend the last day at Creation Fest, well, at Creation Fest! I ate dinner with my family and then wrapped my dads gifts and at 7:30 I met Colin at Safeway. We wandered a Street Fair before going to Creation Fest at 8(At the street fair we got mistaken as a couple...That was quite awkward). At the festival we wandered around with some of his friends from his church and my friends from my Church. At 9 the final concert, Skillet, came on. It. Was. EPIC! I'll have to post the video for it here in my next post.
Anyway, so the day ended with VERY loud music but with also a grand memory engraved in my brain. =) It was just such an amazing experience!
Now, I know I rushed it a whole lot(I skipped a bunch of detail from Creation Fest sadly), but I really need to go to bed! And I shall tell you why tomorrow. ;)
Good night and God Bless!
~Katie
(The Skillet concert! <3)
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