Day one started with a lot of slightly tired looking people in white t shirts standing around inside a big tent (or ‘the back packers main marquee’: you decide!).
We kicked things off in time honoured ‘yoof work stlyee’ with some ice breaker games to get everybody good an disorientated (or ‘to mix up social groups’: you decide!).
I tried out a game I’d read about online called
‘DON’T LOOK AT ME!’.
It sounded like fun to me.
The object of the Game is to stare at people with out them starring at you. If some one gives you eye contact your both out. It,er, didn’t really work that well. Things got better with the next game which was classic “swap places with somebody else who….” Stuff.
Most fascinating moment:
the number of people who like the taste of Calpol (the liquid pain killer…. for kids!).
Matt Ingle (the “popular and energetic” Emmanuel Church ley worker, for another couple of weeks at least) gave the talk on our daily subject, what it means to be a child of God. Have a look at yesterdays posting to read the bits from the bible that Matt spoke about.
After the talk we went into little group to chat about it. BIG SHOUT OUT to Phil who I’m leading a group with. We started our group time with my favourite question of the moment
(Slumby & Nish, if you’re reading this prepare to groan. 1, 2, 3, GROAN….):
“If your mood was a cheese what cheese would your mood be?”
From this all-important question we learned that Mini Babybel is the happiest of all cheeses. This is indisputably true.
To finish the session every body formed two lines and had use rolled up news papers to bash balloons at Sarah (‘Womans worker’ for Emmanuel) Shelly and Jenny (“I’m the Parish youth worker I am”) Constantine under the instruction of ‘the other’ Jenny. There were rules, points, even winners, but do these things really matter when you can wallop a balloon in the direction of a lady?
Check back for more of this kind of thing tomorrow.
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