Hi again!! wow.. two blogs in one month! not bad, Em... not bad. well... How is everyone doing? hmmmm.. I write as if hundreds of people read my blog everyday. Probably only one or two people even bother to read my blog messages.. or perhaps it's just me that reads my own stuff... who knows. I'll never know really.. b/c i don't have chat board thing. I don't mind. I'll write about my day and talk to my imaginary audience...
so... I went to a youth conference this past weekend in San Diego. It was the Steubenville at the SDSU. It was really awesome. I was a chaperone for the youth group that I went with. of course at first I felt really mommyish b/c I had to always ask the girls where they're going and who they're going with... but it was ok... throughout the weekend... I began to feel more of a participant than a chaperone. it was awesome. it was like a weekend long spirit rally and a very very tiny world youth day. I saw friends from high school that i haven't seen since high school, I saw a guy I met from wyd, I saw the four people who came from my home town parish, I saw a friend from SD whom I didn't see in ... a long time... it was really fun. the theme was "just live it!" like "just do it", so it was a sports theme which i found very appropriate b/c it was held in the cox arena at SDSU. to go along with the theme, they had a cheerleading competition throughout the weekend. not a real competition, but it was what they acted out for us. the speakers were really awesome, they really grabbed the participants' attention, the audience being mostly 15 year olds. I stayed in the dorms with the girls and all they did was talk about boys and eat-eat-eat... so they were on a sugar high all day and all night. I think i had a total of 5 hours of sleep for the whole weekend. it was grreat! I didn't really get to bond with the girls i chaperoned b/c it takes me a while to actually open up to people... i dunno why. but it was ok... i bonded with a few of the younguns. well.... i took a lot of notes for future ideas for spirit rallies or what not... so yeah--- note to self: save notes.
there's gonna be another conference next year and I think it'll be in SDSU again. it's an awesome experience. they had adoration and I promise, i had never felt so comforted and loved in such a strange and new place before. we were singing praise and love songs to the Lord and a woman in front of me started to sing and speak in tongues and it was the most beautiful and soothing thing I had ever heard. I really felt as if the Lord was trying to speak to me through her. at one point she had said, "do not turn away from me. do not be afraid" and I just kept my eyes on the Blessed Sacrament. it was B-E-A-U tiful. at that point, my close minded stereotype of teenagers finally opened up b/c i saw that teenagers don't only think about boys and food and clothes.... they also have the Lord in their minds and in their hearts... it's in their own time that they open up to Him... it's in His time.